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 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. |