C 24i A TEETOTAL CAPTAIN 



said to Miss Willard, k 'I wonder if you would 

 like to hear that old recitation about the ships: 

 Why, many a time when I am on the bridge of 

 this ship alone late at night I walk back and 

 forth and recite 'The Two Ships' and think of 

 my mother. Sometimes I say out loud, 'Sleep 

 on, all you passengers down there in your cab- 

 ins : every faculty I possess is given to your 

 care ; all the brain I have is at } T our service ; no 

 drop of strong drink shall ever pass my lips lo 

 fuddle the brain that must be kept perfectly 

 clear if I am to guide this great ship aright.' 



Here he stopped in his enthusiastic talk, and, 

 standing by his writing desk, this tall six-footer 

 of a captain recited, to our great enjoyment, the 

 story of "The Two Ships," in the simple rhyme 

 taught to him by his mother thirty years before. 



Boys and girls can help to make everybody 

 believe that all the twenty thousand steamers 

 and ships of every kind that go back and forth 

 on the millions of miles of water ought to be 

 commanded by teetotal men like this good cap- 

 tain and that no strong drink should ever be 

 served to the brave sailor laddies who spend 

 their lives at sea. 



