The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine

This old and famous classic of the fabulous voyaging, shipwreck, and remarkable adventures of two sedate widows, Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, has long been loved by young and old American readers. Here are the thin, scrawny Mrs. Lecks and the plump, ... Read more

This old and famous classic of the fabulous voyaging, shipwreck, and remarkable adventures of two sedate widows, Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, has long been loved by young and old American readers. Here are the thin, scrawny Mrs. Lecks and the plump, lovable Mrs. Aleshine, girded into their life preservers and blandly "sweeping" their way across the Pacific with the oars of the foundered rowboat. (You remember they didn't know how to paddle and had to pretend they were sweeping a familiar floor in order to master the oars they found so difficult.) Here is the lank but distinguished Mr. Craig, narrator of the tale, staunch defender of two ladies in distress and the three of them in mid-ocean partaking of a light lunch salvaged from the voluminous skirts of Mrs. Aleshine, who knows that the inner man must be fed despite disaster. Here is the desert island where they take refuge and the elderly, irascible Mr. Enderton with his charming daughter Ruth, who throw themselves on the good women's hospitality. And last but not least, here are the Dusantes, met in that incredible toboggan slide over the snow drifts, and the ginger jar with its precious contents that had such wide and varied travels. You will recognize them all with delight, for they have not been modernized or changed -- only more affeciontately interpreted. Less