The Nursery, September 1881, Vol. XXX / A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

VOLUME XXX.—No. 3. BOSTON: THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, No. 36 Bromfield Street. 1881.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.


OME on deck, all hands, old and young, great and small, sick and well! Here is a sight that will do you good.
So said the bluff old captain to his passengers. Up they came, one after another, at the summons. The lady who was so worn down with sea-sickness sat with her head resting languidly on her husband's shoulder. The rest stood in groups, looking out upon the water.
The voyage had been a long one, and, though they were not all sea-sick, all were heartily sick of the sea,—all except two little children, a girl and a boy, whose faces were always bright and merry.
What is there to be seen, captain? said the children's mother, after trying in vain to make out any thing except sea and sky.
Don't you know? said the old man. Let me point it out then to this little sailor.
So, taking little Willie in his arms while the vessel leaned before the breeze, he pointed with his forefinger, and said, Do you see that dark-blue cloud right on the edge of the water, just where it meets the sky?