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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11105 ***
+
+[Illustration: Jack telling his stories.]
+
+
+JACK MASON,
+THE OLD SAILOR.
+
+WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+FOR CHILDREN.
+
+BY THEODORE THINKER.
+
+
+1850.
+
+
+THE OLD SAILOR.
+
+
+Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him,
+and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship
+almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell!
+Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to,
+he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his
+breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen,
+until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would
+want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well
+as anybody.
+
+Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on,
+and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to
+that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at
+the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about
+now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy
+lifts his head up, as much as to say, "Dear me! who ever heard of
+such a thing!"
+
+Jack is a good man. He is not like a great many sailors that I have
+seen. He does not use bad words. He never drinks rum, or any thing of
+the kind. Sailors are apt to swear; but Jack Mason never swears. He
+is a Christian: he loves to pray and read his Bible. The book which he
+holds in his hand, as he is talking to that boy, is a Bible. He often
+has a Bible in his jacket pocket, when he is on board of his ship; and
+once in a while he stops telling stories about what he has seen, and
+reads some of the stories in that good book.
+
+When I was a little boy, Jack fell from the high mast of the ship, and
+hurt himself so badly that he had to stay at home a long time after
+that. Poor fellow! he did not like to be shut up in the house. It was
+hard work for him. But he could not go out, until his hip got well.
+When he was able to sit up in a chair, I used to go and see him, and
+hear him tell his stories. I did not go every day, because my mother
+thought I had better not go every day. But I went as often as she
+would let me go, and staid as long as she would let me stay.
+
+Jack was always glad to see me, and glad to tell me stories. I was
+always glad to hear his stories. Some sailors, who have spent a great
+deal of time on board of a ship, and have seen a great many places,
+are not good men. They do not always tell the truth. So, when they
+tell stories about what they saw where they went, we do not know
+whether to believe them or not. But Jack Mason was a good man, and I
+knew he would not tell me what was not true.
+
+Shall I tell you some of the stories that this good old sailor told me
+when he had to stay at home, because he had broken his hip? I think I
+can remember some worth telling again.
+
+"O yes, Mr. Thinker, tell us all the stories the old sailor told you."
+
+"No, I cannot do that. I cannot remember them all."
+
+"Well, tell us all you do remember."
+
+"I will see about it. I will tell you some of them, at any rate. Let
+me see, what story shall I tell first? Shall I tell you his story
+about what he saw once, when he sailed a great way north? I guess I
+will."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA.
+
+
+If you should go a great way north, you would find it very cold. The
+further you go north, the colder it is. I went so far that way one
+time, that I got almost frozen. The ship I sailed in came close to
+an iceberg once, and we all thought for a while that the ship would
+strike the iceberg. If it had struck, it would have been broken all
+in pieces, and we should have been drowned or frozen, every one of us.
+God was kind and good to us, though. The wind was blowing very hard,
+and right toward the iceberg. But just as we had got almost up to it,
+the wind changed, and blew us away from it.
+
+But I forgot that you do not know what an iceberg is. It is a great
+hill of ice. In the North Sea, these ice-hills are often as high as
+your church, and sometimes a great deal higher. These hills of ice
+are floating along the water there, and when it is foggy or dark, the
+sailors cannot always see them. So sometimes the ship strikes them,
+and is dashed to pieces. Sometimes it gets between two of these
+ice-hills, and gets crushed, as if it was a little boat. Then the men
+in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But
+they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then.
+
+[Illustration: The Indians.]
+
+
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+
+In that cold country I saw some Indians. They were dressed in skins.
+I never saw such dirty-looking men and women before in all my life,
+and I have never seen any such since. They had never seen a ship
+before, I should think. I thought they did not know much more than
+the white bears. Why, they would sell almost all the clothes they had
+on, if we would give them a few pieces of glass, or a nail or two.
+One of the women who came to the ship had a little girl about four
+years old, and she said she would give us that girl, if we would let
+her have a tin pan which she saw.
+
+These Indians tie their children on their backs, when they have to
+walk a great way. They licked the oil on the outside of our lamps,
+just as a dog or a cat would have done. Oh, what dirty people! They
+eat their meat raw. We killed a seal one day, and our captain gave it
+to one of the young women. She took it, and bit it into pieces with
+her teeth. Then she passed it round to the rest of the Indians, and
+they all helped eat it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE WHITE BEARS.
+
+
+There are a great many white bears in that country. Sometimes you can
+see two or three of them sitting on one of these ice-hills. How they
+ever got there, I am sure I cannot tell. I guess they went out on the
+ice only a little way from the shore, to get something which they saw
+was good to eat; and while they were on the ice, it started off, and
+they could not get to the shore again.
+
+One of the men who sailed in the same ship with me, told me a story
+about a white bear, which made me laugh for an hour after I heard it.
+He said he was in a small boat with another sailor once, about a mile
+away from the ship. I forget what they went out in the boat for, but I
+suppose the captain of the ship sent them out for something. They were
+rowing along in the boat, and they came close to an iceberg. They saw
+something alive on the iceberg, but they could not make out what it
+was: they did not know but it was a man. But they came a little nearer
+to the great ice-hill, and they soon found out what sort of a thing
+there was on it. _Splash_ something went into the water; and in a
+minute a great white bear jumped into the boat, as wet as a drowned
+rat.
+
+Well, the sailors thought they had got to die, sure enough. What could
+they do? The first thing that they thought of, was to try to kill the
+bear with their oars. But they soon gave that up. They saw that the
+bear was too large and strong to be killed in that way. The next thing
+they thought of doing, was to jump into the water. But they knew they
+would die if they did that. What should they do? "I wonder which of us
+the old fellow will take first," one of the men said to the other.
+Each of them had his oar ready, so that when the bear made a spring at
+them, he would get his ears boxed pretty sharply. That was all they
+could do.
+
+Well, the bear did not seem to be at all in a hurry. The first thing
+he did, after he got into the boat, was to shake himself as hard as he
+could, to get the water out of his coat. After that, he walked slowly
+to one end of the boat, just as if he was quite at home there, and lay
+down upon a coat which one of the men had brought along, and went to
+sleep.
+
+The sailors saw then that all they had to do was to row the bear to
+the shore. So they went to work. When they got to the ship, the
+captain and all the sailors laughed a good deal, you may be sure. The
+shore was not far off. The sailors rowed until the boat touched the
+shore, and the bear got out, and walked slowly away. He did not so
+much as thank the men for the ride he had been taking. But the men
+were glad to get rid of him, thanks or no thanks.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CATCHING WHALES.
+
+
+I went in a whale-ship once. I was gone from home that time more than
+three years. When we came back, we had our large ship all full of oil
+and whalebone. We got the oil and the whalebone out of the whales
+which we had caught. Whales, you know, are very large fish. They
+sometimes get two or three hundred barrels of oil from one single
+whale.
+
+I never shall forget what a long chase I had with a whale once. Shall
+I tell you about it, little friend? There was a man in the ship who
+was looking out for whales. In a whale-ship there is always one man
+who gets up as high as he can, and keeps a bright look-out all round
+for whales. Whales do not stay under water all the time. The trout,
+and the shad, and the eel, and most other kinds of fish can stay under
+water all the time. They cannot live out of the water only a few
+minutes, and I suppose they feel almost as bad out of the water as we
+do in it. But the whale wants to come up to the top of the water. He
+wants to come up to breathe. Well, all at once, the man who was
+looking out the day I speak of, when I had such a run, sung out as
+loud as he could, "There she blows!" We all knew what that meant. That
+is what they always say when they see a whale. It means, "There is a
+whale come up to breathe." This whale was a great way off. I should
+think he was a mile from the ship.
+
+Well, the captain told some of us to get into a boat, and to go out
+after the whale. We did so. The boats are always kept ready, and it
+takes only a minute to let the boat down, and start off. We rowed as
+fast as we could, until we came up near where the whale was lying.
+Oh, what a large whale! As soon as the boat got near enough, one man
+threw two harpoons at the whale, and they both stuck fast in his
+flesh. A harpoon is a long and sharp iron, made like a spear, so that
+when it strikes the whale, it goes in deep, and you cannot pull it
+out. The harpoon is fastened to a long rope, and the rope is tied to
+the boat.
+
+As soon as the whale felt these irons in his side, he began to run.
+I never knew before that a whale could swim so fast. It took him only
+a very little while to run out with all the loose rope; and our boat
+went through the water pretty fast, you may be sure. I was afraid the
+whale would take it into his head to dive down towards the bottom. If
+he had gone down, we should have gone with him, unless we could have
+cut the rope. But he did not go down. Away we went, as fast as if we
+had been on a railroad. He was all the time taking us further from the
+ship. "Well," we thought, "what is going to become of us!" The whale
+did not seem to care any thing about that. I suppose he thought that
+was our look-out, and not his.
+
+But the fellow got tired out by and by. He had bled so much, that he
+began to grow faint. At last he went so slow, that we rowed up to him,
+and stabbed him with a long knife. He died pretty soon after that,
+and we got more than two hundred barrels of oil out of him.
+
+Catching whales seems a cruel business to you. It is a cruel business.
+I never liked it. But somebody must do it. The butcher who kills
+oxen, and sheep, and calves, has to be cruel. But we must have
+butchers. We must have people to kill whales, though you never will
+catch me chasing after a whale again, as long as my name is Jack
+Mason.
+
+Whales do not always run like the one I have told you about. Sometimes
+they fight. After they are struck with the harpoon, they lift their
+tail, or _fluke_, as they call it, and strike the boat so hard as to
+dash it in pieces. Then the poor sailors have to swim to the ship if
+they can. If they cannot, and if there is no other boat near them that
+they can get into, they must drown.
+
+I once saw a whale that had been struck with a harpoon come up close
+to the ship, and give it such a blow with his fluke, that he tore the
+copper off at a great rate, and broke a thick plank in half a dozen
+pieces.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: The Indian, with his bow and arrows.]
+
+
+
+
+MORE INDIANS.
+
+
+When I went in the whale-ship, I saw another tribe of Indians, that
+were very different from those I told you of before. They knew more
+than those Indians. They used bows and arrows; and you would have been
+pleased to see how they would hit a mark a great way off, with their
+arrows.
+
+One of them, who had a name so long that I will not try to speak it,
+used to come every day to our ship, when we were lying near the shore.
+He liked pieces of glass, and nails and tin, and things of that kind,
+quite as well as the other Indians I told you of. He had seen white
+men before, so he was not at all afraid of us. I suppose that almost
+all the white men he had seen before used rum and tobacco. He asked
+all our sailors for these two things, and kept asking every day. I am
+sorry to say that some of the men gave him some rum once in a while,
+and one day he drank so much that he got drunk. Poor man! He was not
+so much to blame, I think, as the bad sailors that gave him the rum.
+What do you think about it?
+
+This man would dive in the water further than anybody I ever saw
+before or since. Some of the sailors used to throw pieces of tin into
+very deep water, and tell him he might have them if he would dive and
+bring them up. He was so fond of such things, that he would always
+gladly dive to get them.
+
+I once saw him dive for an old worn-out knife. The water was very deep
+where it was thrown. It was so deep that none of us thought he would
+get it. He went down, and staid a long, long time. We thought he never
+would come up again. The sailor that threw the knife into the water
+began to be sorry he had done it, because he thought the poor Indian
+was drowned. But, by and by, he came up again, with the knife in his
+mouth. He had been hunting after the knife on the bottom of the sea.
