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The Lazarette of The Huntress by William Clark Russell
Fylde Audio Theatre
39 minutes 48 seconds
1 year ago
The Lazarette of The Huntress by William Clark Russell
I stepped into the Brunswick Hotel in the East India Docks for a glass of ale. It was in the year 1853, and a wet, hot afternoon. I had been on the tramp all day, making just three weeks of a wretched, hopeless hunt after a situation on shipboard, and every bone in me ached with my heart. My precious timbers, how poor I was! Two shillings, and thrippence – that was all the money I possessed in the wide world, and when I had paid for the ale, I was poorer yet by tuppence. A number of nautical men of various grades were drinking at the bar. I sat down in a corner to rest, and abandoned myself to the most dismal reflections. I wanted to get out to Australia, and nobody, it seems, was willing to ship me in any situation on any account whatever. Captains and mates howled me off if I attempted to cross their gangways. Nothing was to be got in the shipping yards. The very crimps sneered at me when I told them that I wanted a berth. What was I, do you ask? I’ll tell you…
Fylde Audio Theatre
Audio Theatre UK (www.audiotheatre.uk) is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free project; providing a small quantity of high quality free audio books and plays for anyone to listen to on their computer, Tablet, Phone, MP3 player etc., or to download and burn to a CD, so that you can listen to them whenever you wish, at absolutely no cost to you. Our books and plays have been recorded by volunteers, which enables us to provide totally free audio books and plays. You don’t even have to register, but please do join the Library so we can advise you of our latest recording.
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