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account of a peculiar difficulty the ship got
into upon a savage coast. Now, unless you
know something about the movements of a
ship, you cannot understand the difficulty at
all.”?

Here Rollo’s mother said she should like
to understand about a ship very much; and
she wished his father would get a littie
model of one, some time, all rigged complete,
and explain all the parts to them.

‘OQ, I wish you would, father,” said Rollo.
“Can you?”

‘‘ Perhaps I can,” said his father. “ Sail-
ors make such models sometimes on long
voyages, and then sell them, when they
get ashore. Perhaps Jonas could rig one for
us.”

Rollo determined to ask him, and then,
after riding on a little farther, he asked his
father to tell them something more about
ships.

“Very well,” said his father, “I will.

“Jonas told you that the side that the
wind blows from is called the windward side,
and the other the leeward.”

“Yes, sir,” said Rollo.

“The windward side is also called the

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