Under the Polar Star; or, The Young Explorers

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Vol. I.—No. 3. NEW YORK. Nov. 1, 1886.
By DWIGHT WELDON.
NEW YORK: ALBERT SIBLEY & CO., 18 Rose Street.
1886.
Chip! chip!
All day long that same monotonous sound, chip, chip—chip, chip, had echoed through Solomon Bertram’s work room.
He called himself a ship carpenter, and he was one, for no member of that craft ever did finer work than that he was now engaged on. Before him, upon the bench, fast assuming artistic proportions, was what had been a rough block of wood, what was now very nearly a carved animal’s head.
The old man’s eyes filled with tears and his thin hand trembled more than once as he viewed the few tools at his command, and ever and anon glanced past the half open door which led into the living rooms of the humble cottage he called home.