STARS IN THEIR COURSES.
The night was stormy, and the captain's son stood watching his father steering the little vessel. Wishing ..to consult -hia chart, the captain said to the boy:-— ■• "Here, take the wheel. I'll be back in a few minutes. Steer .by that star and you will be all right." ...... < , The boy began to steer the vessel, aid soon got her out of her course. When the star appeared at the stern instead of ahead ho shouted proudly to his father: "Come and find me another star, dad, I've passed that one!"
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 27
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94STARS IN THEIR COURSES. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 27
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