The Cruise of the Dolphin
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- First published
- 1870
- Pages
- 10Digital edition
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 2 of 10
A little about the story
Every boy in Rivermouth dreams of the sea. Tom Bailey and his friends buy a share in a little boat, the Dolphin, and plan a grand day out to an island in the harbour. But a storm blows up, and little Binny Wallace is left alone on the drifting boat.
This short, moving episode from Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy is one of the best-known passages in American children's literature.
Things You May Not Know About The Cruise of the Dolphin
- An episode from The Story of a Bad Boy, Aldrich's semi-autobiographical novel.
- Rivermouth is Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where Aldrich grew up.
- An influence on Mark Twain, who read The Story of a Bad Boy before writing Tom Sawyer.
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Part of Freebookia's children's classics collection, added November 2026.
