Paddy Finn
by William Henry Giles Kingston
776 pages•about 16 h 15 min to read•Public domain in the USA (Project Gutenberg)
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Written for young readers, William Henry Giles Kingston’s sea adventure follows Paddy Finn, an Irish midshipman, through service in the Royal Navy. Near the West Indies, French warships threaten a convoy, and Finn meets the prospect of battle with youthful enthusiasm. Later, after a mutiny aboard a brig, Captain Macnamara listens to Finn’s account and holds him blameless. Ashore, an Irish fair is built from borrowed blankets and cottage doors, with turf fires cooking food for the crowd.
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