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THE SEASHORE BOOK. Illustrated in color.
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THE SEASHORE BOOK
BOB AND BETTY'S SUMMER WITH
CAPTAIN HAWES
STORY AND PICTURES BY E. BOYD SMITH
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY E. BOYD SMITH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM
Published September 1912
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
THE SEASHORE BOOK
THE FIRST ROW
Now I will tell you how Bob and Betty spent the summer at the seashore withCaptain Ben Hawes. Captain Hawes was an old sailor. After forty years' serviceon the high seas he had settled down ashore at Quohaug.
Bluff and hearty, and with no end of sea yarns and stories of strange adventures,and of foreign ports and peoples, he was more interesting to the childrenthan the most fascinating fairy book.
His home was a little museum of odds and ends brought from different far-awaylands, with everything arranged in shipshape order. The big green parrot,who could call "Ship ahoy!" "All aboard!" delighted the boy and girl. And theseashells, which gave the murmuring echo of the ocean when you put them to yourear. And the curi