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    Man Overboard!
    Man Overboard!
    Man Overboard!
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    Man Overboard!

    By F. Marion Crawford

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    F. Marion Crawford was a prolific American author.He is well known for his many mysterious and weird fiction novels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 16, 2016
    ISBN9781518372254
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    F. Marion Crawford

    F. Marion Crawford was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic, weird, and fantastic stories.

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      Man Overboard! - F. Marion Crawford

      MAN OVERBOARD!

      ..................

      F. Marion Crawford

      CROW PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by F. Marion Crawford

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      LITTLE NOVELS BY: FAVOURITE AUTHORS

      MAN OVERBOARD

      NEW UNIFORM EDITION

      MOST RECENT NOVELS

      HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED: DESCRIPTIVE BOOKS

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      Man Overboard!

      By

      F. Marion Crawford

      Man Overboard!

      Published by Crow Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1909

      Copyright © Crow Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Crow Press

      Crow Press is a publishing house that loves reading and distributing horror stories, weird fiction, and tales of the bizarre.

      LITTLE NOVELS BY: FAVOURITE AUTHORS

      ..................

      F. Marion Crawford

      Man Overboard!

      BY

      F. MARION CRAWFORD

      AUTHOR OF THE UPPER BERTH, CECILIA,

      THE WITCH OF PRAGUE, ETC.

      New York

      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

      1903

      All rights reserved

      Copyright, 1903, By F. MARION CRAWFORD.

      Copyright, 1903, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

      Set up and electrotyped April, 1903.

      Norwood Press

      J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.

      Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

      MAN OVERBOARD

      ..................

      YES—I HAVE HEARD MAN OVERBOARD! a good many times since I was a boy, and once or twice I have seen the man go. There are more men lost in that way than passengers on ocean steamers ever learn of. I have stood looking over the rail on a dark night, when there was a step beside me, and something flew past my head like a big black bat—and then there was a splash! Stokers often go like that. They go mad with the heat, and they slip up on deck and are gone before anybody can stop them, often without being seen or heard. Now and then a passenger will do it, but he generally has what he thinks a pretty good reason. I have seen a man empty his revolver into a crowd of emigrants forward, and then go over like a rocket. Of course, any officer who respects himself will do what he can to pick a man up, if the weather is not so heavy that he would have to risk his ship; but I don’t think I remember seeing a man come back when he was once fairly gone more than two or three times in all my life, though we have often picked up the life-buoy, and sometimes the fellow’s cap. Stokers and passengers jump over; I never knew a sailor to do that, drunk or sober. Yes, they say it has happened on hard ships, but I never knew a case myself. Once in a long time a man is fished out when it is just too late, and dies in the boat before you can get him aboard, and—well, I don’t know that I ever told that story since it happened—I knew a fellow who went over, and came back dead. I didn’t see him after he came back; only one of us did, but we all knew he was there.

      No, I am not giving you sharks. There isn’t a shark in this story, and I don’t know that I would tell it at all if we weren’t alone, just you and I. But you and I have seen things in various parts, and maybe you will understand. Anyhow, you know that I am telling what I know about, and nothing else; and it has been on my mind to tell you ever since it happened, only there hasn’t been a chance.

      It’s a long story, and it took some time to happen; and it began a good many years ago, in October, as well as I can remember. I was mate then; I passed the local Marine Board for master about three years later. She was the Helen B. Jackson, of New York, with lumber for the West Indies, four-masted schooner, Captain Hackstaff. She was an old-fashioned one, even then—no steam donkey, and all to do by hand. There were still sailors in the coasting trade in those days, you remember. She wasn’t a hard ship, for the old man was better than most of them, though he kept to himself and had a face like a monkey-wrench. We were thirteen, all told, in the

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