+
+These Indians had boats which were made of the bark of trees. They
+were so light, that an Indian could carry one of them on his shoulder.
+
+The man who used to come to the ship so often, brought his little
+girl with him one day. She was not more than six or seven years old.
+She had never seen any white men before, and at first she was afraid
+of us all. But when she saw that the white folks would not hurt her
+any more than the Indians would, she liked us very well, and wanted to
+stay with us all the time. The captain showed her his watch, and she
+looked at it a long time. She thought she had never seen so strange a
+thing before. "Is it alive?" she asked her father. He could not tell
+whether it was alive or not, any more than the little girl could.
+
+The captain liked the little girl very well. He wanted to take her
+home with him. So he asked her father if his little girl might go a
+great way off, where the white men lived. The Indians could not talk
+like us. They could talk, but they did not use the same words. The
+captain made out to tell the Indian what he wanted, by using signs,
+just as he would have done if he had been talking with a deaf and dumb
+man. And what do you think the father of that little girl said, when
+he knew that the captain wanted to take the girl home with him? If
+anybody should ask your father if he would let you go away and never
+come back again, you can tell what your father would say. He would
+say, "No, I cannot spare my dear little child."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the Indian said, "Yes, give me some money, and you can take my
+little girl, and carry her away with you. I have got more girls in my
+house." The little Indian girl wanted to go with us, so the captain
+gave her father some money, and when the ship sailed, he took her
+along with him. But the poor Indian girl did not live till our ship
+got home. She was taken very sick, and died. We all felt very bad
+when she left us. We had taught her a great many things. She could
+read a little. She knew all her letters, and could spell out such easy
+words as there are in your little primers and picture books. She did
+not know any thing about God, and Christ, and heaven, before she came
+to the ship. But some of us told her about them. She was glad to hear
+about them. Oh, how her bright eyes did sparkle when she heard that
+Christ came into the world, and died for such little girls as she! How
+happy it made her, to think that He loved her! By and by, she used to
+pray every night, when she went to bed. I taught her to say that sweet
+little prayer which you know so well, and love so well:
+
+  Now I lay me down to sleep,
+  I pray the Lord my soul to keep:
+  If I should die before I wake,
+  I pray the Lord my soul to take.
+
+Oh, I was very sorry when our little Anna died! We called her Anna.
+She had another name at home, but we liked Anna better than we did
+her old name. I was very sorry when she died, and we were all sorry.
+
+[Illustration: The Fishermen.]
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY.
+
+
+The story I told you about the Indian girl makes me think of a little
+boy that we once had in our ship. He was a very good boy. The captain
+liked him very much. He was not the captain's child. But the captain
+used to say that he loved little George as much as if he was his child.
+The reason the captain loved him, and the reason everybody loved him,
+was because he was so kind and so good natured, and because he always
+did just as he was told to do.
+
+I must tell you how George first came to live with us in the ship. We
+were once a great many hundred miles off, and the wind blew very
+hard. It blew so hard that we could not sail where we wanted to go,
+and by and by the ship went upon a bank of sand. There we had to stay
+a good while. We could not get away. Nobody was drowned. We ought to
+have been very thankful for that. I hope we were thankful. While we
+were lying on the sand bank, the waves dashed against the ship so
+hard, that we were afraid it would break in pieces. We did not know
+what to do. Some of us thought we might as well jump into the water,
+and try to swim to the shore. But the captain said that we should
+certainly get drowned if we tried to do that.
+
+You wonder why we did not get into our boat, and row to the shore. We
+should have done so if we had not lost our boat. But we had no boat.
+The waves had dashed against it, and tore it away from the place where
+we kept it, so that we could not get it again.
+
+But when we thought we must all be lost, we saw a boat coming toward
+the ship. Some fishermen had seen us, and were so kind that they came
+to us in their boat, so that we could get to the shore. Oh, how glad
+we were when we saw them coming! But the waves were so high, that for
+a good while we thought it would sink before it got to us. The men had
+very hard work to row the boat. The wind blew very hard at one time,
+and the little boat was blown back again almost to the shore. But they
+tried again, and after a long time they got to the ship. Then some of
+us got into the boat, and the men rowed us to the shore. After that,
+the boat went back to the ship again, and got the rest of the men.
+
+But I have not told the best of the story yet. When we all got into
+the house, where it was warm, we told the fishermen that they were
+very good to come and help us get away from the ship. We thanked them
+very much. And then they told us that we must not thank them; and they
+pointed to a little boy about as old as you are, I guess. "There,"
+they said, "that little boy is the one to thank. We should not have
+gone, if it had not been for him. We were afraid the waves would dash
+over the boat, and that we should be drowned. We did not dare to go.
+But this good boy said, 'Do go! oh, do go! The poor men in the ship
+will get drowned, if you do not go. I will go if my father will let
+me. I do not think father's boat will get lost. God will not let us
+drown, if we go and try to save the men.'" Well, the boy said so much,
+that the fishermen told him they would go, and they did go.
+
+This little boy's name was George, and this is the one that I told you
+we all liked so well. The captain was so pleased with him, that he
+asked his father to let the little boy come and sail in his ship. His
+father said he wished his boy to be a sailor, and the boy wanted to be
+a sailor, too; and that if the captain would be kind to him, little
+George might go. So he went, and he was the very best boy I ever saw
+in my life. He used to talk to the sailors; and when they did wrong,
+when they said bad words, he would tell them it was naughty, and God
+would not love them if they did so. The sailors did not get angry with
+him, because they all saw that little George was good and kind, and
+that he wanted to do them good. I know of a good many sailors who
+stopped swearing, because little George told them, in his kind way,
+that he could not bear to hear them swear, and that God would not love
+them if they did so.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Rocks in the Sea.]
+
+
+
+
+THE WRECK.
+
+
+The captain of this ship--the same one that loved little George so
+well--was drowned not long after that. My little friends, I cannot
+help crying when I think that this good captain, who used to be so
+kind to the sailors, was lost at sea. I was not in the ship at the
+time. I was in another ship. I got sick of catching whales, so I did
+not want to go in a whale-ship any more.
+
+The ship in which this captain was sailing was very near the shore,
+and there were some high rocks that stood quite down to the edge of
+the water. It was foggy at the time. The captain did not know that
+the ship was so near the rocks, because he could not see through the
+fog. The wind blew very hard, and blew the ship upon the rocks. In
+a minute the ship broke in pieces, and all but two or three of the
+men who were in it were lost. The captain was lost among the rest.
+So was little George. When the storm was over, and the wind stopped
+blowing, that dear boy was found on the shore, dead. There was a smile
+on his face, just such a smile as he used to have when he was living.
+There was a little Bible in his pocket. It was all wet with salt water.
+But there was some writing on one of the leaves which anybody could
+read. It said, "This book was given to little George by his dear
+mother."
+
+[Illustration: The Pyramids and the Sphynx.]
+
+
+
+
+THE PYRAMIDS.
+
+I once went to a place called Egypt. There I saw a great many strange
+things. The pyramids are wonderful enough. Did you ever hear about
+them? They are made of stone, and are very large. I should think it
+would take a great many years to make one of them, if there were a
+hundred men at work all the time. They must have been built a very
+long time. I hardly know how long, but it was a great while before
+Christ was born.
+
+I went to the top of the largest pyramid, and went all over it. It was
+one of the strangest things I ever saw. Some people think that the
+pyramids were built to bury kings in, when they died. If they were
+not built for that, I am sure I cannot tell what they were built for.
+
+There is another odd thing in that country, not far from the pyramids.
+It is called a _Sphinx_. I know you will say that the name must be
+as odd as the thing is itself. Well, it _is_ odd, sure enough. The
+Sphinx is a very large rock, made to look just like a lion with a
+man's head. It is as large as the house I live in. There is nothing
+but the head out of the ground. It was all out of the ground once,
+when it was first made, but the sand has now covered up that part
+which looks like a lion.
+
+A great while ago, people used to call such things as these _gods_.
+They used to pray to the Sphinx, just as if it was a god--just as if
+it could hear anybody pray, the same as God does.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE WHIRLPOOL.
+
+
+You have seen little whirlpools in the brook, I suppose. I once saw
+a very large one, a great deal larger than any you ever saw in the
+brook. It was in the North Sea. This whirlpool does mischief
+sometimes. When vessels happen to get on the edge of it, they begin
+to go round and round, all the time coming near the middle of the
+whirlpool. When the captain of the vessel knows that he is in the
+whirlpool, he can get his vessel out, if it has just begun to go
+round. But after it has been in a while, he cannot get out. The vessel
+keeps going round and round. The people on board hear the roar of the
+whirlpool. It is too late to get away. By and by, the water draws the
+vessel down. It is dashed to pieces, and all who were in it are lost!
+
+I have known little boys and girls get into a whirlpool, too; a
+different kind of a whirlpool, to be sure, but a great deal worse than
+this one in the North Sea. I mean the whirlpool of _sin_. When they
+first began to be wicked--when they first began to go round in the
+whirlpool--they went round very slowly. They could very easily have
+got out then, if they had tried, and if they had prayed to God to help
+them. But they did not try. So they kept growing worse and worse. They
+went round swifter and swifter. By and by, they got so far into the
+whirlpool that they could not get out. It was too late. They were
+lost--dashed to pieces on the rocks, in the whirlpool of sin!
+
+Little boy! little girl! take care that you do not venture even to the
+edge of this whirlpool. Give your heart to God, while you are young,
+and pray to him to keep you from sin, and to lead you to heaven.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Jack Mason, The Old Sailor, by Theodore Thinker
+
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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11105 ***</div>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-1"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="155" height="158"
+                            alt="Jack Mason the Sailor" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-2"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/stories.jpg" width="237" height="271"
+                            alt="Jack telling his stories" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h1>
+    JACK MASON,<br />
+    THE OLD SAILOR.
+</h1>
+<h2>
+    WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+    FOR CHILDREN.
+</h3>
+<h3>
+    BY THEODORE THINKER.
+</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<h4>
+   1850
+</h4>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH1">THE OLD SAILOR</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH2">JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH3">THE INDIANS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH4">THE WHITE BEARS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH5">CATCHING WHALES</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH6">MORE INDIANS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH7">THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH8">THE WRECK</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH9">THE PYRAMIDS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH10">THE WHIRLPOOL</a></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-1">
+Jack Mason the Sailor
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-2">
+Jack telling his stories
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-3">
+an anchor
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-4">
+The Indians
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-5">
+a house
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-6">
+a lake scene
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-7">
+climbing a ladder
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-8">
+The Indian with his bow and arrow
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-9">
+a ship
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-10">
+The Fishermen
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-11">
+a fish
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-12">
+Rocks in the sea
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-13">
+The Pyramids and the Sphynx
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-14">
+a cup
+</a>
+</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH1"></a>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>
+    THE OLD SAILOR.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him,
+    and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship
+    almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell! Why,
+    I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he
+    would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his
+    breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen,
+    until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would
+    want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as
+    anybody.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on,
+    and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to
+    that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at
+    the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about
+    now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy
+    lifts his head up, as much as to say, "Dear me! who ever heard of
+    such a thing!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Jack is a good man. He is not like a great many sailors that I have
+    seen. He does not use bad words. He never drinks rum, or any thing of
+    the kind. Sailors are apt to swear; but Jack Mason never swears. He is
+    a Christian: he loves to pray and read his Bible. The book which he
+    holds in his hand, as he is talking to that boy, is a Bible. He often
+    has a Bible in his jacket pocket, when he is on board of his ship; and
+    once in a while he stops telling stories about what he has seen, and
+    reads some of the stories in that good book.
