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 Like prisoned eagles sailors pine 
 On the dull and quiet shore; 
 
 They long for the flashing brine, 
 The spray and the tempest's roar. 
 
 To shoot through sparkling foam, 
 Like an ocean bird set free — 
 
 Like the ocean bird their home 
 They find on the raging sea* 
 
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 THE SAILOR. 
 
 Sailors pass most of their 
 time on the water. They be- 
 come so used to living on the wa- 
 ter, that when they are on land 
 they sometimes do not know 
 what to do with themselves to 
 pass away their time. And af- 
 ter a few days or weeks they 
 are very glad to be on board 
 their ship again, and on the 
 wide, blue sea. Sailors are 
 kind and brave ; and if you are 
 kind to them they will do ev- 
 erything in their power to show 
 that they feel it, and will repay 
 it. They are a class of men 
 who are very much needed, 
 and do us great good by going 
 
upon the sea, and risking their 
 lives in storms, to bring ns the 
 good things of countries afar off. 
 They amuse one another on 
 long voyages by telling long 
 stories. This they call spin- 
 ning yams. 
 
 
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 THE SHIP. 
 
 The ship is the largest kind 
 of vessel that sails upon the wa- 
 ter. It has three masts, made 
 of the trunks of pine trees, that 
 have pieces of timber called 
 yards put across them on which 
 are spread the sails. Ships are 
 used for long voyages, being of- 
 ten months out of sight of land 
 
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 THE BRIG. 
 
 Thk brig is next in size to 
 the ship. It has but two masts 
 —but is otherwise like a ship. 
 The ship and the brig are called 
 square-rigged vessels because 
 nearly every sail is square. 
 Like'' the ship, the brig too is 
 used mostly in long voyages. 
 
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 SCKOONEii AND SLOOP. 
 
 The scliooner lias two masts, 
 and the sloop but one. The 
 sail is fastened at the bottom to 
 a long stick, called the boom, to 
 the mast at the side, and to the 
 gaff at the top. The vessel m 
 the picture is a sloop. 
 
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 THE SKIFF. 
 
 The skiff is a small boat, 
 made of boards or tliin planks. 
 It is used about rivers and on 
 ponds and lakes, and is pushed 
 tbrouo^li the water witli a pad- 
 dle, like a canoe. The canoe 
 is made sometimes out of the 
 trunk of a tree, and sometimes 
 out of bark or skins. 
 
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