Launch the lifeboat!

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
Launch the LIFEBOAT.
LAUNCHING THE LIFEBOAT.
MRS. O. F. WALTON
Author of Peep behind the Scenes, Little Dot, etc.
The Drawings by H. J. RHODES.
LONDON:
The Religious Tract Society.
LAUNCH THE LIFEBOAT!
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS WITH CAPTIONS
WHEN I was a boy I thought August was the happiest month in the year. I liked December too, for Christmas came in it, with the Christmas-tree and all sorts of good things. July was almost as nice, for my birthday was on the sixteenth, and I always had a tableful of presents. But, after all, there was no month like August, for in August we always went to the sea-side.