Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 264: January to June, 1888 Jim Craster never took kindly to the life of a fisherman, and his father did not oppose him when he expressed a determination to go to sea altogether. The youngster was beginning to have a will of his own, and old Craster was a little afraid of him, although loving him too, after his own stern, selfish fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.