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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cruise of the Noah's Ark, by David Cory
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+Title: The Cruise of the Noah's Ark
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+Author: David Cory
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+Release Date: June 22, 2006 [EBook #18655]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRUISE OF THE NOAH'S ARK ***
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+[Illustration: MR. JONAH LEAVES THE WHALE FOR THE ARK
+_The Cruise of the Noah's Ark._ _Frontispiece_]
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+_LITTLE JOURNEYS TO HAPPY LAND_
+_(Trademark Registered)_
+
+THE CRUISE
+OF THE
+NOAH'S ARK
+
+By
+DAVID CORY
+
+Author of
+The Little Jack Rabbit Series
+
+_Profusely Illustrated_
+
+_GROSSET & DUNLAP_
+PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
+
+Made in the United States of America
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+_LITTLE JOURNEYS TO HAPPY LAND_
+(Trademark Registered)
+
+The Cruise of the Noah's Ark
+The Magic Soap-Bubble
+The Iceberg Express
+
+BY
+DAVID CORY
+
+Author of
+Little Jack Rabbit Series
+(Trademark Registered)
+
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+
+Copyright, 1922, by
+GROSSET & DUNLAP
+
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+
+CONTENTS
+
+ALL ABOARD!                                     3
+COCK-A-DOODLE-DO                               17
+THE CIRCUS                                     31
+THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW                         49
+MAN OVERBOARD                                  59
+FIRE! FIRE!                                    75
+REPAIRS                                        87
+THE ICEBERG                                    99
+A THRILLING RESCUE                            111
+A LEAK                                        125
+THE PICNIC                                    135
+THE STORM                                     143
+
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+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Mr. Noah "shooed" the Hen aboard the Ark.]
+
+ALL ABOARD!
+
+
+    A stands for Animal, Ant or Ape,
+    Quite different in spelling as well as in shape.
+
+"Oh, dear!" sighed Marjorie, "I'm tired of writing in this old copy book.
+What's the use of making the letters just like the copy, anyhow? Mother
+doesn't. Her capitals are very different."
+
+    B stands for Bruin, Bee or Bug--
+    The Bee has a sting and the Bear has a hug!
+
+"Oh, dear!" sighed Marjorie again, while she rested her head on her arm
+and looked over at the Noah's Ark.
+
+And then, all of a sudden, something very strange happened. Mr. Noah came
+out of his little Ark and said, "You had better come with us, for it is
+going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and goodness knows where this
+nursery will be by the end of that time; probably floating about, half
+full of water, in the apple orchard."
+
+"Do you really mean it?" asked Marjorie, gazing anxiously out of the
+window at the rain which was falling in torrents.
+
+"I certainly do," replied Mr. Noah.
+
+And then Mrs. Noah poked her head out of a little window in the Ark.
+"Listen to Mr. Noah, my dear, for he was certainly right the first time,
+and why shouldn't he be now?"
+
+Mr. Noah smiled and walked across the table towards a little yellow hen.
+"Shoo," he cried, as the contrary fowl tried to dodge around a toy
+automobile. "Shoo there. You know you can't swim like Mrs. Duck, so why
+don't you have some sense and get aboard out of harm's way?"
+
+As he finished speaking, water began to pour over the windowsill, and soon
+the nursery floor was ankle deep. Marjorie stood on a chair and, climbing
+upon the table, walked over to the Ark. On her way she picked up her rag
+doll, Maria Jane, and the little toy automobile.
+
+"Hurry, my dear," cried Mr. Noah, "here comes the water over the edge of
+the table."
+
+As it was, Maria Jane was splashed a bit, and so was the automobile before
+it was pushed through the narrow doorway, for the Ark was rolling from
+side to side in rather a dangerous manner.
+
+"Make everything tight. Close the hatches and the portholes!" commanded
+Capt. Noah (for now that they were actually afloat, this seemed the proper
+title for him), and in a few minutes it was comfortable and snug inside.
+
+And then, all of a sudden, a big wave carried them over the windowsill and
+out into the garden. But it didn't look very much like the garden, for
+only the tops of the rose bushes could be seen, and the roses rested on
+the water like pond lilies. And then, away sailed the Ark, across the
+garden, over the fence, down the road, until it reached an open space.
+
+"The ocean!" cried Mrs. Noah.
+
+"Nonsense!" exclaimed Marjorie, "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Noah, I mean it's
+Uncle Spencer's meadow. Why, there's Tim! Let's save him!" And Marjorie
+ran down to the lower floor of the Ark and commenced to unfasten the door.
+
+"Careful, my dear," cried Capt. Noah. "What are you about?"
+
+"Oh, hurry, Captain," begged Marjorie, "Tim, Uncle Spencer's dog, is in
+the water and I want to bring him aboard."
+
+"Here, mates, bring me a life line," shouted Capt. Noah, and in less time
+than I can take to tell it the line was thrown to the little dog, who
+managed to catch hold of it with his teeth just in time, for the Ark was
+going at a tremendous rate of speed.
+
+"Don't haul in too fast," advised Capt. Noah, as his three sons began
+pulling in the rope, "or he'll be drawn under the water and smothered
+before we can get him aboard."
+
+At last, the little dog was landed safely on the deck. Everybody ran away
+from him to avoid getting a shower bath as he shook himself again and
+again.
+
+"Well, you've all proved to be brave lifesavers," said Mrs. Noah. "Now
+I'll give him some warm milk and dry him by the kitchen fire, or he may
+get a severe cold. Goodness knows what would happen if he gave it to the
+other animals and they all got to sneezing and coughing at the same time."
+
+And then the good woman took the little dog down into the hold of the Ark,
+where the pantry and kitchen were, and he was soon fast asleep by the
+stove, none the worse for his wetting.
+
+It was now time for supper, so Mrs. Noah busied herself preparing the
+evening meal, while Capt. Noah and his three sons, Ham, Shem and Japheth,
+fed the animals. This was not an easy matter, for each animal had a
+different taste, and the fodder had to be carefully measured so as to give
+each one enough and no more.
+
+The elephant ate almost a bale of hay for each meal, and the lion ate
+about twenty large Delmonico steaks.
+
+"It's lucky we haven't a whale on board," said Capt. Noah, as he rolled a
+bale of hay up to Mrs. Elephant, at the same time warning Ham not to give
+the lion a sirloin steak by mistake.
+
+"You might feed the pigs, too," he added, wiping his forehead with a
+red-bordered handkerchief. "They seem to like you, Ham. I guess they
+consider you one of the family!"
+
+Marjorie thought the rabbits were very pretty, but just as she was about
+to play a game of hide and go seek with them, the supper bell rang, and as
+soon as the three Noah boys had washed their hands and combed their hair
+they came to the table. Shem pulled out his mother's chair and Ham
+politely helped Marjorie into hers.
+
+It was all very interesting to the little girl, and when Mrs. Noah looked
+over at her and said, in a motherly way, "I always wanted a little girl of
+my own," Marjorie felt quite at home.
+
+"Thank you, ma'am," she said, "but I think you have very nice boys!"
+
+After the supper table was cleared and the dishes washed, Mrs. Noah and
+Marjorie went up on deck, where they found Capt. Noah contentedly smoking
+his pipe. The three boys were having a merry time with the little dog. The
+rain had stopped and the sky was full of stars.
+
+"I don't know how much of a rainfall we have had this time," said Capt.
+Noah, "but it must have been pretty heavy, for there seems to be as much
+water around as there was when it rained for 40 days and 40 nights."
+
+And then, all of a sudden, a harsh, grating noise was heard and everybody
+jumped up. "Have we struck a rock?" inquired Mrs. Noah anxiously.
+
+"I don't know," answered Capt. Noah, peering over the side. "I can't see
+bottom."
+
+Suddenly the Ark stopped altogether.
+
+"Guess we're aground now, all right," said Japheth. "It's too dark to tell
+much about it, though."
+
+"No, it isn't!" cried a deep, gurgling voice, and their astonished eyes
+saw the head of a whale rise above the bow.
+
+"I have a passenger for you," continued the whale. "He doesn't like his
+present mode of travel, so I'm going to ship him over to you."
+
+"How do you know we want him?" inquired Capt. Noah, going forward to
+investigate. "We have a pretty full house as things are. And, besides, he
+might be a Jonah."
+
+"That's just who he is!" spouted the whale, with a gleeful gurgle, and
+before any one could say "Jack Robinson!" Mr. Jonah appeared upon the deck
+of the Ark, and with a swish of his great tail the whale disappeared in
+the darkness.
+
+"Sorry if I am intruding," said Mr. Jonah apologetically, "but the truth
+is it was so dark and uncomfortable inside that whale that I would have
+had nervous prostration had I been obliged to remain there another
+minute."
+
+"Well," said Mrs. Noah, slowly, looking Mr. Jonah over and seeing that he
+wasn't such a bad looking person, after all, although a trifle damp,
+"we'll see how we get along."
+
+By this time Marjorie began to feel tired.
+
+"Would you mind," she said, turning to Mrs. Noah, "if I went to bed? I
+feel so sleepy, and it's long past Maria Jane's bedtime, I'm sure."
+
+"Come right along with me," answered Mrs. Noah kindly.
+
+"Good night, all," said Marjorie, following Mrs. Noah into the Ark.
+
+"You shall sleep in the room next to mine," said Mrs. Noah, turning to the
+little girl with a smile as she led the way into a pretty bedroom. "Would
+you like me to unfasten your dress for you?"
+
+"I think I can manage that," replied Marjorie, "but if you wouldn't mind,
+I'd like to have you wait and tuck me in bed after I've said my prayers. I
+can't very well tuck in the sheets at the side after I'm once in."
+
+So good, kind, motherly Mrs. Noah tucked in the little girl and kissed her
+good night, and in a few minutes she was fast asleep, with her arms
+tightly clasped around her rag doll, Maria Jane.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ham is sent to the "brig" for chasing the pigs around the
+deck.]
+
+COCK-A-DOODLE-DO
+
+
+    "Cock-a-Doodle-Do,
+    My Master's lost a shoe,
+    But what's the use of an excuse
+    A rubber boot'll do."
+
+Marjorie leaped out of bed and ran over to the window to see where the Ark
+had drifted during the night.
+
+To her surprise it was aground on the roof of a big barn.
+
+And, goodness me! Didn't the weathercock look handsome, with his gilt
+feathers shining brightly in the rays of the morning sun as he turned to
+and fro with every little change of wind.
+
+"Good morning," said Marjorie. "Isn't it a beautiful day?"
+
+"I don't feel sure about anything," replied the weathercock. "I used to be
+a jolly weathercock, but now, with all this water around, I feel more like
+a lighthouse."
