20 THE COUSINS.

CHAPTER 1
THE VOYAGE.

Mr. Loverr and Mary came by sea to New York.
It was January, but the weather was mild for the
season, and very calm, so that, though their voy-
age was long, it was not unpleasant. They spent
twelve days on board the ship. Mary was sea-
sick only for a few hours, during which her Uncle
Lovett nursed her as tenderly as her Maumer, or
even her mother, could have done. He carried
her on deck in his arms, told her stories of her
cousins Lucy, and Charles, and Emma, and read
to her from some little books which her father
had bought for her in Savannah. “When she be-
came sufficiently accustomed to the motion of the
ship to stand alone, and walk on the deck, he had
many a romp with her there. He was on the