Sinopsis

CHAPTER I. IN WHICH IS A DESCRIPTION OP TOM BOWLING's SUPPOSED BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EDUCATION. “It's no use saying that a seaman shall only drink his allowance of grog. Ever since I was the size of a top maul I took to the liquor just as regularly as a horse to his evening's bucket of water, and the more my father tried to correct the disease, the more inveterately it grew upon me