her, probably
made ill with grief at his disappearance; and the worry the good market
man must be in, thinking the boy to whom he had been so kind was lost,
perhaps murdered, in the great and wicked city.

"In the midst of these doleful lamentations, the sailor came up and
pulled Harry by the ear.

"'Come, you sniffling booby! go to work,' he said.

"Harry looked at him in astonishment.

"'My eyes! do you think you can eat and drink for nothing? Come, take
this broom; do you hear?'

"Our dismal friend took the broom, and would liked to have broken it
over the head of the brutal sailor, but he was not strong enough.

"'Will you go to sweeping or not?' cried the sailor, swearing in the
most terrible manner.

"'I don't want to sweep,' said Harry.

"'Don't want to?'

"'No!' Harry, perfectly red with anger, threw down the broom, and
crossed his arms.

"'Oh! that's the way you behave, is it?' said the sailor. 'Come to me,
Susan.'

"With that he caught up a knotted rope's end, and gave Harry half a
dozen blows over his shoulders. You see blows from Susan were given
rather more frequently on board ship than sugar plums. 'Now, my dear
friend,' said the sailor, 'this is only the beginning of your fun. Now,
you know what will happen if you are idle. Susan is my wife, and my name
is Jack Bowsprit; so take care of Susan and Jack, and pick up the broom
and sweep the deck, if you don't want some more of our delicate
attentions.'

"Poor Harry began, to sweep with a trembling lip, his heart swelling
with rage and misery: then he had to wash the decks, and after that to
scrape the carrots and peel the potatoes, and then he was rewarded by
having a piece of salt pork given him for his supper, and eating it with
the sailors.

"Harry was in despair. When supper was over he came up and sat on the
deck to think. Tears came thick and fast as his misconduct and its
miserable consequences rose up in his mind. He knelt down for the first
time since he had left home, and prayed his Heavenly Father to forgive
him, and promised that if he only was permitted to see his dear parents
again, he would indeed be an obedient, thoughtful boy: he would try to
be so from that moment.

"Meanwhile, a fair, keen breeze rose, and continued for many days, and
the ship sailed swiftly on to her destination. In a month more they
beheld Senegal. Entering the river, they soon came to Saint Louis, where
they landed.

"You can imagine how rejoiced H