Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 62329-h.htm or 62329-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62329/62329-h/62329-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62329/62329-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/mateofgoodshipyo00russiala THE MATE OF THE GOOD SHIP YORK Or, The Ship's Adventure [Illustration: "HARDY FREQUENTLY TURNED TO LOOK AT THE _YORK_." (_See Page 261_)] THE MATE OF THE GOOD SHIP YORK Or, The Ship's Adventure by W. CLARK RUSSELL Author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," "Marooned," "A Marriage at Sea," "My Danish Sweetheart," etc. With a frontispiece by W. H. Dunton [Illustration: Logo] Boston: L. C. Page & Company, Publishers Copyright, 1900 by S. S. McCLure Company Copyright, 1902 by L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) All rights reserved Eighth Impression, April, 1907 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U. S. A. Contents CHAPTER PAGE I. JULIA ARMSTRONG 11 II. BAX'S FARM 29 III. THE EAST INDIA DOCK ROAD 48 IV. THE "GLAMIS CASTLE" 66 V. CAPTAIN LAYARD 83 VI. THE SHIP'S LOOKOUT 101 VII. THE FRENCH MATE 119 VIII. LOST! 137 IX. THE INDIAMAN'S BOAT 152 X. THE CAPTAIN AND THE GIRL 170 XI. THE CAPTAIN'S BIRTHDAY 187 XII. JULIA CALLS "JOHNNY!" 206 XIII. THEY MEET 219 XIV. HARD WEATHER 239 XV. ABOARD AGAIN 256 XVI. PRACTICAL SEAMANSHIP 273 XVII. THE BOAT-FULL 293 XVIII. HAIL, COLUMBIA! 313 XIX. THE CAMILLA OF THE SEA 333 The Mate of the Good Ship York Or, the Ship's Adventure CHAPTER I. JULIA ARMSTRONG A house with a wall, which would be blank but for a door and two steps, stands in a very pretty lane. The habitable aspect of the house is on the other side, and commands a wide prospect of sloping fields and river and green sweeps soaring into eminences thickly clothed with trees. A brass plate upon this lonely door bears the simple inscription, "Dr. Hardy." The lane runs down to a bridge, and the flowing river carries the eye along a scene of English beauty: the bending trees sip the water's surface; the bright meadow stretches from the bank, and is tender and gay with the tints and movement of cattle; lofty trees sentinel the lane, and in the early summer the notes of the thrush and the blackbird are clear and sweet.