LIFE ON A BARGE
" Almost everyone has heard about marges, but feAv people know about 'hem. I live on a barge, and should like to tell you about it, writes a 'ittle American girl to her school paper. The barge I live on is quite large, with a house on top. We have three ■ooms, and they are very comfortible. The ba"ge carried freight to different ships in New York Har-j ''our. Sometimes I have to climb over a ship to get to home. When I set out for school in the morning, the barge may be in New York; and when I get home, it may be in New Jersey. I never know where it will be. Mother goes half way to school with me every day. She doesn't let me go on the waterfront alone. . ] Many a day I've had breakfast n Brooklyn, lunch in New Jersey, ' md supper in New York. Besides York, New Jersey and Brooklyn, the barge also goes to Stateir ' sland. A tug tows the barge from ( >lace to place. The barge carried all kinds of 'reight, such as flour, canned goods, 'ruit, automobiles, machinery, rubber goods and cement. ' Even though I lire on a barg?, I ->;o to Sunday School and 'church regularly in Jersey City.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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213LIFE ON A BARGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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