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Jack Mason’s Stories.

n a little book, entitled “Jack Mason,

the Sailor,” written by our corre-

spondent, Theodore Thinker, there

are several stories, which I think
would be interesting to some of the
youngest readers of the Caniner. There
is one about “Little George, the Sailor
Boy,” which I guess I must read to you.
Jack Mason, you must know, is an old sail-
or, who has made a great many voyages
in different parts of the world, and who,
like many other sailors, loves to gather a
group of children around him, and tell
them what he has seen and heard. He
is a good man. Everybody loves him,
_and he loves everybody. Nothing delights
him more than to talk to the little folks,
and to take a part in their sports for
hours together. He tells them how to
make their little ships, and how to rig
them with sails, and what the names of
the sails are, and all about a ship. Once
in a while, too, he tells them about God
and heaven, and tries to instruct them

how to steer their vessel, so as not to
strike the rocks of sin, and so as to reach
the shores of heaven. Such is Jack Ma-
son, the Sailor. ‘Will you listen to his
story about Little George ?

I must tell you a story about a little
boy that we once had in our ship. He
was a very good boy. The captain liked
him very much. He was not the cap-
tain’s child. But the captain used to say
that he loved little George as much as if
he was his child. The reason the captain
loved him, and the reason everybody lov-
ed him, was because he was so kind and
good-natured, and because he always did
just as he was told to do.

I must tell you how George first came
to live with us in the ship. We were once
a great many hundred miles off, and the
wind blew very hard. It blew so hard
that we could not sail where we wanted
to go, and by-and-by the ship went on a
bank of sand. There we had to stay a
good while. We could not get away.