Chapter I: Early Years 1

My Father 2
Edge Hill 4
Everton 5
Bootle 5
Seaforth 6
The "Great Britain," s.s. 7
Wrecks on the Seaforth shore 8
Walton 10
Aigburth 10
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 12
His last speech 13
1848--Waterloo and Southport Railway: Opening 15
Edge Lane 16
Early School-days 17
Home Life 21
Wavertree Park 23

CHAPTER II.--VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 25

1857--Sail in the "Red Jacket" 25
Australia 26
West Coast of South America 27
Easterly gales in the Channel 28