Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 262
piteously on the cold, wet stones,deserted by every one, and left there to quakeout its miserable existence, or be tossed over-board by the first coolie that happened to stepon it. The kindly old tar picked up the forlornlittle waif, and placed him inside the wide open- ing of his sailor-shirt,… … T.msl K S IORTRAIT. general favorite with the men. It was intended,at first, to give him to the captains little son;but I believe his generally unprepossessingappearance caused him to be forbidden thecabin; and, therefore, he joined his protectors 820 TOWSER : A SAILOR S PET, [J mess, and was…
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