Excerpt from The Mate of the Easter Bell and Other Stories Nu: Stories, Library Association, New Max Mercantile Tom, at the wheel of the Easter Bell, came into port one year on the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. And it isn't likely Bell's ship would get in any other time, said the lighthouse-keeper. There be Christmas ships, and Easter ships, and some that wait for the Michaelmas-tide; but, as every one knows, the Easter Bell gets home at Easter-time, and when she doesn't, I'll know she's dead and buried, and poor Tom Breton with her. 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.