Excerpt from Queer Chums: Being a Narrative of a Midshipman's Adventures and Escapes in Eighteen Hundred and War-Time Now I, like my dear old grandfather, am a sailor, and when my sons - and daughters too, for that matter - collect round my knees in the evening just when Iwant a game at whist, or a quiet doze, and pester me for stories of my early life, I begin faintly to realize the intolerable nuisance that I and my brothers must have appeared to our Old Admiral. 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.