Only that very morning he had been a school-boy, and now he was a sailor, shipped on the _Dazzler_ and bound he knew not whither. His fifteen years increased to twenty at the thought of it, and he felt every inch a man -- a sailorman at that. He wished Charley and Fred could see him now. Well, they would hear of it soon enough. He could see them talking it over, and the other boys crowding around. "Who?" "Oh, Joe Bronson; he's gone to sea. Used to chum with us." Joe pictured the scene proudly. Then he softened at the thought of his mother worrying, but hardened again at the recollection of his father. Not that his father was not good and kind; but he did not understand boys, Joe thought. That was where the trouble lay. Only that morning he had said that the world wasn't a play-ground, and that the boys who thought it was were liable to make sore mistakes and be glad to get home again. Well, _he_ knew that there was plenty of hard work and rough experience in the world; but _he_ also thought boys had some rights. He'd show him he could take care of himself; and, anyway, he could write home after he got settled down to his new life.
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Cruise of the Dazzler is a wonderful book. I think it should be translated to film because the setting in the early 1900s in the San Francisco Bay Area is intriguing and very exciting. It has a positive message for youth of any time period, including today. The book reminds me of Huckleberry Finn in San Francisco.However, I do not like the book layout from the publisher General Books LLC. The clumsy layout, lack of illustrations, gives the story no justice! The intro does explain why this publisher uses no illustrations and how they are economical in producing huge numbers of classics with a scanning machine. However, there are terrible line breaks in the book. The style of this book is not my cup of tea, but I am sure others wouldn't mind it to save a penny. I'd rather read this book on Kindle or check the book out from the library, than own this plain and clumsy copy!
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