Masterman Ready, Or, The Wreck of the Pacific: Written for Young PeopleD. Appleton & Company, 1846 - 144 pages |
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animals arrived beach better boat breakfast canoe canvass Captain Osborn Caroline cask CHAPTER cocoa-nut grove cocoa-nut trees cove dear dear boy dinner dogs fast father feel fire fish gale goats grave hard hope hour island JOHN ANGELL JAMES land leave liam little Albert look madam mamma Mary Howitt Master Tommy Master William Masterman Masterman Ready morning mother musket never night numbers observed Ready old Ready papa perceived pigs plenty poor rainy season Ready and William READY'S HISTORY reef remain replied Ready replied Tommy replied William returned rocks Romer Romulus and Remus round sail savages schooner Seagrave and William sharks ship shore side sleep soon stockade Table Bay tell tent thing thought tired to-morrow took turtle vessel walked weather William and Ready wind wish wood yams
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Page 36 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 64 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 124 - In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 162 - Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 7 - Fiction, when written for young people, should, at all events, be based upon truth ; and I could not continue a narrative under the objections which I have stated. Whether I have succeeded or not in the construction of my own, is another question. I shall, however, take the opinions of the children, rather than of the critics, on this point. My idea is, to show the practical man in Ready, and the theoretical in the father of the family ; and, as the work advances, to enter more deeply into questions...
Page 10 - Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings flash. One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky...
Page 115 - William squeezed Ready's hand ; his heart was too full to speak. " They will come at daylight, William — I think so at least ; you have not much time to spare ; climb to the lookout, and wait there till day dawns ; watch them as long as you can in safety, and then come down to tell me what you have seen.