Английский язык с Робинзоном Крузо/Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

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sea! I liked to watch the ships as they came in with their white sails spread to the wind.

I liked to think of the strange lands which they must have visited, and of the many

wonderful things they must have passed.

I wished to be a sailor. I thought how grand it must be to sail and sail on the wide

blue sea, with the sky above and the waves beneath. Nothing could be pleasanter.

My father wanted me to learn a trade. But I could not bear the thought of it. I

could not bear the thought of working every day in a dusty shop.

I did not wish to stay in York all my life. I wanted to see the world. I would be a

sailor and nothing else.

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My mother was very sad when I told her.

A sailor's life, she said, was a hard life. There were many storms at sea, and ships

were often wrecked.

She told me, too, that there were great fishes in the sea, and that they would eat