[posted] Posted (#31497, Bone) !

4 Mar 2010

      The Brassbounder, by David W. Bone                                       31497
  [Subtitle: A Tale of the Sea]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/4/9/31497 ]
  [Files: 31497.txt; 31497-8.txt; 31497-h.htm]

Thanks to Al Haines

FYI - story of a (fictional?) voyage in a sailing ship from
England to San Francisco, and back, in the latter 1800's, as
told by an officer apprentice, who were known as 
"brassbounders".

Regards,
Al