Excerpt from Kit Bam's Adventures: Or the Yarns of an Old Mariner

The Swallow Family, The Younger One's Love of Fiction, The Elders' Opinions of Fancy and Matter-of-Fact, Imagination and Realities. - Kit Bam, His First Yarn, The Island of False Appearances.

"Mamma, " said Dick Swallow to his mother one evening, during the holidays, "before the candles come, and Fanny and I have our game of chess together, I wish you'd tell us one of your famous long stories, as you used to do."

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