'There are fish enough still in the sea,' he said; 'and the Lord has spared our children.

I will build a new boat, and not think of feather-beds.' "Captain Carroway, he did so, and every body knows what befell him.

The new boat, built with his own hands, was called the Mercy Robin, for his only son and daughter, little Mercy and poor Robin.

The boat is there as bright as ever, scarlet within and white outside; but the name is painted off, because the little dears are in their graves.

Two nicer children were never seen, clever, and sprightly, and good to learn; they never even took a common bird's nest, I have heard, but loved all the little things the Lord has made, as if with a foreknowledge of going early home to Him.