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09 - Cruise of the Noah's Ark by David Cory · Cruise of the Noah's Ark

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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. The Crews of the Nozark by David Cory,
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  Speaker 1: A thrilling rescue. We're off, We're off. We're off again
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  Speaker 1: to sail upon the rolling main. The i's no longer
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  Speaker 1: holds us fast. We're sailing, safe and free at last.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the weathercock sang, loud and clear. The
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  Speaker 1: next morning, it woke up Marjorie with a start, and
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  Speaker 1: running through the port hole, she saw that they were
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  Speaker 1: once again upon the ocean blue. How did it happen?
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  Speaker 1: She asked, turning to her faithful friend on the flike pole,
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  Speaker 1: who was still crowing and flapping his wings at a
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  Speaker 1: great rate. How did it all happen while you are asleep,
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  Speaker 1: my dear little madge, answered the weathercock. I didn't ask
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  Speaker 1: you when I asked you, how laughed Marjorie, for she
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  Speaker 1: was delighted. You see to be once more sailing over
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  Speaker 1: the great big ocean. You'd better not ask me any
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  Speaker 1: more questions, said the weathercock quickly. You just better hurry
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  Speaker 1: up and dress and ask Captain Noah what he is
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  Speaker 1: going to do about the castaways. But what, gasped Marjorie,
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  Speaker 1: The castaways the two polar bears who are still on
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  Speaker 1: the iceberg. Goodness gracious, she cried. I'll hurry and get
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  Speaker 1: on my boots. I must tell Captain Noah at once.
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  Speaker 1: In a few minutes, she was running down to the
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  Speaker 1: lower cabin. Captain Noah, Captain Noah, she shouted, Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 1: the polar bears are left on the iceberg. The captain,
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  Speaker 1: who had overslept himself, put his head out of his
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  Speaker 1: cabin door. What is all the excitement about, he asked, sleepily.
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  Speaker 1: The bears are left on the iceberg, shouted Marjorie. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's all right. I told them they could stay
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  Speaker 1: out all night. They will come aboard for breakfast. No
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  Speaker 1: doubt they can't. They can't, cried Marjorie, in great excitement.
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  Speaker 1: The ark is afloat again, and we are sailing away
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  Speaker 1: blubber in rubber, exclaimed the captain, now even more excited
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  Speaker 1: than the little girl mother. He cried, The arcs afloat,
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  Speaker 1: and two of our passengers are still ashore. Missus Noah
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  Speaker 1: opened her eyes. What did you say, my dear, she
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  Speaker 1: asked sleepily. The captain, by this time had pulled on
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  Speaker 1: his sailor suit and closing the cabin door with a
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  Speaker 1: Bang rushed out on deck, with Marjorie close at his heels.
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  Speaker 1: In the distance, the iceberg could be seen indistinctly through
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  Speaker 1: the morning mist hard a port, shouted Captain Noah. Mister Jonah,
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  Speaker 1: who was at the wheel, woke up with a start.
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  Speaker 1: He was so tired with cutting the ice the day
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  Speaker 1: before that he had fallen sound asleep at his post.
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  Speaker 1: You land lubber, cried Captain Noah. What do you mean
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  Speaker 1: by falling asleep? This is my first experience before the mast,
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  Speaker 1: apologized poor Jonah. I've always been a passenger. Please don't
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  Speaker 1: get provoked. Provoked, yelled Captain Noah. Provoked, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: throwing you overboard. Steer for the iceberg. I won't throw
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  Speaker 1: you overboard until later. Mister jonahaped a sigh of relief
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  Speaker 1: for at first, I guess he thought he'd have to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the whale without having a chance of
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah cooling off. Marjorie stood close to the rail,
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  Speaker 1: straining her eyes for a glimpse of the polar bears.
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  Speaker 1: The three no boys now came on deck. Aunt Ham
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  Speaker 1: handed the spyglass to his father. I see them, I
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  Speaker 1: see them, cried Captain Noah. One of them is waving
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  Speaker 1: a flag. Let me look, said Marjorie, who was dreadfully
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  Speaker 1: worried about them. Yes, there they were on the top
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  Speaker 1: of the berg. She could dimly see two figures and
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  Speaker 1: a white object waving back and forth. The sea was
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  Speaker 1: getting rough, and the ark rolled about in a most
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable manner. The weathercock clung tightly to his post, however,
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  Speaker 1: and flapped his wings. Now then looked out. He cautioned,
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  Speaker 1: as the art near the bird, be careful or you'll
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  Speaker 1: stave a hole in the ark. Hurry up, shouted the
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  Speaker 1: polar bears. We're dearly starved. We want our breakfast. Want
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  Speaker 1: your breakfast, muttered Captain Noah under his breath. You'll be
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  Speaker 1: wanting something more than breakfast if we don't find a
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  Speaker 1: way to get you aboard. Let them swim, em suggested Ham.
