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Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LIGHT HO, SIR!" ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="40%" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<h1>“LIGHT HO, SIR!”</h1> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_title.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<p><span class="xlarge">“LIGHT HO, SIR!”</span></p> - -<p>BY<br /> -<span class="large">FRANK T. BULLEN</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Author of “Cruise of the Cachalot”</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_titlelogo.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<p>NEW YORK<br /> -THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.<br /> -PUBLISHERS</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center"> -Copyright, 1901,<br /> -By <span class="smcap">Thomas Y. Crowell</span> & <span class="smcap">Company</span>.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">CONTENTS</h2> -</div> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" summary="table"> - -<tr><td> </td><td class="tdr"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> - -<tr><td><span class="smcap">Light Ho, Sir!</span></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7"> 7</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td><span class="smcap">My Night Watch is Over</span></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21"> 21</a></td></tr> -</table> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span> - -<h2 class="nobreak">“LIGHT HO, SIR!”</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Those</span> people who are always striving to -trace back to a man’s early training or surroundings -the real reason for any startling change in -his life after he has long grown up, and do not -believe in what the Bible calls the New Birth, -must often be sorely puzzled. They seek for -that which they wish to find, and often ignore -any evidence which militates against their preconceived -theories. Yet the majority of them -would be horrified were they told that this -method of research is dishonest and misleading.</p> - -<p>But in spite of what people may feel about -the matter, it is of no use blinking the fact that -very much of the so-called scientific investigation -(which is not commercial) that is pursued -to-day is tainted with this radical defect. -Especially is this so in matters of inquiry into<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span> -religious experience. There are many exceedingly -clever and well-educated persons who -would have their readers believe that in all -cases where a man or woman has become a -Christian, and from serving the devil has turned -and consistently served God, the change has -been due to early impressions, which, accidentally -encrusted over for a term, have been suddenly -revived in all their pristine force, and -have compelled the mind back into the channels -in which it was originally taught to move.</p> - -<p>Now, if this were all that these reasoners said, -one might remind them, or inform them gently, -that they were only partially right—that while -it is undoubtedly blessedly true that early influences -for good do exert themselves most -forcefully and unexpectedly in after years in a -large number of cases, yet it is most untrue and -God-dishonoring to suggest that Christianity is -purely a matter of education, of environment, -of a long acquaintance with religious persons -and matters. So far from this being the case, -it is a truism with Christian workers that very -frequently their most hopeful converts have<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span> -been those who never heard the Gospel before, -or at least had never listened to it with the -slightest attention, even though they may have -actually caught the tones of the preacher’s voice. -To such simple ones the Water of the Word of -Grace comes like the monsoon rains upon the -burnt-up breadths of India, causing the apparently -dead soil to put on at once a glorious garment -of living green, life-giving, life-sustaining, -beautifying and blessing all around it.</p> - -<p>One of the most striking instances of this -wonderful work of God in the soul that has ever -come under my notice is that of a sailor who, -strange as it may seem to-day, had never, until -the time of which I speak, received the remotest -idea of the relations of God to man, and had not -the faintest conception of religion of any kind. -Born in the squalid slums of a Lancashire town -nearly sixty years ago, he became at a very early -age a waif of the streets, losing all recollection -of who were his parents, as they had forgotten -all about him. It is hardly possible to conceive -of a mind more perfectly desert than was John -Wilson’s. Reading and writing were of course<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span> -out of the question, and it is probable that any -mental operations that went on in his dark mind -were more nearly related to brute instincts than -to any of the ordinary processes of human reasoning.</p> - -<p>Now it is no part of my present plan, even if -I had the necessary material, to trace Johnny’s -career from the gutters of —— until he found -himself in the position of boy on board a North -Country collier brig, being then, as he supposed, -about thirteen years of age. By some inherited -tenacity of constitution he had survived those -years of starvation, cold, and brutality, and was, -upon going to sea, like a well-seasoned rattan, -without an ounce of superfluous flesh upon him, -and with a capacity for stolid endurance almost -equalling a Seminole Indian.