Frank Thomas Bullen 
Whaleman’s Wife [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The speaker was a young man of twenty or there abouts, whose loosely jointed frame showed, even under the shapely rig of homespun, consisting of just a Shirt and pants, a promise to the observant eye that he would presently develop into a man of massive mould. He lay upon the stubbly ground, his head resting on one arm, looking wistfully Up into the face of a girl about his own age. His clean shaven face wore that keenness of outline so charac teristic of the true Yankee blend in which the broad Saxon or Frisian features seem to have been modified by the sharp facial angles of the indigenous owners of the soil. But in the softness of his grey eyes a close observer would have foreseen a well of trouble springing up for their owner on behalf of others. It was the face of the typical burden-bearer.