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Title: Minor morals for young people. : Illustrated in tales and travels.
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872 Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, engraver Heath, William, 1795-1840, engraver
Subjects: Youth
Publisher: London: : Whittaker and co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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the dangers he had seen and the riskshe had run; he spoke of the different moneysused in different countries, and taught Tom 104 MINOR MORALS. many a foreign word wMcli lie had pickedup when abroad. Tom listened with greatattention, and stored in his mind everythingthat was likely to be useful: and his fathersconversation became more and more interest-ing as it became more and more instruc-tive. Sometimes, indeed, the old man feltthat by these conversations he was preparingTom for his early departure; and even whenTom was most excited by an account of theway in which, when a young sailor, he hadexchanged with a naked negro a string ofbeads for a noisy parrot, the old man suddenlystopped; he thought of dangerous climates,and the shipmates he had buried on theAfrican coast—he stopped suddenly, and toldTom that he would end the story some otherday. A short time after this, while Tom was read-ing to his father from the Bible, as he was usedto do, the old mans face grew pale, and he fell
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J<^^^^C Cr-oJC^^ COMMERCE. 105 back in his chair. Tom fanned his cheeks withthe book he held in his hand; and after a fewminutes his father was able to say faintly andfeebly, < To bed, Tom ! to bed ! Tom helpedhim in, ran to the neighbours for help, butsoon perceived by their countenances thatmatters were in a sad way. And so indeedthey were. The old mariner became speechless;once he stretched his hand to Tom, Tomseized it and kissed it: in a few hours themariner was dead; in a few days his bodywas laid in the churchyard by the side of hiswife, and a small white grave-stone was raisedover it, on which Tom had roughly engravedwith his own hands the initials of his fathersand his mothers name. Tom had many friends; they came andoffered their services, and would have kept himamong them, but Toms thoughts were wan-dering through the wide world. The neigh- f2 106 MINOR MORALS. hours bought the little furniture at its value,for Tom told them he had determined to seekhis fortune afar o

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