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Jack Mason, the Old Sailor - Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth
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Title: Jack Mason, The Old Sailor
Author: Theodore Thinker
Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11105]
Language: English
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JACK MASON,
THE OLD SAILOR.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
FOR CHILDREN.
BY THEODORE THINKER.
1850
CONTENTS
THE OLD SAILOR
JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA
THE INDIANS
THE WHITE BEARS
CATCHING WHALES
MORE INDIANS
THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY
THE WRECK
THE PYRAMIDS
THE WHIRLPOOL
ILLUSTRATIONS
Jack Mason the Sailor
Jack telling his stories
an anchor
The Indians
a house
a lake scene
climbing a ladder
The Indian with his bow and arrow
a ship
The Fishermen
a fish
Rocks in the sea
The Pyramids and the Sphynx
a cup
THE OLD SAILOR.
Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him, and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell! Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen, until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as anybody.
Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on, and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy lifts his head up, as much as to say, Dear me! who ever heard of such a thing!
Jack is