Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
THE SEA IS HIS _Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known. --Psalm LXXVII. v. 19._ The Sea is His: He made it, Black gulf and sunlit shoal From barriered bight to where the long Leagues of Atlantic roll: Small strait and ceaseless ocean He bade each one to be: The Sea is His: He made it-- And England keeps it free. By pain and stress and striving Beyond the nations' ken,
THE DIVERTING EPISODE OF THE EXILED MONARCH
THE EPISODE OF THE HIRED PAST
THE EPISODE OF THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER
First of a Series of Six Stories
[First published in _Pictorial Review_, May 1916]
When a seed-merchant of cautious disposition and an eye to the main
chance receives from an eminent firm of jam-manufacturers an extremely
large order for clover-seed, his emotions are mixed. Joy may be said to
predominate, but with the joy comes also uncertainty. Are these people,
he asks himself, proposing to set up as farmers of a large scale, or do
they merely want the seed to give verisimilitude to their otherwise bald
and unconvincing raspberry jam? On the solution of this problem depends
the important matter of price, for, obviously, you can charge a fraudulent
jam disseminator in a manner which an honest farmer would resent.
This was the problem which was furrowing the brow of Mr. Julian
THE SEA IS HIS _Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known. --Psalm LXXVII. v. 19._ The Sea is His: He made it, Black gulf and sunlit shoal From barriered bight to where the long Leagues of Atlantic roll: Small strait and ceaseless ocean He bade each one to be: The Sea is His: He made it-- And England keeps it free. By pain and stress and striving Beyond the nations' ken,