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BOYS AT SEA.
BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.
Everybody will remember the exciting story of the ship Aberfoyle: howher Captain drank himself into delirium-tremens and then poisonedhimself, how the crew mutinied, how the mate was washed overboard, andhow this ship was eventually safely navigated to Melbourne by her secondofficer, who was little more than a boy. But perhaps the most memorableexample of a boy's heroism is that of young Shotten. He was anapprentice on board a vessel called Trafalgar, which left Bataviafever-stricken, with the result that the superior officers perished, andyoung Shotten was left alone with the remains of a wicked ship's companyto navigate the vessel. He carried her to Sydney in safety. His story isa true romance of the deep. This fine young fellow had not only to fightthe ocean and its tremendous perils, he ha