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Excerpt from Ship and Shore, in Madeira, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean and Sea and Sailor In defiance of a profound maxim of my distant relative - I say distant, because he was so far removed from me on the genealogical tree that even a Yankee peddler in the remote part of the South would not, upon the force of such a relationship, put up his horse and himself for more than six weeks, and that must place him on a very extreme twig, perhaps even its shadow. - By the way - it is a little singu lar that these fellows of the wooden nutmeg should always know where to find a market for their nuts and notions. But as I was saying - in defiance of a profound maxim of my distant relative - what a world of tender thoughts and emotions spring up in that one word relative l - what beings step from the magic of its circle - uncles not a few, aunts without number, and cousins a whole ship-load - all taking a warm interest in you if rich, a pride in you if learned or politically great, and never deserting you unless you become poor blessings on their sweet hearts Without them what would a man -be, or rather, what would the world be to him - A garden without a flower, a grove without a bird, an evening sky without one lovely star. - His feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.