The Autobiography of a Man-O'-War's Bell: A Tale of the Sea (Classic Reprint)

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The autobiography of most bells, of those, indeed, with which the generality of the kind folk, who will favour me by perusing the following pages, are familiar, would deal with subjects far dissimilar from those of which I am about to treat. In this category of bells, I do not allude to such humble productions of human ingenuity as the household implements which lie in rows in the basement floors of all modern houses; though, doubtless, were the tongues of many such to give utterance to their feelings, they could tell some unpleasant truths of the opinions of "their betters," freely ventilated by the servant-kind, who "live and move and have their being" in the kitchen, and the regions that "thereunto adjacent lie."

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