Excerpt from What Cheer!Levi Whittaker was a retired boat-builder. He had built in his day some of the finest of the craft whose keels roared down the shingle when they rushed to the wash of the surf and smote the breaker into smoke. Three times had he failed three times had he cast the eyes of a madman in the direction of Minster Union, near to Sandwich. And now behold him a retired boat-builder, one of the most snug and comfortable men in Deal, worth his ten thousand pounds, as they say, the money being his own, as well as the house in which he lived with his mother and daughter.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.