Near the sea

Before Many days Amanda knew almost everyone on board. There was a strong young man named John Rolfe. There was his pretty wife, who looked ill. There were two young men who often quarrelled, yet they were always together. With their long faces and thick, black eyebrows, they looked a little alike. Their names were Robert Waters and Chris Carter.

There was the hopkins family_ Master Stephen Hopkins, his wife, and their two children. Their daughter, Anne, was ten years old . Their son, David, was seven. The hopkins children had a ball made from a stocking. They threw it carefully back and forth and never let it fall.

Once Jemmy asked them to throw it to him.

"No," said Anne."You might let go into the sea."

"Come with us Jemmy, "said Amanda."Meg and I are going to see the animals."

Anne, put the ball in her pocket. She and her brother came to see the animal, too.

"We are going to have an animal farm in Virginia,"She said."There are horses on one of the other ships. Did u know that?"

"No," said Amanda.

" I rode a horse once," said Anne. Did you ever?"

Amanda shook her head.

"Where did you live before you come on the ship?"asked Anne

"In London," Amanda told her." I lived in a great house."

" You must have been a servant," said Anne.

"I was." said Amanda ,"but I won't be a servant in the New world."