chapter 1
Grace darling is amazing story
Around the rocky coast of England stand many lonely lighthouse
Their lights shining across the sea warn sailors at night of dangerous rocks
When they see the lights sailors take their ships far out to sea
But sometimes fierce storms drive ships on to the rocks
This is the story of a drave girl and of a shipwreck on the rocks one night in 1838
Grace Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper
She had lived all her life in lonely lighthouse far away from towns and cities
There was not even a village near their
home
Their nearest neighbour were many miles
away
But Grace's father was a wish and educated man who brought up his children very carefully
Grace and her brother and sister were all taught to read and write
Their father also taught them to be honest and brave and unselfish
When Grace was ten years old the family
went to live in the longstone lighthouse
Their new home was on some wild Island,
near the east coast of England the darling children grew up here
When they were older they left their lonely home, one by one and found work in the cities
At last, all of them had to help her mother and father
She had not grown very tall she was only a little woman, not at all like her father, who was more than six feet tall
On the night of September 6th 1838, a terrible storn was blowing
Grace was used to storms she herself was
warm and safe in the big lighthouse
But she was always unhappy about the poor sailors who were at sea in the storm
She did not know that a terrible thing was happening that night
That night a ship was wrecked upon the rocks Grace and her parents did not hear the
sound of the crash
The noise of the wind and the waves was too loud they could not hear anything else
But a ship called the forfarshire had hit the rocks a mile away from the lighouse
Most of the passengers were drowned,but
nine men and women were able to climb on to
a rocks
The wind nearly blew them into the sea as they clung to the bare rock in the distance
they saw the warm light of the lighthouse
But of course their shots and screams were not heard all night they clung there in the
stom