Ah, what a sad accident it was! especially considering that it sent to the bottom of the sea her entire crew of nearly four hundred men and officers." "Oh, it was dreadful, dreadful!" said Grace in tearful tones.

"Especially because they had no time to think and prepare for death." "Yes, that is the saddest part of all," sighed Grandma Elsie.
Our friends presently moved on, and all, from Grandpa Dinsmore down to little Ned, found many objects that interested them greatly.

But the most attractive thing of all to the young folks--because of the story connected with it--was Grace Darling's boat.

It was the captain who pointed it out to his children.
"Who was she, papa?
and what did they put her boat here for ?" asked little Elsie.
"She was the daughter of William Darling, the lighthouse keeper on Longstone, one of the Fame Islands." "Where are they, papa ?" "In the North Sea, on the coast of Northumberland, the most northern county of England.

They form, a group of seventeen islets and rocks, some of them so small and low-lying as to be covered with water and not visible except when the tide is low; and the passage between them is very dangerous in rough weather.
"Two of the islands have each a lighthouse, and it was in one of those that Grace Darling and her father lived.
"In 1838 a vessel called the _Forfarshire_ was wrecked among those islands.