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Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner

In which the Ancient Mariner, continuing his Story, borrows an Illustration from the "Ancient Mariner" of Song, and then proceeds to tell how they went into the Cold, and were cast away there 34

Chapters

32. CHAPTER XIII.

The Ancient Mariner takes the Little People on a Little Voyage; and the Little People become convinced that an Arctic Winter, an Aurora Borealis, and an Ancient Mariner, are ver...

25. CHAPTER VI.

The Old Man meets the Little People under Peculiar Circumstances, and relates to them how the Young Man, being cast away in the Cold, rescued a Shipmate, and also other Matters,...

26. CHAPTER VII.

The Captain and his little friends had barely reached the cottage when the storm came down in earnest. The tall trees bowed their heads beneath the heavy blasts of wind, which s...

37. CHAPTER XVIII.

"At last it was completed, and we dragged it down to the beach and out upon the ice. Finding that it went better than we had dared to expect, we returned to our hut, and, bundli...

24. CHAPTER V.

In which the Ancient Mariner, continuing his Story, borrows an Illustration from the "Ancient Mariner" of Song, and then proceeds to tell how they went into the Cold, and were c...

30. CHAPTER XI.

We have now for some time followed the old man through the recital of the wonderful adventures which befell himself and the Dean on the lonely little island in the Arctic Sea; a...

38. CHAPTER XIX.

"I have not latterly said much about the Dean; but you may be very sure that such a fine fellow could not fail to be greatly delighted with the change that had come about, as it...

36. CHAPTER XVII.

"How long we slept I have not the least idea. It may have been a whole day, or it may have been two days. It was not a twenty years' sleep, (how we wished it was!) like that of...

35. CHAPTER XVI.

"I must now tell you," continued the Captain, "that, while all these adventures were happening, the winter was passing steadily away; and, from what I have before told you about...

33. CHAPTER XIV.

"When we were last time cruising in the _Alice_, I think I told you all about the Arctic winter,--did I not?" said the ancient mariner to his little friends, when they were met...

34. CHAPTER XV.

"Well," replied the Captain, laughing in his free-and-easy way, like a jolly old sailor as he was, taking his long pipe out of his mouth that he might do it all the better, "I t...

29. CHAPTER X.

When the children next went to the "Mariner's Rest," it was unanimously agreed that they should go back again to the Captain's "cabin,"--there were so many things that they had...

31. CHAPTER XII.

"You now see," went on the Captain, when the story was again resumed, "that the Dean and myself had by this time fallen into a regular course of life. 'What cannot be helped,' s...

22. CHAPTER III.

As we may well suppose, the Captain's little friends did not tarry at home next day beyond the appointed time; but true as the hands of the clock to mark the hour and minute on...

23. CHAPTER IV.

The two days which the old man and his young friends had passed together had so completely broken down all restraint between them, that the children almost felt as if they had k...

28. CHAPTER IX.

"True, that's the thing; and I went to sleep and slept soundly, I can tell you. And this you may well enough believe when you bear in mind how much I had passed through since th...

39. CHAPTER XX.

Again the Mariner's Rest receives the little people; again the Ancient Mariner is there to welcome them. But a shade of sadness is upon the old man's face, and the children are...

20. CHAPTER I.

A bright sun shone on the little village of Rockdale; a bright glare was on the little bay close by, as on a silver mirror. Three bright children were descending by a winding pa...

27. CHAPTER VIII.

The next day being Sunday, the Captain's little friends did not go down to see him, and the day after being stormy, they could not. So, when Tuesday came, they were all the more...

21. CHAPTER II.

CAPTAIN HARDY, or Captain John Hardy, or Captain Jack Hardy, or plain Captain Jack, or simple Captain, as his neighbors pleased to name him, was a famous character in the villag...

6. CHAPTER VI.

The Old Man meets the Little People under Peculiar Circumstances, and relates to them how the Young Man, being cast away in the Cold, rescued a Shipmate, and also other Matters,...

5. CHAPTER V.

In which the Ancient Mariner, continuing his Story, borrows an Illustration from the "Ancient Mariner" of Song, and then proceeds to tell how they went into the Cold, and were c...

12. CHAPTER XIII.

The Ancient Mariner takes the Little People on a Little Voyage; and the Little People become convinced that an Arctic Winter, and Aurora Borealis, and an Ancient Mariner, are ve...

10. CHAPTER XI.

In which the Little People are convinced of the Goodness of Providence, as the Reader ought to be,--seeing that to be cast away is not to be forsaken 114

4. CHAPTER IV.

14. CHAPTER XV.

11. CHAPTER XII.

19. CHAPTER XX.

7. CHAPTER VII.

15. CHAPTER XVI.

18. CHAPTER XIX.

9. CHAPTER X.

13. CHAPTER XIV.

16. CHAPTER XVII.

1. CHAPTER I.

17. CHAPTER XVIII.

8. CHAPTER VIII.

3. CHAPTER III.

2. CHAPTER II.