Excerpt from Midshipman's Expedients: Or, Deputy Clean Shirt; A Tale of the Sea A clean shirt and' a light heart. Blessed, and thrice blessed appendages to mortality! But, alas! They are not always the attendants on the deserving for, had such been the case, our worthy friend, Ho race Elmst'ord, would not have awaked one blustering Sunday morning in October, without either. At half past seven o'clock on that memorable day he was situ ated on this earth's surface, or rather on a portion of the waters that cover this earth, sixteen miles south and by west three quarters west from Cape Ceci. 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.