There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
-- George Washington Cable
   
George Washington Cable   Name:
George Washington Cable
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
October 12, 1844
Death:
January 31, 1925
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