"They sailed on, in the moonlight." (See page 297) | Frontispiece |
"Sometimes he had to hold on to the fences" | 11 |
"They saw all sorts of things going up the river" | 23 |
"A great tree that was blown down" | 29 |
"It floated, burning, for a few minutes" | 42 |
"They swam in a funny sort of way" | 48 |
"They had more porpoises on deck than you would have thought that they could possibly use" | 55 |
"The surface of the sea seemed covered with them" | 65 |
"They amused themselves for a long time" | 72 |
"A school of fish suddenly leaped out of the water" | 78 |
"The sailors were having a good time" | 81 |
The Hour Glass | 90 |
"Little Jacob liked to watch Captain Solomon" | 93 |
"'Right there,' he said, 'you can see his back fin'" | 109 |
The Shark | 114 |
"'Yes, little lad,' he said. 'For you—if you want it'" | 129 |
Christmas Island, 1st View, bearing N by E | 132 |
Christmas Island, 2nd View, bearing SW | 133 |
"Little Jacob watched it ... settle into the ocean" | 138 |
The Lead | 149 |
"He walked all around the great yard with the boys on his back" | 167 |
"He was in the hold of the ship" | 177 |
The Albatross | 188 |
"They watched it the day after the next, too" | 192 |
"Captain Solomon ... was watching the moon" | 199 |
"The fire blazed up, higher and higher" | 207 |
"At last he went to sleep" | 213 |
The Lighthouse | 220 |
"It was a beautiful farm" | 225 |
"Took up his bundle and went out the wide gate" | 231 |
"He started up, thinking of the farm at home" | 235 |
The Bags of Money | 251 |
"Ran to get another bucket" | 267 |
"With guns and swords and cutlasses" | 272 |
"That was a signal for the Industry to stop" | 277 |
"It was a bigger flag than the first one" | 280 |
"He took it up and looked, very carefully" | 315 |
"The sloop was on her way" | 319 |
"Many times had she been tied up at that wharf" | 329 |
"At last the arm-chair was all done" | 338 |
The Model of the Industry |
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