+
+"Then why didn't you warn us off the reef--I mean the roof?" asked
+Marjorie.
+
+"I did, but everybody was asleep and paid no attention to me."
+
+And just then the wind came in a sudden gust and the weathercock flew
+around to face it.
+
+"Goodness," he cried, "I believe it's going to rain again."
+
+"Ahoy, there," shouted Capt. Noah from the deck below, "tell that gilt
+rooster I'm going to shove off. If he wants to come aboard he'd better be
+quick about it."
+
+"Would you like to come with us?" asked Marjorie. "I'd like to have you. I
+once read about a very nice weathercock in 'Old Mother Goose.'"
+
+"Thank you, I think I will," replied the weathercock, hopping nimbly on to
+the flagpole of the Ark. "I shall feel more at home here now that the
+green meadows have turned into an ocean. A barn is no place for a rooster
+when the water is above the hayloft."
+
+Marjorie had no time to answer, for just then the rain began to fall in
+torrents, making it necessary to close the window.
+
+In a few minutes the Ark began to quiver and shake, and then, with a loud
+grating noise it slipped off the ridge of the roof and once more floated
+down the tide.
+
+    "Good-by, red barn, with your loft of hay,
+    We're off on a voyage to Far Away,"
+
+crowed the weathercock. And then Marjorie waved her hand from behind the
+window pane and ran down to breakfast where in a few minutes the family
+were all seated around the table.
+
+"What did you give the pigs for supper last night?" asked Capt. Noah,
+looking at Ham suspiciously.
+
+"Why, father?" asked Ham, in a low voice.
+
+"Because they don't seem well this morning."
+
+"I gave them some green apples," said Ham.
+
+"W-e-l-l," replied Capt. Noah, "don't know as that should make them ill?"
+
+"I chased them 'round the deck."
+
+"What in thunder did you do that for?" asked his father.
+
+"I wanted to see them slide when they turned the corners," said Ham,
+sheepishly.
+
+"Perhaps they were seasick," interposed Mrs. Noah, who began to feel sorry
+for Ham.
+
+"Perhaps they weren't," said Capt. Noah, sternly. "I think, young man, you
+had better be locked up in the brig for the rest of the day and fed on
+bread and water. We can't afford to have any passengers abused by the
+crew," and then he turned to Marjorie and smiled, "even if one of the crew
+happens to be the captain's son."
+
+And after that, poor Ham was solemnly marched up to the brig and locked
+in, much to Marjorie's regret, for she liked Ham very much, although he
+was the most mischievous of all Capt. Noah's sons.
+
+It was still raining heavily, and as the wind was blowing quite a gale the
+sea became rough and the Ark began to roll from side to side.
+
+Pretty soon the animals grew uneasy, and strange noises came from many
+parts of the boat.
+
+The roar of the tiger mingled with the trumpeting of the elephant and the
+howling of the wolf made a dreadful discord with the bellowing of the
+buffalo.
+
+Then the monkeys started to chatter, and the parrots to screech, the
+horses to neigh and the pigs to squeak, the cows to moo and the donkeys to
+bray, the wild hyena to laugh and the little lambs to bleat.
+
+But luckily toward evening the storm went down, and if it had not I guess
+Mrs. Noah would have gone crazy.
+
+The dove, which was the most quiet and peaceful of all the passengers,
+perched herself on Marjorie's shoulder.
+
+"You shall sleep in my cabin," said the little girl, stroking its glossy
+neck. "I'm sure you'd never get a wink of sleep if you had to stay below
+decks tonight."
+
+Toward evening the weather grew calm, and after supper the rain having
+stopped, Marjorie went on deck for some fresh air. The weathercock, on
+seeing the dove perched on the little girl's shoulder, called out
+politely, "Good evening, ladies."
+
+"Aren't you glad it cleared off?" asked Marjorie, looking up with a smile.
+
+"Indeed I am," he replied, swinging around on one toe like a dancer.
+
+"Isn't he graceful?" cooed the dove in Marjorie's ear.
+
+"S-s-sh!" she answered. "Don't let him hear you. He might get conceited."
+
+"What are you talking about down there?" asked the weathercock.
+
+"Oh, nothing in particular," answered the dove. "I was just receiving a
+little advice from Marjorie."
+
+"Well, you probably won't use it," said the weathercock. "So you might
+just as well hand it over to me."
+
+"My, how curious you are!" laughed Marjorie.
+
+"You'd be, too," answered the weathercock, "if you were in the habit of
+having the winds tell you each day what was going on. It's not so much
+curiosity as habit."
+
+Just then Mrs. Noah called: "Marjorie, I think you'd better come in. It's
+too damp outside, my dear."
+
+The cabin looked very cozy. Mrs. Noah was seated by the table knitting a
+pair of socks for the captain, and the three boys were writing in their
+copy books.
+
+"I think, my dear," said Mrs. Noah, kindly, "it would be a good thing for
+you to do a little studying each day." So Marjorie seated herself at the
+table and Mrs. Noah opened a writing book and laid it before her. With a
+cry of surprise Marjorie turned to Mrs. Noah:
+
+"Why, it's the very copy book I have at home!"
+
+"'A stands for Animal, Ant or Ape,
+Quite different in spelling as well as in shape.'"
+
+"The very same," cried Marjorie again.
+
+"See how well you can make the capital letters," suggested Mrs. Noah. "If
+you fill in this book nicely you can take it home with you and show your
+mother how well you employed your time aboard the Ark."
+
+"Oh, thank you," cried Marjorie. "That will be lovely. Mother is always
+worrying about my handwriting. I shall try my best to improve."
+
+Mrs. Noah then turned to look in Ham's book.
+
+"That is not a very good 'C' you have just made," she said.
+
+"Well, you see," answered Ham, with a laugh, "the sea is so rough that it
+made my 'C' rough, too."
+
+Everybody laughed at Ham's witty excuse.
+
+"What's all this levity about?" asked Capt. Noah, entering the cabin.
+
+    "Coo!" said the little dove,
+    "Coo!" said she,
+    "And they all lived together
+    In the big green tree."
+
+"Hello!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, forgetting his own question, "the dove
+spouting poetry, eh? Well, we'll have to give an entertainment. There must
+be lots of talent on board. Plenty of material for a circus, anyhow."
+
+"How jolly!" exclaimed Marjorie. "I'll make a ring to-morrow," said
+Japheth.
+
+"I've already trained one of the little pigs to walk on its hind legs,"
+said Ham. "It's the white one with the pink nose."
+
+"The elephant and I are great friends," added Shem. "I think he'd do
+anything I asked him. To-night when I rolled up his bale of hay, he said,
+'Hey, young man, look out for my toes!' And then he stood up on top of the
+bale on his hind legs just as they do in the circus. I'll bet I could make
+him do a lot of stunts."
+
+"Just you wait until you see my wrestling monkeys," cried Ham. "I've
+taught two of them already. They'll be better than a moving picture show."
+
+"My goodness, I think you have very clever boys," said Marjorie, who was
+tickled to death to think they were going to have a circus.
+
+Mrs. Noah did not reply at once. I guess she was thinking it over.
+
+"Well, perhaps they are," she said by and by. "I never thought of it in
+just that way. I'm afraid I've always thought them mischievous."
+
+"What time shall we have the circus?" asked Ham.
+
+"Not too soon after breakfast," said Capt. Noah. "I don't want any sick
+animals aboard."
+
+"We'll be careful," said Japheth. "Let's go to bed now so as to wake up
+bright and early to-morrow."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Laughing Hyena had to be put to bed for fear she would
+laugh herself to death.]
+
+THE CIRCUS
+
+
+    The ark goes sailing down the bay
+    Upon the rushing tide;
+    And the circus will commence to-day
+    With the animals safe inside.
+
+This is the song the weathercock sang early the next morning.
+
+Marjorie rubbed her eyes, and then jumped out of bed and looked out of the
+window.
+
+"Good morning," she said to the merry gilt rooster, "it's a fine day for
+the circus. That was a pretty verse you just sang. Did you make it up?"
+
+"Oh, yes," said the weathercock proudly. "Just couldn't help it, you know.
+The circus doesn't come to town every day in the week."
+
+Well, after that, Marjorie hurried down to the breakfast table, where she
+found Mr. Jonah seated with the rest of the family.
+
+She had forgotten all about him, and so had I and maybe you have too, for
+you see, Mr. Jonah hadn't been feeling very well and had remained in his
+cabin since the day he'd left the whale.
+
+"It's certainly a relief to be once more at a breakfast table," he said.
+"Traveling inside a whale is like sailing in a submarine. Although a whale
+is supposed to be neutral, nevertheless, I was frightened to death for
+fear we might be torpedoed!"
+
+"Yes, indeed," sighed Mrs. Noah, "these awful times one isn't safe
+anywhere."
+
+"That's right," exclaimed Capt. Noah, "we must keep a sharp lookout.
+There's no telling how soon we may be in the war zone, and I am
+responsible for the safety of all my passengers!"
+
+And just then the Weathercock shouted something which sounded very much
+like "Periscope!"
+
+Well, you can imagine how excited everybody was after that.
+
+"Where away?" asked Capt. Noah.
+
+"Dead ahead," screamed the Weathercock.
+
+Instantly all eyes were turned in that direction.
+
+Some distance ahead stretched a long, smooth, sandy beach, on which was a
+huge billboard with the words "Perry's Slope."
+
+"Bah!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, "Perry's Slope isn't 'Periscope.' Well, I'm
+glad it isn't."
+
+"Are we going ashore?" asked Mr. Jonah.
+
+"Looks like it," answered Capt. Noah; "the ark is pointed for the beach.
+Hope we don't bump too hard. Some of the animals might get hurt."
+
+The Ark was going at a fast clip, and as they neared the shore every one
+clung tightly to the railing.
+
+"Hold fast," shouted the Weathercock, as the bow touched the beach.
+
+In another minute the Ark skimmed gracefully over the sand with as much
+ease as it had sailed upon the ocean.
+
+"Wonderful boat you have," exclaimed Mr. Jonah, looking at Capt. Noah.
+"Ought to be proud of her. She's a dandy."
+
+Before the latter had time to reply the Ark stopped, and everyone rushed
+toward the gang-plank. "Let it down easily," commanded Capt. Noah, "easy,
+there!"
+
+"Why, the Ark's on wheels," cried Marjorie, as she stepped on the sandy
+beach, "regular automobile wheels."
+
+"Well, I declare," exclaimed Mrs. Noah, "so it is."
+
+"Let's call it the 'Arkmobile,'" suggested Ham.
