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taken off removed from its shelf sometimes and laid open on the floor for the children to look at. On each page appeared the in color picture of a famous vessel complete with sails and rigging, sailors [crossed out: hoisting] standing on the deck or climbing the masts, flags and pennants fluttering in a smart breeze. Each stupendous hull glided onward over immeasurable depths nestled tightly in sunny control or cleaved the wild waves with her lofty prow plunged into dark, sickening chasms under raging storms. You turned the page and there was a different one riding the ocean in some impressive kind of weather, her long bowspit pointing toward danger, victory or shipwreck in the lonely distance. If it was all too vast and terrible, you could turn the page again. So passed the Monitor & Merrimac.

   But there was one page which was

so shocking that it had to be forestalled by learning the pages which went before & after, so that it could never conquer its terrible