Tom Finch's Monkey, and how he dined with the Admiral
and other yarns.
by John C. Hutcheson
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This is quite a short book, containing five short late Victorian
stories.
The first of these concerns a monkey on board ship, which was dressed up
as an officer, and as such introduced to a visiting Admiral, who invites
all the officers to dinner, stressing that he hoped to entertain the one
who didn't speak much.
The second story is an informative one about icebergs.
The third concerns a yachting cruise in the Aegean Sea, among the Greek
Islands, in which they save the live of a Greek. There is an encounter
with bandits, from which they are surprisingly released without further
harm. Why would that be, I wonder.
The fourth concerns a "sighting of a sea-serpent of extraordinary
dimensions", by HMS Daedalus in 1848.
And the fifth is a story about the curious events at a cricket match.
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TOM FINCH'S MONKEY, AND HOW HE DINED WITH THE ADMIRAL
AND OTHER YARNS.