. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. aight to the steamer. In the bow of the boat was a little man with atattered red shirt. He could see that the cap-tain of the boat was lookins: at him throuofh aspy-glass. The captain shouted to the little man, Is thatDoctor Kane ? The little man in the red shirt shouted back, Yes ! Doctor Kane and his men had been gone morethan two years. People had begun to think thatthey had all died. This steamer had been sent tofind out what had become of them. When themen on the steamer heard that this little man inthe red shirt was Doctor Kane himself,
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. aight to the steamer. In the bow of the boat was a little man with atattered red shirt. He could see that the cap-tain of the boat was lookins: at him throuofh aspy-glass. The captain shouted to the little man, Is thatDoctor Kane ? The little man in the red shirt shouted back, Yes ! Doctor Kane and his men had been gone morethan two years. People had begun to think thatthey had all died. This steamer had been sent tofind out what had become of them. When themen on the steamer heard that this little man inthe red shirt was Doctor Kane himself, they sentup cheer after cheer. 140 In a few minutes more, Doctor Kane and his menwere on the steamer. They were now safe amongfriends. They were saiHng away toward theirhomes. LONGFELLOW AS A BOY. LoNG-FEL-Low was anoble boy. He alwayswanted to do right. Hecould not bear to see oneperson do any wrong toanother. He was day hetook a gun andwent killed arobin. Thenhe felt sorryfor the robinHe came homewith tears in. Longfellow and the Bird. his eyes. He was so grieved, that he never went shootino; ao^ain. He liked to read Irvings Sketch Book. Its 141 strange stories about Sleepy Hollow and Rip VanWin-kle pleased his fancy. When he was thirteen he wrote a poem. It wasabout Love-wells fight with the Indians. He senthis verses to a news-paper. He wondered if theed-i-tor would print them. He could not think ofanything else. He walked up and down in frontof the printing office. He thought that his poemmight be in the printer s hands. When the paper came out, there was his was signed Henry. Long-fel-low read it. Hethought it a good poem. But a judge who did not know whose poem itwas talked about it that evening. He said toyoung Long-fel-low, Did you see that poem inthe paper ? It was stiff. And all taken from otherpoets, too. This made Henry Long-fel-low feel bad. Buthe kept on trying. After many years, he becamea famous poet. For more than fif
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