The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Mr. Midshipman Breezy. By Captain M-rry-t, R. N. By 'Bret', the Californian's Condensed Novelist

Harte, Francis Bret. "Mr. Midshipman Breezy. By Captain M-rry-t, R. N. By 'Bret', the Californian's Condensed Novelist." New York Saturday Press, December 30, 1865, 337-339.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
novel
Abstract

Story of a boy who is enlisted into the navy after drugging and shaving his teacher completely hairless. There he escapes danger, is made the butt of jokes, and eventually falls in love.