Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in (1880)
Markham, Richard. · New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co. · leaf 100
en avoice was heardshouting, Skip-per, ahoy ! Close to theirstern was passinga small fishing-craft ; and stand-ing up in it, onehand graspingthe tiller, was aweather-beatenfellow, with ahearty, open face. Ye seem tohave your familyaboard, skipper, he bawled, with a grin, as Capt. Jackson an-swered… … THE JOVIAL FISHERMAN. 102 MRS. LONG WOOD DECIDES TO LAND. The girls and boys all laughed, and the old man seemedhighly delighted at the way his little joke had been taken. A pleasant vyage to ye all, he said, and he took off hishat to them. By this time the heavy swell from the sea was beginning…
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