ABSTRACT
It is a pleasant and cheerful thing to stand by the water-side in some busy sea-port, and see the vessels with their cargoes all packed, their sails set, and their brave and active seamen on board, sailing away with a fair wind and a strong brisk tide, to carry their treasures to distant lands, far across the deep blue sea. Children who live in sea-port towns can understand all this; and those who do not, must try to fancy it all: the bright sunshine, the sharp sea-breeze, and the dancing waves, and then the shouts of the sailors and the splash of the restless waters mingling together, as the stately ship sails away on her long, long voyage.
