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Captain Kettle on the Warpath

(1916)
(A book in the Captain Kettle series)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Excerpt from Captain Kettle on the War-Path

Never mind the Navy, and never mind your theoriesfcrthemmnent. Tbisisaparticular vesmwhichistobeofiireland - northorsouth I don't know which at present - ih a month's time, and I'm not telling the Admiralty about her because they do nothing. I told the Admiralty before about a German submarine which would be at a certainspotwithinacertainlimitoftime,and theysaidmynewswasoiinterest,butpolicy forbade them to act upon it. That submarine got buy. Shesanksevenbigsteamersinaweek, not to mention four trawlers. We even owned up to four of the steamers and a brace of trawlers.

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