Old Sailor's Yarns is a collection of nautical tales focusing on Captain Robert Bowline's life with his daughter, an experienced and wizened sailor by the name of Old Cuff, two rival captains, and much more. Excerpt: "Captain Robert Bowline, a retired sea-captain, occupied a snug little farm in the town of B——, one of the many pleasant villages on the coast of New England. He had followed the sea for many years, acquired considerable property, married, and had a family. When he had attained his forty-fifth year, a relation of his wife died, leaving her heiress to a very handsome estate…"