+</p>
+<p>
+    When I was a little boy, Jack fell from the high mast of the ship, and
+    hurt himself so badly that he had to stay at home a long time after
+    that. Poor fellow! he did not like to be shut up in the house. It was
+    hard work for him. But he could not go out, until his hip got well.
+    When he was able to sit up in a chair, I used to go and see him, and
+    hear him tell his stories. I did not go every day, because my mother
+    thought I had better not go every day. But I went as often as she
+    would let me go, and staid as long as she would let me stay.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Jack was always glad to see me, and glad to tell me stories. I was
+    always glad to hear his stories. Some sailors, who have spent a great
+    deal of time on board of a ship, and have seen a great many places,
+    are not good men. They do not always tell the truth. So, when they
+    tell stories about what they saw where they went, we do not know
+    whether to believe them or not. But Jack Mason was a good man, and I
+    knew he would not tell me what was not true.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Shall I tell you some of the stories that this good old sailor told me
+    when he had to stay at home, because he had broken his hip? I think I
+    can remember some worth telling again.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "O yes, Mr. Thinker, tell us all the stories the old sailor told you."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "No, I cannot do that. I cannot remember them all."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Well, tell us all you do remember."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I will see about it. I will tell you some of them, at any rate. Let
+    me see, what story shall I tell first? Shall I tell you his story
+    about what he saw once, when he sailed a great way north? I guess I
+    will."
+</p>
+<a name="image-3"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/anchor.jpg" width="122" height="73"
+                            alt="an anchor" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH2"></a>
+<h3>
+    JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    If you should go a great way north, you would find it very cold. The
+    further you go north, the colder it is. I went so far that way one
+    time, that I got almost frozen. The ship I sailed in came close to an
+    iceberg once, and we all thought for a while that the ship would
+    strike the iceberg. If it had struck, it would have been broken all in
+    pieces, and we should have been drowned or frozen, every one of us.
+    God was kind and good to us, though. The wind was blowing very hard,
+    and right toward the iceberg. But just as we had got almost up to it,
+    the wind changed, and blew us away from it.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But I forgot that you do not know what an iceberg is. It is a great
+    hill of ice. In the North Sea, these ice-hills are often as high as
+    your church, and sometimes a great deal higher. These hills of ice are
+    floating along the water there, and when it is foggy or dark, the
+    sailors cannot always see them. So sometimes the ship strikes them,
+    and is dashed to pieces. Sometimes it gets between two of these
+    ice-hills, and gets crushed, as if it was a little boat. Then the men
+    in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But
+    they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then.
+</p>
+<a name="image-4"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/indians.jpg" width="246" height="227"
+                            alt="The Indians" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH3"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE INDIANS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    In that cold country I saw some Indians. They were dressed in skins. I
+    never saw such dirty-looking men and women before in all my life, and
+    I have never seen any such since. They had never seen a ship before, I
+    should think. I thought they did not know much more than the white
+    bears. Why, they would sell almost all the clothes they had on, if we
+    would give them a few pieces of glass, or a nail or two. One of the
+    women who came to the ship had a little girl about four years old, and
+    she said she would give us that girl, if we would let her have a tin
+    pan which she saw.
+</p>
+<p>
+    These Indians tie their children on their backs, when they have to
+    walk a great way. They licked the oil on the outside of our lamps,
+    just as a dog or a cat would have done. Oh, what dirty people! They
+    eat their meat raw. We killed a seal one day, and our captain gave it
+    to one of the young women. She took it, and bit it into pieces with
+    her teeth. Then she passed it round to the rest of the Indians, and
+    they all helped eat it.
+</p>
+<a name="image-5"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/house.jpg" width="95" height="80"
+                             alt="a house" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH4"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE WHITE BEARS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    There are a great many white bears in that country. Sometimes you can
+    see two or three of them sitting on one of these ice-hills. How they
+    ever got there, I am sure I cannot tell. I guess they went out on the
+    ice only a little way from the shore, to get something which they saw
+    was good to eat; and while they were on the ice, it started off, and
+    they could not get to the shore again.
+</p>
+<p>
+    One of the men who sailed in the same ship with me, told me a story
+    about a white bear, which made me laugh for an hour after I heard it.
+    He said he was in a small boat with another sailor once, about a mile
+    away from the ship. I forget what they went out in the boat for, but I
+    suppose the captain of the ship sent them out for something. They were
+    rowing along in the boat, and they came close to an iceberg. They saw
+    something alive on the iceberg, but they could not make out what it
+    was: they did not know but it was a man. But they came a little nearer
+    to the great ice-hill, and they soon found out what sort of a thing
+    there was on it. <i>Splash</i> something went into the water; and in a
+    minute a great white bear jumped into the boat, as wet as a drowned
+    rat.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Well, the sailors thought they had got to die, sure enough. What could
+    they do? The first thing that they thought of, was to try to kill the
+    bear with their oars. But they soon gave that up. They saw that the
+    bear was too large and strong to be killed in that way. The next thing
+    they thought of doing, was to jump into the water. But they knew they
+    would die if they did that. What should they do? "I wonder which of us
+    the old fellow will take first," one of the men said to the other.
+    Each of them had his oar ready, so that when the bear made a spring at
+    them, he would get his ears boxed pretty sharply. That was all they
+    could do.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Well, the bear did not seem to be at all in a hurry. The first thing
+    he did, after he got into the boat, was to shake himself as hard as he
+    could, to get the water out of his coat. After that, he walked slowly
+    to one end of the boat, just as if he was quite at home there, and lay
+    down upon a coat which one of the men had brought along, and went to
+    sleep.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The sailors saw then that all they had to do was to row the bear to
+    the shore. So they went to work. When they got to the ship, the
+    captain and all the sailors laughed a good deal, you may be sure. The
+    shore was not far off. The sailors rowed until the boat touched the
+    shore, and the bear got out, and walked slowly away. He did not so
+    much as thank the men for the ride he had been taking. But the men
+    were glad to get rid of him, thanks or no thanks.
+</p>
+<a name="image-6"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/lake.jpg" width="234" height="215"
+                            alt="a lake scene" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH5"></a>
+<h3>
+    CATCHING WHALES.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    I went in a whale-ship once. I was gone from home that time more than
+    three years. When we came back, we had our large ship all full of oil
+    and whalebone. We got the oil and the whalebone out of the whales
+    which we had caught. Whales, you know, are very large fish. They
+    sometimes get two or three hundred barrels of oil from one single
+    whale.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I never shall forget what a long chase I had with a whale once. Shall
+    I tell you about it, little friend? There was a man in the ship who
+    was looking out for whales. In a whale-ship there is always one man
+    who gets up as high as he can, and keeps a bright look-out all round
+    for whales. Whales do not stay under water all the time. The trout,
+    and the shad, and the eel, and most other kinds of fish can stay under
+    water all the time. They cannot live out of the water only a few
+    minutes, and I suppose they feel almost as bad out of the water as we
+    do in it. But the whale wants to come up to the top of the water. He
+    wants to come up to breathe. Well, all at once, the man who was
+    looking out the day I speak of, when I had such a run, sung out as
+    loud as he could, "There she blows!" We all knew what that meant. That
+    is what they always say when they see a whale. It means, "There is a
+    whale come up to breathe." This whale was a great way off. I should
+    think he was a mile from the ship.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Well, the captain told some of us to get into a boat, and to go out
+    after the whale. We did so. The boats are always kept ready, and it
+    takes only a minute to let the boat down, and start off. We rowed as
+    fast as we could, until we came up near where the whale was lying. Oh,
+    what a large whale! As soon as the boat got near enough, one man
+    threw two harpoons at the whale, and they both stuck fast in his
+    flesh. A harpoon is a long and sharp iron, made like a spear, so that
+    when it strikes the whale, it goes in deep, and you cannot pull it
+    out. The harpoon is fastened to a long rope, and the rope is tied to
+    the boat.
+</p>
+<p>
+    As soon as the whale felt these irons in his side, he began to run. I
+    never knew before that a whale could swim so fast. It took him only a
+    very little while to run out with all the loose rope; and our boat
+    went through the water pretty fast, you may be sure. I was afraid the
+    whale would take it into his head to dive down towards the bottom. If
+    he had gone down, we should have gone with him, unless we could have
+    cut the rope. But he did not go down. Away we went, as fast as if we
+    had been on a railroad. He was all the time taking us further from the
+    ship. "Well," we thought, "what is going to become of us!" The whale
+    did not seem to care any thing about that. I suppose he thought that
+    was our look-out, and not his.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But the fellow got tired out by and by. He had bled so much, that he
+    began to grow faint. At last he went so slow, that we rowed up to him,
+    and stabbed him with a long knife. He died pretty soon after that, and
+    we got more than two hundred barrels of oil out of him.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Catching whales seems a cruel business to you. It is a cruel business.
+    I never liked it. But somebody must do it. The butcher who kills
+    oxen, and sheep, and calves, has to be cruel. But we must have
+    butchers. We must have people to kill whales, though you never will
+    catch me chasing after a whale again, as long as my name is Jack
+    Mason.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Whales do not always run like the one I have told you about. Sometimes
+    they fight. After they are struck with the harpoon, they lift their
+    tail, or <i>fluke</i>, as they call it, and strike the boat so hard as to
+    dash it in pieces. Then the poor sailors have to swim to the ship if
+    they can. If they cannot, and if there is no other boat near them that
+    they can get into, they must drown.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I once saw a whale that had been struck with a harpoon come up close
+    to the ship, and give it such a blow with his fluke, that he tore the
+    copper off at a great rate, and broke a thick plank in half a dozen
+    pieces.
+</p>
+<a name="image-7"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/ladder.jpg" width="88" height="122"
+                             alt="climbing a ladder" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-8"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/bow.jpg" width="251" height="228"
+                            alt="The Indian with his bow and arrow" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH6"></a>
+<h3>
+    MORE INDIANS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    When I went in the whale-ship, I saw another tribe of Indians, that
+    were very different from those I told you of before. They knew more
+    than those Indians. They used bows and arrows; and you would have been
+    pleased to see how they would hit a mark a great way off, with their
+    arrows.
+</p>
+<p>
+    One of them, who had a name so long that I will not try to speak it,
+    used to come every day to our ship, when we were lying near the shore.
+    He liked pieces of glass, and nails and tin, and things of that kind,
+    quite as well as the other Indians I told you of. He had seen white
+    men before, so he was not at all afraid of us. I suppose that almost
+    all the white men he had seen before used rum and tobacco. He asked
+    all our sailors for these two things, and kept asking every day. I am
+    sorry to say that some of the men gave him some rum once in a while,
+    and one day he drank so much that he got drunk. Poor man! He was not
+    so much to blame, I think, as the bad sailors that gave him the rum.
+    What do you think about it?
