In about the same time a ship navigated by six or eight men, and sailing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods.
But the sailors who sail from the port of London, seldom earn above three or four shillings a month more than those who sail from the port of Leith, and the difference is frequently not so great.
" There is a sort of tug-of-war through the history of children's writing between instruction and delight, " says Sam Leith, author of " The Haunted Wood" , a book about children's literature.