</p> - -<p>Of kindness he knew nothing, and had any -one shown him any disinterested attention, he -would have been as alarmed as are the birds in a -London garden when a lover of them goes out -to scatter crumbs. He would have suspected -designs upon his liberty, or something worse. -Of the treatment he endured on board those<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span> -East Coast colliers I do not dare to speak at -present. The recital would, I know, arouse an -almost frantic feeling of resentment that such -things should have been possible such a handful -of years ago, and readers would forget that, by -the blessing of God, men’s hearts to-day, even in -the lowest strata of our society, have been marvellously -softened towards children. He learned -many things on board those ships, he told me, -but, so far as he knew, not one that was good. -Blasphemy, drunkenness, cruelty, debauchery—all -these he became an adept in as he grew up, -and besides he knew every conceivable trick by -means of which he could shirk duty and shift it -on to the shoulders of others.</p> - -<p>At last he reached the dignity of able seaman, -but I can bear witness that a less useful -able seaman than he never darkened the door -of a shipping office. And why? Because he -had devoted all his low animal cunning to the -avoidance of learning anything, lest he should -be compelled to put it into practice, at the cost -of some trouble to himself; and what he was -compelled to know he purposely practised as<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span> -badly as possible, so that he should seldom be -called upon to do it. Briefly, and in order to -put the finishing touches to this unattractive -picture, he was almost as perfect a specimen of -unmoral animal as any course of training for the -purpose of producing such an undesirable human -being could have resulted in.</p> - -<p>In this manner he passed the years of his life -up to the age of thirty, drifting, like a derelict -log, from ship to ship, and from shore to shore, -all round the world. He was conversant with -the interiors of most of the seaport jails in the -world, for when under the influence of drink -he was a madman, only to be restrained from -doing deeds of violence by force, and utterly -careless of the consequences of any of his actions. -At last, in the course of his wanderings, -he came to Calcutta, and was enticed by a shipmate -up to the Sailors’ Rest in the Radha Bazaar -one Sunday evening, when he had neither money -nor credit wherewith to get drink. His shipmate -was a Christian of very brief experience, -but he had the root of the matter in him, and -knew that the next best thing to preaching the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span> -Gospel one’s self was to bring one’s friends in -contact with some one who could. So it came -about that Harry Carter, finding Johnny wandering -about the bazaars aimlessly and hungrily, -proposed a feed to him, and by that means got -him into the Rest, where, after his hunger was -appeased, Harry succeeded in keeping him until -the evening meeting.</p> - -<p>At that time the meetings were conducted by -two American missionaries to whom it was a -perfect delight to listen, as they told in quaint -language, loved and comprehended by sailors, -the wonderful story of the coming of Jesus to -save poor fallen man. Theirs was not preaching -in a general way—every man in their presence -felt that he was being individually conversed -with, felt that the story of the Cross was a simple -narration of absolute fact, no mere theory of mysterious -import, which only men and women who -were specially selected and educated for the purpose -could ever hope to understand. They told -the wonderful tale in manly fashion, letting the -God-given message just flow through them on -its way from their Father to their brethren.</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span>And Johnny sat with eyes astare and mouth -agape, as the straight, brave, certain words sank -into his awakening mind. Wonder, incredulity, -shame—all struggled within him, all newly born, -for it could hardly be said with truth that he -had ever realized any of these emotions before.</p> - -<p>At last the speaker said: “Oh, my dear boys, -some of you here have never known what it is to -have a friend, yet there has been a Friend by -your side always, only begging you to be a friend -of His. Some of you have never had a home, -yet this Friend has been for nearly two thousand -years preparing a home for you that is beyond -all your hopes, beyond everything that you can -imagine. Some of you have never in your lives -had any real joy; this Friend has in His right -hand for you pleasures for evermore, and in His -presence there is fulness of joy. He can and -will do for you exceeding abundantly above all -that you ask or think. All these wonderful -privileges may be yours for the taking; you -haven’t even to ask for them—only say that -you will accept them.”</p> - -<p>Other sweet words followed, but Johnny<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span> -hardly heard them. In his dark soul there was -such a turmoil as he had never before known. -New needs, new desires were struggling for expression, -and when the preacher dismissed his -congregation with the earnest invitation for any -to remain behind who felt they would like to -know more about this wonderful gift, Johnny -sat still in his place with wide, starting eyes -following every movement of the preacher.</p> - -<p>At last that good man, passing from bench to -bench, came to Johnny, and at once saw that -here was no ordinary seeker after peace. Laying -one arm tenderly across Johnny’s bowed shoulders, -and with the other hand taking one of -the seaman’s gnarled and knotted hands, the -missionary said, “Brother, let Him have you. -He wants you to be happy, He does want your -love. Jesus, gentle Jesus, died for you that you -might be happy with Him for all eternity.”