A Master of Fortune

Excerpt from A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle The pay is small enough, said Captain Kettle, staring at the blue paper. It's a bit hard for a man of my age and experience to come down to a job like piloting, on eight pound a month and my grub. 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.