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Title: A Sailor's Lass

Author: Emma Leslie

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Language: English

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A SAILOR'S LASS

by

EMMA LESLIE,

Author of "The Gipsy Queen,"
"Dearer Than Life,"
"Gytha's Message," Etc.

With Five Illustrations.

Second Edition.

London:
S.W. Partridge & Co.,
9, Paternoster Row.

[Illustration: "HE PICKED UP THE WHITE BUNDLE, AND HURRIED AFTER
PETERS."]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
ONE STORMY NIGHT 7

CHAPTER II.
THE FISHERMAN'S HOME 22

CHAPTER III.
TINY'S HOPE 41

CHAPTER IV.
TINY'S TREASURE 57

CHAPTER V.
ON THE SANDS 74

CHAPTER VI.
BAD TIMES 92

CHAPTER VII.
A TEA MEETING 110

CHAPTER VIII.
BRIGHTER DAYS 127

CHAPTER I.

ONE STORMY NIGHT.

"Mother, we're afloat agin." It was a gruff, sleepy voice that spoke,
and the old fisherman turned over and snored on, as though the fact of
their home being afloat was of no consequence to him. His wife, however,
was by no means so easy in her mind, for it was only during the
equinoctial gales and an unusually high tide that their home was lifted
from its moorings; and now it had been swinging and swaying for hours,
and the rusty chains that held it fast to some posts were creaking and
straining as though the next gust of wind would certainly carry them out
to sea or drive them up the river, where they would inevitably be
swamped in a very short time, for their boat-home was leaky at the