</p> - -<p>With a vehemence that was startling Johnny -turned and said, “Does He know me?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, better than you do,” said the preacher.</p> - -<p>“And He’s got all these things for me? I’ll -work all the rest o’ th’ voy’ge but what I’ll have<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span> -this—I don’t care what it costs me, I’ll have -it. You see if I don’t. I know now it’s what I -been wantin’ all my life.”</p> - -<p>“Gently, my dear brother,” said the preacher, -“you can’t buy it. He bought it with His blood -to give it to you, and you can’t pay anything -for it.”</p> - -<p>“Why, I never had anythink give me in my -life,” said Johnny. “’T ain’t right. Everythink’s -got ter be paid for, and I’m going ter pay for -this. I’m no beggar, if I am a bit of a thief when -I gets the chance.”</p> - -<p>Now, strange as it may seem, the hardest task -that man of God had on that occasion was to -convince this poor white savage that the gift of -God <i>was</i> a gift. Gladly, joyfully, would he have -sold himself into a long slavery to have purchased -what he felt he must have, yet for a long time -he would not, could not, believe that it was “without -money and without price.” At last despairingly -he said: “Oh! won’t He take a shillin’ -for it? I got one in my chest, a lucky shillin’ -with a hole in it I’ve had for years. Let me go -aboard an’ get it.”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span>At last, with great difficulty, he was convinced -that buying salvation was impossible, but impressed -with the fact that he himself was from -henceforth bought with a price, even the precious -blood of the Son of God. And while the weary -evangelist was still toiling to explain, the Lord -took the matter in His own hands. And presently -a joyful shout burst from Johnny’s lips:</p> - -<p>“Light ho, sir! I sees it all. He’s got me, -an’ He’ll never let me go. Oh! why didn’t I -know of this afore?”</p> - -<p>He was a saved man. Let those argue who -will, dispute who can, Johnny Wilson was a -standing proof of the power of God to save -the most ignorant, the most callous of the sons -of men. From that day forward, without any -more teaching, save what he could get from any -one who would read the Gospels to him, he grew -in grace. He was no more trouble aboard. His -work was always done to the best of his ability, -and you could safely trust him to work by himself, -for, as he said: “My Jesus is alonger me -alwus.”</p> - -<p>Oh, but he was a real saint! Nothing could<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span> -move him. He used to be hated by everybody—now -he became the spoiled child of the fo’c’stle, -at least in intent, for really he was unspoilable; -but all hands, no matter what they thought, conspired -to love Johnny. And when on the subsequent -voyage he died of a blow received in -falling from aloft, all hands gathered round his -bunk, to hear from him the story that had transformed -his life. He gushed it out with his latest -breath:</p> - -<p>“Jesus Christ, God’s Son, come down from -heaven to look for me an’ make me happy. I -wasn’t worth a rope-yarn to anybody, but He -come and found me, an’ made me so glad. An’ -now I’m a-goin’ ter see Him. Dear Jesus -Christ, the friend of pore devils like me.”</p> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span> - -<p class="ph2">“MY NIGHT WATCH IS OVER”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span></p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span> -<h2 class="nobreak">“MY NIGHT WATCH IS OVER.”</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center"><span class="ph1">A SAILOR’S CONVERSION.</span></p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Sitting</span> upon the capstan in the centre of the -fo’c’s’le-head of a huge four-masted ship rushing -swiftly along the wide, wild stretch of the -Southern Ocean, bound to England round Cape -Horn, a young able seaman in the prime of life -was engaged in the unusual mental exercise -for seamen of meditating upon God. His name -does not matter; it must be sufficient to say -that he was brought up in a respectable middle-class -home in the north of England, one of a -family of seven,—four boys and three girls. He -had been christened at the parish church, attended -Sunday-school and family prayers with -the utmost regularity, and had been confirmed -at an early age. In spite of occasional outbreaks -of wildness, he had won prizes for exemplary<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span> -conduct at Sunday-school, and had felt, -with the mistaken idea of so many, when he received -them, as if somebody were trying to -bribe him to give up all the fun in life and -become a strait-laced, long-visaged humbug. -But he also felt, thank God! that in his life -there were two solid facts that could never be -explained away, standing up like bastions of -native rock in his life,—the love of his mother -and the kindness of his father.</p> - -<p>All that he heard in church and Sunday-school -was readily relegated by him to the category -of things that ought to be done, even if -you couldn’t see the use of them; but as to -trying to understand them, well, that was the -merest nonsense. Not that he ever put these -thoughts and feelings into words, but they were -none the less real to him.