Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . c> NURSE HELPS ME WHEN I EMBARK ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the writer of My Bed Is a Boat, was aScotchman, and was born in Edin-burgh, in 1850. He was an only son,and most of the poems which he wrotefor children show that while his child-hood was happy, it was perhaps a littlelonesome; that is, most of his poems are about onechild. Stevensons father was a noted engineer, whoplanned and built lighthouses, and he intended thathis son should be an
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . c> NURSE HELPS ME WHEN I EMBARK ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the writer of My Bed Is a Boat, was aScotchman, and was born in Edin-burgh, in 1850. He was an only son,and most of the poems which he wrotefor children show that while his child-hood was happy, it was perhaps a littlelonesome; that is, most of his poems are about onechild. Stevensons father was a noted engineer, whoplanned and built lighthouses, and he intended thathis son should be an engineer and build lighthouses,too; but young Robert Louis decided that he wasnot fitted for that work, and studied to be a knew all the time that he liked to write betterthan to do anything else, but it never occurred tohim that he could actually give up his life to thatand make his living by it. However, about 1877 or1878, he took two trips—one a canoeing trip in Bel-gium and France, the other a walking trip throughFrance, his only companion being a particularlystubborn donkey; and he wrote about these littlejourneys so delightfully in An Inland Voyage andTravels w
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