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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A TALK ON THE WATER. ANT a boat, sir?" " No, thank you, my boy; it is too cold for the water to-day." " Perhaps it is, sir, for land folk; but I go out any weather with father; so I takes less notice, I suppose." " How long have you taken to the water 1" " O sir," said the boy; and he looked up with a pleasant smile on his weather-beaten young face, and tossed his dark hair back from his forehead?" I don't remember the time when I first got into father's boat; it seems to me I might have been cradled in it, for all I know. The first thing I can think upon is having the great waves all round me, and the little white fish dancing about in them." " Oh, your father is a fisherman, is he ?" " Yes, sir; he fishes, as well as keeps this here boat; 'cause, don't you see, sir, this weather, when nobody goes out hardly, we shouldn't all of us be able to live onboating; for we're a brave, big family?nine of us, besides father and mother; and there's only two of us away at sea; they're mostly little 'uns." " And how old are you ?" " Fourteen, sir." " And a fine boy of your age, too," said the stranger, smiling. At that moment?as it sometimes happens in winter? the sun shining out suddenly from behind a cloud, lit up the inky sea with wonderfully beautiful effect, changing, as if by magic, and in a moment, the whole aspect of the scene. The bay was crowded with small and large sailing vessels, waiting for a favourable wind, and the sunbeams caught the white and brown sails, and the mast-heads, and lit all up with their own glorious, golden beauty. " It is enough to tempt one out, if this sunshine will only last," said the stranger. " We shall have gleams like this," rejoined the boy, looking up at the white masses of cloud and the dark sky betwe...