</p> - -<p>Then, suddenly, without any previous preparation -discernible by him, a foreign element -came into his life. Coming home from the -village school one afternoon (he was then thirteen -years old), he met a bronzed, weather-beaten -man who inquired of him the way to a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span> -neighboring town; and as that way for some -little distance happened to be his own, they -walked together. Within ten minutes the boy -had imbibed from the wayfarer an intense desire -to go a-roving. For the weather-beaten -stranger was a sailor returning home after an -absence of many years; and the plain recital of -his adventures, without any attempt to enhance -their interest, fired the country boy’s blood to -such an extent that his breath came in short -gasps, and he gazed at the seamed and sunburnt -face beside him as if he could see in it some -reflection of the wondrous scenes through which -it had passed apparently unheeding. They -parted; but the boy, his brain all in a ferment -with wonder and desire, returned to his home -as one that treads the clouds. And that night -he waylaid his father, saying stammeringly: -“Dad, I want to go to sea.”</p> - -<p>Now the father, although a home-keeping man, -had long faced the probability of losing his nestlings -as soon as they felt their wings growing, -the more since he knew well that opportunities -for their attaining any position worth considering<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span> -in the small town of their birth would almost -certainly be wanting. Moreover, he had a severe -struggle to keep them in comfort on his very -small though constant earnings, and any lightening -of his burden, even though in the process -his heart-strings were strained, was to be welcomed. -But as each child had been born to him -he had commended it unreservedly to the care -of his Heavenly Father, whose love to him had -been the pivot of his own life ever since he was -sixteen years old. And so it came about that, -after a touching scene with his mother, the boy -was helped to his desire, and by the most heroic -efforts on the part of his father he found himself, -six months after giving utterance to his -wish, a member of the apprentice portion of the -crew of a huge four-masted ship, bound from -Liverpool to San Francisco.</p> - -<p>His first month at sea was a revelation to the -country-bred lad. In place of the home hedged -in by love, into which the foulnesses so prevalent -in great cities never penetrated, he found himself -met at every point by profanity and worse. -In place of having all his bodily needs cared for,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span> -all the decencies of life made easy for him, he -was left to his own ignorant devices, and all the -dreadful consequences of being his own master -in his own time descended upon him without -warning. The captain was a careless, callous -man, who only looked upon the apprentices as -an inefficient supplement to a scanty crew. And -while he worked them mercilessly in consequence, -he found it no part of his duty to look -after the welfare of either their bodies or their -souls.</p> - -<p>Under this treatment the boy soon became a -finished young blackguard in thought, and so -soon as the opportunity arrived to put the evil -theories he had so readily absorbed into practice, -he flung himself into all forms of evil within his -reach with a recklessness and zest that were horrible -to contemplate. Finally, he ran away from -his ship in company with an older apprentice, -breaking his indentures, and cutting off definitely -the last hold his home had upon him.</p> - -<p>A wild time of sin, suffering, and sorrow followed. -Yes, sorrow; although, in the same -Spartan fashion practised by so many thousands<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span> -of wanderers like himself, he concealed it under -an assumption of utter indifference, utter godlessness. -At last, when in the throes of a prolonged -debauch he was staggering along one of -the lowest streets in Callao, he was seized by a -gang of predatory ruffians, beaten out of what -little sense he had left, and conveyed on board an -American ship bound thence to England. This -is the process called by seamen “Shanghai-ing.”</p> - -<p>It would be impossible to convey to people -living sheltered lives on shore how terrible -were the physical sufferings of the poor lad -now, bruised from head to heel, shaking from -illness brought on by his excesses, yet compelled -to toil in superhuman fashion under pain of -being savagely beaten again. But he felt no -repentance, he only cursed his “luck,” and -dumbly endured, as seamen do. Then one -night, during the keeping of his lookout, one -of his watchmates whom he had hitherto despised -as a mild, say-nothing-to-nobody sort of -a duffer, came quietly up on to the forecastle -head, and, standing near him, gazed steadfastly -out upon the loneliness of the midnight ocean,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span> -for some time saying not a word. The full -moon had just emerged from a dense black -cloud, driving before her, apparently, the darkness -that had so recently reigned, and paling -the lustrous stars with her glorious radiance, -while every tiny wavelet rippling the peaceful -sea became instantly edged with molten silver. -And the influence of the hour, amid all the -eternal immensity of the environment, made -for breathless awe, silent involuntary worship -of the unseen yet palpably present God.</p> - -<p>Suddenly the new-comer spoke quietly, yet -with a certain force, as if unable to hold his -peace any longer. “Jemmy, lad, don’t ye feel -as if we was a-sailing inter the very presence of -Almighty God—as if He wanted t’ show men -’at won’t think, how glorious He is, an’ how -great is His peace?”