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I decided on my 1st option. And, best of all, the boys’ parents encouraged them, for they all were of old whaling stock and had almost as much fondness for the old _Hector_ and the past glories of the whaling fleet as did the boys. Moreover, the boys’ fathers were not slow to notice that, by playing about the old bark and listening to Cap’n Pem’s yarns, the boys were absorbing a vast amount of useful knowledge of the sea and of seamanship, as well as of foreign lands and people.

Choice 1 : 1.

Choice 2 : 1.

Choice 3 : 2.

2.

Often, the old seaman would take a part in the boys’ fun himself; sometimes as captain, at other times as able-bodied seaman, which he always took as a huge joke, remarking with a chuckle that, “I’ve seen a mighty queer lot o’ timber a-callin’ o’ theirsel’s sailors; but I’ll be stowed if I ever seen a wooden-legged A. B. afore.”.

Choice 1 : But despite his wooden leg, Cap’n Pem managed to get about as lively as any of his young friends, and he would tail on to a brace and roar out some deep-sea chantey with the boys joining in the chorus, with as much vigor and heartiness as though the _Hector_ were once more plowing her way through blue seas instead of being high and dry on a mud flat.

Choice 2 : But neither Cap’n Pem nor the boys had ever dreamed of the _Hector_ going to sea in reality. From her opened seams, grass and weeds were growing luxuriantly; within her hold the tide rose and fell exactly as it did outside and, as the old salt vowed that New Bedford whalers were built to last forever, the _Hector_ seemed doomed to be a permanent landmark at the end of the elm-shaded street.

Choice 3 : 1.So, as the two boys hurried to the dock, Jim found it hard work to convince Tom that they were about to lose their wonderful playground.

3.

“I just went down to see if you or any of the fellows were there,” explained Jim, “and I found a whole crowd of workmen. They had a truck full of rope and tackle and paint and tar and everything.

Choice 1 : Some of them were on board and others on the dock and they’d already taken off a lot of the old rigging and were tearing the grass and stuff out of the seams.

Choice 2 : Cap’n Pem was there too and I asked him what they were doing and he chuckled and said, ‘Didn’t I tell ye, Jimmy, a New Bedford ship weren’t never too old to go a-cruisin’? They’re a-fittin’ of the _Hector_ fer a v’yge.’”

Choice 3 : Perhaps that’s what Cap’n Pem meant—a movie voyage. Why, Jimmy, the _Hector_ couldn’t go to sea.”

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