Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling

Author:Rudyard Kipling
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Short stories, Poetry
Published: 2011-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

"Well, I'm glad you've found yourself," said the Steam. "To tell the truth I was a little tired of talking to all those ribs and stringers. Here's Quarantine. After that we'll go to our wharf and clean up a little, and—next month we'll do it all over again."

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I

A TRIP ACROSS A CONTINENT [1]

Harvey N. Cheyne, a spoiled darling, "perhaps fifteen years old," "an American—first, last, and all the time," had "staggered over the wet decks to the nearest rail," after trying to smoke a "Wheeling stogie." "He was fainting from seasickness, and a roll of the ship tilted him over the rail," where a "gray mother-wave tucked him under one arm." He was picked up by the fishing schooner We're Here, and after many marvellous experiences among the sailors arrived in port, a happier and wiser fellow. His telegram to his father brings the following result.

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