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  Speaker 1: Run up clothes and let them jump, advised Shem. Let
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  Speaker 1: them fly, chuckled Jeffeth unsympathetically, who was somewhat tired of
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  Speaker 1: feeding the animals and felt that too less would not
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  Speaker 1: be such an awful thing. After all, nothing of the sort,
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  Speaker 1: cried Captain Noah. I am responsible for the safety of
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  Speaker 1: every passenger. I will take no such chances. What are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do, then, asked mister Jonah, looking over
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  Speaker 1: the side of the ark to make sure that it
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  Speaker 1: was not getting too close to the danger's bird, which
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  Speaker 1: jutted out in ragged points beneath the water. Launch the
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  Speaker 1: lifeboat commanded Captain Noah, who will volunteer? I will, cried Ham,
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  Speaker 1: And in less time than I can take to tell it,
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  Speaker 1: Ham and his trained monkeys lowered the boat and jumped
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  Speaker 1: in sheff off, commanded Coxswain Ham, and with a strong
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  Speaker 1: pull and a loud yoho, the little boat shot away.
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  Speaker 1: Ham held firmly to the tiller and kept the boat
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  Speaker 1: pointing toward the big rollers, while the monkeys handled the oars.
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  Speaker 1: Pull for the shore sailor pull for the shore sang
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  Speaker 1: the weathercock. The bears, who had slid down the iceberg
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  Speaker 1: close to the water's edge, stood anxiously waiting. Careful, Now,
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  Speaker 1: cried Ham, pull on your starboard oar. The boat grazed
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  Speaker 1: the iceberg, jump, shouted Ham, quick and then one of
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  Speaker 1: the bears gave a spring and landed in the boat.
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  Speaker 1: His mate, however, slip and a big wave at that
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  Speaker 1: moment whirled the boat away from the ice, and with
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  Speaker 1: a big flash, he landed in the water. Throw him
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  Speaker 1: a life preserver, shouted Captain Noah. Throw him a lifeline, yelled,
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  Speaker 1: shall throw him the anchor growled, a ff who never
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  Speaker 1: had liked the polar bears. I guess, But God swain
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  Speaker 1: Ham was not the least bit rattled. He steered the
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  Speaker 1: boat toward the frightened bear and told him to catch hold. Now,
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  Speaker 1: pull for all you're worth, shouted Ham to the monkeys,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll tell brother Beer. But oh dear me, the
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  Speaker 1: great waves kept washing over the little boat, and the
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  Speaker 1: two monkeys had a hard time rowing with that great
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  Speaker 1: heavy bear dragging on the stern. They'll be swamped, screamed
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  Speaker 1: Missus Noah, as a tremendous great wave dashed over the
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  Speaker 1: little lifeboat. Bail, bail, you lubber, shouted Ham. We'll all
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  Speaker 1: be in Davy Jones's locker if you don't well. Pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: They came alongside the ark and Captain Noah let down
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  Speaker 1: a rope ladder of wish. The two bears vanished to
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  Speaker 1: scramble after a hard struggle, and after that cockswain Ham
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  Speaker 1: and his gallant crew came aboard and the lifeboat was
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  Speaker 1: hoisted up on deck. Motherly Missus Noah at once put
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  Speaker 1: the two bearers to bed after a hot mustard bath
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  Speaker 1: and a drink of Jamaica ginger. Well this beats the
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  Speaker 1: old days, I'll holler, exclaimed Captain Noah. We never had
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  Speaker 1: such accidents on my first voyage. It just rained and
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  Speaker 1: rained for forty days and forty nights. That's the truth,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, agreed Missus Noah. I remember it very well.
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  Speaker 1: Ham was just a baby, and the other two boys
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  Speaker 1: were little fellows. It was hard work finding something new
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  Speaker 1: for them to do each day, rainy days on board ship. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I never want to go through with it again. I
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  Speaker 1: should think your boys would think you're just lovely, said
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  Speaker 1: little Margerie. Well I guess we do, said Hann, kissing
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  Speaker 1: his mother. You know we do, mother dear, of course
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  Speaker 1: I do, she replied, giving him a hug. Go and
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  Speaker 1: kiss your mother, said Captain Noah to Chammage Effeth, or
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  Speaker 1: she won't give you any breakfast. And then they both
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  Speaker 1: ran over to her and kissed her, glad of an
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  Speaker 1: excuse to show their real feelings. Now, come and get
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  Speaker 1: something nice and hot for breakfast, said missus Noah, for
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  Speaker 1: if we don't eat breakfast, pretty soon we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: call at lunch. And in the next chapter you shall
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  Speaker 1: hear of a dreadful collision. But don't worry, for I
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  Speaker 1: shan't let anything happen to little Margery and the kind
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  Speaker 1: Noah family, and of chapter nine. Read by Nancy Cochrane,
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  Speaker 1: Gergen Gilbert, Arizona, August twenty three, two thousand, twenty three.