WOVEN WITH THE SHIP
By the Same Author
WHEN BLADES ARE OUT AND
LOVE'S AFIELD
Buff buckram, eight illustrations by E. Plaisted Abbott, with coloredborder decorations and head-pieces by Edward Stratton Holloway, $1.50
Mr. Brady's novel is full of fighting, gallant deeds and the surprisesand alluring uncertainties of love-making. It has the vivid setting ofVirginia and Carolina in 1781
"As a romance it is delightful."—Boston Transcript
"A perfect gem of a volume. One of the daintiest that ever came to theWorld's table."—New York World
"Oh, Captain Barry, you must do something!"
See page 35
WOVEN WITH THE SHIP
A NOVEL OF 1865
TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN
OTHER VERACIOUS TALES
OF VARIOUS SORTS
BY
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL.D.
Author of "When Blades are Out and Love's Afield," "For the
Freedomof the Sea," "Hohenzollern," "The Quiberon
Touch," "Border Fightsand Fighters," etc.
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY, FRANK
X. LEYENDECKER, W. GLACKENS, WILL
CRAWFORD, AND H. L. V. PARKHURST
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1902
Copyright, 1902, by
The Crowell & Kirkpatrick Company
Copyright, 1902, by
The Crowell Publishing Company
Copyright, 1902, by
J. B. Lippincott Company
Published October, 1902
Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Lovingly Dedicated
to
Margaret and Katharine
Whose chief pleasure during one seashore
summer lay in listening totheir
father while this
romance was
"Woven with the Ship"
PREFACE
Prefaces remind me of a certain text of Scripture,—i.e., "thelast shall be first,"—for they are things written after which gobefore! Whether or not they serve a useful purpose is hard to say. Ihave several thousands of them in my library, most of which I haveread, and perhaps the fact that I am a reader of prefaces may mark meas unique. And the mark may be accentuated to the gentle reader—ifthis preface should have any—when I say that I am also one of the fewremaining authors who write them. Only one of my books is without apreface,—though some of them are d