+
+"Just the thing," said Shem, "don't you think so, father?"
+
+Capt. Noah did not reply for a moment, for he was busily engaged
+inspecting the bottom of the Ark.
+
+"I was looking to see if it were built to run on the land," he replied,
+"or whether it just went this far on account of its momentum."
+
+"What's that noise?" asked Japheth.
+
+"Sounds like the engine of an automobile," answered Shem.
+
+"It's coming from the Ark," cried Ham.
+
+Capt. Noah hurriedly went below.
+
+Presently he returned, smiling with satisfaction.
+
+"There's a regular automobile engine in the hold, way aft," he said. "And
+it's connected with a shaft, so that it will turn the wheels. We'll have
+no difficulty in traveling on land."
+
+"Hurrah for the Arkmobile!" shouted Ham.
+
+    "On land or on sea,
+    Wherever we be,
+    The Arkmobile
+    Is the thing for me,"
+
+sang Marjorie, skipping about on the sand.
+
+    "Over sand, over foam,
+    Wherever we roam,
+    The Arkmobile
+    Will carry us home,"
+
+sang the Weathercock, and then he said: "I guess I'll come down from the
+flagpole if you're going to camp here. If you're not, I'll stay where I
+am, for it's a pretty good climb, and I'm not much of a sailor as yet."
+
+"Let's stay here and have the circus," said Ham. "We can make a splendid
+ring in the sand--in fact, we can have three rings if we want to. All we
+have to do, you know, is to throw up the sand in a circle."
+
+Every one agreed that it was an ideal spot, so the boys set to work at
+once.
+
+Mrs. Noah made Marjorie a wonderful dress, covered with gold spangles.
+
+"I'm going to ride the big white horse just like a circus rider," cried
+Marjorie. "And I shall stand up on the saddle and jump through my hoop.
+Ham can hold it."
+
+"Of course I will," he cried, looking up from his work. "And I'll be jolly
+glad when this ring is finished. I had no idea it would take so long."
+
+"Hurrah! Mine's finished," cried Japheth.
+
+"And so's mine," shouted Shem.
+
+"Well, I think mine's the biggest of all," said Ham. "It must be, or I'd
+have finished when you fellows did."
+
+"Father ought to put on his dress suit," said Shem, "and snap the whip
+when Marjorie rides around the ring. You know just the way they do in the
+real circus."
+
+"Great Scott!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, overhearing the remark as he
+descended the gang-plank. "I didn't bargain for this. But I suppose I
+might as well put it on," and he turned back into the Ark.
+
+The sound of hammering at that moment reached them. "What's going on?"
+asked Ham.
+
+"Let's see," suggested Shem, but before they reached the gang-plank Mr.
+Jonah appeared. On his legs were strapped a pair of stilts, which made him
+at least eight feet high.
+
+"I'm going to be the giant," he said with a laugh, bumping down the
+gang-plank in a clumsy manner. "I say, Mrs. Noah, could you sew the legs
+of an old pair of trousers on to mine, so the stilts won't show?"
+
+"Of course I can," replied Mrs. Noah, bursting into laughter. "But I'm
+afraid they won't match."
+
+In due course of time Marjorie's circus dress was finished and the giant's
+trousers lengthened, the upper part being blue and the lower part gray,
+but perfectly satisfactory to the wearer.
+
+Every one was now waiting impatiently for Capt. Noah when, suddenly, his
+head appeared at one of the port holes. "Mother," he called, "where are my
+white dress ties? I can't find them anywhere."
+
+So Mrs. Noah laid down her work basket and went into the Ark to find them.
+And in a few minutes Capt. Noah appeared in full dress, his silk hat upon
+his head and a long whip in his hand.
+
+As he came down the plank, Japheth led out the big white horse, and after
+helping Marjorie to mount, led him into the center ring.
+
+Shem then opened the big door in the Ark and all the animals solemnly
+marched out and arranged themselves about the rings.
+
+Next came Ham, leading his two wrestling monkeys and after him came Shem
+with his elephant.
+
+[Illustration: THE CIRCUS--MR. NOAH AS RINGMASTER]
+
+Mr. Jonah, towering above the heads of the tallest animals, including the
+giraffe, announced that the circus would commence.
+
+"Ladies and gentlemen," he began, "allow me to introduce to you the most
+wonderful child rider in the world, Marjorie Hall, on her beautiful white
+horse, Marshmallow. Marjorie, without doubt, is the most daring bareback
+rider in the universe."
+
+There was a great clapping of hands, hoofs and paws at this announcement,
+for she had become a great favorite with the Noah's Ark people.
+
+"Ladies and gentlemen," went on Mr. Noah, "you see before you in Ring No.
+2 the most famous wrestlers of the world, Jocko and Monko. In Ring No. 3
+is the largest elephant in existence."
+
+While all this was going on the Noah boys had run into the Ark.
+
+Presently they returned, dressed up as clowns, and then the fun commenced.
+
+Ham held up a hoop, which he had carefully covered with tissue paper, and
+to Mrs. Noah's amazement Marjorie leaped through it as if she had been a
+circus bareback rider all her life.
+
+The boys performed marvelous feats of tumbling and jumping, and were so
+funny that half of the animals nearly split their sides with laughing.
+
+The laughing hyena had to be carried into the Ark and put to bed for fear
+she would laugh herself to death.
+
+"Well, well," exclaimed Mrs. Noah, when it was all over, "I certainly
+never enjoyed the circus so much in all my life, not even when I was a
+little girl."
+
+And that night every one slept like a top, let me tell you, for each one
+was tired out with the day's work. Even the weathercock, I think, tucked
+his head under his gilt wings and snored!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Megaphone made Captain Noah as mad as a hornet.]
+
+THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW
+
+
+    "Wake up! Wake up! We're off again,
+    Over hill and over plain!
+    The Arkmobile on sea or land
+    Can sail away at our command."
+
+Again the Weathercock awoke little Marjorie, on board the Noah's Ark,
+where we left her in the last chapter, you remember.
+
+It was the morning after the circus, and she probably would have slept
+much later had not the faithful bird, as usual, sung his bit of verse.
+
+You see this wonderful Weathercock was just like an alarm clock.
+
+"Where's the ocean?" asked Marjorie, looking out of the window. "Why,
+we're traveling on land!"
+
+"Of course we are," answered the Weathercock. "Didn't you see the wheels
+on the bottom of the Ark yesterday?"
+
+"So I did," admitted Marjorie. "I'd forgotten all about them."
+
+"Well, how did you like my poetry? You see, I make up a new verse every
+morning, so as to be sure to wake you up."
+
+"I think you are a great poet," answered the little girl.
+
+The Weathercock got very red in the gills. I guess that's the only way he
+could blush.
+
+    So let the rain or sunshine come,
+    Across the land, we'll swiftly hum,
+    We are prepared for rain or shine,
+    For dusty road or foamy brine.
+
+"Hurrah!" shouted the Elephant from down below. "Bravo, Sir Chanticleer!"
+
+"You'll have to excuse me now," said Marjorie to the Weathercock, "for I
+must pull on my shoes and stockings and brush my hair. You don't have to
+bother about such things, you know. That's one advantage of being a
+weathercock."
+
+After breakfast, as they all sat in the cabin, Capt. Noah remarked: "I'm
+getting a trifle worried. You see, I can't tell by the barometer whether
+the Ark is floating or wheeling. Now, that is rather important. If we keep
+on in this way I shall have to get a speedometer. It wouldn't be very nice
+to be arrested for breaking the speed laws and be locked up in jail."
+
+Mrs. Noah turned pale and the Weathercock shifted about uneasily on the
+top of the flagpole. "No, indeed," he said, "I don't want to be a
+jailbird."
+
+"Well, what's the best thing to do?" asked Mrs. Noah.
+
+"Count the telegraph poles as we go along," suggested Ham. "I think there
+are about thirty to a mile, and see how long it takes to pass them."
+
+"That's a good idea," said Mr. Jonah, but when they looked out of the
+portholes they couldn't find any telegraph poles.
+
+And just then, all of a sudden, a pistol shot rang out clear and loud.
+
+The Arkmobile came to a sudden stop, and a voice outside was heard to
+exclaim:
+
+"Where's the chauffeur?"
+
+Capt. Noah rushed up on deck, followed by his family, Mr. Jonah and
+Marjorie.
+
+"What's the matter?" asked Capt. Noah, looking about to find the owner of
+the voice.
+
+"Oh, that's what they all say!" came the reply. "You know jolly well
+what's the matter!"
+
+"Who are you, and where are you?" asked Capt. Noah, vainly trying to find
+this remarkable person, who seemed to be nothing but a voice.
+
+"Who am I? You'll find out pretty quick. Where am I? You'd better find
+that out even quicker!"
+
+Looking up to the Weathercock, Capt. Noah shouted: "Ahoy, there, Lookout!
+Who's delaying us?"
+
+"The Majesty of the Law," came the answering voice again--this time so
+distinctly that every one turned in the direction from which it came, and
+then a huge megaphone on the top of a post repeated: "The Majesty of the
+Law!"
+
+"Well, I'll be blowed!" exclaimed Capt. Noah.
+
+"You have exceeded the speed limit," said the Megaphone, "and you are
+fined $15!"
+
+"Oh!" interposed Mrs. Noah. "I'm sure you must be mistaken. I'm sure we
+were not exceeding it $15 worth."
+
+"So am I!" added Mr. Jonah. "In fact, I didn't think we were exceeding
+anything. We were just rolling along, don't you know, quite comfortably."
+
+"Well, suppose I haven't the money with me?" asked Capt. Noah.
+
+"Fifteen days in jail," answered the Megaphone.
+
+"Mercy!" cried Mrs. Noah.
+
+"Don't worry," whispered Capt. Noah. "I'll borrow the money from Mr.
+Jonah."
+
+Mr. Jonah was very obliging and lent the money, saying he had had no
+chance to spend a cent while he was aboard the whale.
+
+"Now, where shall I put the money?" asked Capt. Noah.
+
+"In the little box back of me," replied the Megaphone. And as soon as the
+money was dropped in the Megaphone shouted: "The prisoner is discharged!"
+
+"Prisoner!" shouted Capt. Noah, as mad as a hornet. "How dare you call me
+a prisoner!"
+
+But before he had time to say another word the Arkmobile started off and
+the Megaphone was left behind.
+
+"Jehosaphat!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, wiping the perspiration from his
+forehead with his red bordered handkerchief. "Bad enough to be robbed of
+$15, but to be called a 'prisoner'--well, that does make me angry."
