Excerpt from Round the Galley Fire

These stories and sketches originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph. No further preface to them is needed than this statement, for the title under which they are collected will fitly express their character, if the reader can imagine himself one of an audience, in a cold Dog Watch, listening to the yarns of a man Who has planted himself in the galley, Where he delivers his memories and notions to the little company who have gathered.

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