Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

At the Black Rocks

I. Was he worth Saving? II. Caught on the Bar III. Did the Schooner come back? IV. What was he here for? V. The Lighthouse VI. Fog VII. The Camp at the Nub VIII. Visitors IX. That open Book X. The Christmas Gift XI. At Shipton again XII. On which side Victory? XIII. What to do...

Chapters

1. Part 1

I. Was he worth Saving? II. Caught on the Bar III. Did the Schooner come back? IV. What was he here for? V. The Lighthouse VI. Fog VII. The Camp at the Nub VIII. Visitors IX. Th...

2. Part 2

As Dave neared Squire Sylvester's office he could see that individual through the window. He was a man about fifty years old, his features expressing much force of character, hi...

3. Part 3

While they were administering a "rouser" to Mr. Toby Tolman, somebody at the stern was dropping into the sea. He had stripped himself for his swim, and now struck out boldly for...

4. Part 4

Bart eagerly watched the face above him, that had suddenly grown serious; for Annie was thinking of the little fellow's home--of its unattractiveness, of the two old people ther...

5. Part 5

"Let me tell you of one strange thing that happened about a year ago. One night I was very sure I heard a cry out on the bar. The waves make so much noise that it is hard to hea...

6. Part 6

"Oh, I am sure you would have come out all right," shouted confidently this diminutive mentor. And yet as he was falling asleep that night, hushed by the sound of the waves musi...

7. Part 7

At the foot of the railing of the parapet he placed the box, and from that elevation, leaning his arms on the railing, inspected as closely as he could the fog-signal. This para...

8. Part 8

"Catch him not take it! The squire would hold on to a halfpenny till it cankered if he could possibly git along without spendin' it. I don't believe in worryin' yourself about s...

9. Part 9

"Better late than never. Always glad to see people. Take that chair before the fire, and make yourself at home. I did not know as I should ever see you again. You are a Shipton...

10. Part 10

There came to him again the words of the psalmist, "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord."

11. Part 11

FOR THE COLOURS. Herbert Hayens. A Boy's Book of the Army. YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. Herbert Hayens. A Boy's Book of the Navy. TRAFALGAR REFOUGHT. Sir W. Laird Clowes and Alan H....