A stranger takes up residence in a German village, and the curious children are invited to tea to see his curiosities. The old captain tells them his life: wilful at home and wild at university, he defied his father, ran away to Amsterdam, was robbed and kidnapped onto a ship, and suffered storms and hardships before he learned his lesson.
An 1868 moral tale adapted from the German, for readers interested in Victorian children’s books. Download the free EPUB.