The crew and the Prebles part ways, taking to different longboats. In the South Seas, fire breaks out on the ship. The mate encourages grumbling in the crew. Finally, the storm abates.Ĭhapter 5 Hitty sees her first whale being caught and rendered, and then several more. The ship springs a leak and loses its topmast. Phoebe, Andy, and Hitty will also go along.Ĭhapter 4 They sail from Boston on the Diana-Kate. He finds that he must immediately sail the vessel, with his wife acting as cook. The captain and his family visit Boston to see about refitting his whaling ship. Captain Preble rescues her with a frying fork lashed to a long pole.Ĭhapter 3 Captain Preble makes a miniature cradle for Hitty. After weeks dangling, Andy spies her in the tree. That night she falls from the nest but is caught in branches high above the ground. Two days later Hitty finds that the tree is right next to the Preble house. Soon a crow carries her to its nest in the top of a pine tree. The children see American Indians and run away, leaving Hitty behind. She spends a miserable few days there, what with the extreme cold, and the frightful bats, until she is found by Andy and the peddler.Ĭhapter 2 Andy, Phoebe, and Hitty go on a picnic in the woods. (Many people believe Hitty’s birthday is January 22.) One Sunday Phoebe sneaks her into church, drops her under the pew, and can’t pick her up. These are Hitty’s adventures in the original book, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field.Ĭhapter 1 Hitty is carved out of mountain ash wood (for good luck) by the old Irish peddler, and given to Phoebe Preble.

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