The Loss of the Royal George (Classic Reprint)

MY father, Richard Truscott, was boatswain of the Royal George, one of the finest ships in the navy. I lived with mother and several brothers and sisters at Gosport. Father one day said to me, " Ben, you shall come with me, and we'll make a sailor of you. Maybe you'll some day walk the quarter-deck as an officer." I did not want to go to sea, and I did not Care about being an officer; indeed I had never thought about the matter, but I had no choice in it. I was but a very little chap, and liked playing at marbles, or " chuck penny," in our backyard, better than anything else. " He is too small yet to be a sailor," said mother.

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