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Our First Whale by Frank T. Bullen

Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected ambition of many a youngster, and some lads there are who have realized their desire to their sorrow. The boy who has not cherished in his heart and exhibited in his actions at sometime or other during his youthful days, a love of ships and salt water, is fit for—well, he is fit for the shore, and that is the worst thing a sailor could say about him! (From the introduction, by Cyrus Townsend Brady)

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Listen next episodes of Sea Stories:
The Escape Of The American Frigate Part 2 by J.F. Cooper , A Gale Of Wind by W. Clark Russell , A Ship On Fire At Sea by Jean Ingelow , A Struggle With A Devil-Fish by Victor Hugo , A Tornado At Sea by George Cupples , Among The Ice Floes by J.F. Cooper , Equality At Sea by Captain Frederick Marryat , Going To Sea A Hundred Years Ago by R.J. Cleveland , In The Gulf Stream by Charles Kingsley , Landing On The Island by Jean Rudolf Wyss , My First Voyage Part 1 by R.H. Dana, Jnr. , My First Voyage Part 2 by R.H. Dana, Jnr. , Rounding Cape Horn by Herman Melville , Running Away To Sea by Daniel Defoe , Sailors' Yarns by Pierre Loti , Saved by W. Clark Russell , The Capture Of The Cotton Ship by Michael Scott , The Chase by Herman Melville , The Club Hauling Of The Diomede by Captain Frederick Marryat , The Cruise Of The Coracle by Robert Louis Stevenson , The Escape Of The American Frigate Part 1 by J.F. Cooper , The Loss Of The Royal George by W.H.G. Kingston , The Man And The Cannon by Victor Hugo , The Merchantman And The Pirate Part 1 by Charles Reade , The Merchantman And The Pirate Part 2 by Charles Reade , The Tempest by Charles Dickens