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Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved.

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1897. FIVE CENTS A
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VOL. XVIII.--NO. 900. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.

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BOYS AT SEA.

BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.


Everybody will remember the exciting story of the ship _Aberfoyle_: how
her Captain drank himself into delirium-tremens and then poisoned
himself, how the crew mutinied, how the mate was washed overboard, and
how this ship was eventually safely navigated to Melbourne by her second
officer, who was little more than a boy. But perhaps the most memorable
example of a boy's heroism is that of young Shotten. He was an
apprentice on board a vessel called _Trafalgar_, which left Batavia
fever-stricken, with the result that the superior officers perished, and
young Shotten was left alone with the remain