Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe

<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>MARY LEE</h2> <div class='cap'>"IF you're not more careful, I'll spout water over your boat and sink it," cried the whale, growing tired of Tom Thumb's fruitless endeavors to get the fish hook out. "My nose is bleeding now and the hook is still in it."</div> <p>"Let me give the string a yank," said Tom Thumb. "Didn't you ever have a tooth pulled out that way? It won't hurt much."</p> <p>"Well, go ahead," said the whale, closing his eyes and shutting his teeth tight. And then out came the hook and over went Tom into the bottom of the boat.</p> <p>"Ouch! Ouch!" said the whale, while little Tom Thumb picked himself up and said to Puss, Junior, "Don't you ever ask me to fish again in the ocean. I'd rather fish like Simple Simon."</p> <div class='poem'> Simple Simon went a-fishing<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">For to catch a whale;</span><br/> All the water he had got<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was in his mother's pail.</span><br/></div> <p>"What are you grumbling about?" asked the whale, peering over the side of the boat. "One would think you had been caught with<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</SPAN></span> a hook," and saying this disagreeable thing, he dived down into the sea.</p> <p>"No more fishing for me," laughed Tom Thumb.</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/gs27.png" width-obs="311" height-obs="400" alt="At the gate" title="" /></div> <p>And just then they came close to a lighthouse on a big rock. So they ran the boat up on the little stretch of sand.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</SPAN></span></p> <p>"I don't know what we're landing for," said Captain Puss, Junior, "only I've never been in a lighthouse and here's a good chance."</p> <p>"Haven't you?" asked a pretty voice, and a young girl appeared on the stone steps leading down to the beach. "Come, my gallant tars, and I'll show you my lighthouse and after that you can tell me some of your adventures, for 'tis a lonely life I lead here alone on the rock until my Bobby Shafto returns."</p> <div class='poem'> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Bobby Shafto's gone to sea</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">In his schooner Mary Lee.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Hard-a-port, or hard-a-lee,</span><br/> "Hasten, Bobby, home to me."<br/></div> <p>So Puss picked up Tom Thumb and followed the girl into the lighthouse and up the stairs to the very top where the great lamp sent out its rays of light to guide the ships at night; or the great bell clanged in foggy weather to warn the weary sailor from the cruel rocks.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />