Henry Austin
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Young Dick Haldane sets out on his first sea voyage aboard the S.S. Star of the North, from the deck Dick sees a ghost ship. A large full rigged ship with white canvas sails all crimson from a last expiring gleam of the sun's afterglow. The ship's sails tattered and torn, with the ragged ends blowing out loose from the boltropes in the most untidy fashion, unkempt, uncared for! But when he tries to call this ghostly ship to the attention of the rest...
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(Excerpt): "This family was not only Thorogood but thorough-going. The father was a blacksmith, with five sons and one daughter, and he used to hammer truth into his children's heads with as much vigour as he was wont to hammer the tough iron on his anvil; but he did it kindly. He was not a growly-wowly, cross-grained man, like some fathers we know of-not he. His broad, hairy face was like a sun, and his eyes darted sunbeams wherever they turned....