Bunny Brown and his sister Sue on the rolling ocean

by Laura Lee Hope

“Man overboard! Lower a boat! Man overboard!”

Of course there was not a man overboard. Sue had spoken of “Elizabeth.” But on a ship, no matter who falls into the water, whether a man, a woman, or a child, the cry of alarm is always the same: “Man overboard!”

Sailors know and understand that warning better than any other.

But before a boat could be lowered or even some of the cork life-rings tossed over the rail, another big wave came up and washed across the decks. On the crest of this wave something white fluttered.

“OH, HERE’S ELIZABETH! SHE CAME BACK TO ME!”

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“That looks like a little girl’s skirts!” thought Mr. Brown.

Then the wave broke some distance away from where he and the children were standing, and the fluttering white object came washing up along the deck and straight for Sue.

“Oh, here’s Elizabeth! She came back to me!” cried the little girl. “Elizabeth went overboard, but she isn’t drowned!”