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Once upon a time, nearly three hundred years ago, a boy named Robinson Crusoe was living in England. His home was in the city of York, that ancient and beautiful town from which our New York gets its name. You would think that he would have been too fond of the high, square towers of the great York Minster, and the quaint houses with the graceful-storks flying overhead, ever to want to leave his city. But this was just what he did want to do. Before he was well grown he told his father that he was going off to sea.
Mr. Crusoe didn't like the idea a bit. He told Robinson whom he probably called Robin, because he and his Wife were very fond of their boy - that a sailor's life was a hard one, especially for a lad who had not been trained to sailors' work. It was dangerous, too. Ships that went on long voyages often got blown off their courses and were many months reaching home again. Sometimes, even, they were wrecked in great storms, and the men on them were never heard from again.
All this Robinson's father told him over and over again, to try to make the boy forget his mad idea, because the Crusoes had alreadylost their other son, who had been a soldier and was killed in battle; and they wanted to keep Robin at home with them. Finally his father just said firmly, I will not allow you to go. Your mother and I will be happier if you stay here and learn to be a lawyer.
But Robinson still kept on thinking about the sea, and talking to everybody he could find that had ever gone voyaging on a ship. And then, one day, he ran away - disobeyed his parents and went down to Hull, a seacoast town where he knew he should find ships. He had plenty of money with him, for his father was both wealthy and generous, so he thought he would be all right.
Now, any other boy would probably have asked to be taken on board some ship as a real, working sailor, to earn his own way and learn to do all the queer things that sailors have to do. For in those days, you must remember, ships were not run by steam, with the big engines doing most of the work. Steam engines hadn't yet been invented. A ship then had to depend on the wind that blew against its sails and made it fly through the water. And if it was a big ship it had to carry a good many 'men to set the sails so that they caught whatever wind there was, and to raise and lower the anchor, and to move the rudder back and forth to make the ship turn around.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Once upon a time, nearly three hundred years ago, a boy named Robinson Crusoe was living in England. His home was in the city of York, that ancient and beautiful town from which our New York gets its name. You would think that he would have been too fond of the high, square towers of the great York Minster, and the quaint houses with the graceful-storks flying overhead, ever to want to leave his city. But this was just what he did want to do. Before he was well grown he told his father that he was going off to sea.
Mr. Crusoe didn't like the idea a bit. He told Robinson whom he probably called Robin, because he and his Wife were very fond of their boy - that a sailor's life was a hard one, especially for a lad who had not been trained to sailors' work. It was dangerous, too. Ships that went on long voyages often got blown off their courses and were many months reaching home again. Sometimes, even, they were wrecked in great storms, and the men on them were never heard from again.
All this Robinson's father told him over and over again, to try to make the boy forget his mad idea, because the Crusoes had alreadylost their other son, who had been a soldier and was killed in battle; and they wanted to keep Robin at home with them. Finally his father just said firmly, I will not allow you to go. Your mother and I will be happier if you stay here and learn to be a lawyer.
But Robinson still kept on thinking about the sea, and talking to everybody he could find that had ever gone voyaging on a ship. And then, one day, he ran away - disobeyed his parents and went down to Hull, a seacoast town where he knew he should find ships. He had plenty of money with him, for his father was both wealthy and generous, so he thought he would be all right.
Now, any other boy would probably have asked to be taken on board some ship as a real, working sailor, to earn his own way and learn to do all the queer things that sailors have to do. For in those days, you must remember, ships were not run by steam, with the big engines doing most of the work. Steam engines hadn't yet been invented. A ship then had to depend on the wind that blew against its sails and made it fly through the water. And if it was a big ship it had to carry a good many 'men to set the sails so that they caught whatever wind there was, and to raise and lower the anchor, and to move the rudder back and forth to make the ship turn around.
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