+
+"Never mind, my dear," said Mrs. Noah, soothingly. "All's well that ends
+well. Just think, if we hadn't been able to borrow that $15, we'd have
+spent fifteen days in jail!"
+
+And then, all of a sudden the Weathercock shouted: "Everybody in the
+cabin! Water dead ahead!"
+
+My goodness me! you should have seen the animals pull their heads in
+through the portholes. Poor Mrs. Giraffe didn't get hers inside in time
+and her bonnet got soaking wet, for as soon as the Ark struck the water
+the spray flew here and there and everywhere and the deck was flooded
+ankle deep.
+
+But the Ark was a sturdy craft, and as soon as it once more felt the ocean
+beneath it, rode the waves as gracefully as a swan.
+
+"I guess we won't be fined for speeding now," laughed Marjorie, and in the
+next chapter you shall hear what further adventures she had aboard this
+wonderful Noah's Ark.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Weathercock called out that he could see the little red
+Ant on the life-preserver.]
+
+MAN OVERBOARD
+
+
+    Wake up! Wake up! and sing your song
+    As we roll merrily along.
+    Above the meadow sings the lark,
+    So let us sing aboard the Ark.
+
+"There goes the Weathercock," cooed the Dove, flying over to the porthole
+and looking out over the bright blue ocean.
+
+"Tell him I'll get up in a minute," yawned Marjorie.
+
+So the Dove, who slept in Marjorie's cabin in a pretty gilt cage, spoke to
+the Weathercock, after which she commenced to sing:
+
+    There's a robin in the woodland,
+    There's a robin in the sea,
+    But they are just as different
+    As different can be.
+
+    The one that's in the forest
+    Has feathers and a tail;
+    The one that's in the ocean
+    Has a scaly coat of mail.
+
+    The robin in the forest
+    Could never take a swim;
+    The robin of the ocean
+    Could never fly or skim
+
+    Across a grassy meadow,
+    Nor fly up in a tree.
+    But he can do all kinds of stunts
+    Within the deep blue sea.
+
+"Where did you learn all that?" asked Marjorie, pulling on her stockings.
+
+"Listen; there's another verse and maybe two or three," cooed the Dove,
+and then she began to sing again:
+
+    The robin of the woodland
+    Has a pretty crimson vest;
+    He sings a merry, blithesome song
+    And builds a cozy nest.
+
+    The robin of the ocean
+    Has fins that look like wings.
+    He doesn't build a nest at all,
+    He grunts, but never sings.
+
+    Yet both of them are robins,
+    As some of us have heard--
+    Although the ocean one's a fish,
+    The woodland one's a bird.
+
+"Cock-a-doodle-do!" crowed the Weathercock, as the Dove finished her song.
+
+"Hurrah for you! You are the poet of the Ark."
+
+"Oh, no!" replied the modest little Dove. "That is not my own. My mother
+taught me that song when I was a Dovelet."
+
+"Is that so?" said the Weathercock, and he gave a sigh of relief, for I
+guess he wanted to be the only poet on board the Ark and sing his little
+songs every morning just as he had always done.
+
+By this time Marjorie was dressed and, taking the Dove on her shoulder,
+went down to the diningroom. As usual, the Noah boys were on hand with
+great and glorious appetites.
+
+"How are the animals this morning?" inquired Capt. Noah, helping himself
+to a big saucer of oatmeal.
+
+"Pretty well," answered Japheth.
+
+"Some of the insects are getting restless," said Ham.
+
+"I should say so," exclaimed Mrs. Noah. "Here's that big red Ant in the
+sugar bowl."
+
+"Catch him," cried Shem, "we ought to put him back where he belongs."'
+
+But the Ant all of a sudden crawled out of the sugar bowl and ran down the
+leg of the table and out on deck.
+
+"There he goes!" shouted Marjorie.
+
+"Quick, or he'll get away!" cried Capt. Noah. "I can't afford to lose a
+single passenger!" Instantly the boys darted after the fleeing insect, but
+just as they were about to snatch him up from the deck a wave washed him
+overboard.
+
+"Man overboard!" shouted the Weathercock.
+
+And, my goodness! What a commotion there was after that! All the animals
+rushed up on deck to see who had fallen into the ocean.
+
+"Throw him a life-preserver!" yelled Mr. Jonah, and in a second Ham
+unfastened a large "horsecollar" life-preserver and tossed it into the
+ocean.
+
+"Suppose he can't reach it," said the elephant. "I guess I'd better jump
+in and save him," and overboard went the big animal with a loud splash.
+
+"Where is he?" asked the Elephant, after looking around in vain for the
+Ant. "I can't see him!"
+
+And no wonder, for the sea was rough, and it was no easy matter to find so
+small a passenger.
+
+"Get my telescope!" yelled Capt. Noah.
+
+"I think it's in my workbasket," said Mrs. Noah to Ham, who started at
+once to obey his father's command. "If it isn't it may be in your
+toolchest. I think you had it the other day when you were going to make an
+anti-aircraft gun out of it for your toy army."
+
+"That's where I found it," said Ham, a minute later, appearing breathless
+with the telescope.
+
+"Where abouts?" screamed the Elephant, who was now some distance from the
+Ark.
+
+"Wait a minute, can't you?" yelled Capt. Noah. "I've got to adjust the
+thing. These boys have been meddling with it!"
+
+When this was finally done, Capt. Noah swept the sea with his glass, but
+in vain; the form of the poor Ant was nowhere to be seen.
+
+"Shiver my timbers!" said Capt. Noah, under his breath. "What will happen
+to me if I lose a passenger?"
+
+"Hurry up!" gasped the Elephant, now thoroughly worn out by the buffeting
+of the waves. "Hurry up, I'm most in."
+
+"Well, we'll have to get you out, then," answered Capt. Noah.
+
+"Swim around to the port side," said Ham; "we'll hoist you up by the
+davits."
+
+"I hate to give up looking for the Ant," said the Elephant, as he slipped
+the ropes under his big body.
+
+And then, after much tugging and hauling away on the ropes he was lifted
+up even with the deck. But beyond this it was impossible to do anything.
+The davits refused to swing in, being hindered by the immense size of the
+animal.
+
+"Put your trunk on the deck," suggested Mr. Jonah. "That will make you
+weigh less, and perhaps we can roll you over the edge."
+
+"Yes, that's a good idea," said Shem. "Put your baggage aboard first."
+
+"This is no time for joking----We have lost one passenger and are in
+danger of losing another. It will look very strange to lose the largest
+and the smallest on the same day," said poor Capt. Noah, despairingly.
+
+[Illustration: MR. ELEPHANT HAS TROUBLE GETTING ABOARD]
+
+Well, just then, Mrs. Elephant came up from the hold. She had overslept
+herself, and had only now heard the commotion on deck. On seeing her mate
+swinging from the davits she set up a loud trumpeting.
+
+"Goodness, gracious, Ella!" said the Elephant. "Don't carry on like that.
+Screaming won't get me out. Get hold of me and help pull."
+
+This was good advice, and pretty soon Mr. Elephant was landed safely on
+board the Ark.
+
+Just then the Weathercock called out that he could see the little red Ant
+on the life-preserver.
+
+"Thank goodness!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, and the Ark was turned in the
+direction pointed out by the faithful lookout. Then Mr. Jonah leaned over
+and pulled in the life-preserver as the Ark slowly came alongside, and
+just in the nick of time, for the poor Ant was nearly dead.
+
+"Give him to me," said Mrs. Noah. "A little Jamaica ginger and a warm
+blanket will bring him 'round, I guess."
+
+"Well, well!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, as the motherly form of Mrs. Noah
+disappeared down the companionway. "This has been an exciting forenoon,"
+and then he wiped his forehead with his red bordered handkerchief and
+looked about him. "All you animals go below deck!" he commanded, "or else
+we'll have somebody else overboard."
+
+So Mrs. Elephant led Mr. Elephant, who was wet to the skin and shivering
+with the cold, down to the hold, where she put him to bed with a hot water
+bag at his feet and a woolen night cap on his head.
+
+"Are you going to put this down in your log book?" asked Marjorie. "I
+think it will make a very interesting story and I've heard from old
+sailors that they always put down everything that happens in the log
+book."
+
+"Of course I will," answered Capt. Noah. "Bring me the log book, Japheth.
+You haven't done anything this morning. Suppose you jot it down. I
+declare, I'm all tuckered out with excitement and worry."
+
+"You'd better lie down and rest, father," said Mrs. Noah, coming up on
+deck. "I have the Ant very comfortable now, and I feel sure he will
+recover in a short time."
+
+So Capt. Noah went below to rest, and the little Dove perched herself on
+Marjorie's shoulder and watched Capt. Noah's son write in the log book.
+And what do you suppose he wrote? Well, it was something like this, for
+the little Dove told me afterwards:
+
+    The little red Ant fell into the sea,
+    But, oh, dear you, and oh, dear me!
+    And then the Elephant with a shout
+    Jumped in and tried to pull him out.
+    But he wasn't saved by the Elephant;
+    It was Mr. Jonah who saved the Ant.
+
+And in the next chapter I'll tell you more about Marjorie on board the
+Ark.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Whale put out the fire, but he nearly sank the Ark.]
+
+FIRE! FIRE!
+
+
+"Fire! Fire! Fire!"
+
+Marjorie awoke with a start. The Weathercock was again sounding the
+warning, "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
+
+"Where?" cried Marjorie, looking out of the porthole at the excited
+Weathercock and then down to the deck, where at that moment Capt. Noah and
+his sons appeared, each armed with a pail.
+
+The fire evidently was at the forward end of the Ark, for Noah and his
+crew ran in that direction.
+
+It took Marjorie but a few minutes to dress, and just as she reached the
+deck, Mr. Jonah appeared.
+
+"This is a poor way to put out a fire," he said, as he tossed the water
+from his pail down the hatchway, from which was rising a thick cloud of
+smoke. "We need a hose and a pump."
+
+"Hurry up, Jonah!" commanded Capt. Noah. "This fire is getting too much
+headway to suit me. I'm afraid the animals will be roasted if we don't put
+it out pretty soon!"
+
+As he finished speaking the Elephant rushed on deck and, leaning over the
+side of the Ark, filled his trunk with water, which he immediately
+squirted over himself. And then Mrs. Elephant did the same.
+
+"I was never so warm before," she remarked; "not even in India. If I had
+stayed another minute below deck I would have been scarred for life!"
+
+By this time the deck was crowded. Some of the animals were nearly
+frightened to death; some were choking with the smoke, while others were
+filling the air with noises of all kinds. It was as if pandemonium were
+let loose.
