Child's New Story Book

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Unknown. Child's New Story Book

The Little Ship

The Little Girl and the Shell

Robert and John

The Frosty Morning

Susan's White Rabbit

The Pet Robin

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"I have made a nice little ship, of cork, and am going to let it sail in this great basin of water. Now let us fancy this water to be the North-Pacific Ocean, and those small pieces of cork on the side of the basin, to be the Friendly Islands, and this little man standing on the deck of the ship, to be the famous navigator, Captain Cook, going to find them."

"Do you know that the Friendly Islands were raised by corals?"

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"I suppose they were."

"Do you know where Captain Cook was born?"

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