Book excerpt: Excerpt from On Sunny Shores We embarked upon our cruise to Ross above the Hereford Bridge. Our boat was trim and our boatman a character. 'arry he called himself, and to him be all honor as a navigator. He knew every shoal, every rapid, every pool in the stream. He was, withal, a weather prophet (but what waterman is not a boat-builder, a spinner of yarns, a rover. He believed in the goddess of fortune, and had no care for the morrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.