+
+Those animals which could climb were soon scrambling to the roof of the
+Ark, where they sat on or clung desperately to the ridgepole.
+
+The deck grew hotter and hotter, and it was necessary for every one to
+dance about in order to keep his feet from blistering.
+
+"Holy sufferin' mackerel!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, now realizing the
+seriousness of the situation. "Are we to be burned at sea?"
+
+"Get the Elephants to squirt water down the hold," suggested Ham.
+
+"Get busy," said Capt. Noah to the Elephants. "Your trunks are nearly as
+good as hose. Why don't you help us?"
+
+"What do you say, Ella?" said the Elephant. "If we don't we may have to
+swim later."
+
+Without answering, she went forward and commenced drawing up the salt
+water in her trunk and then sending it in a swift stream down into the
+hold. The fire, however, was gaining fast, and in spite of the efforts of
+the Elephants and the crew the danger increased to an alarming extent, and
+at last the flames leaped forth and crawled over the deck.
+
+The animals howled and rushed to the stern of the Ark, which raised the
+bow high in the air, and thus added to the danger.
+
+"If it would only rain!" said Mrs. Noah, who sat on a coil of rope, her
+sealskin coat on her arm and her jewel box in her hand.
+
+"If it would only rain! This can't be the forty-first day, can it? Time
+does go so fast."
+
+Well, I guess something terrible would have happened if just then all of a
+sudden the Weathercock hadn't seen the Whale, who had landed Mr. Jonah
+aboard, some two or three chapters ago.
+
+"There's the Whale!" shouted the Weathercock. "See him spout!"
+
+"Run up a signal of distress!" commanded Capt. Noah. "He might save Mr.
+Jonah for old times' sake!"
+
+"If he'd only get up close and spout water over the Ark, he'd put out the
+fire pretty quick," said Ham.
+
+"Good idea," said Capt. Noah. "Ship ahoy!" yelled Mr. Jonah, waving his
+red bandanna handkerchief in the air. "Ahoy! Ahoy!"
+
+Then the Whale stopped spouting and made for the Ark.
+
+"He's coming! He's coming!" shouted the Weathercock.
+
+"Don't stop squirting water," said Capt. Noah to the Elephants.
+
+"On with the pail brigade!" screamed Ham. And then the monkeys slid down
+from the roof and grabbed hold of the pails and threw water down the hold.
+But still the cruel flames crept nearer and nearer.
+
+"Oh, dear!" sighed Mrs. Noah. "I'm afraid my sealskin coat will get
+singed, and after all the trouble I've had putting it up in camphor."
+
+And then, all of a sudden, a tremendous stream of water fell upon the Ark,
+soaking every one to the skin. And soon the deck was a river, and the
+steam that came out of the hold almost suffocated everybody.
+
+"Goodness me!" screamed Mrs. Noah. "We'll be swamped!"
+
+"Hold on, there," shouted Capt. Noah, leaning over the side of the Ark,
+where the Whale lay like a fire patrol boat in action. "Hold on! Turn off
+the hose, or you'll drown us!"
+
+So the good-natured Whale shut off the water, while Capt. Noah added: "A
+Turkish bath has nothing on this!"
+
+"It was awfully kind of you to come to our rescue," said Mrs. Noah,
+smiling sweetly at the Whale as she leaned over the railing.
+
+"Well, if you hadn't come just when you did," said Capt. Noah, "I guess
+we'd all have gone down to Davey Jones' locker."
+
+"Don't mention it," said the Whale. "Glad to have been able to do you a
+little favor. You see," he added in a low voice, "Mr. Jonah was never
+satisfied when he was my guest. He was always complaining about the
+dampness. So when you came along and I had a chance to put him aboard the
+Ark I was tickled to death. In fact, I was so glad to get rid of my
+passenger that I made up this little poem," and then the Whale began to
+spout:
+
+    "It's not so very pleasant, when sailing on the sea,
+    To have a passenger aboard who's sulky as can be;
+    And that's the reason, after dark,
+    I landed him aboard the Ark."
+
+And after that he swam away, and the Ark began once more to skim over the
+dark blue sea. And by and by, after a while, Capt. Noah said:
+
+"We'll have to make new bunks and berths for the animals, I guess, for the
+fire has burned up everything."
+
+And, oh, dear me! When he went below he saw that everything was burned to
+a cinder.
+
+"We'll have to land somewhere and make repairs," said Mr. Jonah.
+
+"I guess we will," said Capt. Noah, and all the animals began to howl and
+make dreadful noises, for they didn't want to go down in the smoky hold,
+you see.
+
+And just then all of a sudden the Weathercock called out:
+
+"Land to starboard!"
+
+And, sure enough, looming up in the dim distance was a mountainous shore
+line.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Squirrel came aboard with a bag of nuts.]
+
+REPAIRS
+
+
+    Ahoy, ahoy, Mount Ararat,
+    Now we know where we are at.
+    Run the Ark up high and dry,
+    Close against the bright blue sky.
+
+"Not a bit of it!" shouted Capt. Noah, looking up at the Weathercock, "I
+don't propose to take any chances running up that mountain side. Suppose
+our motor gave out? We'd be in a nice fix. We'll run up on the shore and
+heave to."
+
+The Ark, obeying Capt. Noah's guiding hand, swept up on the beach and came
+to a standstill some 200 feet from the water.
+
+"We can cut all the timber we need for repairs now," said Japheth, looking
+over toward a big forest that lay back from the beach. "The animals, too,
+can have a nice frolic on the sand. It will do them good after being
+cooped up on board ship for so long."
+
+And in a short time the Ark was empty and all the animals were having a
+fine time making castles in the sand and picking up pretty sea shells.
+
+And after a while Capt. Noah got out his axe and saw, and calling to Mr.
+Jonah, and his three boys, started off for the forest, and as soon as he
+cut down a tree, Mr. Jonah and the three boys sawed it up into logs.
+
+"I guess we have enough now," said Capt. Noah. "Guess we'd better start
+and split them into planks."
+
+This was not such easy work, but after a while, they had quite a pile of
+lumber on hand.
+
+"If we only had a wagon to haul the logs to the Ark," said Capt. Noah,
+wiping his forehead with his red bordered handkerchief.
+
+And just then Marjorie came riding down the gang-plank in the little toy
+automobile.
+
+"I'll take them back to the Ark," she said, and after a while, not so very
+long, they were all aboard.
+
+Well, by this time it was pretty dark, and Capt. Noah felt uneasy about
+the animals, so he stood up on the bow of the big boat and called out:
+
+"All aboard for the night!"
+
+"All aboard for the night!" he called out again, and then he turned to
+little Marjorie and said, "I'd never forgive myself if anything should
+happen to any one of my passengers."
+
+But, oh dear me! When Capt. Noah, who had stood by the gang-plank and
+checked off each animal as he came aboard, found that the little red
+squirrel was missing, he was dreadfully worried.
+
+"Goodness me!" he exclaimed, "if that squirrel has gone off into the
+woods, how will we ever find him?"
+
+"Well, there's no use in worrying," said Mrs. Noah, who just then came up
+from below deck. "Come down and get a nice hot cup of tea. After you've
+eaten something you'll know better what to do."
+
+Well, after supper, everybody felt better, so Capt. Noah and his crew came
+up on deck to look for the lost squirrel.
+
+The moon was just coming up out of the east, making a silver path across
+the water right up to the Ark.
+
+As Capt. Noah looked over the railing to the sand below he saw a little
+figure walking directly in the silver moon path. It seemed to be carrying
+something heavy; for it paused every now and then to rest.
+
+"It's the little red squirrel," shouted Marjorie.
+
+"So it is," said Capt. Noah.
+
+"Helloa, there!" he shouted, "wait and I'll let down the gang-plank!"
+
+"Whew, but I'm tired!" panted the red squirrel, as he crawled up on deck.
+"This bag of nuts is as heavy as lead!"
+
+And then he let the well-filled bag slip from his shoulders to the deck.
+
+"Don't you ever stay out as late as this again, sir," said Capt. Noah,
+pulling in the gang-plank and making it fast for the night. "If you do,
+you won't get shore leave for a long time."
+
+"I'm glad you're back," whispered Marjorie, "for we were all dreadfully
+worried about you," and this so pleased the little red squirrel that he
+gave her a handful of chestnuts.
+
+"Come along with me," said Capt. Noah, "I'm going below to see what the
+boys are doing."
+
+So Marjorie and the little squirrel followed the captain without a word,
+for they saw that he was somewhat vexed.
+
+Below deck all was in confusion, for the animals, after finishing their
+supper, were trying to find places to sleep.
+
+Although Mr. Jonah and the boys had made the place as clean as possible
+since the fire, they had not, of course, been able in so short a time to
+replace the bunks and pens in which the animals had slept.
+
+Everybody was in everybody else's way.
+
+The smaller animals were squeezed into corners by the larger ones, and the
+Elephant complained that the red Ant kept treading on his toes.
+
+"Order! Order!" shouted Capt. Noah.
+
+"What are you doing, Jonah, and where are you, boys?" he called out,
+peering into the darkness, for of course all the electric lights were out
+and the hold was in total darkness.
+
+"Here we are," answered Mr. Jonah. "We're doing the best we can," and he
+came out of the darkness and rested his pitchfork on the floor while he
+wiped the perspiration from his forehead.
+
+"I was spreading out the straw for bedding. Ham is giving the pigs a drink
+before they go to bed."
+
+And just then the other two boys appeared. "What are you doing here?"
+Japheth asked the muley cow, which stood by quietly chewing her cud.
+
+But the muley cow only said, "Moo-o-oo!"
+
+"Well, you come along with me. All the cows are at the other end of the
+Ark."
+
+"Don't be impatient," said Capt. Noah, for the muley cow was a very gentle
+creature and never tried to butt any one with her horns, because she
+didn't have any, you know.
+
+While all this was going on Marjorie and the little squirrel stood in the
+doorway.
+
+"Glad you weren't lost," said Shem, patting the squirrel on the back as if
+he were a little pet dog. "The other squirrels said they wouldn't go to
+bed until you were found."
+
+"Where are they?" asked the little red squirrel. "I'm pretty sleepy and
+would like to cuddle up for the night," and then he swung his bag of nuts
+over his shoulder and followed Shem, but before he went he whispered to
+Marjorie that he'd give her some hickory nuts in the morning.
+
+After a while everything was made snug and tight for the night. Mr. Jonah
+put away his pitchfork and the boys hung up the water pails. Then a
+lighted lantern was hung at each end of the cabin, and the evening chores
+were done, just the same as if they had been on a farm, you know.
