. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER EIGHTEENTH. NEVERSINK HEIGHTS,. Dear Boys and Girls: OW that I am home again, I mustwrite you one more letter, and thensay good-bye. You have been verypatient and good, if you have read allthese that are here printed. If you have foundin them something which it will be pleasant andprofitable to you to remember, I shall be trulyglad. Something, novv, about our voyage homewill finish my letters, and my book. On the morning of the twelfth day after wesailed from Liverpool, in the good and beautifulship Wisconsin, as I was
. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER EIGHTEENTH. NEVERSINK HEIGHTS,. Dear Boys and Girls: OW that I am home again, I mustwrite you one more letter, and thensay good-bye. You have been verypatient and good, if you have read allthese that are here printed. If you have foundin them something which it will be pleasant andprofitable to you to remember, I shall be trulyglad. Something, novv, about our voyage homewill finish my letters, and my book. On the morning of the twelfth day after wesailed from Liverpool, in the good and beautifulship Wisconsin, as I was walking the deck inthe after-part of the ship — that is near the stern— I heard some boys and girls cry out, Comeand see the land! and saw them run with all 190 UNCLE JOHN UPON HIS TRAVELS^ their might the wl\ole length of the vessel toits forecastle or prow. They did not sayCome! to me, but I thought, nevertheless,that I should like to see the land too, and so Iw^ent. With my old eyes. I could discover noth-ing at all but what I had seen for the twelvedays back, that is, sea and sky, but taking m
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