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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


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                   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

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                             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 ashore at Quohaug.

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Bluff and hearty, and with no end of sea yarns and stories of strange
adventures, and of foreign ports and peoples, he was more interesting
to the children than the most fascinating fairy book.

His home was a little museum of odds and ends brought from different
far-away lands, with everything arranged in shipshape order. The big
green parrot, who could call "Ship ahoy!" "All aboard!" delighted the
boy and girl. And the seashells, which gave the murmuring echo of the
ocean when you put them to your ear. And the curiosities of strange
sorts and shapes, from outlandish countries.

As their first day was fine and the bay smooth, Captain Hawes took
the children out for a row in his "sharpey." How delightful it was,
skimming so easily over the shining water. The shore, the docks, and
the vessels at the wharves were all so interesting from this view.

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He told them all about the different craft they passed, the fishermen,
the coal barges, the tramp steamers, how they sailed and where they
went to, and now, finding them such good listeners, for the Captain
liked to tell about ships and the sea, he launched forth into a general
history of things connected with sea life, from the first men, long,
long ago, who began poling about on rafts, to the coracle, and the
dugout. The dugouts were canoes hollowed out of tree trunks.

"Down in the South Seas the savages still make them; I've seen them
many a time," he explained; "and of course you've heard of our Indians'
birchbark canoes."

By and by the use of sails had developed, and boats and ships grew
bigger, and now the day of the steamboat had come.

"Now, I want you to know all about boats and ships," he added; "I'll
take you to the yards to-morrow, if it's fine, and show you how they
make them, so that when you go back home, where they don't know much
about such things, you can just tell them."

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                             THE SHIPYARD


The next day Captain Ben, true to his promise, took the children around
to Stewart's Boat Shop where a fishing-boat was being built, and showed
them just how the frame was made, the keel, the ribs, the stem, and
sternpost, and how the planking was laid on. How everything was made as
stiff and strong as possible so that the boat could stand the strain of
being