+
+And after that Marjorie went up on deck, where the weathercock was sitting
+on the flagpole in the moonlight.
+
+    "Oh, I love to be a sailor
+    And sail the ocean blue,
+    And hear the Captain shout 'Ahoy!'
+    And order 'round the crew.
+
+    "And when the waves are rolling high
+    The wind is blowing strong,
+    I sing my cock-a-doodle-do
+    Just like a sailor song.
+
+    "Oh, I'm a sailor rooster,
+    And my name is Shanghai Joe,
+    And I'll sail the sea from A to Z,
+    I'm a sailor bird, Heave ho!"
+
+"Well, I'm glad you're so happy," said little Marjorie, and maybe she felt
+just a little bit homesick, for she was far away from home. And just then
+Mrs. Noah came on deck and said, "Come, Madge, it's time for bed," and
+then she picked her up and carried her into her cabin and tucked her in
+for the night as comfortable as you please. And in the next chapter I'll
+tell you what happened in the morning.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Mr. Jonah and the Animals huddled around the stove to get
+warm.]
+
+THE ICEBERG
+
+
+    Jingle bells! Jingle bells!
+    It's getting cold as ice,
+    Put your furs and mittens on,
+    Wrap up warm and nice.
+
+Marjorie awoke with a start. My, how cold it was! The porthole glass was
+covered with a network of frosty lace, and the little Dove, who slept in
+Marjorie's cabin, pulled her head out from under her wing and shivered.
+
+"What has happened?" asked Marjorie, sitting up in bed and looking about
+her.
+
+Perhaps she expected to see Jack Frost sitting in the rocking chair!
+
+Quickly pulling on her slippers she ran to the porthole to ask her good
+friend the Weathercock the reason for this sudden drop in the temperature.
+
+She found him, as usual, perched on the flagpole. His comb was very red,
+as if Jack Frost had given it a nip, and now and then he raised one leg to
+his breast to warm his toes in the fluffy feathers.
+
+"Good morning," said Marjorie. "Isn't it freezing?"
+
+"Do you wonder?" answered the Weathercock, pointing to a large iceberg
+close at hand.
+
+She turned to look and, sure enough, just a few feet away was a great
+mountain of ice.
+
+"We're aground on an iceberg," went on the Weathercock. "We ran into an
+ice floe last night and the Ark slipped upon the ledge of the iceberg and
+grounded."
+
+"Goodness gracious!" cried Marjorie. "What are we ever going to do?"
+
+"I'm sure I don't know," answered the Weathercock. "I'll have to get some
+woolen socks and a pair of felt shoes or my toes will be frostbitten!"
+
+"Perhaps Mrs. Noah will knit you a pair," said Marjorie. "I'm going down
+to breakfast now and I'll speak to her about it."
+
+"Thank you," replied the Weathercock. "And tell her I wouldn't mind having
+a worsted muffler, too."
+
+Down below matters were even worse, for the fresh water had frozen during
+the night, so that it was impossible to give the animals a drink.
+
+Mrs. Noah had been forced to melt a piece of ice in a pan over the fire in
+order to have water with which to make the coffee.
+
+"Whew!" exclaimed Capt. Noah, coming in from deck and closing the door as
+quickly as possible. "My hands are almost frozen. This is as bad as a trip
+to the North Pole. Perhaps worse, for we are totally unprepared for this
+kind of weather."
+
+Just then Mr. Jonah and the boys came in, rubbing their hands and stamping
+their feet to keep warm.
+
+"Merry Christmas!" laughed Ham, "the skating's fine out on the ice floe!"
+
+"How jolly!" cried Marjorie. "Let's go skating after breakfast!"
+
+"No, sir-e-e," said Capt. Noah. "The boys must help me float the Ark. One
+of the rubber-tired wheels is crushed and it will take a lot of hard work
+to get her off."
+
+"We'd better set about it as soon as possible," said Mr. Jonah, after
+Capt. Noah had made an inspection. "Some of the animals are nearly
+perishing with the cold. The monkeys are rolled up so tight you'd think
+they were fur balls. Only the polar bears seem to enjoy life, and they are
+just crazy to take a run on the ice."
+
+"Let them wait," said Capt. Noah; "we have more serious things to attend
+to than pleasure for the moment."
+
+"Well, come and get a good hot breakfast first," said Mrs. Noah, bringing
+in the steaming coffee pot and a plate of hot corn muffins. "After
+breakfast you'll all feel differently."
+
+This was, indeed, good advice, and when breakfast was over Capt. Noah
+said, "Get the crowbar and the wooden rollers, Japheth. We'll see if we
+can't start the old Ark moving. Maybe she's stuck too deep in the ice, but
+we'll try, at any rate."
+
+"Here, my little girl," said kind Mrs. Noah to Marjorie, "put on this
+muffler if you're going out. It's pretty cold."
+
+So Marjorie tied the warm muffler around her neck and stepped out on deck.
+
+A beautiful sight met her eyes. Towering high above was a mountain of
+glittering ice, while as far as the eye could reach was a field of ice and
+snow.
+
+Under the rays of the morning sun parts of the great berg glittered like a
+rainbow.
+
+It was so cold that Marjorie had to jump up and down to keep her toes from
+freezing.
+
+Down on the ice, close to the Ark, Capt. Noah and his crew were busily at
+work. One of the auto wheels had sunk deep into the ice and acted like an
+anchor. The other wheels also were embedded in the ice so that the Ark was
+held as if in a vise.
+
+"Guess we'll have to give it up," exclaimed Capt. Noah after an hour's
+hard work, during which time the Ark had not moved an inch.
+
+"We'd better make up our minds to winter here until the iceberg floats
+into a warmer climate and either melts or breaks apart."
+
+"That's cheerful," said Mr. Jonah. "I've nothing but summer flannels and a
+mackintosh with me."
+
+"What about some of the poor animals who are used to the Torrid Zone?"
+replied Capt. Noah, shouldering the crowbar and climbing up the rope
+ladder to the deck.
+
+Mr. Jonah did not reply, but turned up his coat collar and stamped upon
+his feet to warm them.
+
+"The hairless Mexican dog will surely die if we don't do something for
+him," said Ham. "I think I'll ask mother if she won't let him stay in the
+kitchen."
+
+But Mrs. Noah did not seem very pleased over the suggestion.
+
+"Gracious me!" she said. "Shem already has two parrots, a marmoset and a
+little green snake in the kitchen. I don't suppose one more animal would
+make much difference, if it will only keep from under my feet. I nearly
+stepped on one of the snakes this morning, and the kitchen is none too
+large, anyway."
+
+"Don't you boys worry your mother any more," said Capt. Noah sternly. "The
+animals have got to make the best of it. Any one who travels by sea
+undergoes some risk and I'm sure I'm as careful a captain as a man could
+be. It's lucky we didn't go down to the bottom of the sea when we struck
+the berg, instead of running up on it safely."
+
+After dinner Capt. Noah and Mr. Jonah held a consultation as to what was
+the best thing to do under the circumstances.
+
+"Of course, some of the animals, like the polar bears and the seals, will
+enjoy a vacation on the ice. The penguins, too, will be glad to have a
+little change. We can let them out and the rest of the Arctic passengers.
+But how to keep the other animals warm, puzzles me. We haven't coal enough
+to keep the furnaces going for very long."
+
+Mr. Jonah stroked his chin reflectively. "We might dig a channel from the
+Ark to the edge of the berg and then float the Ark," he said, after a
+pause.
+
+"That's a pretty good scheme," said Capt. Noah. "We'll get to work at
+once. Here, you boys, get the pickaxes and come with me."
+
+By evening the canal was finished. "Now, when the tide rises," said Capt.
+Noah, resting on the handle of his pickax, "perhaps the old tub will
+float."
+
+It was now quite dark, so all hands returned to the Ark.
+
+The animals which had been allowed to play on the ice had all returned
+except the two polar bears, who begged Capt. Noah to let them stay out all
+night, as they wished to see the Northern Lights from the top of the
+iceberg.
+
+It was a very tired family that gathered around the supper table that
+evening. But after the meal was over the Weathercock began to sing:
+
+    "It's time for bed, and all the Ark
+    Should soon be snoring in the dark,
+    The elephant and kangaroo,
+    The lion and the curled horn gnu,
+    Have gone to bed, and so should you,
+    So good night, cock-a-doodle-doo!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ham rescues the Polar Bears from the iceberg.]
+
+A THRILLING RESCUE
+
+
+    We're off! we're off! we're off again
+    To sail upon the rolling main.
+    The ice no longer holds us fast,
+    We're sailing safe and free at last!
+
+This is what the Weathercock sang loud and clear the next morning.
+
+It woke up Marjorie with a start, and running to the porthole she saw that
+they were once more upon the ocean blue.
+
+"How did it happen?" she asked, turning to her faithful friend on the
+flagpole, who was still crowing and flapping his wings at a great rate.
+"How did it all happen?"
+
+"While you were asleep, my dear little Madge," answered the Weathercock.
+
+"I didn't ask you when, I asked you how," laughed Marjorie, for she was
+delighted, you see, to be once more sailing over the great big ocean.
+
+"You'd better not ask me any more questions," said the Weathercock
+quickly. "You just better hurry up and dress and ask Capt. Noah what he is
+going to do about the castaways."
+
+"The what?" gasped Marjorie.
+
+"The castaways. The two polar bears who are still on the iceberg."
+
+"Goodness gracious!" she cried. "I'll hurry and get on my boots. I must
+tell Capt. Noah at once."
+
+In a few minutes she was running down to the lower cabin.
+
+"Capt. Noah! Capt. Noah!" she shouted. "Capt. Noah, the polar bears are
+left on the iceberg!"
+
+The captain, who had overslept himself, put his head out of his cabin
+door.
+
+"What is all the excitement about?" he asked sleepily.
+
+"The bears are left on the iceberg!" shouted Marjorie again.
+
+"Well, that's all right. I told them they could stay out all night. They
+will come aboard for breakfast, no doubt!"
+
+"They can't! They can't!" cried Marjorie in great excitement. "The Ark is
+afloat again and we are sailing away."
+
+"Blubber and rubber!" exclaimed the captain, now even more excited than
+the little girl.
+
+"Mother!" he cried, "the Ark's afloat and two of our passengers are still
+ashore!"
+
+Mrs. Noah opened her eyes.
+
+"What did you say, my dear?" she asked, sleepily.
+
+The captain by this time had pulled on his sailor suit and, closing the
+cabin door with a bang, rushed out on deck, with Marjorie close at his
+heels.
+
+In the distance the iceberg could be seen indistinctly through the morning
+mist.
