Shifting Winds

About this eBook

Author

Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

Title

Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn

Credits

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21702

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21702

Release Date

June 6, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2."Shifting Winds" — Chapter One. — The Cottage and its Inmates. — Chapter Two. — Wrecked, Rescued, and Resuscitated—Mrs Niven receives a Surprise, also the Gift of a Child. — Chapter Three. — The Cottage at Cove invaded—Dan Horsey speaks “Toorko” to Russians, and fails to enlighten them. — Chapter Four. — The Rescue. — Chapter Five. — The Breakfast Party at Seaside Villa. — Chapter Six. — Kenneth indulges in Suspicions and Surmises. — Chapter Seven. — Lizzie Gordon is run away with, and Gaff is “pumped”. — Chapter Eight. — Dan Horsey does the Agreeable in the Kitchen. — Chapter Nine. — The Sailors’ Home and the Mad Skipper. — Chapter Ten. — The Dinner in the Restaurant—Haco meets an Old Friend and becomes Communicative. — Chapter Eleven. — The Writing of the “Hambigoo-ous” Letter. — Chapter Twelve. — The Bu’ster wills to accomplish Mischief, and gets into Trouble. — Chapter Thirteen. — The Storm, and its Consequences. — Chapter Fourteen. — Gaff and Billy become the Sport of Fortune, and see Strange Things. — Chapter Fifteen. — The Dinner Party—A Sudden Piece of Questionable Good Fortune befalls Mrs Gaff. — Chapter Sixteen. — Jack Tar before and after the Institution of the S.F.M.S. — Chapter Seventeen. — Mrs Gaff endeavours fruitlessly to understand the Nature of Cash, Principal, and Interest. — Chapter Eighteen. — Mrs Gaff becomes a Woman of Business, and finds it awfully Hard Work. — Chapter Nineteen. — The Open Boat on the Pacific—Gaff And Billy in Dreadful Circumstances—A Message from the Sea, and a Madman’s Death. — Chapter Twenty. — The Voyage of the Bottle. — Chapter Twenty One. — The Fortunes of Gaff and Billy continued. — Chapter Twenty Two. — The Island-Home Examined. — Chapter Twenty Three. — Relating to Improvements in the Hut, and Mrs Gaff’s Perplexities. — Chapter Twenty Four. — Miss Peppy undertakes a Journey. — Chapter Twenty Five. — Perplexities and Musical Charms. — Chapter Twenty Six. — Mad Haco startled at last. — Chapter Twenty Seven. — Plot and Counterplot, ending in a Long Chase. — Chapter Twenty Eight. — Plotters Counterplotted. — Chapter Twenty Nine. — Dreadful Suspicions aroused in Anxious Bosoms. — Chapter Thirty. — Strange Scenes and Doings far away. — Chapter Thirty One. — Delivered, Wrecked, and Rescued. — Chapter Thirty Two. — Home Again. — Chapter Thirty Three. — The Sailors’ Home and the New Secretary. — Chapter Thirty Four. — Failures and Hopes Deferred, and Consequences. — Chapter Thirty Five. — Conclusion. — The End.

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