Excerpt from A Bunch of Rope YarnsThe yarns. Then after knotting the rope yarns together, the spinning jenny was secured on the t0p gallant forecastle, where I tugged at the bit of rope which was the motive power for revolving the spinning wheel. An able seaman rubbed the twirling ropeyarns with a piece of old canvas, thereby making spunyarn enough for the voyage. The remembrance of the oaths, ends and kicks from a cruel boat swain, on finding some of the ropeyarns poorly knotted, makes me ofier in fear and trembling this literary Bunch of Rope Yarns. Still I hope that my reader may find some of the yarns knotted in seamanlike fashion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.