+</p>
+<p>
+    This man would dive in the water further than anybody I ever saw
+    before or since. Some of the sailors used to throw pieces of tin into
+    very deep water, and tell him he might have them if he would dive and
+    bring them up. He was so fond of such things, that he would always
+    gladly dive to get them.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I once saw him dive for an old worn-out knife. The water was very deep
+    where it was thrown. It was so deep that none of us thought he would
+    get it. He went down, and staid a long, long time. We thought he never
+    would come up again. The sailor that threw the knife into the water
+    began to be sorry he had done it, because he thought the poor Indian
+    was drowned. But, by and by, he came up again, with the knife in his
+    mouth. He had been hunting after the knife on the bottom of the sea.
+</p>
+<p>
+    These Indians had boats which were made of the bark of trees. They
+    were so light, that an Indian could carry one of them on his shoulder.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The man who used to come to the ship so often, brought his little
+    girl with him one day. She was not more than six or seven years old.
+    She had never seen any white men before, and at first she was afraid
+    of us all. But when she saw that the white folks would not hurt her
+    any more than the Indians would, she liked us very well, and wanted to
+    stay with us all the time. The captain showed her his watch, and she
+    looked at it a long time. She thought she had never seen so strange a
+    thing before. "Is it alive?" she asked her father. He could not tell
+    whether it was alive or not, any more than the little girl could.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The captain liked the little girl very well. He wanted to take her
+    home with him. So he asked her father if his little girl might go a
+    great way off, where the white men lived. The Indians could not talk
+    like us. They could talk, but they did not use the same words. The
+    captain made out to tell the Indian what he wanted, by using signs,
+    just as he would have done if he had been talking with a deaf and dumb
+    man. And what do you think the father of that little girl said, when
+    he knew that the captain wanted to take the girl home with him? If
+    anybody should ask your father if he would let you go away and never
+    come back again, you can tell what your father would say. He would
+    say, "No, I cannot spare my dear little child."
+</p>
+<a name="image-9"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/ship.jpg"  width="223" height="263"
+                             alt="a ship" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>
+    But the Indian said, "Yes, give me some money, and you can take my
+    little girl, and carry her away with you. I have got more girls in my
+    house." The little Indian girl wanted to go with us, so the captain
+    gave her father some money, and when the ship sailed, he took her
+    along with him. But the poor Indian girl did not live till our ship
+    got home. She was taken very sick, and died. We all felt very bad
+    when she left us. We had taught her a great many things. She could
+    read a little. She knew all her letters, and could spell out such easy
+    words as there are in your little primers and picture books. She did
+    not know any thing about God, and Christ, and heaven, before she came
+    to the ship. But some of us told her about them. She was glad to hear
+    about them. Oh, how her bright eyes did sparkle when she heard that
+    Christ came into the world, and died for such little girls as she! How
+    happy it made her, to think that He loved her! By and by, she used to
+    pray every night, when she went to bed. I taught her to say that sweet
+    little prayer which you know so well, and love so well:
+</p>
+<p class="ind">
+  Now I lay me down to sleep,<br />
+  I pray the Lord my soul to keep:<br />
+  If I should die before I wake,<br />
+  I pray the Lord my soul to take.<br />
+</p>
+<p>
+    Oh, I was very sorry when our little Anna died! We called her Anna.
+    She had another name at home, but we liked Anna better than we did her
+    old name. I was very sorry when she died, and we were all sorry.
+</p>
+<a name="image-10"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/fishermen.jpg" width="239" height="232"
+                            alt="The Fishermen" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH7"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    The story I told you about the Indian girl makes me think of a little
+    boy that we once had in our ship. He was a very good boy. The captain
+    liked him very much. He was not the captain's child. But the captain
+    used to say that he loved little George as much as if he was his
+    child. The reason the captain loved him, and the reason everybody
+    loved him, was because he was so kind and so good natured, and because
+    he always did just as he was told to do.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I must tell you how George first came to live with us in the ship. We
+    were once a great many hundred miles off, and the wind blew very
+    hard. It blew so hard that we could not sail where we wanted to go,
+    and by and by the ship went upon a bank of sand. There we had to stay
+    a good while. We could not get away. Nobody was drowned. We ought to
+    have been very thankful for that. I hope we were thankful. While we
+    were lying on the sand bank, the waves dashed against the ship so
+    hard, that we were afraid it would break in pieces. We did not know
+    what to do. Some of us thought we might as well jump into the water,
+    and try to swim to the shore. But the captain said that we should
+    certainly get drowned if we tried to do that.
+</p>
+<p>
+    You wonder why we did not get into our boat, and row to the shore. We
+    should have done so if we had not lost our boat. But we had no boat.
+    The waves had dashed against it, and tore it away from the place where
+    we kept it, so that we could not get it again.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But when we thought we must all be lost, we saw a boat coming toward
+    the ship. Some fishermen had seen us, and were so kind that they came
+    to us in their boat, so that we could get to the shore. Oh, how glad
+    we were when we saw them coming! But the waves were so high, that for
+    a good while we thought it would sink before it got to us. The men had
+    very hard work to row the boat. The wind blew very hard at one time,
+    and the little boat was blown back again almost to the shore. But they
+    tried again, and after a long time they got to the ship. Then some of
+    us got into the boat, and the men rowed us to the shore. After that,
+    the boat went back to the ship again, and got the rest of the men.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But I have not told the best of the story yet. When we all got into
+    the house, where it was warm, we told the fishermen that they were
+    very good to come and help us get away from the ship. We thanked them
+    very much. And then they told us that we must not thank them; and they
+    pointed to a little boy about as old as you are, I guess. "There,"
+    they said, "that little boy is the one to thank. We should not have
+    gone, if it had not been for him. We were afraid the waves would dash
+    over the boat, and that we should be drowned. We did not dare to go.
+    But this good boy said, 'Do go! oh, do go! The poor men in the ship
+    will get drowned, if you do not go. I will go if my father will let
+    me. I do not think father's boat will get lost. God will not let us
+    drown, if we go and try to save the men.'" Well, the boy said so much,
+    that the fishermen told him they would go, and they did go.
+</p>
+<p>
+    This little boy's name was George, and this is the one that I told you
+    we all liked so well. The captain was so pleased with him, that he
+    asked his father to let the little boy come and sail in his ship. His
+    father said he wished his boy to be a sailor, and the boy wanted to be
+    a sailor, too; and that if the captain would be kind to him, little
+    George might go. So he went, and he was the very best boy I ever saw
+    in my life. He used to talk to the sailors; and when they did wrong,
+    when they said bad words, he would tell them it was naughty, and God
+    would not love them if they did so. The sailors did not get angry with
+    him, because they all saw that little George was good and kind, and
+    that he wanted to do them good. I know of a good many sailors who
+    stopped swearing, because little George told them, in his kind way,
+    that he could not bear to hear them swear, and that God would not love
+    them if they did so.
+</p>
+<a name="image-11"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/fish.jpg" width="216" height="65"
+                            alt="a fish" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-12"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/rocks.jpg" width="225" height="221"
+                            alt="Rocks in the sea" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH8"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE WRECK.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    The captain of this ship&mdash;the same one that loved little George so
+    well&mdash;was drowned not long after that. My little friends, I cannot
+    help crying when I think that this good captain, who used to be so
+    kind to the sailors, was lost at sea. I was not in the ship at the
+    time. I was in another ship. I got sick of catching whales, so I did
+    not want to go in a whale-ship any more.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The ship in which this captain was sailing was very near the shore,
+    and there were some high rocks that stood quite down to the edge of
+    the water. It was foggy at the time. The captain did not know that the
+    ship was so near the rocks, because he could not see through the fog.
+    The wind blew very hard, and blew the ship upon the rocks. In a minute
+    the ship broke in pieces, and all but two or three of the men who were
+    in it were lost. The captain was lost among the rest. So was little
+    George. When the storm was over, and the wind stopped blowing, that
+    dear boy was found on the shore, dead. There was a smile on his face,
+    just such a smile as he used to have when he was living. There was a
+    little Bible in his pocket. It was all wet with salt water. But there
+    was some writing on one of the leaves which anybody could read. It
+    said, "This book was given to little George by his dear mother."
+</p>
+<a name="image-13"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/pyramids.jpg" width="254" height="234"
+                            alt="The Pyramids and the Sphynx" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH9"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE PYRAMIDS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    I once went to a place called Egypt. There I saw a great many strange
+    things. The pyramids are wonderful enough. Did you ever hear about
+    them? They are made of stone, and are very large. I should think it
+    would take a great many years to make one of them, if there were a
+    hundred men at work all the time. They must have been built a very
+    long time. I hardly know how long, but it was a great while before
+    Christ was born.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I went to the top of the largest pyramid, and went all over it. It was
+    one of the strangest things I ever saw. Some people think that the
+    pyramids were built to bury kings in, when they died. If they were
+    not built for that, I am sure I cannot tell what they were built for.
+</p>
+<p>
+    There is another odd thing in that country, not far from the pyramids.
+    It is called a <i>Sphinx</i>. I know you will say that the name must be as
+    odd as the thing is itself. Well, it <i>is</i> odd, sure enough. The
+    Sphinx is a very large rock, made to look just like a lion with a
+    man's head. It is as large as the house I live in. There is nothing
+    but the head out of the ground. It was all out of the ground once,
+    when it was first made, but the sand has now covered up that part
+    which looks like a lion.
+</p>
+<p>
+    A great while ago, people used to call such things as these <i>gods</i>.
+    They used to pray to the Sphinx, just as if it was a god&mdash;just as if
+    it could hear anybody pray, the same as God does.
+</p>
+<a name="image-14"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/cup.jpg" width="117" height="95"
+                            alt="a cup" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH10"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE WHIRLPOOL.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    You have seen little whirlpools in the brook, I suppose. I once
+    saw a very large one, a great deal larger than any you ever saw in
+    the brook. It was in the North Sea. This whirlpool does mischief
+    sometimes. When vessels happen to get on the edge of it, they begin
+    to go round and round, all the time coming near the middle of the
+    whirlpool. When the captain of the vessel knows that he is in the
+    whirlpool, he can get his vessel out, if it has just begun to go
+    round. But after it has been in a while, he cannot get out. The vessel
+    keeps going round and round. The people on board hear the roar of the
+    whirlpool. It is too late to get away. By and by, the water draws the
+    vessel down. It is dashed to pieces, and all who were in it are lost!
+</p>
+<p>
+    I have known little boys and girls get into a whirlpool, too; a
+    different kind of a whirlpool, to be sure, but a great deal worse than
+    this one in the North Sea. I mean the whirlpool of <i>sin</i>. When they
+    first began to be wicked&mdash;when they first began to go round in the
+    whirlpool&mdash;they went round very slowly. They could very easily have
+    got out then, if they had tried, and if they had prayed to God to help
+    them. But they did not try. So they kept growing worse and worse. They
+    went round swifter and swifter. By and by, they got so far into the
+    whirlpool that they could not get out. It was too late. They were
+    lost&mdash;dashed to pieces on the rocks, in the whirlpool of sin!
+</p>
+<p>
+    Little boy! little girl! take care that you do not venture even to the
+    edge of this whirlpool. Give your heart to God, while you are young,
+    and pray to him to keep you from sin, and to lead you to heaven.
+</p>
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+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-1"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="155" height="158"
+                            alt="Jack Mason the Sailor" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-2"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/stories.jpg" width="237" height="271"
+                            alt="Jack telling his stories" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h1>
+    JACK MASON,<br />
+    THE OLD SAILOR.
