The Young Ship-Builders of Elm Island

Thoughts of that nature were busy at the heart of John Rhines; he now had leisure to indulge them, as, upon his return from Elm Island, he found that the harvesting was all secu...

BEN thought it was now a favorable time to do something to the house, and made up his mind to speak to Uncle Isaac and Sam when they came on for their gunning excursion, in orde...

BEFORE his father and friends returned home, Ben agreed with Uncle Isaac and Sam to come and commence work on the house whenever he should send for them, and at the same time ma...

“I have not seasoned stuff to finish but one of them now, and hardly that. It’s too rough to go off in your canoe; stay till Saturday afternoon, and part off some bedrooms up st...

Elm Island, although it could furnish masts in abundance for ships of the line, produced none of those straight, slim, spruce poles, that are suitable for boat spars. It was ver...

IT is frequently the case that trials, which are very hard to bear at the time, prove, in the end, to be the source of great and permanent benefit. The sequel will show that the...

DURING the last year Sally had woven cloth for curtains to her best bed, and also for the windows of the rooms, when they should be finished; but for the last two or three weeks...

WHEN Ben returned, he was no less concerned than Sally, and instantly proceeded to administer consolation in a more practical form, by proposing that he should take passage with...

CHARLIE lost but very little time, after his arrival at the island, before he began to set out his trees, and, having completed this work, was ready to graft them. He wisely det...

from straight plank, and crow-foot (notch) them to the keel, and at the stem and stern-post, and scarf them to the deadwood; but Charlie procured crotches, as there were plenty...

WHEN Charlie first sat down to his oars, he was not in so happy and jubilant a frame as when leaving the barn, after having completed the timbering out of his boat; but as he pu...

If he had flattered himself that his difficulties were over when the boat was timbered out, he now found they had but commenced. It was now time to put on the binding streak. He...

NO matter what year we were at Andover. There was then, and I suppose is now, in that staid old town, a certain pond, called Pomp’s Pond, in which grew any quantity of pond lili...

THE hay harvest was now secured. From the additional land cleared on the island, and from the large field of natural grass on Griffin’s Island, Ben had obtained a noble crop, an...

WHEN John Rhines went into the blacksmith’s shop, he found two other boys there, apprentices, who had been at work some time. They all boarded with the master, as was the custom...

Henry Griffin had concluded to stay at home for one trip, and was fishing with Sam Hadlock, in a canoe, about three miles to the southward of Elm Island. Tempted by the fineness...

“It is an age since you have been here. I’m real glad to see you,” said Sally; “I thought you had forgotten us. I’ll have some breakfast on the table in a few moments.”

THE next morning, Charlie, arrayed in his best, went over to see Uncle Isaac, landing first at the wharf, and having a little conference with Fred, looking over his fish flakes,...

CHARLIE rose early one morning, intending, as Ben had gone away and given him the day, to work on his boat; but the beauty of the morning was such, the wind and tide just right...

He began to reproach himself that, carried away by the attractions of Pleasant Cove, and the impulse of the moment, he had gone so far without consulting his adopted parents. “F...

PERHAPS the readers of the previous volumes will recollect that Isaac Murch became so much interested in the account given him, in Havana, by Captain Rhines, of the noble conduc...

BEING somewhat lonely in the absence of Charlie, Ben employed himself in getting timber to build a scow, that he meant to construct with a mast, sails, and a sliding-keel, or, a...