The Cabin Boy's Locker: Compiled Chiefly from the Volumes of the Sailor's Magazine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Cabin Boy's Locker: Compiled Chiefly From the Volumes of the Sailor's Magazine

This sentence, though a short one, is too long. Its length occasions a great deal of difficulty. If it could be reduced to a proper length, it would prevent most of the mischiefs resulting from want of promptitude. But how short would you have it? We would have it but one word, and that word should contain but two letters Do.

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