Excerpt from Peter Parley's Gift The little boy, of whom I am going to tell you, was born on board a ship called the doi phin; his father and mother, who were poor people from Ireland, were going to Jamaica, a large island in the West Indies. The ship had a long passage, and, after the little boy was born, his mother died. His father took care Of him for a time, but in a few days he died also. Now there was on board the ship a rough Old sailor, who was called Bill. But, rough as he was, he had a kind heart. SO he took the poor babe, and made a little swing, called a hammock, for him by his own bed. He then fed him with soft bread, and hushed him to sleep, as kindly as if he had been his mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.