+</h1>
+<h2>
+    WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+    FOR CHILDREN.
+</h3>
+<h3>
+    BY THEODORE THINKER.
+</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<h4>
+   1850
+</h4>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH1">THE OLD SAILOR</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH2">JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH3">THE INDIANS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH4">THE WHITE BEARS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH5">CATCHING WHALES</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH6">MORE INDIANS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH7">THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH8">THE WRECK</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH9">THE PYRAMIDS</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#CH10">THE WHIRLPOOL</a></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-1">
+Jack Mason the Sailor
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-2">
+Jack telling his stories
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-3">
+an anchor
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-4">
+The Indians
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-5">
+a house
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-6">
+a lake scene
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-7">
+climbing a ladder
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-8">
+The Indian with his bow and arrow
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-9">
+a ship
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-10">
+The Fishermen
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-11">
+a fish
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-12">
+Rocks in the sea
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-13">
+The Pyramids and the Sphynx
+</a>
+</p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-14">
+a cup
+</a>
+</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH1"></a>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>
+    THE OLD SAILOR.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him,
+    and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship
+    almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell! Why,
+    I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he
+    would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his
+    breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen,
+    until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would
+    want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as
+    anybody.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on,
+    and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to
+    that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at
+    the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about
+    now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy
+    lifts his head up, as much as to say, "Dear me! who ever heard of
+    such a thing!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Jack is a good man. He is not like a great many sailors that I have
+    seen. He does not use bad words. He never drinks rum, or any thing of
+    the kind. Sailors are apt to swear; but Jack Mason never swears. He is
+    a Christian: he loves to pray and read his Bible. The book which he
+    holds in his hand, as he is talking to that boy, is a Bible. He often
+    has a Bible in his jacket pocket, when he is on board of his ship; and
+    once in a while he stops telling stories about what he has seen, and
+    reads some of the stories in that good book.
+</p>
+<p>
+    When I was a little boy, Jack fell from the high mast of the ship, and
+    hurt himself so badly that he had to stay at home a long time after
+    that. Poor fellow! he did not like to be shut up in the house. It was
+    hard work for him. But he could not go out, until his hip got well.
+    When he was able to sit up in a chair, I used to go and see him, and
+    hear him tell his stories. I did not go every day, because my mother
+    thought I had better not go every day. But I went as often as she
+    would let me go, and staid as long as she would let me stay.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Jack was always glad to see me, and glad to tell me stories. I was
+    always glad to hear his stories. Some sailors, who have spent a great
+    deal of time on board of a ship, and have seen a great many places,
+    are not good men. They do not always tell the truth. So, when they
+    tell stories about what they saw where they went, we do not know
+    whether to believe them or not. But Jack Mason was a good man, and I
+    knew he would not tell me what was not true.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Shall I tell you some of the stories that this good old sailor told me
+    when he had to stay at home, because he had broken his hip? I think I
+    can remember some worth telling again.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "O yes, Mr. Thinker, tell us all the stories the old sailor told you."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "No, I cannot do that. I cannot remember them all."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Well, tell us all you do remember."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I will see about it. I will tell you some of them, at any rate. Let
+    me see, what story shall I tell first? Shall I tell you his story
+    about what he saw once, when he sailed a great way north? I guess I
+    will."
+</p>
+<a name="image-3"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/anchor.jpg" width="122" height="73"
+                            alt="an anchor" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH2"></a>
+<h3>
+    JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    If you should go a great way north, you would find it very cold. The
+    further you go north, the colder it is. I went so far that way one
+    time, that I got almost frozen. The ship I sailed in came close to an
+    iceberg once, and we all thought for a while that the ship would
+    strike the iceberg. If it had struck, it would have been broken all in
+    pieces, and we should have been drowned or frozen, every one of us.
+    God was kind and good to us, though. The wind was blowing very hard,
+    and right toward the iceberg. But just as we had got almost up to it,
+    the wind changed, and blew us away from it.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But I forgot that you do not know what an iceberg is. It is a great
+    hill of ice. In the North Sea, these ice-hills are often as high as
+    your church, and sometimes a great deal higher. These hills of ice are
+    floating along the water there, and when it is foggy or dark, the
+    sailors cannot always see them. So sometimes the ship strikes them,
+    and is dashed to pieces. Sometimes it gets between two of these
+    ice-hills, and gets crushed, as if it was a little boat. Then the men
+    in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But
+    they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then.
+</p>
+<a name="image-4"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/indians.jpg" width="246" height="227"
+                            alt="The Indians" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH3"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE INDIANS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    In that cold country I saw some Indians. They were dressed in skins. I
+    never saw such dirty-looking men and women before in all my life, and
+    I have never seen any such since. They had never seen a ship before, I
+    should think. I thought they did not know much more than the white
+    bears. Why, they would sell almost all the clothes they had on, if we
+    would give them a few pieces of glass, or a nail or two. One of the
+    women who came to the ship had a little girl about four years old, and
+    she said she would give us that girl, if we would let her have a tin
+    pan which she saw.
+</p>
+<p>
+    These Indians tie their children on their backs, when they have to
+    walk a great way. They licked the oil on the outside of our lamps,
+    just as a dog or a cat would have done. Oh, what dirty people! They
+    eat their meat raw. We killed a seal one day, and our captain gave it
+    to one of the young women. She took it, and bit it into pieces with
+    her teeth. Then she passed it round to the rest of the Indians, and
+    they all helped eat it.
+</p>
+<a name="image-5"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/house.jpg" width="95" height="80"
+                             alt="a house" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH4"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE WHITE BEARS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    There are a great many white bears in that country. Sometimes you can
+    see two or three of them sitting on one of these ice-hills. How they
+    ever got there, I am sure I cannot tell. I guess they went out on the
+    ice only a little way from the shore, to get something which they saw
+    was good to eat; and while they were on the ice, it started off, and
+    they could not get to the shore again.
+</p>
+<p>
+    One of the men who sailed in the same ship with me, told me a story
+    about a white bear, which made me laugh for an hour after I heard it.
+    He said he was in a small boat with another sailor once, about a mile
+    away from the ship. I forget what they went out in the boat for, but I
+    suppose the captain of the ship sent them out for something. They were
+    rowing along in the boat, and they came close to an iceberg. They saw
+    something alive on the iceberg, but they could not make out what it
+    was: they did not know but it was a man. But they came a little nearer
+    to the great ice-hill, and they soon found out what sort of a thing
+    there was on it. <i>Splash</i> something went into the water; and in a
+    minute a great white bear jumped into the boat, as wet as a drowned
+    rat.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Well, the sailors thought they had got to die, sure enough. What could
+    they do? The first thing that they thought of, was to try to kill the
+    bear with their oars. But they soon gave that up. They saw that the
+    bear was too large and strong to be killed in that way. The next thing
+    they thought of doing, was to jump into the water. But they knew they
+    would die if they did that. What should they do? "I wonder which of us
+    the old fellow will take first," one of the men said to the other.
+    Each of them had his oar ready, so that when the bear made a spring at
+    them, he would get his ears boxed pretty sharply. That was all they
+    could do.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Well, the bear did not seem to be at all in a hurry. The first thing
+    he did, after he got into the boat, was to shake himself as hard as he
+    could, to get the water out of his coat. After that, he walked slowly
+    to one end of the boat, just as if he was quite at home there, and lay
+    down upon a coat which one of the men had brought along, and went to
+    sleep.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The sailors saw then that all they had to do was to row the bear to
+    the shore. So they went to work. When they got to the ship, the
+    captain and all the sailors laughed a good deal, you may be sure. The
+    shore was not far off. The sailors rowed until the boat touched the
+    shore, and the bear got out, and walked slowly away. He did not so
+    much as thank the men for the ride he had been taking. But the men
+    were glad to get rid of him, thanks or no thanks.
+</p>
+<a name="image-6"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/lake.jpg" width="234" height="215"
+                            alt="a lake scene" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH5"></a>
+<h3>
+    CATCHING WHALES.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    I went in a whale-ship once. I was gone from home that time more than
+    three years. When we came back, we had our large ship all full of oil
+    and whalebone. We got the oil and the whalebone out of the whales
+    which we had caught. Whales, you know, are very large fish. They
+    sometimes get two or three hundred barrels of oil from one single
+    whale.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I never shall forget what a long chase I had with a whale once. Shall
+    I tell you about it, little friend? There was a man in the ship who
+    was looking out for whales. In a whale-ship there is always one man
+    who gets up as high as he can, and keeps a bright look-out all round
+    for whales. Whales do not stay under water all the time. The trout,
+    and the shad, and the eel, and most other kinds of fish can stay under
+    water all the time. They cannot live out of the water only a few
+    minutes, and I suppose they feel almost as bad out of the water as we
+    do in it. But the whale wants to come up to the top of the water. He
+    wants to come up to breathe. Well, all at once, the man who was
+    looking out the day I speak of, when I had such a run, sung out as
+    loud as he could, "There she blows!" We all knew what that meant. That
+    is what they always say when they see a whale. It means, "There is a
+    whale come up to breathe." This whale was a great way off. I should
+    think he was a mile from the ship.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Well, the captain told some of us to get into a boat, and to go out
+    after the whale. We did so. The boats are always kept ready, and it
+    takes only a minute to let the boat down, and start off. We rowed as
+    fast as we could, until we came up near where the whale was lying. Oh,
+    what a large whale! As soon as the boat got near enough, one man
+    threw two harpoons at the whale, and they both stuck fast in his
+    flesh. A harpoon is a long and sharp iron, made like a spear, so that
+    when it strikes the whale, it goes in deep, and you cannot pull it
+    out. The harpoon is fastened to a long rope, and the rope is tied to
+    the boat.
+</p>
+<p>
+    As soon as the whale felt these irons in his side, he began to run. I
+    never knew before that a whale could swim so fast. It took him only a
+    very little while to run out with all the loose rope; and our boat
+    went through the water pretty fast, you may be sure. I was afraid the
+    whale would take it into his head to dive down towards the bottom. If
+    he had gone down, we should have gone with him, unless we could have
+    cut the rope. But he did not go down. Away we went, as fast as if we
+    had been on a railroad. He was all the time taking us further from the
+    ship. "Well," we thought, "what is going to become of us!" The whale
+    did not seem to care any thing about that. I suppose he thought that
+    was our look-out, and not his.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But the fellow got tired out by and by. He had bled so much, that he
+    began to grow faint. At last he went so slow, that we rowed up to him,
+    and stabbed him with a long knife. He died pretty soon after that, and
+    we got more than two hundred barrels of oil out of him.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Catching whales seems a cruel business to you. It is a cruel business.
+    I never liked it. But somebody must do it. The butcher who kills
+    oxen, and sheep, and calves, has to be cruel. But we must have
+    butchers. We must have people to kill whales, though you never will
+    catch me chasing after a whale again, as long as my name is Jack
+    Mason.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Whales do not always run like the one I have told you about. Sometimes
+    they fight. After they are struck with the harpoon, they lift their
+    tail, or <i>fluke</i>, as they call it, and strike the boat so hard as to
+    dash it in pieces. Then the poor sailors have to swim to the ship if
+    they can. If they cannot, and if there is no other boat near them that
+    they can get into, they must drown.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I once saw a whale that had been struck with a harpoon come up close
+    to the ship, and give it such a blow with his fluke, that he tore the
+    copper off at a great rate, and broke a thick plank in half a dozen
+    pieces.
