e must be a thousand.

Very soon they were called to breakfast in the saloon, and sat by
their papa and mamma very happily; but they ran away before they
had finished, to see a town called Yarmouth, by which they
passed so closely that they could see the houses, and bathing
machines, and people. All the morning they had plenty to look at.
They met other steamers, and fishing-boats, and ships, and saw
different places on the coast. But before dinner-time they had
lost sight of land, and saw nothing all round them but sea, and
did not meet so many ships and boats. Their papa then took them
to see the engine, and the great fires down in the engine-room,
and made them look at the paddle-wheels, that go foaming round
and round. Then came dinner-time, and they were very hungry; and
afterwards they amused themselves with running about on the deck
and reading story books. Soon after tea they went to bed and fell
fast asleep.

Next morning they were glad to see the coast again. They were
passing high cliffs and dark rocks, and they saw many sea-birds;
gulls, with large flapping wings, that gave a strange, wild cry;
and divers--pretty little creatures, that swam, riding along on
the waves, and every now and then dipped down quite under, and
then came up again at a little distance. On went the great
steam-ship, and soon their papa told them that the land they now
saw was Scotland.

Presently they came to some very fine rocks, higher than any they
had seen, and then they passed some rocky islands. Now they began
to see a great many large white birds flying about, stretching
out their long necks, and their papa told them that these were
called Solan geese, and that they had their nests on a great
rock, standing out in the sea, called the Bass Rock. They soon
came in sight of it, and when they passed near it they could see
that its sides were all white with hundreds of these geese that
were sitting there, and great numbers were flying in the air over
it and round it. When they were able to leave off looking at all
this, they saw on the top of the high cliff opposite to the Bass
Rock a large ruined castle, called Tantallon Castle, which they
thought very beautiful.

"Do you remember reading about the Black Douglas in 'Tales of a
Grandfather'?" asked their papa.

"O, yes," said first one, and then another.

"Well, that was his castle," he replied.

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They looked at Tantallon Castle for a long time, as long as