Bessie on Her Travels

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Mathews Joanna Hooe. Bessie on Her Travels

I. PACKING UP

II. AT SEA

III. LUCY

IV. AN OLD ENEMY BUT NEW FRIEND

V. BELLE’S HOME

VI. LETTERS

VII. A “REAL, REAL ADVENTURE.”

VIII. OLD JOE

IX. KATE

X. MAGGIE’S POEM

XI. GOOD SEED

XII “HAPPY DELIGHTS.”

XIII. LITTLE ACTS OF KINDNESS; LITTLE DEEDS OF LOVE

XIV. WATER-LILIES

XV “OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.”

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“Are we at sea now, papa?” said Maggie, holding by her father’s hand as she jumped up and down on the deck of the steamer; “are we really at sea?”

“Hardly at sea yet, little daughter: we are still going down the bay. When we are fairly at sea we shall lose sight of our own great city, where we have left grandmamma and the boys, and all the other dear ones.”

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They were a merry, happy party, those four little girls, Maggie, Bessie, Belle, and Lily; always pleasant and good-natured with one another; never fretting or quarrelling in their play. As for Maggie, her new friend the captain used to call her “Little Make-the-best-of-it;” for her sunny temper found so much good in all things, and so many reasons why all that was, was best.

He escorted the young quartette all over the steamer, taking them down into the machine rooms, where they saw the great furnaces glowing with hot coals, and tended by strong men in scarlet shirts, with their sleeves rolled up to the shoulders; where the iron beam and pistons went up and down, up and down, without a moment’s pause or irregularity; where each little wheel and joint went steadily on doing its appointed work, without which the huge machinery must have stood motionless and useless.

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