The Story of Noah's Ark

by E. Boyd Smith

LIST OF COLORED PLATES

[ 1. THE WARNING]	[ 14. WAITING FOR THE RAIN]
[ 2. BUILDING THE ARK]	[ 15. THE RAIN]
[ 3. LABOR TROUBLES]	[ 16. THE DELUGE]
[ 4. PAINTING THE ARK]	[ 17. INSIDE THE ARK]
[5-6. ASSEMBLING THE ANIMALS]	[ 18. LIFE AT SEA]
[5-6. ASSEMBLING THE ANIMALS (continued)]	[ 19. HOMESICKNESS]
[ 7. GOING ON BOARD]	[ 20. STRAINED RELATIONS]
[ 8. CONFUSION]	[ 21. THE RAVEN IS SENT OUT]
[9-10. THE PROCESSION]	[ 22. RETURN OF THE DOVE]
[9-10. THE PROCESSION (continued)]	[ 23. FIRST SIGHT OF LAND]
[ 11. THE DINOSAURS’ DILEMMA]	[ 24. LEAVING THE ARK]
[ 12. THOSE WHO WOULD NOT GO IN]	[25-26. THE RAINBOW]
[ 13. TAKING IN SUPPLIES]	[25-26. THE RAINBOW (continued)]

THE STORY OF NOAH’S ARK

1. THE WARNING

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.”