[Illustration: Jack telling his stories.]


JACK MASON,
THE OLD SAILOR.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

FOR CHILDREN.

BY THEODORE THINKER.


1850.


THE OLD SAILOR.


Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him,
and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship
almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell!
Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to,
he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his
breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen,
until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would
want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well
as anybody.

Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on,