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have to live in the forecastle, my boy, and
heave away at the capstan for your wages.’

“This was discouraging enough. Jack
wished he had studied his arithmetic better
at school; but it was too late to help it
now. He went down to the deck, wet
and cold, but there were two hours more of
his watch before he could go below ; and all
that time he had to walk back and forth on
the deck, in the rain, to keep any warmth
in him at all.

“* Well,’ said he to himself, ‘my pros-
pect is rather gloomy. I don’t know what
John meant by his way of going to sea, but
it must be bad indeed, if it is any worse
than mine.’ ”

Here Jonas touched the horse with the
whip, and said, ‘‘ Now we will drive on, and
speak to your father.”

“Why, is that all?” said Rollo.

“Yes, that is all about Jack. I will tell
you how John went to sea, through the
blacksmith’s shop, to morrow.”