The Project Gutenberg E-text of Mr. Midshipman Easy

About this eBook

Author

Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848

Title

Mr. Midshipman Easy

Credits

Produced by John Howard Heaton

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Midshipmen -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6629

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6629

Release Date

October 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHAPTER I — Which the reader will find very easy to read. — CHAPTER II — In which Mrs Easy, as usual, has her own way. — CHAPTER III — In which our hero has to wait the issue of an argument. — CHAPTER IV — In which the doctor prescribes going to school as a remedy for a cut finger. — CHAPTER V — Jack Easy is sent to a school at which there is no flogging. — CHAPTER VI — In which Jack makes essay of his father's sublime philosophy, and arrives very near to truth at last. — CHAPTER VII — In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision. — CHAPTER VIII — In which Mr Easy has his first lesson as to zeal in his Majesty's Service. — CHAPTER IX — In which Mr Easy finds himself on the other side of the Bay of Biscay. — CHAPTER X — Showing how Jack transgresses against his own philosophy. — CHAPTER XI — In which our hero proves that all on board should equally sacrifice decency to duty. — CHAPTER XII — 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 XIII — In which our hero begins to act and think for himself. — CHAPTER XIV — In which our hero finds that disagreeable occurrences will take place on a cruise. — CHAPTER XV — In which mutiny, like fire, is quenched for want of fuel and no want of water. — CHAPTER XVI — In which Jack's cruise is ended, and he regains the Harpy. — CHAPTER XVII — In which our hero finds out that Trigonometry is not only necessary to Navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour. — CHAPTER XVIII — In which our hero sets off on another cruise, in which he is not blown off shore. — CHAPTER XIX — In which our hero follows his destiny and forms a tableau. — CHAPTER XX — A long story, which the reader must listen to, as well as our hero. — CHAPTER XXI — In which our hero is brought up all standing under a press of sail. — CHAPTER XXII — 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 XXIII — Jack goes on another cruise—Love and diplomacy—Jack proves himself as clever for three, and upsets all the arrangements of the high contracting powers. — CHAPTER XXIV — Our hero plays the very devil. — CHAPTER XXV — In which the old proverb is illustrated, "That you must not count your chickens before they are hatched." — CHAPTER XXVI — In which our hero becomes excessively unwell, and agrees to go through a course of medicine. — CHAPTER XXVII — 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 XXVIII — "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 XXIX — In which our hero sees a little more service, and is better employed than in fighting Don Silvio. — CHAPTER XXX — Modern philanthropy, which, as usual, is the cause of much trouble and vexation. — CHAPTER XXXI — 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 XXXII — In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel what might be called midshipmite compunction. — CHAPTER XXXIII — In which Mesty should be called throughout Mephistopheles, for it abounds in black cloaks, disguises, daggers, and dark deeds. — CHAPTER XXXIV — Jack leaves the service, in which he had no business, and goes home to mind his own business. — CHAPTER XXXV — 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 XXXVI — 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 XXXVII — In which our hero finds himself an orphan, and resolves to go to sea again without the smallest idea of equality. — CHAPTER XXXVIII — In which our hero, as usual, gets into the very middle of it. — CHAPTER XXXIX — A council of war, in which Jack decides that he will have one more cruise. — CHAPTER XL — In which there is another slight difference of opinion between those who should be friends. — CHAPTER XLI — Which winds up the nautical adventures of Mr Midshipman Easy.

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