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The Light Keepers
James Otis
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Opening one of the lockers, he took therefrom a handful of cotton waste,[Pg 49] and while Captain Eph alternately read and explained to his first assistant what he had written, Sidney cleaned the motor as the engineer of the schooner had taught him.
He was still busily engaged in this task when, the report having been read, Mr. Peters exclaimed in a tone of approval:
"Now I call that way up fine! If it don't stir the inspector a bit, he ain't the man I've always took him to be. When do you allow the lad's father ought to get here?"
"Wa'al, I can't say as to that, Sammy, seein's how we haven't had a chance to send the letter ashore yet, and even if that was done, I couldn't figure to any certainty on how long it would take to carry it to Porto Rico. Of course I ought to know all about that, seein's I've fished on the Banks, man and boy, for pretty nigh half my life; but yet I don't. Somehow I'm. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I've classified this book as fiction, because it reads as a story about a group of light house keepers on Carys' Ledge off the coast of Maine back in the late 1800s, but the book, originally published in 1905, includes a lot of factual material, including stories of other light houses and the "rules
I was sad that I finished this. The ending was disappointing but it was great to read about light keepers and the things they did in their duties.