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Updated: May 4, 2025
When the Second said to me at tea-time, 'You'd better knock off and turn in. You'll be on watch to-night, I began to realize what I was in for. I sat on the settee in our room and tried to think. No wonder my old shell-back uncle had laughed. My clothes were lying all round. I had no bedding, nor sea-gear, and I didn't know where to get it. Suddenly the door opened and the Chief came in.
Then he said good night and went out of the warm room and fumes of rum to the mud and driving sleet of the night, leaving Dick Lynch smiling to himself at thought of what his enemy, the skipper, would say when he woke up in bed some fine morning and found himself dead. This John Darling was no ordinary shell-back.
A murmur died out. "What is it food?" asked the master, "you know the stores have been spoiled off the Cape." "We know that, sir," said a bearded shell-back in the front rank. "Work too hard eh? Too much for your strength?" he asked again. There was an offended silence.
This is a sea tale, and the reader can look out upon the wide shimmering sea as it flashes back the sunlight, and imagine himself afloat with Harry Vandyne, Walter Morse, Jim Libby and that old shell-back, Bob Brace, on the brig Bonita. The boys discover a mysterious document which enables them to find a buried treasure. They are stranded on an island and at last are rescued with the treasure.
That 'Last Rose of Summer, it's got hold of you. Don't be a fool! It's only a good tune half done. It won't kill anybody at any rate, a tough old shell-back like you!" "Oh, bother! Stinks and rotten 'Last Rose of Summer' are driving me mad. I could stand lots of both if we were doing well.
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