Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough

"This has been a hard month for me," thought Morley Scott, the pilot, as he stood shading his eyes from the sun, and gazing anxiously out at sea. He hoped to have caught a glimpse of ships in the distance, for the winds had been very contrary lately. Many ships had been oblige...

Chapters

7. Chapter 7

It is Charlie's birthday: two years have passed away since the great going out to tea at Mrs. Greenwell's, and he is now fourteen years old. It is a very quiet and a very sad bi...

4. Chapter 4

Four years of Charlie's life soon passed swiftly away in his pleasant and happy home. He is now twelve years of age, and has grown a tall, strong, healthy boy. His blue eyes are...

11. Chapter 11

We are quite sure that you have been very glad to read of the progress which Charlie has made since we first met him on the pier a little sunburnt boy only eight years old. You...

5. Chapter 5

Charlie's heart felt a little lighter for the explanation. When the tea-things were cleared away, and a nice little bright fire made up--for it was a chilly evening--Mrs. Heedma...

6. Chapter 6

One evening, about a month after the events of the last chapter, Charlie was sitting near the window reading, when, to his astonishment, he saw a lady open the garden gate and w...

8. Chapter 8

All boys and girls know the pleasure of drawing up to a nice, bright, sparkling fire on a cold winter night. They give little shivers of comfort, and say, "What ever should we d...

2. Chapter 2

It is more than hour since we left Morley Scott hailing the _Refuge_. How is it that the ship has not been moved yet? And here is the little boat turned homeward, and strangers...

10. Chapter 10

After the conversation with Brownlee about the Bible, Charlie took his pocket Bible down the mine regularly; his father wished him to read a little every day at his dinner-time....

3. Chapter 3

The house of the Heedmans was the end cottage of a long row, built for and occupied by the miners employed at the colliery that you might see in the distance. There were several...

1. Chapter 1

"This has been a hard month for me," thought Morley Scott, the pilot, as he stood shading his eyes from the sun, and gazing anxiously out at sea. He hoped to have caught a glimp...

9. Chapter 9

Charlie's morning had passed away pretty well, and he began to think it must be dinner time; at any rate he felt hungry, so he sat down and looked to see what his mother had pac...