The boy John sits on the wharf watching the ebb tide carry bark and logs past the mossy piers, dropping scraps of paper into the eddies. An orphan with little to call his own, he finds his life changed by the Skipper, a grave, kindly old seafarer, and by the townsfolk who gossip about money, luck and the strangeness of human nature.
A short, warm story by the author of Captain January, ideal for reading aloud. Download the free EPUB.