This picture book was republished in 1985. This book has 12 stories.
Excerpt from The First Row:
Now I will tell you how Bob and Betty
spent the summer at the seashore with Captain Ben Hawes. Captain Hawes was an
old sailor. After forty years' service on the high seas he had settled down
ashore at Quohaug.
Bluff and hearty, and with no end of sea yarns and stories of strange
adventures, and of foreign ports and peoples, he was more interesting to the
children than the most fascinating fairy book.
His home was a little museum of odds and ends brought from different far-away
lands, with everything arranged in shipshape order. The big green parrot, who
could call "Ship ahoy!" "All aboard!" delighted the boy and
girl. And the seashells, which gave the murmuring echo of the ocean when you
put them to your ear. And the curiosities of strange sorts and shapes, from
outlandish countries.