The Story of Noah's Ark

TOLD AND PICTURED BY E. BOYD SMITH HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1905, by E. BOYD SMITH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1905

In the early days of the world lived the patriarch Noah, a good and venerable man whose years already numbered six hundred.
Now Noah was warned that a great flood was to come, which would pour down from the clouds and drown the whole earth. He straightway told his neighbors what was to happen, but they refused to believe, and scoffed at him, and said: “Let it rain. ”
Then Noah went his way, and set to work to build him a great ship, to be ready for the day of deluge.
And he laid the keel in the pasture fields, among the daisies; while the idlers came to look on and laugh at such folly—a ship for a rainy day!
But Noah knew that he was right, and kept on.
And the ship rose, but troubles arose too: for frequent and grievous strikes delayed him, and his workmen clamored for more pay and stoned those who would work.