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Sea Captain's Daughter

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 6

Author

Elizabeth
Coatsworth

Appeared in

Story Parade: A Collection of Modern Stories for Boys and Girls. Silver Book

Story Summary

Young Mary Reid's father was a sea-captain and planned to take his wife on his next voyage. Mary couldn't understand why she couldn't go and decided to sneak aboard ship. When she was discovered, her father really couldn't complain since Mary was the exact age that he was when he first went to sea.