The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 88
they look to me some-thing like the picture in my history of the shipwhich carried Columbus to the West Indies.They have a double rudder and no keel. Andinstead of being made of cloth the square sailsare of strips of bamboo. The name of the smallboats is sampan, and many of the very poorpeople live… … A GOOD SON ^ I ^HE officers were seated at dinner. The-*- general was showing them his beautifulgold snuff-box. Then he slipped it into hispocket. When he wished to use it again it wasgone. All the officers save one immediatelyturned their pockets inside out. The youngestof them refused, saying…
Children's literature, American
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