+
+"Hard-a-port!" shouted Capt. Noah.
+
+Mr. Jonah, who was at the wheel, woke up with a start. He was so tired
+with cutting the ice the day before that he had fallen sound asleep at his
+post.
+
+"You landlubber," cried Capt. Noah. "What do you mean by falling asleep?"
+
+"This is my first experience before the mast," apologized poor Jonah.
+"I've always been a passenger. Please don't get provoked."
+
+"Provoked!" yelled Capt. Noah. "Provoked! I feel like throwing you
+overboard!"
+
+"Steer for the iceberg!"
+
+"I won't throw you overboard until later!"
+
+Mr. Jonah heaved a sigh of relief, for at first I guess he thought he'd
+have to go back to the Whale without having the chance of Capt. Noah
+cooling off.
+
+Marjorie stood close to the rail, straining her eyes for a glimpse of the
+polar bears.
+
+The three Noah boys now came on deck, and Ham handed the spyglass to his
+father.
+
+"I see them! I see them!" cried Capt. Noah. "One of them is waving a
+flag!"
+
+"Let me look," said Marjorie, who was dreadfully worried about them.
+
+Yes, there they were. On the top of the berg she could dimly see two
+figures and a white object waving back and forth. The sea was getting
+rough and the Ark rolled about in a most uncomfortable manner.
+
+The Weathercock clung tightly to his post, however, and flapped his wings
+now and then.
+
+"Look out!" he cautioned as the Ark neared the berg. "Be careful or you'll
+stave a hole in the Ark!"
+
+"Hurry up!" shouted the polar bears. "We're nearly starved. We want our
+breakfast."
+
+"Want your breakfast!" muttered Capt. Noah under his breath. "You'll be
+wanting something more than breakfast if we don't find a way to get you
+aboard!"
+
+"Let them swim!" suggested Ham.
+
+"Run up close and let them jump!" advised Shem.
+
+"Let them fly!" chuckled Japheth, unsympathetically, who was somewhat
+tired of feeding the animals and felt that two less would not be such an
+awful thing after all.
+
+"Nothing of the sort," cried Capt. Noah. "I am responsible for the safety
+of every passenger. I will take no such chances."
+
+"What are we going to do, then?" asked Mr. Jonah, looking over the side of
+the Ark to make sure that it was not getting too close to the dangerous
+berg, which jutted out in ragged points beneath the water.
+
+"Launch the life-boat!" commanded Capt. Noah. "Who will volunteer?"
+
+"I will!" cried Ham, and in less time than I can take to tell it, Ham and
+his trained monkeys lowered the boat and jumped in.
+
+"Shove off!" commanded Cockswain Ham, and with a strong pull and a loud
+"Yo-ho!" the little boat shot away.
+
+Ham held firmly to the tiller and kept the bow pointed toward the big
+rollers, while the monkeys handled the oars.
+
+"Pull for the shore, sailor, pull for the shore," sang the Weathercock.
+
+The bears, who had slid down the iceberg close to the water's edge, stood
+anxiously waiting.
+
+"Careful, now!" cried Ham. "Pull on your starboard oar!"
+
+The boat grazed the iceberg. "Jump!" shouted Ham. "Quick!"
+
+And then one of the bears gave a spring and landed in the boat. His mate,
+however, slipped, and a big wave at that moment whirled the boat away from
+the ice, and with a big splash he landed in the water.
+
+"Throw him a life-preserver!" shouted Capt. Noah.
+
+"Throw him a life line!" yelled Shem.
+
+"Throw him the anchor!" growled Japheth, who never had liked the Polar
+Bears, I guess.
+
+But Cockswain Ham was not the least bit rattled. He steered the boat
+toward the frightened bear and told him to catch hold.
+
+"Now pull for all you're worth!" shouted Ham to the monkeys, "and we'll
+tow Brother Bear."
+
+But, oh, dear me! The great waves kept washing over the little boat, and
+the two monkeys had a hard time rowing with that great heavy bear dragging
+on the stern.
+
+"They'll be swamped!" screamed Mrs. Noah, as a tremendous great wave
+dashed over the little life-boat.
+
+"Bail, bail, you lubber!" shouted Ham. "We'll all be in Davy Jones's
+locker if you don't!"
+
+Well, pretty soon they came alongside the Ark, and Capt. Noah let down a
+rope ladder, up which the two bears managed to scramble after a hard
+struggle.
+
+And after that Cockswain Ham and his gallant crew came aboard, and the
+life-boat was hoisted up on deck.
+
+Motherly Mrs. Noah at once put the two bears to bed after a hot mustard
+bath and a drink of Jamaica ginger.
+
+"Well, this beats the old days all holler!" exclaimed Capt. Noah. "We
+never had such accidents on my first voyage. It just rained and rained for
+forty days and forty nights."
+
+"That's the truth, my dear," agreed Mrs. Noah. "I remember it very well.
+Ham was just a baby, and the other two boys were little fellows. It was
+hard work finding something new for them to do each day. Rainy days on
+board ship--well, I never want to go through with it again."
+
+"I should think your boys would think you're just lovely," said little
+Marjorie.
+
+"Well, I guess we do," said Ham, kissing his mother. "You know we do,
+mother dear."
+
+"Of course I do," she replied, giving him a hug.
+
+"Go and kiss your mother," said Capt. Noah to Shem and Japheth, "or she
+won't give you any breakfast."
+
+And then they both ran over to her and kissed her, glad of an excuse to
+show their real feelings.
+
+"Now, come and get something nice and hot for breakfast," said Mrs. Noah,
+"for if we don't eat breakfast pretty soon, we'll have to call it lunch."
+
+And in the next chapter you shall hear of a dreadful collision, but don't
+worry, for I shan't let anything happen to little Marjorie and the kind
+Noah family.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Captain Noah discovers a leak in the side of the Ark.]
+
+A LEAK
+
+
+    "Look out! Look out! A boat in sight;
+    Turn quickly to the left or right;
+    You'll have a smash-up, sure as fate--
+    Alas! my warning came too late!"
+
+sang the Weathercock.
+
+And, oh, dear me! He was right! Crash! Bang! The Noah's Ark shivered from
+bow to stern, and all the animals were thrown off their feet.
+
+Little Marjorie awoke with a start. It was just daylight, and far off in
+the east the rising sun was tinging the sky pink and gold.
+
+She hurriedly put on her clothes and ran out on deck, where she met Capt.
+Noah and his sons.
+
+"Whales and porpoises!" exclaimed Capt. Noah. "Mr. Jonah has been asleep
+at the switch again, I'll bet!"
+
+And then he ran forward and looked over the bow of the Ark.
+
+Only a few yards off was the charred hull of a vessel, riding low in the
+water.
+
+Quickly examining his own ship, Capt. Noah discovered a hole on the
+starboard side.
+
+And then, all of a sudden, the animals came rushing up on deck.
+
+"The Ark is filling with water," cried Mrs. Elephant, "and my slippers are
+all soaking wet. If I had remained below another minute they would have
+been ruined!"
+
+She had hardly finished when all the rats and mice scrambled up the
+companionway.
+
+"A bad sign!" said Capt. Noah. "It shows the Ark is sinking!"
+
+Mrs. Noah gave a scream. She had hastily thrown a kimono over her
+nightdress at the first warning and had hurried on deck.
+
+"Don't worry," said little Marjorie bravely. "Capt. Noah will stop the
+leak."
+
+"I hope so," he said. Then, turning to the passengers, he asked: "Who will
+volunteer to go with me below deck?"
+
+"I will!" shouted Ham.
+
+"And so will I!" said the Elephant.
+
+"Come along, then," said Capt. Noah.
+
+"Throw me down the tarpaulin and some planks," he called up a few minutes
+later.
+
+But, oh dear me! The water had gained such headway that the tarpaulin was
+of no use at all, and I don't know what would have happened if the
+Elephant hadn't sat down squarely on the hole, blocking it up so that not
+a single drop of water leaked in.
+
+"Bully for you!" cried Capt. Noah. "That's the best stunt I've seen yet!"
+
+"It's not very comfortable," said the Elephant, with a shiver. "My, but
+the water's chilly!"
+
+"Start the pumps!" commanded Capt. Noah, rushing to the foot of the
+companionway. "Set some of the animals to work!"
+
+Well, after a while the Ark was pumped dry, and everybody heaved a sigh of
+relief.
+
+"How long do you expect me to be a water plug?" asked the Elephant. "You
+don't expect me to sit here for the rest of the voyage?"
+
+"I don't know what we'll do if you get up," answered Capt. Noah.
+
+"Neither do I," said the Elephant.
+
+"Let's call Mr. Jonah," said Capt. Noah.
+
+"What's the use?" said the Elephant. "What good will he do? If he hadn't
+been asleep at the tiller we never would have had the accident."
+
+"We might punish him for neglect of duty," said Capt. Noah. "We'll plug
+the hole up with him. He can sit on the opening for a punishment."
+
+"Great idea!" chuckled the Elephant. "Bring him down."
+
+So Capt. Noah hastened on deck to look for poor Mr. Jonah. And pretty soon
+he came back with Mr. Jonah, who of course didn't know what they were
+going to do with him.
+
+"What do you want me for?" he asked. "It's pretty damp down here."
+
+"Hello!" said the Elephant. "Excuse my not rising!"
+
+"Certainly," said Mr. Jonah, "but you don't look very comfortable."
+
+And then, quick as a wink, the Elephant reached out his trunk and grabbed
+poor Mr. Jonah.
+
+"Help! Murder!" yelled Jonah, nearly strangled by the water, which rushed
+into the Ark as the Elephant got up.
+
+"Keep quiet!" commanded Capt. Noah, and then the Elephant pushed poor Mr.
+Jonah into the hole.
+
+"It's all your fault that we had this accident. Now you can stop up the
+leak!"
+
+Mr. Jonah was too frightened to speak. Finally, when he partly recovered
+from his fright he said:
+
+"But what am I to do?"
+
+"Don't do a thing," said Capt. Noah, pushing him down as he started to get
+up. "You just sit there and be a hero!"
+
+"I won't!" cried Mr. Jonah.
+
+"Then we'll all drown, and you, too!" said Capt. Noah.
+
+And just then the Weathercock shouted out loud and clear:
+
+"Land ahead! Land ahead!"
+
+And in a few short seconds the Ark rolled upon a sandy beach and came to a
+standstill.
+
+"Throw out the anchor!" commanded Capt. Noah. "We won't take any chances
+this time."
+
+And pretty soon all the animals were playing on the sand, while Mrs. Noah,
+with Marjorie and the boys, made a fire under some palm trees.
