15

THE FISHERMAN’S BOY.

‘Once there was a fisherman. He lived
in a little hut which was built against the
rocks in a small bay near the sea-shore.
There was a small, sandy beach right before
his house, a very smooth and pretty beach,
where the fisherman used to draw up. his
little boat when he came in from fishing.”

‘Did he have more than one boat?” said
Lucy.

“Yes,” replied Jonas, ‘he had two, one
pretty large boat with a mast, and one
smaller one. ‘The large one he always an-
chored off in the bay, a little way from
shore, and then came to the beach in his
little boat, which he then drew up out of
the way of the tide.”

“How high did the tide rise?” asked
Rollo.

“QO, so’as almost to cover the beach.
When it was high tide, as it was twice
every day, there was only a narrow strip
of sand between the water and the grass.