Jethou (Esprios Classics)

I was born at the little village of Barton in Norfolk at the time the guns at Balaclava were mowing down our red coats and tars where my father had a small house facing the Broad. It was a comfortable old two-storied building with a thatched roof through which a couple of dormer windows peered out like two eyes over the beautiful green lawn which sloped to the reed-fringed water. My father was in very comfortable circumstances as he was owner of six large fishing vessels hailing from the port of Great Yarmouth some ten or twelve miles distant as the crow flies.