Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 899
of looking out to see thewonderful big ships, which his father pointedout. They were not like the fishing vessels, buthigh, and stately, and white, against the sky. And he wondered where they were bound, and the flapping sails were great brown wings bearinghim back to land and taking away from him… … THE FATHER STOOD UP AND LIFTED THE BOY HIGH IN THE AIR. why. He watched the men pull in their nets, andwas never a bit afraid of the squirming, glittering-fish that struggled vainly in the meshes. For thiswas life to the boy; the catching of fish, thebringing them homeward—this was the story ofthe…
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