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Excerpt from The Blue Flag Mrs. Gould had no friends in high quarters to win for her son a position in the navy. She had not even an Old sea captain for an uncle to get her boy a good berth. He must take his chance before the mast, if he became a sailor at all. A rough, hard way of life, truly, for a lad who had enjoyed all the com forts Of a quiet New England home. 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.