R M Ballantyne

The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up R M Ballantyne

Publisher Marketing: In the midst of the great wilderness-we might almost say the wilds-of that comparatively unknown region which lies on the Surrey side of the Thames, just above London Bridge, there sauntered one fine day a big bronzed seaman of middle age. He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court. There he stood still for a few seconds and looked around him as if in quest of something. It was a miserable poverty-stricken court, with nothing to commend it to the visitor save a certain air of partial-cleanliness and semi-respectability, which did not form a feature of the courts in its neighbourhood. I say, Capting, remarked a juvenile voice close at hand, you've bin an sailed into the wrong port. Contributor Bio:  Ballantyne, R M Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 - 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of stories for young people.