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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Do you know you remind me of a very old story of a sailor-lad who returned home to his grandmother after a cruise in these very waters. It may be familiar to you." "I don't remember it," said Green. "Well, it is really so apt that I will tell it."
Though the sailor-lad was dissatisfied on first perceiving this, after a moment's reflection, he saw that it was a favourable circumstance.
The time alone is recorded; and we are told that it was the hour of midnight before any individual of her crew awoke from that slumber, to which "all hands" had surrendered after setting her sail. The first of them who awoke was little William. The sailor-lad was not a heavy sleeper at any time, and on this night in particular his slumbers had been especially unsound.
The lives of all were at that moment in the hands of the sailor-lad, or if not in his hands, then were all of them doomed to certain destruction. You may be wondering what strange circumstance this was, fraught with such a terrible contingency. There was nothing mysterious in or about it.
Godfrey winced a little as he handled the stiff garment; but it was for liberty, and he soon had the canvas buttoned on. "You had better take off that jacket, sir. I can't see it, but I can feel as it don't look a bit like a fisher-boy's things. That's your sort! Now then, Master Waller, pull that there jersey over his head. That's the way. There, now, he feels like a regular sailor-lad.
On the appointed day they all came; and as the custom was then, each guest brought his present with him to the king: one a horse, another a shawl, or a ring, or a sword; and those who had nothing better brought a basket of grapes, or of game; but Perseus brought nothing, for he had nothing to bring, being but a poor sailor-lad.
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