Author of "In the Wilds of the West Coast," "Diamond Rock,"
"Up Among the Ice-Floes"
&c. &c.
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
London, Edinburgh, and New York
1903
PREFATORY NOTE.
The Author begs to express his acknowledgments to the publishers of Our Youth, Youth's Companion, Harper's Young People, Golden Days, and other periodicals, in whose pages many of these stories and sketches were first published.
J. M. O.
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