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    Jack Mason, the Old Sailor
    Jack Mason, the Old Sailor
    Jack Mason, the Old Sailor
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    Jack Mason, the Old Sailor

    By Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Jack Mason, the Old Sailor - Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

      Project Gutenberg's Jack Mason, The Old Sailor, by Theodore Thinker

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Jack Mason, The Old Sailor

      Author: Theodore Thinker

      Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11105]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JACK MASON, THE OLD SAILOR ***

      Produced by The Internet Archive Children's Library, Andrea

      Ball and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      JACK MASON,

      THE OLD SAILOR.

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

      FOR CHILDREN.

      BY THEODORE THINKER.

      1850

      CONTENTS

      THE OLD SAILOR

      JACK MASON'S VISIT TO THE NORTH SEA

      THE INDIANS

      THE WHITE BEARS

      CATCHING WHALES

      MORE INDIANS

      THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY

      THE WRECK

      THE PYRAMIDS

      THE WHIRLPOOL

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Jack Mason the Sailor

      Jack telling his stories

      an anchor

      The Indians

      a house

      a lake scene

      climbing a ladder

      The Indian with his bow and arrow

      a ship

      The Fishermen

      a fish

      Rocks in the sea

      The Pyramids and the Sphynx

      a cup

      THE OLD SAILOR.

      Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him, and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell! Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen, until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as anybody.

      Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on, and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy lifts his head up, as much as to say, Dear me! who ever heard of such a thing!

      Jack is

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