Excerpt from Sailor Town DaysOr is it the sheer contrast between the fickle, mobile, treacherous element on which he lives so great a part of his days and the solid, stationary qualities of the earth Does he weary at times of that furrow which never endures, drive he never so deeply, desiring, however idly, the heavy clods of the enduring soil?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.