</p> - -<p>There was no reply, but as the speaker paused -to look for the effect of his words, he saw -glittering in the moon-ray two big drops stealing -down Jemmy’s sorrow-seamed young face.</p> - -<p>Immediately the Christian, following his -Master’s example, took a quick stride to the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span> -youth, and laying his hand upon the trembling -shoulder, said softly: “Dear boy, let ’em run. -They’re a sign that your heart ain’t got too -hard yet to feel the sweet influence that God -puts out to win His wandering ones back. But -if there’s anything I can do to help you, do let -me, won’t you?”</p> - -<p>He came nearer as he spoke, until his arm -was round Jemmy’s neck. And then he waited -patiently until the broken words came: “I—I—feel -so miserable. I’ve forgotten my mother -and father, my home and my God. But p’raps -I never knew Him.”</p> - -<p>“No, dear boy, I don’t suppose you ever did; -but now is your time to know Him. He’s been -waiting for your proud heart to bend down and -own that it wants Him—can’t do without -Him. Oh, Jemmy, how He loves you! Your -mother and father love you, and are heartbroken -over you, no doubt, but He, your Father -God, loves you from everlasting to everlasting, -and spared not His own Son, that you might be -made welcome to His peace, that you might -know how happy a child of God can be who<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span> -has found out from God Himself how much He -is longed and waited for.”</p> - -<p>The speaker paused for breath, for his energetic -outburst had so carried him away that -he was like a man who had been running a -race, and as he did so Jemmy said shyly, and in -a low voice: “How did you know that I was -wishing with all my heart that in some way, -somehow, I might get my soul put right, that I -was longin’ for a message from God, without -any idea how it was to come?”</p> - -<p>There was a happy ring in the Christian’s -voice as he answered: “Me know? I don’t know -anything, except that God the Father is my -Father, that God the Son is my Saviour, who -died that I might live, and that God the Holy -Ghost, whose work it is to impress these wonderful -matters on men’s hearts, is always at hand -arranging the time, the messenger, and the message. -He found me as He finds you—hopeless, -heart-sick, hungry for peace and love; and as -soon as He made me feel my need of Him He -had some one there to tell me the glad story.”</p> - -<p>Then and there Jemmy slid down to his knees,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span> -and lifting his streaming face to heaven he murmured, -“O God my Father, forgive me my sins, -and make me what I ought to be. Dear Jesus, -put your own precious life into me and drive the -unclean life out. I do believe in you, my -Saviour, because you compel me to by your -love. Teach me your way—I’ll make it mine. -Bless my poor father and mother at home, and -let me get back and comfort them; and bless this -dear brother here who you’ve made use of to -tell me, for Christ’s sake. Amen.”</p> - -<p>Deep and solemn was the response from his -new-found friend kneeling beside him. As they -rose from their knees Jemmy reached for his hand, -and clasping it in both of his own, said brokenly, -“How real and true all comes back to me now, -what I heard when I was a little chap at home -and at Sunday-school! How can I ever thank -God enough for sending you to me? But how -silly I must have been not to see it before! -Oh, thank God, thank God I see it now! God -my Father waiting for me, Christ my Saviour -knocking at my heart, and the Comforter sending -you into this place, on to this fo’c’s’le-head<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span> -at the right minute to give me the right -word.”</p> - -<p>“Eight bells” rang out clearly from the tiny -bell aft, and as Jemmy hastened to strike the -big bell responsively he murmured: “Thank -God my night watch is over—the morning has -come.”</p> - -<p>Thenceforward he and his brother in the Lord -were inseparable, whenever it was possible for -them to enjoy the communion they both needed. -Their heavy tasks on board remained really the -same, but they did not feel them. They worked -cheerfully as unto God, upheld by His wonderful -sustaining power, and everything around -and about them seemed changed for the better.</p> - -<p>So it is when, after long buffeting the gale that -is blowing fair for home, because the captain is -uncertain of his position and dares not run before -it, the pilot comes on board, orders the helm -to be put up, and the good ship fleeing homeward -with a fair wind seems to have suddenly -sprung into fine weather. Jesus, the Heavenly -Pilot, comes on board of a man and takes charge, -bringing light for darkness, joy for misery, and,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span> -embracing all these, the peace of God which -passeth all understanding.</p> - -<p>Night after night found Jemmy as we found -him at the beginning of this story, day after day -saw him sturdily and more deeply digging into -the treasure of the Word, until that blessed day -when with his beloved chum at his side he burst -into the old home, to receive that welcome that -only a loving mother and father can give to a -son restored to them by God’s mercy in answer -to many prayers.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="transnote"> -<p class="ph1">TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:</p> - - - -<p>Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.</p> -</div></div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LIGHT HO, SIR!" ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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