+</p>
+<a name="image-7"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/ladder.jpg" width="88" height="122"
+                             alt="climbing a ladder" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-8"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/bow.jpg" width="251" height="228"
+                            alt="The Indian with his bow and arrow" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH6"></a>
+<h3>
+    MORE INDIANS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    When I went in the whale-ship, I saw another tribe of Indians, that
+    were very different from those I told you of before. They knew more
+    than those Indians. They used bows and arrows; and you would have been
+    pleased to see how they would hit a mark a great way off, with their
+    arrows.
+</p>
+<p>
+    One of them, who had a name so long that I will not try to speak it,
+    used to come every day to our ship, when we were lying near the shore.
+    He liked pieces of glass, and nails and tin, and things of that kind,
+    quite as well as the other Indians I told you of. He had seen white
+    men before, so he was not at all afraid of us. I suppose that almost
+    all the white men he had seen before used rum and tobacco. He asked
+    all our sailors for these two things, and kept asking every day. I am
+    sorry to say that some of the men gave him some rum once in a while,
+    and one day he drank so much that he got drunk. Poor man! He was not
+    so much to blame, I think, as the bad sailors that gave him the rum.
+    What do you think about it?
+</p>
+<p>
+    This man would dive in the water further than anybody I ever saw
+    before or since. Some of the sailors used to throw pieces of tin into
+    very deep water, and tell him he might have them if he would dive and
+    bring them up. He was so fond of such things, that he would always
+    gladly dive to get them.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I once saw him dive for an old worn-out knife. The water was very deep
+    where it was thrown. It was so deep that none of us thought he would
+    get it. He went down, and staid a long, long time. We thought he never
+    would come up again. The sailor that threw the knife into the water
+    began to be sorry he had done it, because he thought the poor Indian
+    was drowned. But, by and by, he came up again, with the knife in his
+    mouth. He had been hunting after the knife on the bottom of the sea.
+</p>
+<p>
+    These Indians had boats which were made of the bark of trees. They
+    were so light, that an Indian could carry one of them on his shoulder.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The man who used to come to the ship so often, brought his little
+    girl with him one day. She was not more than six or seven years old.
+    She had never seen any white men before, and at first she was afraid
+    of us all. But when she saw that the white folks would not hurt her
+    any more than the Indians would, she liked us very well, and wanted to
+    stay with us all the time. The captain showed her his watch, and she
+    looked at it a long time. She thought she had never seen so strange a
+    thing before. "Is it alive?" she asked her father. He could not tell
+    whether it was alive or not, any more than the little girl could.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The captain liked the little girl very well. He wanted to take her
+    home with him. So he asked her father if his little girl might go a
+    great way off, where the white men lived. The Indians could not talk
+    like us. They could talk, but they did not use the same words. The
+    captain made out to tell the Indian what he wanted, by using signs,
+    just as he would have done if he had been talking with a deaf and dumb
+    man. And what do you think the father of that little girl said, when
+    he knew that the captain wanted to take the girl home with him? If
+    anybody should ask your father if he would let you go away and never
+    come back again, you can tell what your father would say. He would
+    say, "No, I cannot spare my dear little child."
+</p>
+<a name="image-9"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/ship.jpg"  width="223" height="263"
+                             alt="a ship" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>
+    But the Indian said, "Yes, give me some money, and you can take my
+    little girl, and carry her away with you. I have got more girls in my
+    house." The little Indian girl wanted to go with us, so the captain
+    gave her father some money, and when the ship sailed, he took her
+    along with him. But the poor Indian girl did not live till our ship
+    got home. She was taken very sick, and died. We all felt very bad
+    when she left us. We had taught her a great many things. She could
+    read a little. She knew all her letters, and could spell out such easy
+    words as there are in your little primers and picture books. She did
+    not know any thing about God, and Christ, and heaven, before she came
+    to the ship. But some of us told her about them. She was glad to hear
+    about them. Oh, how her bright eyes did sparkle when she heard that
+    Christ came into the world, and died for such little girls as she! How
+    happy it made her, to think that He loved her! By and by, she used to
+    pray every night, when she went to bed. I taught her to say that sweet
+    little prayer which you know so well, and love so well:
+</p>
+<p class="ind">
+  Now I lay me down to sleep,<br />
+  I pray the Lord my soul to keep:<br />
+  If I should die before I wake,<br />
+  I pray the Lord my soul to take.<br />
+</p>
+<p>
+    Oh, I was very sorry when our little Anna died! We called her Anna.
+    She had another name at home, but we liked Anna better than we did her
+    old name. I was very sorry when she died, and we were all sorry.
+</p>
+<a name="image-10"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/fishermen.jpg" width="239" height="232"
+                            alt="The Fishermen" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH7"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    The story I told you about the Indian girl makes me think of a little
+    boy that we once had in our ship. He was a very good boy. The captain
+    liked him very much. He was not the captain's child. But the captain
+    used to say that he loved little George as much as if he was his
+    child. The reason the captain loved him, and the reason everybody
+    loved him, was because he was so kind and so good natured, and because
+    he always did just as he was told to do.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I must tell you how George first came to live with us in the ship. We
+    were once a great many hundred miles off, and the wind blew very
+    hard. It blew so hard that we could not sail where we wanted to go,
+    and by and by the ship went upon a bank of sand. There we had to stay
+    a good while. We could not get away. Nobody was drowned. We ought to
+    have been very thankful for that. I hope we were thankful. While we
+    were lying on the sand bank, the waves dashed against the ship so
+    hard, that we were afraid it would break in pieces. We did not know
+    what to do. Some of us thought we might as well jump into the water,
+    and try to swim to the shore. But the captain said that we should
+    certainly get drowned if we tried to do that.
+</p>
+<p>
+    You wonder why we did not get into our boat, and row to the shore. We
+    should have done so if we had not lost our boat. But we had no boat.
+    The waves had dashed against it, and tore it away from the place where
+    we kept it, so that we could not get it again.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But when we thought we must all be lost, we saw a boat coming toward
+    the ship. Some fishermen had seen us, and were so kind that they came
+    to us in their boat, so that we could get to the shore. Oh, how glad
+    we were when we saw them coming! But the waves were so high, that for
+    a good while we thought it would sink before it got to us. The men had
+    very hard work to row the boat. The wind blew very hard at one time,
+    and the little boat was blown back again almost to the shore. But they
+    tried again, and after a long time they got to the ship. Then some of
+    us got into the boat, and the men rowed us to the shore. After that,
+    the boat went back to the ship again, and got the rest of the men.
+</p>
+<p>
+    But I have not told the best of the story yet. When we all got into
+    the house, where it was warm, we told the fishermen that they were
+    very good to come and help us get away from the ship. We thanked them
+    very much. And then they told us that we must not thank them; and they
+    pointed to a little boy about as old as you are, I guess. "There,"
+    they said, "that little boy is the one to thank. We should not have
+    gone, if it had not been for him. We were afraid the waves would dash
+    over the boat, and that we should be drowned. We did not dare to go.
+    But this good boy said, 'Do go! oh, do go! The poor men in the ship
+    will get drowned, if you do not go. I will go if my father will let
+    me. I do not think father's boat will get lost. God will not let us
+    drown, if we go and try to save the men.'" Well, the boy said so much,
+    that the fishermen told him they would go, and they did go.
+</p>
+<p>
+    This little boy's name was George, and this is the one that I told you
+    we all liked so well. The captain was so pleased with him, that he
+    asked his father to let the little boy come and sail in his ship. His
+    father said he wished his boy to be a sailor, and the boy wanted to be
+    a sailor, too; and that if the captain would be kind to him, little
+    George might go. So he went, and he was the very best boy I ever saw
+    in my life. He used to talk to the sailors; and when they did wrong,
+    when they said bad words, he would tell them it was naughty, and God
+    would not love them if they did so. The sailors did not get angry with
+    him, because they all saw that little George was good and kind, and
+    that he wanted to do them good. I know of a good many sailors who
+    stopped swearing, because little George told them, in his kind way,
+    that he could not bear to hear them swear, and that God would not love
+    them if they did so.
+</p>
+<a name="image-11"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/fish.jpg" width="216" height="65"
+                            alt="a fish" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="image-12"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/rocks.jpg" width="225" height="221"
+                            alt="Rocks in the sea" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH8"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE WRECK.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    The captain of this ship&mdash;the same one that loved little George so
+    well&mdash;was drowned not long after that. My little friends, I cannot
+    help crying when I think that this good captain, who used to be so
+    kind to the sailors, was lost at sea. I was not in the ship at the
+    time. I was in another ship. I got sick of catching whales, so I did
+    not want to go in a whale-ship any more.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The ship in which this captain was sailing was very near the shore,
+    and there were some high rocks that stood quite down to the edge of
+    the water. It was foggy at the time. The captain did not know that the
+    ship was so near the rocks, because he could not see through the fog.
+    The wind blew very hard, and blew the ship upon the rocks. In a minute
+    the ship broke in pieces, and all but two or three of the men who were
+    in it were lost. The captain was lost among the rest. So was little
+    George. When the storm was over, and the wind stopped blowing, that
+    dear boy was found on the shore, dead. There was a smile on his face,
+    just such a smile as he used to have when he was living. There was a
+    little Bible in his pocket. It was all wet with salt water. But there
+    was some writing on one of the leaves which anybody could read. It
+    said, "This book was given to little George by his dear mother."
+</p>
+<a name="image-13"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/pyramids.jpg" width="254" height="234"
+                            alt="The Pyramids and the Sphynx" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH9"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE PYRAMIDS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    I once went to a place called Egypt. There I saw a great many strange
+    things. The pyramids are wonderful enough. Did you ever hear about
+    them? They are made of stone, and are very large. I should think it
+    would take a great many years to make one of them, if there were a
+    hundred men at work all the time. They must have been built a very
+    long time. I hardly know how long, but it was a great while before
+    Christ was born.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I went to the top of the largest pyramid, and went all over it. It was
+    one of the strangest things I ever saw. Some people think that the
+    pyramids were built to bury kings in, when they died. If they were
+    not built for that, I am sure I cannot tell what they were built for.
+</p>
+<p>
+    There is another odd thing in that country, not far from the pyramids.
+    It is called a <i>Sphinx</i>. I know you will say that the name must be as
+    odd as the thing is itself. Well, it <i>is</i> odd, sure enough. The
+    Sphinx is a very large rock, made to look just like a lion with a
+    man's head. It is as large as the house I live in. There is nothing
+    but the head out of the ground. It was all out of the ground once,
+    when it was first made, but the sand has now covered up that part
+    which looks like a lion.
+</p>
+<p>
+    A great while ago, people used to call such things as these <i>gods</i>.
+    They used to pray to the Sphinx, just as if it was a god&mdash;just as if
+    it could hear anybody pray, the same as God does.
+</p>
+<a name="image-14"></a>
+<p class="ctr"><img src="images/cup.jpg" width="117" height="95"
+                            alt="a cup" ></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<a name="CH10"></a>
+<h3>
+    THE WHIRLPOOL.
