Excerpt from Grocer Greatheart: A Tropical Romance Though, of course, he must have been on the ship when it left Sydney, it was quite a week before I noticed Mr. John Greatheart. But he was the sort of man that you would only notice if he stood on his head - a feat, I feel sure, he would never have contemplated. And even in that contingency you would have merely wondered why so ordinary a man should do so extraordinary a thing. But to me, a tired sub-editor, sent a trip to Japan by my Sydney directors, more for the health I needed to recapture than for the articles on trade conditions in the Orient that I was commissioned to write, all the passengers on the Boomerang seemed, at least at first, depressingly ordinary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.