Sunk at Sea

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Robert Michael Ballantyne. Sunk at Sea

Chapter One. Treats of Our Hero’s Early Life, and Touches on Domestic Matters

Chapter Two. Records a Sudden Departure, and Maryann’s Opinion Thereon

Chapter Three. Tells of the Sea, and some of the Mysteries Connected Therewith

Chapter Four. A Storm and its Consequences

Chapter Five. Adrift on the Wide Ocean

Chapter Six. Describes a Boat Voyage, and Touches on Coral Islands

Chapter Seven. Hopes, Fears, and Prospects on the Coral Island

Chapter Eight. In which our Hero Suggests a Plan which gets the Party out of one Difficulty but Plunges them into Another

Chapter Nine. Contains an Account of the Desperate Circumstances of the Prisoners

Chapter Ten. Our Hero and his Comrades in Distress Become Savage Warriors for the Nonce

Chapter Eleven. A Fight, which Results in a Mistake and a Hasty Flight

Chapter Twelve. Shows how South Sea Missionaries do their Work, and that if the Whites can Surprise the Natives the Latter can Sometimes Astonish the Whites!

Chapter Thirteen. Remarkable Changes For The Better

Chapter Fourteen. Contains more than one Surprise, and Touches on “Love’s Young Dream.”

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There is a fallacy into which men and women of mature years are apt to fall—namely, that the cares and sorrows of the young are light.

How many fathers and mothers there are who reason thus— “Oh, the child will grow out of this folly. ’Tis a mere whim—a youthful fancy, not worthy of respect,”—forgetting or shutting their eyes to the fact, that, light though the whim or fancy may be in their eyes, it has positive weight to those who cherish it, and the thwarting of it is as destructive of peace and joy to the young as the heavier disappointments of life are to themselves.

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“You’re waitin’ for Captain Dall, ain’t you?”

“Why, how did you come to know that?” said Will.

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