The Wilderness Castaways

"The Wilderness Castaways" by Dillon Wallace is a novel. Dillon Wallace was an outdoorsman, American lawyer, author of non-fiction, fiction, and magazine articles (1863-1939).

Excerpt:

"DAN RUDD," roared Captain Zachariah Bluntt, «if I has to tell you again to keep that mouth organ below decks, I'll wring your neck! Yes, wring your neck! By the imps of the sea, I will!»

"Aye, aye, sir," answered Dan Rudd, a robust, sunny-faced sailor lad of sixteen, quickly slipping the offending harmonica, upon which he had been playing a lively air, into his pocket.

Captain Bluntt, impatiently pacing the deck, was plainly in ill humor. His great red beard, standing out like a lion's mane, bristled ominously, and his shaggy eyebrows were drawn down in an unpleasant scowl."