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A VOYAGE TO MARSEILLES. B ETWEEN being a cabin boy with no responsibility beyond setting the table straight and keeping the cabin clean, and being a supercargo with a large and valuable cargo to look…
IMPRISONED IN THE CASTLE D’IF. T HERE was a great deal of the boy left in Captain Griffith, as Kit had long suspected; though he attended so thoroughly to his business that it did not often have a ch…
A VISIT TO NOTRE-DAME-DE-LA-GARDE. T HE noise made by the Captain in shaking the door aroused Harry, and he sprang up, looking very much frightened. “It’s not six o’clock yet, is it, sir?” he asked; …
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER FROM ROME. W HEN the car reached the summit, the priest stepped out, and the boys followed. “Here,” he said, stepping up to the parapet and making a sweep around the horizon w…
NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND. T HE little cottage in Huntington took on a new coat of white while Kit was seeing the world and earning money beyond the sea. All the weak spots were mended, the yard was put …
KIT LEAVES THE “NORTH CAPE.” T HOUGH the voyage to and from Marseilles had been a pleasant one, and the business had been transacted in a way that he knew must be satisfactory to his employers, Kit w…
OVERBOARD IN THE PITCH LAKE. T HE difference between a modern mail and passenger steamer and a vessel built solely for carrying freight is so great that Kit could hardly help liking his new surroundi…
A VOYAGE TO BERMUDA. I F Kit had been less at home in the water, there is little doubt that they would both have found their long rest down among the black columns of pitch. But besides being a stron…
KIT FINDS HIS FATHER. I T was a beautiful spring-like day in the latter part of September when Kit stepped ashore on the quay in the city of Wellington, New Zealand. Fresh new leaves were upon the tr…
LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM IN BARBADOES. O LD Silas beamed all over as he and Kit tucked the robes around Mr. Silburn in the Huntington stage, once more on runners. It seemed to the young supercargo that the…
