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FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



On the Beach in a Storm, 



Is a suggestive picture, well calculated to awaken the sympathies. The 

 women are the wives of fishermen, who are off on the waste of waters, seek- 

 ing to make the harbor in the violence of the Summer gale. Night is fast 

 settling down over the scene, and amid the gathering darkness the women, 

 with hearts full of dread apprehensions, watch the little boats as they breast 

 the waves, far out on the seething waters, ever and anon encouraging the 

 active little fellow, who appears with his arms full of wood, to pile it on, and 

 thus keep the fire burning brightly, as a beacon light, to guide their loved 

 ones to safety when the night shuts down. They heed not the piercing 

 winds, not the fury of the blasts — their hearts are out there with loved ones, 

 and their prayer is that they may safely reach the harbor. Then, and then 

 only, can they feel at rest. 



