Page 226 - Adventures in shadow-land

CH A PTER HI.

THE FIG URE-HEAD.

N the mean time, a. most beautiful thing
$
had grown out of the oak block in Job
&
Chippit’s shop.
Day by day Job worked at the figure-head of
the Sea~nymph, Master Torrey!s beautiful new

brig that was lying on the stocks all but ready for
the launch. Job spared no pains on his work?

and his wonderful success really astonished him­
self.
Every one wanted to see the new figure-head,

but Job kept it locked up in an inner room, and
would admit no one but Master Torrey and Lucy

Peabody. Lucy had been willing to put on a
white dress and stand for a model, but the figure
did not look at all like Lucy. It was taller, more

slender, and the features, were nothing like hers.
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