Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 382
l879] FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. 359 JOE AND THE SEAL. By C. M. Drake. Joe is a little Californian, and he lives close by the Pacific Ocean. Hisfather often takes him to walk on the beach. See, papa, see! cried Joe one day when the two were out together. What a nice log to sit on! and Joe ran along the… … from the ocean. But just as Joe was sitting down, the brown log beganto move, and Joe ran back to his papa in fear, crying: It is a whale, papa, and it was agoing to eat me up, just as theone in the Bible ate Jonah. No, it is a seal, my boy, replied his father. It wont hurt us.It is a young one.…
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