+</h3>
+<p>
+    You have seen little whirlpools in the brook, I suppose. I once
+    saw a very large one, a great deal larger than any you ever saw in
+    the brook. It was in the North Sea. This whirlpool does mischief
+    sometimes. When vessels happen to get on the edge of it, they begin
+    to go round and round, all the time coming near the middle of the
+    whirlpool. When the captain of the vessel knows that he is in the
+    whirlpool, he can get his vessel out, if it has just begun to go
+    round. But after it has been in a while, he cannot get out. The vessel
+    keeps going round and round. The people on board hear the roar of the
+    whirlpool. It is too late to get away. By and by, the water draws the
+    vessel down. It is dashed to pieces, and all who were in it are lost!
+</p>
+<p>
+    I have known little boys and girls get into a whirlpool, too; a
+    different kind of a whirlpool, to be sure, but a great deal worse than
+    this one in the North Sea. I mean the whirlpool of <i>sin</i>. When they
+    first began to be wicked&mdash;when they first began to go round in the
+    whirlpool&mdash;they went round very slowly. They could very easily have
+    got out then, if they had tried, and if they had prayed to God to help
+    them. But they did not try. So they kept growing worse and worse. They
+    went round swifter and swifter. By and by, they got so far into the
+    whirlpool that they could not get out. It was too late. They were
+    lost&mdash;dashed to pieces on the rocks, in the whirlpool of sin!
+</p>
+<p>
+    Little boy! little girl! take care that you do not venture even to the
+    edge of this whirlpool. Give your heart to God, while you are young,
+    and pray to him to keep you from sin, and to lead you to heaven.
+</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
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+Project Gutenberg's Jack Mason, The Old Sailor, by Theodore Thinker
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+Title: Jack Mason, The Old Sailor
+
+Author: Theodore Thinker
+
+Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11105]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JACK MASON, THE OLD SAILOR ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by The Internet Archive Children's Library, Andrea
+Ball and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Jack telling his stories.]
+
+
+JACK MASON,
+THE OLD SAILOR.
+
+WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+FOR CHILDREN.
+
+BY THEODORE THINKER.
+
+
+1850.
+
+
+THE OLD SAILOR.
+
+
+Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him,
+and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship
+almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell!
+Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to,
+he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his
+breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen,
+until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would
+want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well
+as anybody.
+
+Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on,
+and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to
+that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at
+the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about
+now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy
+lifts his head up, as much as to say, "Dear me! who ever heard of
+such a thing!"
+
+Jack is a good man. He is not like a great many sailors that I have
+seen. He does not use bad words. He never drinks rum, or any thing of
+the kind. Sailors are apt to swear; but Jack Mason never swears. He
+is a Christian: he loves to pray and read his Bible. The book which he
+holds in his hand, as he is talking to that boy, is a Bible. He often
+has a Bible in his jacket pocket, when he is on board of his ship; and
+once in a while he stops telling stories about what he has seen, and
+reads some of the stories in that good book.
+
+When I was a little boy, Jack fell from the high mast of the ship, and
+hurt himself so badly that he had to stay at home a long time after
+that. Poor fellow! he did not like to be shut up in the house. It was
+hard work for him. But he could not go out, until his hip got well.
+When he was able to sit up in a chair, I used to go and see him, and
+hear him tell his stories. I did not go every day, because my mother
+thought I had better not go every day. But I went as often as she
+would let me go, and staid as long as she would let me stay.
+
+Jack was always glad to see me, and glad to tell me stories. I was
+always glad to hear his stories. Some sailors, who have spent a great
+deal of time on board of a ship, and have seen a great many places,
+are not good men. They do not always tell the truth. So, when they
+tell stories about what they saw where they went, we do not know
+whether to believe them or not. But Jack Mason was a good man, and I
+knew he would not tell me what was not true.
+
+Shall I tell you some of the stories that this good old sailor told me
+when he had to stay at home, because he had broken his hip? I think I
+can remember some worth telling again.
+
+"O yes, Mr. Thinker, tell us all the stories the old sailor told you."
+
+"No, I cannot do that. I cannot remember them all."
+
+"Well, tell us all you do remember."
+
+"I will see about it. I will tell you some of them, at any rate. Let
+me see, what story shall I tell first? Shall I tell you his story
+about what he saw once, when he sailed a great way north? I guess I
+will."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA.
+
+
+If you should go a great way north, you would find it very cold. The
+further you go north, the colder it is. I went so far that way one
+time, that I got almost frozen. The ship I sailed in came close to
+an iceberg once, and we all thought for a while that the ship would
+strike the iceberg. If it had struck, it would have been broken all
+in pieces, and we should have been drowned or frozen, every one of us.
+God was kind and good to us, though. The wind was blowing very hard,
+and right toward the iceberg. But just as we had got almost up to it,
+the wind changed, and blew us away from it.
+
+But I forgot that you do not know what an iceberg is. It is a great
+hill of ice. In the North Sea, these ice-hills are often as high as
+your church, and sometimes a great deal higher. These hills of ice
+are floating along the water there, and when it is foggy or dark, the
+sailors cannot always see them. So sometimes the ship strikes them,
+and is dashed to pieces. Sometimes it gets between two of these
+ice-hills, and gets crushed, as if it was a little boat. Then the men
+in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But
+they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then.
+
+[Illustration: The Indians.]
+
+
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+
+In that cold country I saw some Indians. They were dressed in skins.
+I never saw such dirty-looking men and women before in all my life,
+and I have never seen any such since. They had never seen a ship
+before, I should think. I thought they did not know much more than
+the white bears. Why, they would sell almost all the clothes they had
+on, if we would give them a few pieces of glass, or a nail or two.
+One of the women who came to the ship had a little girl about four
+years old, and she said she would give us that girl, if we would let
+her have a tin pan which she saw.
+
+These Indians tie their children on their backs, when they have to
+walk a great way. They licked the oil on the outside of our lamps,
+just as a dog or a cat would have done. Oh, what dirty people! They
+eat their meat raw. We killed a seal one day, and our captain gave it
+to one of the young women. She took it, and bit it into pieces with
+her teeth. Then she passed it round to the rest of the Indians, and
+they all helped eat it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE WHITE BEARS.
+
+
+There are a great many white bears in that country. Sometimes you can
+see two or three of them sitting on one of these ice-hills. How they
+ever got there, I am sure I cannot tell. I guess they went out on the
+ice only a little way from the shore, to get something which they saw
+was good to eat; and while they were on the ice, it started off, and
+they could not get to the shore again.
+
+One of the men who sailed in the same ship with me, told me a story
+about a white bear, which made me laugh for an hour after I heard it.
+He said he was in a small boat with another sailor once, about a mile
+away from the ship. I forget what they went out in the boat for, but I
+suppose the captain of the ship sent them out for something. They were
+rowing along in the boat, and they came close to an iceberg. They saw
+something alive on the iceberg, but they could not make out what it
+was: they did not know but it was a man. But they came a little nearer
+to the great ice-hill, and they soon found out what sort of a thing
+there was on it. _Splash_ something went into the water; and in a
+minute a great white bear jumped into the boat, as wet as a drowned
+rat.
+
+Well, the sailors thought they had got to die, sure enough. What could
+they do? The first thing that they thought of, was to try to kill the
+bear with their oars. But they soon gave that up. They saw that the
+bear was too large and strong to be killed in that way. The next thing
+they thought of doing, was to jump into the water. But they knew they
+would die if they did that. What should they do? "I wonder which of us
+the old fellow will take first," one of the men said to the other.
+Each of them had his oar ready, so that when the bear made a spring at
+them, he would get his ears boxed pretty sharply. That was all they
+could do.
+
+Well, the bear did not seem to be at all in a hurry. The first thing
+he did, after he got into the boat, was to shake himself as hard as he
+could, to get the water out of his coat. After that, he walked slowly
+to one end of the boat, just as if he was quite at home there, and lay
+down upon a coat which one of the men had brought along, and went to
+sleep.
+
+The sailors saw then that all they had to do was to row the bear to
+the shore. So they went to work. When they got to the ship, the
+captain and all the sailors laughed a good deal, you may be sure. The
+shore was not far off. The sailors rowed until the boat touched the
+shore, and the bear got out, and walked slowly away. He did not so
+much as thank the men for the ride he had been taking. But the men
+were glad to get rid of him, thanks or no thanks.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CATCHING WHALES.
+
+
+I went in a whale-ship once. I was gone from home that time more than
+three years. When we came back, we had our large ship all full of oil
+and whalebone. We got the oil and the whalebone out of the whales
+which we had caught. Whales, you know, are very large fish. They
+sometimes get two or three hundred barrels of oil from one single
+whale.
+
+I never shall forget what a long chase I had with a whale once. Shall
+I tell you about it, little friend? There was a man in the ship who
+was looking out for whales. In a whale-ship there is always one man
+who gets up as high as he can, and keeps a bright look-out all round
+for whales. Whales do not stay under water all the time. The trout,
+and the shad, and the eel, and most other kinds of fish can stay under
+water all the time. They cannot live out of the water only a few
+minutes, and I suppose they feel almost as bad out of the water as we
+do in it. But the whale wants to come up to the top of the water. He
+wants to come up to breathe. Well, all at once, the man who was
+looking out the day I speak of, when I had such a run, sung out as
+loud as he could, "There she blows!" We all knew what that meant. That
+is what they always say when they see a whale. It means, "There is a
+whale come up to breathe." This whale was a great way off. I should
+think he was a mile from the ship.
+
+Well, the captain told some of us to get into a boat, and to go out
+after the whale. We did so. The boats are always kept ready, and it
+takes only a minute to let the boat down, and start off. We rowed as
+fast as we could, until we came up near where the whale was lying.
+Oh, what a large whale! As soon as the boat got near enough, one man
+threw two harpoons at the whale, and they both stuck fast in his
+flesh. A harpoon is a long and sharp iron, made like a spear, so that
+when it strikes the whale, it goes in deep, and you cannot pull it
+out. The harpoon is fastened to a long rope, and the rope is tied to
+the boat.
+
+As soon as the whale felt these irons in his side, he began to run.
+I never knew before that a whale could swim so fast. It took him only
+a very little while to run out with all the loose rope; and our boat
+went through the water pretty fast, you may be sure. I was afraid the
+whale would take it into his head to dive down towards the bottom. If
+he had gone down, we should have gone with him, unless we could have
+cut the rope. But he did not go down. Away we went, as fast as if we
+had been on a railroad. He was all the time taking us further from the
+ship. "Well," we thought, "what is going to become of us!" The whale
+did not seem to care any thing about that. I suppose he thought that
+was our look-out, and not his.
+
+But the fellow got tired out by and by. He had bled so much, that he
+began to grow faint. At last he went so slow, that we rowed up to him,
+and stabbed him with a long knife. He died pretty soon after that,
+and we got more than two hundred barrels of oil out of him.
+
+Catching whales seems a cruel business to you. It is a cruel business.
+I never liked it. But somebody must do it. The butcher who kills
+oxen, and sheep, and calves, has to be cruel. But we must have
+butchers. We must have people to kill whales, though you never will
+catch me chasing after a whale again, as long as my name is Jack
+Mason.
+
+Whales do not always run like the one I have told you about. Sometimes
+they fight. After they are struck with the harpoon, they lift their
+tail, or _fluke_, as they call it, and strike the boat so hard as to
+dash it in pieces. Then the poor sailors have to swim to the ship if
+they can. If they cannot, and if there is no other boat near them that
+they can get into, they must drown.
