Show I j BOY HAS ONE GRAND VOYAGE VOYAGE i Little Trip to End of Boats Boat's s Chain Chain Made Deeper Impression Than Than Trip Round Roun the World There Thereas was as a boy boy whose father ke kept t ta a small newspaper newspaper and tobacco shop sh shand and sent him out with the papers papera every morning One morning the bo boj boy stopped when he came to the Old Canal dock where he had to deliver a paper at the theoffice office office The dock was was full of barges of rusty scrap Iron front moored close to an old style old style barkentine barken barken- tine What wouldn't I 1 give to get Into the boat he thought and go on a great voyage to the nearest nearest nearest near near- est barge The wish was too strong to be put off He ran ra ran quickly down ri dorithe the steps got Into the boat pushed Jt tt out to the length of its rope three three or or r four yards and then let Jet it drift lowly slowly back Each time he did this he rewa a deep breath and said That's Ine lne ne I in might be in aso harb harbor r atthe at athe athe he the ot other er end of the wo world ld f Presently the dockman came along tRi HI there said he you clear out put of that that h t The boy had to 10 clear deal out then I and ind make off but the breath of advent Lure ture ure and the taste of the sea were were On on I him aim and one winter night he managed to o run away way and hide himself in inQ a Q cargo-boat cargo and shipped ed for the Black i sea sear After that he sailed right out round i the he world orld and saw all aU its wonders wonders- i black black men red men yellow men the the earthquake at St St. Pierre the Chinese i fighting at Peking the sharks sharks' in Delagoa Dela Dela- Delagoa goa bay and once once his ship ran into a French whaler miles S S E. E from from Newfoundland and the m men n had to take to the boats and twice he was wrecked Well at the end of it all he shipped on a steamer that was docked as luck would have it it at at the Old Canal dock N Next ext day he stood on the wharf steps and Joked at the boat By gum gum he said I have sailed round the world and s seen seen en sights but never had such a gra grand d voyage as that I 1 took to the end of the boat chain chahi and back jack when I was a paper boy Lon Lon London don don Fables s by Ernest Rhys in tie the Sphere |