Builder 'Sharp Sir! she'll be sharp enough to stick a pig!'

Bound in book with PAI1719-PAI1722, PAI1724-PAI1742.

ID:	PAI1723
Type:	Print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Chinks (Stedman, Charles Ellery, Dr); A. Williams & Co
Date made:	1857
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Sheet: 242 x 324 mm; Book: 10 in x 13 3/8 in x 9/16 in
Parts:	Mr Hardy Lee, His Yacht / Being XXIV sketches on stone, by Chinks. [First edition: title page forms front cover] (Book) Mr Hardy Lee, on coming into his fortune, wonders how he shall spend it (Print) (PAI1719) By Jove, I Can Keep a Yacht! (Print) (PAI1720) Mr Lee announces his plan at Uncle Ned's 'Won't it be jolly!' 'A Yacht! how perfectly magnificent!'... (Print) (PAI1721) Builder You don't want her sloop-rigged, more'n you want water in your boots' (Print) (PAI1722) Builder 'Sharp Sir! she'll be sharp enough to stick a pig!' (Print) (PAI1723) Mr Lee has a few friends (who really know what a boat is) to look at her (Print) (PAI1724) The Christening 'Now then, Miss Goldmore! just below the rail!' Small Boy in backround...' (Print) (PAI1725) Mr Lee has found just the fellow for a Pilot... (Print) (PAI1726) The soft swell lifts and swings the new-launched Yacht, with polished spurs and deck (Print) (PAI1727) The Glass 'indicates 'Set Fair' (Print) (PAI1728) I never shall get down this awful ladder in the world (Print) (PAI1729) Dead calm 'O Calm, dishonourable, Vile!' (Print) (PAI1730) Mr Lee 'Nice Breeze!' Graves 'Ay, ay, Sir! she begins to feel it now!' Voice from the lee rail 'So do I by Jove' (Print) (PAI1731) Young lady from New York. Well Captain Graves, I can't see now, how that little card makes the rudder turn (Print) (PAI1732) The Regatta (Print) (PAI1733) Under the lee of the mainsail. Close hauled and a smacking breeze (Print) (PAI1734) A Reg'lar Muzzler! (yacht in a storm) (Print) (PAI1735) Cracking on (yacht in a storm) (Print) (PAI1736) Mean! - Mr Lee (to friend opposite) 'Come, wake up, Fred! and have a sardine and a glass of Porter (Print) (PAI1737) A Horrid Wretch - Steward 'Here comes de old man down de wharf, Cap, n'. Pilot - 'Run of the mainsail. Has he got any of them botherin' woman along with him, Cuff?' (Print) (PAI1738) Wing-and-Wing (yachts passing other ships at sea) (Print) (PAI1739) 'Yes? do you say Yes, dearest? them I'm - now then, what the devil are you after?' 'Fore-peak-halliards, please, Sir!' (Print) (PAI1740) Cool! - Mr Lee, (meeting Friend) 'Hollo Dick! Come, go down below with me! going to have a brush with the Coquette! Royal breeze from the nor'd' (Print) (PAI1741) Melancholy Termination of this Season's Boating. Wedding Guest 'Well old Skip! this puts your pipe out! he can't go a wife and a Yacht too, you know...' (Print) (PAI1742)

Builder 'Sharp Sir! she'll be sharp enough to stick a pig!'

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