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Title: Chronicles of the White Mountains
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Kilbourne, Frederick Wilkinson, 1872-
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Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hot street, a sad pair. Mary suddenly saw herfather on top of a passing omnibus, but he did nothear her call to him, so occupied was he in talking withhis sailor mate. With quickness of mind and action,Jack pushed Mary through a door and ran afterthe omnibus, which he caught and mounted, blurt-ing out, Your little girl is gone! At that the father at once started off with Jackto find Mary, which they did to the fathers andlittle daughters great joy. When Jack told his tale,the grateful Bill Simmonds took the friendless ladhome with him, and he and his wife cared for him.When Bill went to sea again, he got Jack a berthas cabin-boy on his ship. After sailing together foreight years in different ships, Bill and Jack, whohad by this time become an able seaman, shippedin the good ship Nelson for the Indian Ocean. Jack,Mary, and her mother had forebodings that allwould not be well on this voyage, but the menlaughed them off and joined the crew. Nothing untoward happened until the ship was264
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WHITE MOUNTAIN CHARACTERS in the Indian Ocean, when one Sunday afternoona terrible gale struck it. After running for hoursbefore the hurricane, the ship was wrecked upon asmall desert island. Jack, Bill, and eleven otherswere all that were saved out of the crew of forty-two. Water, fortunately, was found, but the onlyfood to be had, after a water-soaked cask of breadwas consumed, consisted of mussels, crabs, limpets,snakes, and the like. Before the rainy season cameon, disease and death had reduced the company tofour. For nineteen months the four lived on whatthey could pick up on the barren shore, and thenBill succumbed, his dying wish being that Jackwould look after his wife and Mary and tell themabout his end. A week or so after Bills death, there came aviolent hurricane and when the storm had clearedoff a sail was seen. The shipwrecked mens signalhad been seen also, and the ship, an American one,rescued them. Jacks two companions died beforethey could reach home, and he alone of a

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