+
+I once saw a whale that had been struck with a harpoon come up close
+to the ship, and give it such a blow with his fluke, that he tore the
+copper off at a great rate, and broke a thick plank in half a dozen
+pieces.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: The Indian, with his bow and arrows.]
+
+
+
+
+MORE INDIANS.
+
+
+When I went in the whale-ship, I saw another tribe of Indians, that
+were very different from those I told you of before. They knew more
+than those Indians. They used bows and arrows; and you would have been
+pleased to see how they would hit a mark a great way off, with their
+arrows.
+
+One of them, who had a name so long that I will not try to speak it,
+used to come every day to our ship, when we were lying near the shore.
+He liked pieces of glass, and nails and tin, and things of that kind,
+quite as well as the other Indians I told you of. He had seen white
+men before, so he was not at all afraid of us. I suppose that almost
+all the white men he had seen before used rum and tobacco. He asked
+all our sailors for these two things, and kept asking every day. I am
+sorry to say that some of the men gave him some rum once in a while,
+and one day he drank so much that he got drunk. Poor man! He was not
+so much to blame, I think, as the bad sailors that gave him the rum.
+What do you think about it?
+
+This man would dive in the water further than anybody I ever saw
+before or since. Some of the sailors used to throw pieces of tin into
+very deep water, and tell him he might have them if he would dive and
+bring them up. He was so fond of such things, that he would always
+gladly dive to get them.
+
+I once saw him dive for an old worn-out knife. The water was very deep
+where it was thrown. It was so deep that none of us thought he would
+get it. He went down, and staid a long, long time. We thought he never
+would come up again. The sailor that threw the knife into the water
+began to be sorry he had done it, because he thought the poor Indian
+was drowned. But, by and by, he came up again, with the knife in his
+mouth. He had been hunting after the knife on the bottom of the sea.
+
+These Indians had boats which were made of the bark of trees. They
+were so light, that an Indian could carry one of them on his shoulder.
+
+The man who used to come to the ship so often, brought his little
+girl with him one day. She was not more than six or seven years old.
+She had never seen any white men before, and at first she was afraid
+of us all. But when she saw that the white folks would not hurt her
+any more than the Indians would, she liked us very well, and wanted to
+stay with us all the time. The captain showed her his watch, and she
+looked at it a long time. She thought she had never seen so strange a
+thing before. "Is it alive?" she asked her father. He could not tell
+whether it was alive or not, any more than the little girl could.
+
+The captain liked the little girl very well. He wanted to take her
+home with him. So he asked her father if his little girl might go a
+great way off, where the white men lived. The Indians could not talk
+like us. They could talk, but they did not use the same words. The
+captain made out to tell the Indian what he wanted, by using signs,
+just as he would have done if he had been talking with a deaf and dumb
+man. And what do you think the father of that little girl said, when
+he knew that the captain wanted to take the girl home with him? If
+anybody should ask your father if he would let you go away and never
+come back again, you can tell what your father would say. He would
+say, "No, I cannot spare my dear little child."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the Indian said, "Yes, give me some money, and you can take my
+little girl, and carry her away with you. I have got more girls in my
+house." The little Indian girl wanted to go with us, so the captain
+gave her father some money, and when the ship sailed, he took her
+along with him. But the poor Indian girl did not live till our ship
+got home. She was taken very sick, and died. We all felt very bad
+when she left us. We had taught her a great many things. She could
+read a little. She knew all her letters, and could spell out such easy
+words as there are in your little primers and picture books. She did
+not know any thing about God, and Christ, and heaven, before she came
+to the ship. But some of us told her about them. She was glad to hear
+about them. Oh, how her bright eyes did sparkle when she heard that
+Christ came into the world, and died for such little girls as she! How
+happy it made her, to think that He loved her! By and by, she used to
+pray every night, when she went to bed. I taught her to say that sweet
+little prayer which you know so well, and love so well:
+
+  Now I lay me down to sleep,
+  I pray the Lord my soul to keep:
+  If I should die before I wake,
+  I pray the Lord my soul to take.
+
+Oh, I was very sorry when our little Anna died! We called her Anna.
+She had another name at home, but we liked Anna better than we did
+her old name. I was very sorry when she died, and we were all sorry.
+
+[Illustration: The Fishermen.]
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY.
+
+
+The story I told you about the Indian girl makes me think of a little
+boy that we once had in our ship. He was a very good boy. The captain
+liked him very much. He was not the captain's child. But the captain
+used to say that he loved little George as much as if he was his child.
+The reason the captain loved him, and the reason everybody loved him,
+was because he was so kind and so good natured, and because he always
+did just as he was told to do.
+
+I must tell you how George first came to live with us in the ship. We
+were once a great many hundred miles off, and the wind blew very
+hard. It blew so hard that we could not sail where we wanted to go,
+and by and by the ship went upon a bank of sand. There we had to stay
+a good while. We could not get away. Nobody was drowned. We ought to
+have been very thankful for that. I hope we were thankful. While we
+were lying on the sand bank, the waves dashed against the ship so
+hard, that we were afraid it would break in pieces. We did not know
+what to do. Some of us thought we might as well jump into the water,
+and try to swim to the shore. But the captain said that we should
+certainly get drowned if we tried to do that.
+
+You wonder why we did not get into our boat, and row to the shore. We
+should have done so if we had not lost our boat. But we had no boat.
+The waves had dashed against it, and tore it away from the place where
+we kept it, so that we could not get it again.
+
+But when we thought we must all be lost, we saw a boat coming toward
+the ship. Some fishermen had seen us, and were so kind that they came
+to us in their boat, so that we could get to the shore. Oh, how glad
+we were when we saw them coming! But the waves were so high, that for
+a good while we thought it would sink before it got to us. The men had
+very hard work to row the boat. The wind blew very hard at one time,
+and the little boat was blown back again almost to the shore. But they
+tried again, and after a long time they got to the ship. Then some of
+us got into the boat, and the men rowed us to the shore. After that,
+the boat went back to the ship again, and got the rest of the men.
+
+But I have not told the best of the story yet. When we all got into
+the house, where it was warm, we told the fishermen that they were
+very good to come and help us get away from the ship. We thanked them
+very much. And then they told us that we must not thank them; and they
+pointed to a little boy about as old as you are, I guess. "There,"
+they said, "that little boy is the one to thank. We should not have
+gone, if it had not been for him. We were afraid the waves would dash
+over the boat, and that we should be drowned. We did not dare to go.
+But this good boy said, 'Do go! oh, do go! The poor men in the ship
+will get drowned, if you do not go. I will go if my father will let
+me. I do not think father's boat will get lost. God will not let us
+drown, if we go and try to save the men.'" Well, the boy said so much,
+that the fishermen told him they would go, and they did go.
+
+This little boy's name was George, and this is the one that I told you
+we all liked so well. The captain was so pleased with him, that he
+asked his father to let the little boy come and sail in his ship. His
+father said he wished his boy to be a sailor, and the boy wanted to be
+a sailor, too; and that if the captain would be kind to him, little
+George might go. So he went, and he was the very best boy I ever saw
+in my life. He used to talk to the sailors; and when they did wrong,
+when they said bad words, he would tell them it was naughty, and God
+would not love them if they did so. The sailors did not get angry with
+him, because they all saw that little George was good and kind, and
+that he wanted to do them good. I know of a good many sailors who
+stopped swearing, because little George told them, in his kind way,
+that he could not bear to hear them swear, and that God would not love
+them if they did so.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Rocks in the Sea.]
+
+
+
+
+THE WRECK.
+
+
+The captain of this ship--the same one that loved little George so
+well--was drowned not long after that. My little friends, I cannot
+help crying when I think that this good captain, who used to be so
+kind to the sailors, was lost at sea. I was not in the ship at the
+time. I was in another ship. I got sick of catching whales, so I did
+not want to go in a whale-ship any more.
+
+The ship in which this captain was sailing was very near the shore,
+and there were some high rocks that stood quite down to the edge of
+the water. It was foggy at the time. The captain did not know that
+the ship was so near the rocks, because he could not see through the
+fog. The wind blew very hard, and blew the ship upon the rocks. In
+a minute the ship broke in pieces, and all but two or three of the
+men who were in it were lost. The captain was lost among the rest.
+So was little George. When the storm was over, and the wind stopped
+blowing, that dear boy was found on the shore, dead. There was a smile
+on his face, just such a smile as he used to have when he was living.
+There was a little Bible in his pocket. It was all wet with salt water.
+But there was some writing on one of the leaves which anybody could
+read. It said, "This book was given to little George by his dear
+mother."
+
+[Illustration: The Pyramids and the Sphynx.]
+
+
+
+
+THE PYRAMIDS.
+
+I once went to a place called Egypt. There I saw a great many strange
+things. The pyramids are wonderful enough. Did you ever hear about
+them? They are made of stone, and are very large. I should think it
+would take a great many years to make one of them, if there were a
+hundred men at work all the time. They must have been built a very
+long time. I hardly know how long, but it was a great while before
+Christ was born.
+
+I went to the top of the largest pyramid, and went all over it. It was
+one of the strangest things I ever saw. Some people think that the
+pyramids were built to bury kings in, when they died. If they were
+not built for that, I am sure I cannot tell what they were built for.
+
+There is another odd thing in that country, not far from the pyramids.
+It is called a _Sphinx_. I know you will say that the name must be
+as odd as the thing is itself. Well, it _is_ odd, sure enough. The
+Sphinx is a very large rock, made to look just like a lion with a
+man's head. It is as large as the house I live in. There is nothing
+but the head out of the ground. It was all out of the ground once,
+when it was first made, but the sand has now covered up that part
+which looks like a lion.
+
+A great while ago, people used to call such things as these _gods_.
+They used to pray to the Sphinx, just as if it was a god--just as if
+it could hear anybody pray, the same as God does.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE WHIRLPOOL.
+
+
+You have seen little whirlpools in the brook, I suppose. I once saw
+a very large one, a great deal larger than any you ever saw in the
+brook. It was in the North Sea. This whirlpool does mischief
+sometimes. When vessels happen to get on the edge of it, they begin
+to go round and round, all the time coming near the middle of the
+whirlpool. When the captain of the vessel knows that he is in the
+whirlpool, he can get his vessel out, if it has just begun to go
+round. But after it has been in a while, he cannot get out. The vessel
+keeps going round and round. The people on board hear the roar of the
+whirlpool. It is too late to get away. By and by, the water draws the
+vessel down. It is dashed to pieces, and all who were in it are lost!
+
+I have known little boys and girls get into a whirlpool, too; a
+different kind of a whirlpool, to be sure, but a great deal worse than
+this one in the North Sea. I mean the whirlpool of _sin_. When they
+first began to be wicked--when they first began to go round in the
+whirlpool--they went round very slowly. They could very easily have
+got out then, if they had tried, and if they had prayed to God to help
+them. But they did not try. So they kept growing worse and worse. They
+went round swifter and swifter. By and by, they got so far into the
+whirlpool that they could not get out. It was too late. They were
+lost--dashed to pieces on the rocks, in the whirlpool of sin!
+
+Little boy! little girl! take care that you do not venture even to the
+edge of this whirlpool. Give your heart to God, while you are young,
+and pray to him to keep you from sin, and to lead you to heaven.
+
+
+
+
+
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