Excerpts from the Book 'Ben Hadden':

... to Sandhills, the little hamlet about which I have spoken, as fine and bold a set of fishermen as any to be found on the British coast. There were ...
... of the Lord. The Bible tells me how to bring up my children, and I do it. If you brought up your children as the Bible tells you to do, your children ...
... all the family were together two sons had returned from sea, a daughter had come home for a visit from service, and many a pleasant evening they spent ...
... against some railings, and was stopped. The children were saved. A gentleman looking out of a window saw the accident, and the gallant way in which ...
... coach started that was to convey them to Portsmouth. Ben felt as if he had reached a new world even as he travelled along the road, much more so ...
... administered by the Board of Admiralty. Ben soon understood that all these people could not live together in harmony, nor the ship be properly ...
... obey those rules. It's your business, though, to learn what they are. Now, that's just the same when a man becomes a Christian. He mustn't do what he ...
... Right, Whatever Comes Of It.CHAPTER EIGHT. DO RIGHT, WHATEVER COMES OF IT. Land. land. shouted little Ben, from the foretop-masthead for he had ...
... forgot that the midshipman was acting under the orders of the captain, and the captain under those of the Government of our country, and that Governments ...
... of their being made the victims of so abominable a scheme. This was especially the feeling of Mr Charlton when he heard the account, and he resolved ...
... that there was but one God in heaven, the same whom the white men worshipped. It was at this juncture that a band of missionaries arrived from the ...
... to one of the islands where things are carried on in the old-fashioned way.. Captain Judson had come on board to get some lime-juice, the ...
... of spirits. Before he went away, Mr Martin had a long talk with him, and inquired what was the matter. Why, Martin, I am afraid that I have been a ...
... Even before the men were off the yards, the hurricane struck the frigate. Over she heeled to it, till it seemed as if she would not rise again but ...
... The unfortunate islanders were invited to come on deck, that, should the vessel strike suddenly, they might have some chance of escaping by swimming ...
... He paced round and round them all was stony and dry. Ben was very nearly giving way to despair, when he espied, scarcely fifty yards off, a group ...
... was light, the canoe moved slowly, and Ben's anxiety increased. At last it seemed clear that the canoe would not come nearer to the island. He heaved ...
... his hair was long, and hung down over his shoulders, while in his hand he carried a heavy club, which he grasped tightly, as if he considered it likely ...
... how.. That is a sad thing, my lad, answered Mr Manners, the sooner, then, you begin the better. Did you ever learn how to read your Bible.. Once, ...
... of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about ...