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" I beg that you won't play tricks with a poor boy like me , " he said . " Please let me go back to my work . " " Mr . Whittington , " said Mr . Fitzwarren , " this is no joke at all . The captain has sold your cat , and has brought you , in return for her , more riches than I have in the whole world . " Then he opened the box of jewels , and showed Dick his treasures . The poor boy did not know what to do . He begged his master to take a part of it ; but Mr . Fitzwarren said , " No , it is all your own ; and I feel sure that you will make good use of it . " Dick then offered some of his jewels to his mistress and little Alice . They thanked him , and told him that they felt great joy at his good luck , but wished him to keep his riches for himself . But he was too kind - hearted to keep everything for himself . He gave nice presents to the captain and the sailors , and to the servants in Mr . Fitzwarren's house . He even remembered the cross old cook . After that , Whittington's face was washed , and his hair curled , and he was dressed in a nice suit of clothes ; and then he was as handsome a young man as ever walked the streets of London . Some time after that , there was a fine wedding at the finest church in London ; and Miss Alice became the wife of Mr . Richard Whittington . And the lord mayor was there , and the great judges , and the sheriffs , and many rich merchants ; and everybody was very happy . And Richard Whittington became a great merchant , and was one of the foremost men in London . He was sheriff of the city , and thrice lord mayor ; and King Henry V . made him a knight . He built the famous prison of Newgate in London . On the archway in front of the prison was a figure , cut in stone , of Sir Richard Whittington and his cat ; and for three hundred years this figure was shown to all who visited London . CASABIANCA . There was a great battle at sea . One could hear nothing but the roar of the big guns . The air was filled with black smoke . The water was strewn with broken masts and pieces of timber which the cannon balls had knocked from the ships . Many men had been killed , and many more had been wounded . The flagship had taken fire . The flames were breaking out from below . The deck was all ablaze . The men who were left alive made haste to launch a small boat . They leaped into it , and rowed swiftly away . Any other place was safer now than on board of that burning ship . There was powder in the hold . But the captain's son , young Casabianca , still stood upon the deck . The flames were almost all around him now ; but he would not stir from his post . His father had bidden him stand there , and he had been taught always to obey . He trusted in his father's word , and believed that when the right time came he would tell him to go .
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