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                          =By E. Boyd Smith=


    THE EARLY LIFE OF MR. MAN. Illustrated in color.

    THE STORY OF NOAH'S ARK. Illustrated in color.

    THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. Illustrated in color.

    THE RAILROAD BOOK. Illustrated in color.

    THE SEASHORE BOOK. Illustrated in color.

    THE FARM BOOK. Illustrated in color.


         Books specially illustrated in color by E. Boyd Smith

    IVANHOE. By Sir Walter Scott.

    TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. By Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

    ROBINSON CRUSOE. By Daniel Defoe.


                       HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

                          BOSTON AND NEW YORK




                           THE SEASHORE BOOK

                      BOB AND BETTY'S SUMMER WITH
                             CAPTAIN HAWES

                  STORY AND PICTURES BY E. BOYD SMITH

                       HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

                          BOSTON AND NEW YORK


                            [Illustration]




                   COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY E. BOYD SMITH

         ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE

                THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM

                      _Published September 1912_


                          The Riverside Press

                        CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS

                        PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.




                           THE SEASHORE BOOK

                            [Illustration]




                             THE FIRST ROW


Now I will tell you how Bob and Betty spent the summer at the seashore
with Captain Ben Hawes. Captain Hawes was an old sailor. After forty
years' service on the high seas he had settled down