th
another look at the helmsman, and lowering his voice--"to leave port
this way--with you----"
He laughed aloud.
She laughed, too. "And just think," she said; "no more little worries or
pettinesses, no more whispers, or faultfinding, or----"
"Or Fair Harbors. You're right, my girl. We're off, clean away from it
all, bound out."
From the galley Judah's voice came, beginning the second verse of his
song,
"'Aloft! Aloft!' our jolly bos'n cries.
Blow high! blow low! and so sailed we.
'Look ahead, look astern, look a-weather and a-lee,
Look along down the coast of the High Bar-ba-ree.'
"'There's none upon the starn, there's none upon the lee.'
Blow high! blow low! and so sailed we.
'There's a lofty ship to wind'ard a-sailin' fast and free,
Sailin' down along the coast of the High Bar-ba-ree.'"
THE END
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NOVELS FOR CHEERFUL ENTERTAINMENT
GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT
By Joseph C. Lincoln
Author of "Shavings," "The Portygee," etc.
The whole family will laugh over this deliriously humorous novel, that
pictures the sunny side of small-town life, and contains love-making, a
dash of mystery, an epidemic of spook-chasing--and laughable, lovable
Galusha.
THESE YOUNG REBELS
By Frances R. Sterrett
Author of "Nancy Goes to Town," "Up the Road with Sally," etc.
A sprightly novel that hits off to perfection the present antagonism
between the rebellious younger generation and their disapproving elders.
PLAY THE GAME
By Ruth Comfort Mitchell
A happy story about American young people. The appealing qualities of a
brave young girl stand out in the strife between two young fellows, the
one by fair the other by foul means, to win her.
IN BLESSED CYRUS
By Laura E. Richards
Author of "A Daughter of Jehu," etc.
The quaint, quiet village of Cyrus, with its whimsical villagers, is
abruptly turned topsy-turvy by the arrival in its midst of an actress,
distractingly feminine, Lila Laughter; and, at the same time, an
epidemic of small-pox.
HELEN OF THE OLD HOUSE
By Harold Bell Wright
Wright's greatest novel, that presents the life of industry to-day, the
laughter, the tears, the strivings of those who live about the smoky
chimneys of an American industrial town.
New York
D. APPLETON & COMPANY
London
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