Billy Topsail & Company - Norman Duncan (best love novels of all time TXT) 📗

CONTENTS

CHAPTER


I. _In Which Jimmie Grimm, Not Being Able to Help It, Is
Born At Buccaneer Cove, Much to His Surprise, and Tog,
the Wolf-Dog, Feels the Lash of a Seal-hide Whip and
Conceives an Enmity_

II. _In Which Jimmie Grimm is Warned Not to Fall Down,
and Tog, Confirmed in Bad Ways, Raids Ghost Tickle,
Commits Murder, Runs With the Wolves, Plots the Death
of Jimmie Grimm and Reaches the End of His Rope_

III. _In Which Little Jimmie Grimm Goes Lame and His
Mother Discovers the Whereabouts of a Cure_

IV. _In Which Jimmie Grimm Surprises a Secret, Jim Grimm
makes a Rash Promise, and a Tourist From the States
Discovers the Marks of Tog's Teeth_

V. _In Which Jimmie Grimm Moves to Ruddy Cove and
Settles on the Slope of the Broken Nose, Where, Falling
in With Billy Topsail and Donald North, He Finds the
Latter a Coward, But Learns the Reason, and Scoffs no
Longer. In Which, Also, Donald North Leaps a Breaker to
Save a Salmon Net, and Acquires a Strut_

VI. _In Which, Much to the Delight of Jimmie Grimm and
Billy Topsail, Donald North, Having Perilous Business
On a Pan of Ice After Night, is Cured of Fear, and Once
More Puffs Out His Chest and Struts Like a Rooster_

VII. _In Which Bagg, Imported From the Gutters of London,
Lands At Ruddy Cove From the Mail-Boat, Makes the
Acquaintance of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, and
Tells Them 'E Wants to Go 'Ome. In Which, Also, the Way
to Catastrophe Is Pointed_

VIII. _In Which Bagg, Unknown to Ruddy Cove, Starts for
Home, and, After Some Difficulty, Safely Gets There_

IX. _In Which Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, Being Added
Up and Called a Man, Are Shipped For St. John's, With
Bill o' Burnt Bay, Where They Fall In With Archie
Armstrong, Sir Archibald's Son, and Bill o' Burnt Bay
Declines to Insure the "First Venture"_

X. _In Which the Cook Smells Smoke, and the "First
Venture" In a Gale of Wind Off the Chunks, Comes Into
Still Graver Peril, Which Billy Topsail Discovers_

XI. _In Which the "First Venture" All Ablaze Forward, Is
Headed For the Rocks and Breakers of the Chunks, While
Bill o' Burnt Bay and His Crew Wait for the Explosion
of the Powder in Her Hold. In Which, Also, a Rope Is
Put to Good Use_

XII. _In Which Old David Grey, Once of the Hudson Bay
Company, Begins the Tale of How Donald McLeod, the
Factor at Fort Refuge, Scorned a Compromise With His
Honour, Though His Arms Were Pinioned Behind Him and a
Dozen Tomahawks Were Flourished About His Head._

XIII. _In Which There Are Too Many Knocks At the Gate, a
Stratagem Is Successful, Red Feather Draws a Tomahawk,
and an Indian Girl Appears On the Scene_

XIV. _In Which Jimmie Grimm and Master Bagg Are Overtaken
by the Black Fog in the Open Sea and Lose the Way Home
While a Gale is Brewing_

XV. _In Which it Appears to Jimmie Grimm and Master Bagg
That Sixty Seconds Sometimes Make More Than a
Minute_

XVI. _In Which Archie Armstrong Joins a Piratical
Expedition and Sails Crested Seas to Cut Out the
Schooner "Heavenly Home"_

XVII. _In Which Bill o' Burnt Bay Finds Himself in Jail and
Archie Armstrong Discovers That Reality is Not as
Diverting as Romance_

XVIII. _In Which Archie Inspects an Opera Bouffe Dungeon
Jail, Where He Makes the Acquaintance of Dust, Dry Rot
and Deschamps. In Which, Also, Skipper Bill o' Burnt
Bay Is Advised to Howl Until His Throat Cracks_

XIX. _In Which Archie Armstrong Goes Deeper In and Thinks
He Has Got Beyond His Depth. Bill o' Burnt Bay Takes
Deschamps By the Throat and the Issue Is Doubtful For a
Time_

XX. _In Which David Grey's Friend, the Son of the Factor
at Fort Red Wing, Yarns of the Professor With the
Broken Leg, a Stretch of Rotten River Ice and the Tug
of a White Rushing Current_

XXI. _In Which a Bearer of Tidings Finds Himself In Peril
of His Life On a Ledge of Ice Above a Roaring Rapid_

XXII. _In Which Billy Topsail Gets an Idea and, to the
Amazement of Jimmie Grimm, Archie Armstrong Promptly
Goes Him One Better_

XXIII. _In Which Sir Archibald Armstrong Is Almost Floored
By a Business Proposition, But Presently Revives, and
Seems to be About to Rise to the Occasion_

XXIV. _In Which the Honour of Archie Armstrong Becomes
Involved, the First of September Becomes a Date of
Utmost Importance, He Collides With Tom Tulk, and a
Note is Made in the Book of the Future_

XXV. _In Which Notorious Tom Tulk o' Twillingate and the
Skipper of the "Black Eagle" Put Their Heads Together
Over a Glass of Rum in the Cabin of a French Shore
Trader_

XXVI. _In Which the Enterprise of Archie Armstrong Evolves
Senor Fakerino, the Greatest Magician In Captivity. In
Which, also, the Foolish are Importuned Not to be
Fooled, Candy is Promised to Kids, Bill o' Burnt Bay is
Persuaded to Tussle With "The Lost Pirate," and the
"Spot Cash" Sets Sail_

XXVII. _In Which the Amazing Operations of the "Black Eagle"
Promise to Ruin the Firm of Topsail, Armstrong, Grimm &
Company, and Archie Armstrong Loses His Temper and
Makes a Fool of Himself_

XXVIII. _In Which the "Spot Cash" is Caught By a Gale In the
Night and Skipper Bill Gives Her Up For Lost_

XXVIX. _In Which Opportunity is Afforded the Skipper of the
"Black Eagle" to Practice Villainy in the Fog and He
Quiets His Scruples. In Which, also, the Pony Islands
and the Tenth of the Month Come Into Significant
Conjunction_

XXX. _In Which the Fog Thins and the Crew of the "Spot
Cash" Fall Foul of a Dark Plot_

XXXI. _In Which the "Spot Cash" is Picked up by
Blow-Me-Down Rock In Jolly Harbour, Wreckers Threaten
Extinction and the Honour of the Firm Passes into the
Keeping of Billy Topsail_

XXXII. _In Which the "Grand Lake" Conducts Herself In a Most
Peculiar Fashion to the Chagrin of the Crew of the
"Spot Cash"_

XXXIII. _In Which Billy Topsail, Besieged by Wreckers, Sleeps
on Duty and Thereafter Finds Exercise For His Wits. In
Which, also, a Lighted Candle is Suspended Over a Keg