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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER I
11/22

He will go once more as a sailor, he says, and then try for the position of second mate.

He looked as if he had been a good boy and would make a good man.
"He said that he had been ill so much that he had been kept out of temptation; but that the forecastle of a ship was no place for improvement of mind or morals.

He said the captain with whom he came home asked him if he knew me, because he had heard of me.

I was glad to find that the captain was a man of intelligence and had been kind to the boy." Miss Mitchell was an inveterate reader.

She devoured books on all subjects.


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