ReadOasis Step 2
By Laura Richards
Retold by ReadOasis.com

Once upon a time, two children came to the house of a sailor man, who lived beside the salt sea; and they found the sailor man sitting in his doorway knotting ropes.

“How do you do?” asked the sailor man.

“We are very well, thank you,” said the children, who had good manners. “And we hope you are the same. We heard that you had a boat, and we thought that perhaps you might take us out in her, and teach us how to sail, for that is what...