Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 114
e third may go, And leave behind, to share our board,Perhaps a score or so. The second one then straight returned; As might have been expected,He, with the ten, we quickly learned, Eleven made. Dejected, We saw the first returning; he,With all the rest, turned round, And there, behold! were my… … STEERING BY THE POLE-STAR. (SEE PAGE 63O.)The two stars at the riyht and near the top of the picture are the pointers. The degree of A. B. is not confined to col-lege graduates. Aboard ship it means able-bodied seaman. Every nautical A. B. knows how to boxthe compass and how to steer by it; but…
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