A SHIP IN A STORM.

WHAT is a ship? It is a large, hollow building of wood or iron, made to pass over the sea with sails; but let us ask the sailor who spends the greater part of his life in a ship, and he will tell us that the name properly belongs to a vessel which has three masts, or poles each mast is divided into four parts, called the lower-mast, the top-mast, the top-gallant, and above all the top-gallant royal mast. The middle mast is the largest, it is called the main-mast; the fore-mast stands in front, and the hinder one is called the mizen-mast. You cannot see all the parts of the vessel in this picture which represents the ship in a storm: the wind is sweeping over the ocean in heavy gusts, which as they fall upon the sails and masts drive the ship so much on one side that it seems as though she must be overset. The wind too raises the water