Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea

Excerpt: UNCLE THOMAS TELLS ABOUT THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN RICHARD FALCONER. Shipwrecks Uncle Thomas! oh yes we shall be delighted! exclaimed three or four voices as the boys crowded round the fire each striving who should sit nearest their kind old Uncle who delighted to amuse them by telling them the nicest little stories in the world of which in the course of his reading he had gathered together a great store. He had already related to them with much applause[Pg 8] a variety of Stories about Dogs as well as Stories about the Instinct of Animals and now proposed to commence a series of narratives Tales of Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea a proposal which his little audience as we have above stated received with unbounded delight.