Contents

  1. [Uncle Ben's Advice]
  2. [The Rescue]
  3. [War Declared]
  4. [A Matter Of Business]
  5. [An Unwelcome Visitor]
  6. [A Pitched Battle]
  7. [Uncle Ben's Arrival]
  8. [Uncle Ben's "Plan"]
  9. [The Stranded Schooner]
  10. [Mr. Rowe's Proposition]
  11. ["For Sale"]
  12. [Shipowners]
  13. [Wrecking]
  14. [A War Of Words]
  15. [A New Member]
  16. ["The Baby"]
  17. [The Launching]
  18. [The Trial Trip]
  19. [The First Cruise]
  20. [Getting Even]
  21. [At The Port]
  22. [Freighting Lumber]
  23. [The Family Home]
  24. [The "Housewarming"]

The Cruise of the Sally D.

CHAPTER I

UNCLE BEN'S ADVICE

Uncle Ben picked up a bit of driftwood, and began to whittle it to a fine point. The boy looked at him anxiously.

"Well," said Uncle Ben at last, "I never allowed that a lad had the right to run away from his home, an' I've lived nigh to sixty years, man an' boy, consekently it stands to reason that I oughter know how much trouble is likely to come from sich didoes."

"Huh!" the boy broke in, "you don't call the 'Sally D.' a home, do you? I guess you wouldn't if you'd lived on her a spell."

"No," said Uncle Ben, "after what you've told me I don't. An' Cap'en Doak was only your stepfather at the best of times. Now that your mother's dead it don't appeal to me that he's any relation whatsoever, so, consekently ag'in, an' holdin' that a schooner can't be called a house, which same is necessary to the makin's of a home, what's wrong with your sneakin' off unbeknownst to Cap'en Doak before the 'Sally D.' weighs anchor?"

"But where could I go, Uncle Ben? I haven't got so much as one cent in this wide world, an' there's never a single person who would take me in. Besides, s'pose I sneaked off while the 'Sally D.' is lying here, I couldn't get away from the island, 'less you should set me across to the mainland."