Mr Midshipman Easy

About this eBook

Author

Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848

Title

Mr. Midshipman Easy

Credits

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Midshipmen -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21553

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21553

Release Date

May 21, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2."Mr. Midshipman Easy" — Chapter One. — Which the reader will find very easy to read. — Chapter Two. — In which Mrs Easy, as usual, has her own way. — Chapter Three. — In which our hero has to wait the issue of an argument. — Chapter Four. — In which the Doctor prescribes going to school as a remedy for a cut finger. — Chapter Five. — Jack Easy is sent to a school at which there is no flogging. — Chapter Six. — In which Jack makes essay of his father’s sublime philosophy and arrives very near to truth at last. — Chapter Seven. — In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision. — Chapter Eight. — In which Mr Easy has his first lesson as to zeal in His Majesty’s Service. — Chapter Nine. — In which Mr Easy finds himself on the other side of the Bay of Biscay. — Chapter Ten. — Showing how Jack transgresses against his own philosophy. — Chapter Eleven. — In which our hero proves that all on board should equally sacrifice decency to duty. — Chapter Twelve. — In which our hero prefers going down to going up; a choice, it is to be hoped, he will reverse upon a more important occasion. — Chapter Thirteen. — In which our hero begins to act and think for himself. — Chapter Fourteen. — In which our hero finds that disagreeable occurrences will take place on a cruise. — Chapter Fifteen. — In which mutiny, like fire, is quenched for want of fuel and no want of water. — Chapter Sixteen. — In which Jack’s cruise is ended, and he regains the Harpy. — Chapter Seventeen. — In which our hero finds out that trigonometry is not only necessary to navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour. — Chapter Eighteen. — In which our hero sets off on another cruise, in which he is not blown off shore. — Chapter Nineteen. — In which our hero follows his destiny and forms a tableau. — Chapter Twenty. — A long story, which the reader must listen to, as well as our hero. — Chapter Twenty One. — In which our hero is brought up all standing under a press of sail. — Chapter Twenty Two. — Our hero is sick with the service, but recovers with proper medicine—an argument, ending, as most do, in a blow up—Mesty lectures upon craniology. — Chapter Twenty Three. — Jack goes on another cruise—love and diplomacy—Jack proves himself too clever for three, and upsets all the arrangements of the high contracting powers. — Chapter Twenty Four. — Our hero plays the very devil. — Chapter Twenty Five. — In which the old proverb is illustrated, “that you must not count your chickens before they are hatched.” — Chapter Twenty Six. — In which our hero becomes excessively unwell, and agrees to go through a course of medicine. — Chapter Twenty Seven. — In which Captain Wilson is repaid with interest for Jack’s borrowing his name; proving that a good name is as good as a legacy. — Chapter Twenty Eight. — “Philosophy made easy” upon agrarian principles, the subject of some uneasiness to our hero—the first appearance, but not the last, of an important personage. — Chapter Twenty Nine. — In which our hero sees a little more service, and is better employed than in fighting Don Silvio. — Chapter Thirty. — Modern philanthropy which, as usual, is the cause of much trouble and vexation. — Chapter Thirty One. — A regular set-to, in which the parties beaten are not knocked down, but rise higher and higher at each discomfiture—nothing but the troops could have prevented them from going up to Heaven. — Chapter Thirty Two. — In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel what might be called midshipmite compunction. — Chapter Thirty Three. — In which Mesty should be called throughout Mephistopheles, for it abounds in black cloaks, disguises, daggers, and dark deeds. — Chapter Thirty Four. — Jack leaves the service, in which he had no business, and goes home to mind his own business. — Chapter Thirty Five. — Mr Easy’s wonderful invention fully explained by himself—much to the satisfaction of our hero, and, it is to be presumed, to that also of the reader. — Chapter Thirty Six. — In which Jack takes up the other side of the argument, and proves that he can argue as well on one side as the other. — Chapter Thirty Seven. — In which our hero finds himself an orphan, and resolves to go to sea again, without the smallest idea of equality. — Chapter Thirty Eight. — In which our hero, as usual, gets into the very middle of it. — Chapter Thirty Nine. — A council of war, in which Jack decides that he will have one more cruise. — Chapter Forty. — In which there is another slight difference of opinion between those who should be friends. — Chapter Forty One. — Which winds up the Nautical Adventures of Mr Midshipman Easy.

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