(to First Edition)
_First Subscription Edition--Limited 700 Copies_
The stencil sheets from which this edition was printed have been
destroyed by the author.
This cruise was undertaken on my part as rest for a set of frazzled
nerves and tired eyes and to limber up a back slowly recovering from an
oldtime injury. Henry and Scotty went just naturally cause they had to.
With the passing of the sailing ship much of the language of the sea
will also pass away and so in writing this log I have used all the
nautical terms I could think of and some I couldn’t think of.
I am indebted to Alice H. Plummer for pictorial conception of “Scotty”
on the following pages and to A. M. Lofgren for her successful struggle
with my language on a typewriter.
The delay in completing this home made, hand turned bit of mission
furniture has been due to the constant quarrels between those engaged
in its production. The author and editor came to blows over the gender
of “mimi,” the illustrator claimed it impossible to give artistic
expression to poetic thought by pecking a sheet of waxed paper with a
meat skewer and as a climax to this fiasco the captain of the Mascot
informed the publisher that he, together with all the subscription
moneys, had left for some faraway land with which this country has no
extradition treaty.
With many apologies for many faults and with a solemn promise to never
do so any more, I sign myself for the last time
The Author
The Illustrator
The Editor
The Publisher
The Printer
The Binder
and
The Captain of the Mascot.
[Signature of Henry M Plummer]