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Captains Courageous (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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Harvey Cheyne was a rich, spoiled fifteen-year-old boy, bound for Europe aboard a swift ocean liner. He was so seasick that he hardly realized what was happening to him when a huge wave washed him over the rail of the ship into the sea. Luckily, he was picked up by a fisherman in a dory and put aboard the fishing schooner We’re Here. The owner and captain of the boat, Disko Troop, was not pleased to have the boy aboard but told him that he would pay him ten dollars a month and board until the schooner docked in Gloucester the following September. It was then...

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