Name: Michael Penguyne; Or, Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
ISBN: 978-1465596659

Michael Penguyne; Or, Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast

By William Henry Giles Kingston 30 Apr, 2020

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As the sun rose over the Lizard, the southernmost point of old England, his rays fell on the tanned sails of a fleet of boats bounding lightly across the heaving waves before a fresh westerly breeze. The distant shore, presenting a line of tall cliffs, towards which the boats were steering, still lay in the deepest shade. Each boat was laden with a large heap of nets and several baskets filled with brightly-shining fish. In the stern of one, tiller in hand, sat a strongly-built man, whose deeply-furrowed countenance and grizzled hair showed that he had been for many a year a toiler on the ocean. By his side was a boy of about twelve years of age, dressed in flushing coat and sou’wester, busily employed with a marline-spike, in splicing an eye to a rope’s-end. Less

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