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Title: The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943
Subjects: Sailing Seashore
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hthouse out on the point. Captain Hawes hadexplained the uses of lighthouses, how they showed the way to ships at night, likesigns on street corners or crossroads, and also warned them to keep away from therocks. One day he rowed them out, and the light-keeper took them up in thetower and proudly showed them the powerful lamp with its complicated re-flectors, and explained it all. Betty admired the bright, shining appearance ofthings, and was surprised to learn that the man himself looked after all this: shehad thought that only a housekeeper could keep up such a polish. Another time Captain Hawes took the children to Barrys sail loft, where thesails for the new ship were being made. He had already told them somethingabout sailmaking, but knew they would understand better by seeing the realthings. The sail loft, like everything connected with ships, proved interesting, -the broad clean floor, the men on their low benches sewingthe seams of the heavy canvas, forcing the needles through
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with the stout leather palms, instead of thimbles. And all their neat tools, theheavers, stickers, fids, grummet stamps,and such odd-named things. On the wall in one corner of the loft was a varied collection of bright clewirons and rings, thimbles and cringles, which aroused the childrenscuriosity. These, it was explained, were to be sewed into the corners of the sailsto hold the ropes for rigging. Here and there compact, heavy rolls of canvas,sails completed, were lying by, ready to be taken away and rigged to the tallmasts and broad yards of the ship; sails which later would look so light and grace-ful when carrying the ship along. The summer days were passing quickly to the children, and Captain Hawesinsisted that they must hurry and learn to swim, and with Patseys help theywere at it daily. After the first cautious wadings and splashing they enjoyed itimmensely, and before the summer was really over they had learned to keeptheir heads above water: not to swim far, that would come

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