THE STORY OF NOAH’S ARK TOLD AND PICTURED BY E. BOYD SMITH HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK [Illustration] COPYRIGHT, 1905, by E. BOYD SMITH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1905 [Illustration] LIST OF COLORED PLATES PLATE 1. THE WARNING 2. BUILDING THE ARK 3. LABOR TROUBLES 4. PAINTING THE ARK 5-6. ASSEMBLING THE ANIMALS 7. GOING ON BOARD 8. CONFUSION 9-10. THE PROCESSION 11. THE DINOSAURS’ DILEMMA 12. THOSE WHO WOULD NOT GO IN 13. TAKING IN SUPPLIES 14. WAITING FOR THE RAIN 15. THE RAIN 16. THE DELUGE 17. INSIDE THE ARK 18. LIFE AT SEA 19. HOMESICKNESS 20. STRAINED RELATIONS 21. THE RAVEN IS SENT OUT 22. RETURN OF THE DOVE 23. FIRST SIGHT OF LAND 24. LEAVING THE ARK 25-26. THE RAINBOW [Illustration] [Illustration] THE STORY OF NOAH’S ARK 1. THE WARNING In the early days of the world lived the patriarch Noah, a good and venerable man whose years already numbered six hundred. Now Noah was warned that a great flood was to come, which would pour down from the clouds and drown the whole earth. He straightway told his neighbors what was to happen, but they refused to believe, and scoffed at him, and said: “Let it rain.” [Illustration] 2. BUILDING THE ARK Then Noah went his way, and set to work to build him a great ship, to be ready for the day of deluge. And he laid the keel in the pasture fields, among the daisies; while the idlers came to look on and laugh at such folly--a ship for a rainy day! [Illustration] 3. LABOR TROUBLES But Noah knew that he was right, and kept on. And the ship rose, but troubles arose too: for frequent and grievous strikes delayed him, and his workmen clamored for more pay and stoned those who would work. And Noah bargained with them, and started afresh; for he feared that the rain might come before he was ready. [Illustration] 4. PAINTING THE ARK At last, after many days, the ship was finished. Then Noah tarred the inside and the outside, to keep it tight. And he named it the Ark, and painted it with colors; for Noah was proud of his work. [Illustration] 5-6. ASSEMBLING THE ANIMALS Then Noah went abroad and called together all the animals, by twos, and told them that they must come into the Ark to be saved from the deluge. But they too doubted, and were slow to decide; for they feared to enter the dark ship. And they grumbled, and said, “It may be but a shower.” [Illustration] 5-6. ASSEMBLING THE ANIMALS (_continued_)