Work and Win; Or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise

AUTHOR OF BOAT CLUB, ALL ABOARD, NOW OR NEVER, ETC., ETC. NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
To MY YOUNG FRIEND, Edward C. Bellows, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

In the preparation of this volume, the author has had in his mind the intention to delineate the progress of a boy whose education had been neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from vice and indifference to the development of a high moral and religious principle in the heart, which is the rule and guide of a pure and true life.
The incidents which make up the story are introduced to illustrate the moral status of the youth, at the beginning, and to develop the influences from which proceeded a gentle and Christian character. Mollie, the captain's daughter, whose simple purity of life, whose filial devotion to an erring parent, and whose trusting faith in the hour of adversity, won the love and respect of Noddy, was not the least of these influences. If the writer has not moralized, it was because the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept, however skil fully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the moralist.
Once more the author takes pleasure in acknowledging the kindness of his young friends, who have so favorably received his former works; and he hopes that Work and Win, the fourth of the Woodville Stories, will have as pleasant a welcome as its predecessors.
WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
Harrison Square. Mass., November 10, 1865.


Here, Noddy Newman! you haven't washed out the boat-house yet, said Ben, the boatman, as the young gentleman thus addressed was ambling down towards the river.
Hang the boat-house! exclaimed Noddy, impatiently, as he stopped short in his walk, and seemed to be in doubt whether he should return or continue on his way.