Matilda Anne MacKarness
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 24
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...severe illness which kept him on shore between life and death; so the vessel sailed without him, and he is home here safe in my arms. Oh I George, think of that other mother." "Yes; to praise and bless Him who has saved you from like suffering. 'Our darling, who did not die, is clasped in our arms again.'" BRADBURY, AONEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. BAGGED KOBIN.--i--"oh! don't throw stones at the poor little ducks, boy, --that is cruel, and you'll have the farmer after you too, in a moment." The small personage addressed raised a large saucy pair of brown eyes to the speaker's face, and said laughing, --"I bean't a-shying at the ducks. I only hauls the stones in the water to fright 'em." "Well, but why should you frighten them, poor things? And you might accidentally hit one, you know, and break its leg." "Ah! sir, I am glad you're talking to that child," said a little old woman coming up at the moment; "he's the most daring--most--most, well really, sir, I haven't a word to express what he is--what a dreadful character." The gentleman smiled, and looked down at the very small specimen of humanity, who was condemned so severely, and who certainly, in spite of his remonstrance, was still shying stones in the water. "Who is he?--who's child are you? where do you live?" he said, putting his hand on the boy's arm. "I'm nobody's child, and I live nowheres," said the boy, with a mischievous grin. "Well, sir, I believe it's right what he says," said the old lady; "he's a poor little miserable vagrant, who ought to be in the workhouse--he'll be in prison some day, if he don't mind. He sleeps in the Ship stables, sir, and goes errands...