father said he wished his boy to be a sailor, and the boy wanted to be
a sailor, too; and that if the captain would be kind to him, little
George might go. So he went, and he was the very best boy I ever saw
in my life. He used to talk to the sailors; and when they did wrong,
when they said bad words, he would tell them it was naughty, and God
would not love them if they did so. The sailors did not get angry with
him, because they all saw that little George was good and kind, and
that he wanted to do them good. I know of a good many sailors who
stopped swearing, because little George told them, in his kind way,
that he could not bear to hear them swear, and that God would not love
them if they did so.

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[Illustration: Rocks in the Sea.]




THE WRECK.


The captain of this ship--the same one that loved little George so
well--was drowned not long after that. My little friends, I cannot
help crying when I think that this good captain, who used to be so
kind to the sailors, was lost at sea. I was not in the ship at the
time. I was in another ship. I got sick of catching whales, so I did
not want to go in a whale-ship any more.

The ship in which this captain was sailing was very near the shore,