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KIT SILBURN’S START IN LIFE. A BIG black steamship lay beside the wharf in front of Martin’s Stores, in Brooklyn. The cold November night was so dark that from the brick warehouse, a hundred feet aw…
A VOYAGE TO YUCATAN. F OR five days after Kit’s arrival on board the North Cape the steam winches were at work ten hours a day with their deafening clatter, first in hoisting the remainder of the he…
A NORTHER ON THE GULF. W HEN the port officers returned to shore they left behind four of the custom-house men, who were to stay on board the North Cape as long as she lay there; and these men depos…
KIT’S CONNECTICUT HOME. T HE Huntington stage was the same old weather-beaten stage that Kit had left a month before, but its wheels were gone. Fairfield County, all the way from Bridgeport back to H…
A BURGLAR IN THE CABIN. “ O H, this is ahead of being a cabin passenger on one of the big liners!” Kit said to himself, as he hurried through the brick tunnel that led to the wharf of Martin’s Stores…
THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN DOE. W HILE Kit was picking his way through the pineapple fields and watching the processes in the sponge yards of Nassau, something was happening on the other side of the wo…
KIT BECOMES A SUPERCARGO. T O have another run out to Huntington when the North Cape returned from Nassau, was something that Kit had been looking forward to. Not for a week this time, for he could …
NEWS FROM THE WRECKED SCHOONER. S OON after daylight on a raw and chilly March morning the masthead lookout cried “Land-ho!” And the officers and crew of the North Cape knew that their voyage across…
KIT INSPECTS LONDON. T HE unloading of a steamer in England, the young supercargo soon found, is not the rapid process that it is in America, though much cheaper. The workmen receive smaller pay and …
A LETTER FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT. “ I THINK it’s a mean way to treat a fellow, Kit,” Harry Leonard complained when they were alone together. “Oh, you needn’t think I’m going to be calling you Mr. …
