Excerpt from The Wreck of the Sea Lion There he stopped and drew a long breath, as if it were too much for him, to think, all at once, of the wonderful world, and all kinds of world, that might be waiting beyond the salt sea for a boy to get down from a seaside rock and come across and look at them. Hullo! Sile! Come down! The tide's turn ing! We can get out to Foam Island and see the wreck and get some fish, if you start now. Clams, a-comin' home. Crabs, too. Come along I. 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.