+
+Suddenly Capt. Noah remembered Mr. Jonah. "Thunder and lightning!" he
+exclaimed, and at once descended into the hold, where he found poor Mr.
+Jonah still sitting on the hole in the Ark.
+
+"Arise, noble man!" said Capt. Noah, bursting into laughter.
+
+"Thank goodness," said Jonah. "I feel as stiff as a glass bottle stopper."
+
+And in the next chapter you shall hear of a wonderful picnic which they
+all had on this little green island in the middle of the big blue ocean.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The boys were busy with Captain Noah repairing the Ark.]
+
+THE PICNIC
+
+
+    "Don't leave me alone on the Ark, Marjie, dear,
+    For I shall be lonely I very much fear.
+    Now, how would you like to be left alone
+    High up on a perch where the wild breezes moan?"
+
+"The Weathercock wants to come with us," said Marjorie.
+
+"Then why doesn't he?" said Capt. Noah, who was busily engaged in making
+the anchor line fast.
+
+"I'll tell him to come with us."
+
+And she ran up the gang-plank and called to the lonely Weathercock:
+
+"Why don't you fly down? We'd like to have you come ashore with us."
+
+"That's all I wanted to know," said the faithful bird. "Look out! Here she
+goes!"
+
+And with a great flutter and flapping of his gilt wings he landed on the
+sand.
+
+And after that he and Marjorie went over to the clump of palm trees where
+Mrs. Noah and the boys were resting.
+
+"This would be a fine spot for a picnic," she said. "Did you ever go to
+one?"
+
+"No, I've never been to one, although I once went to a fair with father,"
+said Marjorie.
+
+"Well, while the boys are busy with Capt. Noah mending the Ark, we'll get
+a fire started and have our lunch out here beneath the trees."
+
+It didn't take long to get the fire started, for Mrs. Noah wished to
+surprise the Captain when he came back, and pretty soon the kettle was
+singing away:
+
+    "Hurray for the jolly picnic
+    And the crew of the red Noah's Ark.
+    I'll whistle and sing like a bird in the spring,
+    While the red flames gleam and spark."
+
+"There are some nice clams on the beach," said Mrs. Noah.
+
+So the Weathercock took a basket and went down to the water's edge and
+brought back enough for everybody.
+
+And I guess Mrs. Noah had been to many a clam bake, for she knew just how
+to roast them in a pile of seaweed and red hot stones.
+
+Well, pretty soon Capt. Noah with Mr. Jonah and the three boys came out of
+the Ark and sat down beneath the palm trees, and then all the animals sat
+around in a ring, for this was the first picnic they had ever been to.
+
+"I'm as hungry as a bear," said little Marjorie, and then the Elephant
+began to laugh, but the bear only smiled and spread his bread with honey.
+
+Of course, some of the animals didn't eat any of Mrs. Noah's lunch. The
+giraffe stood near by and ate the tender leaves off the tops of the trees
+and the monkeys ate cocoanuts, and the ducks and geese kept close to the
+water and snapped up little fishes and snails. But everybody had a
+wonderful time.
+
+"I think, Mother," said Capt. Noah, wiping the crumbs from the tablecloth,
+and holding them out to a little brown thrush who had sat on his shoulder
+during the meal, "we had better spend the night ashore. I'll bring the big
+tent from the Ark and set it up under the trees. I'm going to do a little
+painting inside the Ark this afternoon."
+
+"That's a very good idea," said Mrs. Noah.
+
+When the tent was set up and the ropes securely fastened to the pegs which
+had been driven into the ground, Mrs. Noah and Marjorie busied themselves
+fixing it up inside in order to make it comfortable for the night.
+
+And when evening came, a bright fire was lighted and after supper,
+everybody sat around and talked. Ham popped corn and Marjorie roasted
+apples.
+
+"Nine o'clock," said Capt. Noah, "time for bed. We must be up early in the
+morning."
+
+"It was the loveliest picnic I ever had," said Marjorie, as she kissed
+Mrs. Noah good night.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Captain Noah called all the Animals aboard the Ark]
+
+THE STORM
+
+
+By noon the next day Capt. Noah reported that the paint was dry and the
+Ark ready to set sail.
+
+"We must get the animals together," he said, looking anxiously about. "I
+can't imagine where they have all gone to."
+
+"Well, I'll have everything packed and ready to put aboard by the time you
+round up your passengers," laughed Mrs. Noah who never seemed to worry
+about anything, and Marjorie thought she was the nicest person she had
+ever met.
+
+"Come, boys," commanded Capt. Noah, "let's start the hunt. I hope the
+island isn't large, for I don't fancy walking many miles in this hot
+climate."
+
+So they all started off, Mr. Jonah and the three Noah boys following Capt.
+Noah, and after walking for some time they came to the top of a hill, from
+which they had a good view of the island. And not very far away were all
+the animals, enjoying themselves to their hearts' content.
+
+Capt. Noah took his bugle and blew a long blast, and at once all the
+animals looked around.
+
+Then he blew again, and after that the animals formed in line with the
+Elephant at their head and marched toward them.
+
+When they reached the Ark the gang-plank was lowered and they all marched
+aboard.
+
+Everything below decks was in apple-pie order and the animals all seemed
+glad to be once more back in the Ark.
+
+"All's well that ends well," said Capt. Noah, turning to Mr. Jonah. "My
+duty is to land these animals safely after the rain is over. But it looks
+to me as if it were going to commence again."
+
+"There's a big black cloud in the west," shouted the Weathercock, who had
+flown up to his perch on the flagpole and was keeping a sharp lookout.
+
+"Yes, I guess we're going to have some nasty weather," said Capt. Noah.
+"Let us hurry and get the Ark afloat."
+
+In a few minutes the great boat was in motion, and after a short run down
+to the water, it once more rode the waves.
+
+"You'd better come down to the cabin," Capt. Noah called out to the
+Weathercock as a flash of lightning passed across the sky. "We're going to
+have a storm, and you may be blown off your perch."
+
+So the Weathercock came down and perched on his shoulder, and then he
+began to sing:
+
+    "Oh, the animals came into the Ark,
+    The little dog with a bow-wow bark,
+    The lion gave a kingly roar,
+    And the monkey shook the rat by the paw,
+    And the muley cow said moo-o-o,
+    And the rooster sang his cockle-do."
+
+Well, it didn't take long for Capt. Noah and his crew to make everything
+snug and tight.
+
+But, oh dear me! How the thunder roared and the lightning flashed, but in
+spite of all this, Marjorie grew so sleepy that pretty soon she went up to
+her little cabin with the dove on her shoulder, and crept into bed.
+
+And then something strange happened. The Weathercock, although he had
+hopped into the cabin to escape the storm, went out on deck every now and
+then to look about him, so as to report to Capt. Noah the whereabouts of
+the Ark.
+
+He didn't seem to mind the storm, for a weathercock is used to all sorts
+of weather and knows just from what quarter the wind is blowing, you know.
+
+About midnight, after coming in from deck, he hopped up to little
+Marjorie's cabin and knocked on the door. But she was so fast asleep she
+didn't hear him, and if it hadn't been for the dove, who was a very light
+sleeper, I don't believe the Weathercock would ever have been able to tell
+Marjorie this strange thing that had happened.
+
+But just as soon as the little dove heard the knocking, she flew down from
+her cage and opened the door. And after the Weathercock had whispered to
+her she went over to where Marjorie lay sound asleep in her berth.
+
+And just then the Ark grated on something and came to a standstill, but so
+gradually did the great boat stop that Capt. Noah, who was also sound
+asleep, did not even move in his berth.
+
+"Wake little Marjorie," whispered the Weathercock, and then the little
+white bird leaned over the pillow, and sang in a low voice:
+
+    "Wake up, wake up, Marjorie dear,
+    Come to the window,
+    Your home is quite near.
+    See, we are landed
+    Upon your own roof,
+    Just outside your bedroom.
+    Come, here is the proof--
+    I'll lift up the curtain;
+    There's your little bed,
+    With the cosy white pillow
+    And cover of red."
+
+"What is it? Where am I?" asked Marjorie, opening her eyes.
+
+"Come," said the Weathercock, "follow me."
+
+Dreamily she got up and followed him to the window. Opposite was her own
+little bedroom window.
+
+"Step over carefully," whispered the Weathercock, while the Dove took her
+by the hand. Marjorie stepped across the open space and entered her
+bedroom. Then she walked over to her own little bed and crept inside.
+
+"Go to sleep!" whispered the Weathercock.
+
+"See you in the morning," cooed the Dove, and with a gentle flutter they
+disappeared through the window. Indistinctly Marjorie heard the Ark cast
+away from the windowsill. And the voice of Capt. Noah came faintly to her
+ears:
+
+"Careful, now! We must slip in through the nursery window without waking
+the household."
+
+As the "Noah's Ark" slowly drifted in through the nursery window, Captain
+Noah ran forward with a hawser, ready to make fast to the book case near
+the big table.
+
+"Well! Well!" he exclaimed. "It is nice to be home again!"
+
+"It certainly is!" said Mrs. Noah, as she and the three boys came out on
+deck. "It is wonderful that the water has done no damage to Marjorie's
+pretty nursery."
+
+"See how fast it is running away!" exclaimed Ham. "Lucky we sailed home
+tonight!"
+
+Just then Mr. Noah looked at the book case. "Gee Hossephat!" he exclaimed.
+"See that book--'The Cruise of the Noah's Ark'--why there is my picture on
+the cover!"
+
+"Look! Look!" shouted Japheth. "There are more books in the series of
+'Little Journeys to Happyland!'"
+
+"So there are," laughed Mrs. Noah. "I would like to read 'The Iceberg
+Express.' That sounds interesting."
+
+"I think 'A Little Journey to Happyland in the Magic Soap Bubble' would be
+some trip!" exclaimed Shem.
+
+"Time for bed," suddenly exclaimed Captain Noah. "I am going to turn out
+all the lights on the 'Noah's Ark.' No time tonight for you to read these
+other books in this series," and with these words he turned out the red
+light on the port side of the Ark and the green light on the starboard
+side and with a sigh of relief added, "Thank goodness! All the animals are
+well and Marjorie upstairs asleep in her little bed and the old 'Noah's
+Ark' back safe in the nursery."
+
+As Captain Noah ceased speaking, the Weathercock fluttered off the Ark and
+over to the nursery window. Pausing a moment on the sill, he turned for
+one last look, and then flew straight away for Uncle Spencer's barn.
+
+"Home again!" he chuckled.
+
+    "Who'd have thought I'd ever be
+    A pilot on the deep blue sea."
+
+                                 THE END
+
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