Excerpt from The Last Cruise of the Spitfire: Or Luke Foster's Strange Voyage The last cruise OF the spitfire is the open ing volume of the Ship and Shore Series, and tells of the things which happened to a boy who ran away from his guardian's home because he could no longer stand the cruel treatment received. In this tale, in order to get close to the heart of the boy, the author has allowed Luke Foster to tell his own story in his own way. Luke has never before been to sea, and when he is carried OH on the Spit fire his real experiences on the briny ocean, set up in juxtaposition to what he had imagined a life on the rolling deep to be, make reading which I trust every lad who has a hankering after a sailor's life may digest with profit Luke concludes that a life on land is good enough' for him, and I feel certain that a major ity of our readers will agree with him. 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.