other."

"Well, I went back to the ship," continued Jack, "and I made up my mind
to stick to the sea. I was soon afterwards made second mate, and then
first mate; and a year ago, in a foreign voyage, the captain, who was
given to drink, fell overboard, and I brought the ship home, and the
owners were so pleased that they made me captain. I am now bound back
to London, and though I say it's generally best for every man to stick
to the trade he is brought up in; yet as the people here won't let Dick
work in it, I want him and you all to come away with me. You cannot be
worse off, and you may be much better; and at all events, I have enough
wages to keep you all comfortable."

Poor Mrs Kempson thankfully accepted her son's offer. A good and
affectionate son he proved. Dick was well pleased to change, but he
could not make up his mind to part from David Adams.

"I will take him and his mother and the rest of them too," said the
generous sailor. "I have saved money, and cannot spend it better than
in helping the widow and orphan. I dare say we shall find some place in
the old county where our mother and Mrs Adams can settle down among
green fields, and where you may find work for which you are suited."

As soon as supper was over, Mrs Kempson and Jack and Dick set off to
visit Mrs Adams. Dick had put up a basket full of provisions--bread
and butter, and cheese, and herrings, and tea and sugar, and other
things which he well knew from experience would be welcome. "This is
doing to others as I would be done by, or indeed as I have been done
by," he thought. "Yes, God has been very merciful to us--just when we
were well-nigh starved, and now Jack come to life again!"

Mrs Adams was very grateful for the good food Dick had brought. She
did not at first remember Jack, but he soon convinced her who he was.
Great was her joy when the generous young sailor offered to carry her
and David and the rest of her children to the neighbourhood of her old
home.

"But I can never, never repay you, young man," she said.

"Never mind that," answered Jack, unconsciously looking upwards, "Some
one else will."

A happy party sailed down the river Tyne on board the brig, _Good Hope_,
bound for the Thames. The young captain was as good as his word.
Little Nelly was sent to an institution, where she was very happy, and
was taught to do many useful things. Limping Lawry went to another,
where he recovered his strength, and learn