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[Illustration: "THEY SAILED ON, IN THE MOONLIGHT"

(See page 297)]


  The Sandman:

  His Sea
  Stories

  By
  William J. Hopkins

  Author of "The Sandman: His Farm Stories,"
  "The Sandman: More Farm Stories," "The
  Sandman: His Ship Stories," etc.

  With Forty Illustrations by
  Diantha W. Horne

  This special edition is published by arrangement
  with the publisher of the regular edition,
  The Page Company.

  CADMUS BOOKS
  E. M. HALE
  AND COMPANY

  CHICAGO

  _Copyright, 1908_

  BY THE PAGE COMPANY

  _All rights reserved_

  Made in U.S.A.




CONTENTS


                                                           PAGE

  THE SEPTEMBER-GALE STORY                                    1

  THE FIRE STORY                                             31

  THE PORPOISE STORY                                         44

  THE SEAWEED STORY                                          57

  THE FLYING-FISH STORY                                      74

  THE LOG-BOOK STORY                                         85

  THE SHARK STORY                                           102

  THE CHRISTMAS STORY                                       120

  THE SOUNDING STORY                                        139

  THE TEAK-WOOD STORY                                       153

  THE STOWAWAY STORY                                        171

  THE ALBATROSS STORY                                       185

  THE DERELICT STORY                                        194

  THE LIGHTHOUSE STORY                                      210

  THE RUNAWAY STORY                                         222

  THE TRAFALGAR STORY                                       243

  THE CARGO STORY                                           253

  THE PRIVATEER STORY                                       270

  THE RACE STORY                                            291

  THE PILOT STORY                                           310

  THE DRIFTWOOD STORY                                       325




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  "They sailed on, in the moonlight." (See page 297)       _Frontispiece_

  "Sometimes he had to hold on to the fences"                         11

  "They saw all sorts of things going up the river"                   23

  "A great tree that was blown down"                                  29

  "It floated, burning, for a few minutes"                            42

  "They swam in a funny sort of way"                                  48

  "They had more porpoises on deck than you would
  have thought that they could possibly use"                          55

  "The surface of the sea seemed covered with them"                   65

  "They amused themselves for a long time"                            72

  "A school of fish suddenly leaped out of the water"                 78

  "The sailors were having a good time"                               81

  The Hour Glass                                                      90

  "Little Jacob liked to watch Captain Solomon"                       93

  "'Right there,' he said, 'you can see his back fin'"               109

  The Shark                                                          114

  "'Yes, little lad,' he said. 'For you--if you want it'"            129

  Christmas Island, 1st View, bearing N by E                         132

  Christmas Island, 2nd View, bearing SW                             133

  "Little Jacob watched it... settle into the ocean"                138

  The Lead                                                           149

  "He walked all around the great yard with the boys on
  his back"                                                          167

  "He was in the hold of the ship"                                   177

  The Albatross                                                      188

  "They watched it the day after the next, too"                      192

  "Captain Solomon... was watching the moon"                        199

  "The fire blazed up, higher and higher"                            207

  "At last he went to sleep"                                         213

  The Lighthouse                                                     220

  "It was a beautiful farm"                                          225

  "Took up his bundle and went out the wide gate"                    231

  "He started up, thinking of the farm at home"                      235

  The Bags of Money                                                  251

  "Ran to get another bucket"                                        267

  "With guns and swords and cutlasses"                               272

  "That was a signal for the _Industry_ to stop"                277

  "It was a bigger flag than the first one"                          280

  "He took it up and looked, very carefully"                         315

  "The sloop was on her way"                                         319

  "Many times had she been tied up at that wharf"                    329

  "At last the arm-chair was all done"                               338

  The Model of the _Industry_                                   342




_The Sandman: His Sea Stories_

MORE STORIES OF THE BRIG "INDUSTRY"




THE SEPTEMBER-GALE STORY


Once upon a time there was a wide river that ran into the ocean, and
beside it was a little city. And in that city was a wharf where great
ships came from far countries. And a narrow road led down a very steep
hill to that wharf, and anybody that wanted to go to the wharf had to go
down the steep hill on the narrow road, for there wasn't any other way.
And because ships had come there for a great many years, and all the
sailors and all the captains and all the men who had business with the
ships had to go on that narrow road, the flagstones that made the
sidewalks were much worn. That was a great many years ago.

The river and the ocean are there yet, as they always have been and
always will be; and the city is there, but it is a different kind of a
city from what it used to be. And the wharf is slowly falling down, for
it is not used now; and the narrow road down the steep hill is all grown
up with weeds and grass.

Once, more than a hundred years ago, when ships still came to that
wharf, the brig _Industry_ came sailing into that river. For she was
one of the ships that used to come to that wharf, and she used to sail
from it to India and China, and she always brought back silks and cloth
of goats' hair and camels' hair shawls and sets of china and pretty
lacquered tables and trays, and things carved out of ebony and ivory and
teakwood, and logs of teakwood and tea and spices. And she had just got
back from those far countries and Captain Solomon and all the sailors
were very glad to get back. For it was more than a year since she had
sailed out of the little river, and they hadn't seen their families for
all that long time. And a year is a pretty long time for a man to be
sailing on the great ocean and not to see his wife and his dear little
boys and girls.

So they hurried and tied the _Industry_ to the wharf with great ropes
and they went away just as soon as they could. And the men that had
wives and little boys and girls went to see them, and the others went
somewhere. Perhaps they went to the Sailors' Home and perhaps they
didn't. But Captain Solomon went to the office of Captain Jonathan and
Captain Jacob, who were the owners of the _Industry_. Their office was
just at the head of the wharf, so he didn't have far to go. And Captain
Jonathan and Captain Jacob were there waiting for him, and they shook
hands with him and sent him packing off home, to see his wife and baby.
For Captain Solomon hadn't been married much more than a year and he had
sailed away on that long voyage after he had been married four months
and he had left his wife behind. And the baby had been born while he
was gone, so that he hadn't seen him yet. That baby was the one that was
called little Sol, that is told about in some of the Ship Stories.
Captain Solomon wanted to see his wife and his baby, so he hurried off
when