Excerpt from Dick: A Story for Boys and Girls The champion steamer of the Sound was slowly sliding out from her New York moor ings. The last cable had splashed down into the dingy water beside the freight-house on the pier, and had been hauled in and laid dripping in its coil, ready to be thrown off again when the landing was made at night. Then, with a quickening pulse of life from the engines, the steamer swung out into the current and turned eastward, under the vast arch of the Brooklyn bridge and up the broad channel, slowly and majestically holding her straight course among the clumsy ferry-boats and the more active small craft which hurried out of her way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.