BEAR AND FORBEAR;

OR, THE

YOUNG SKIPPER OF LAKE UCAYGA.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

Author of “Army and Navy Stories,” “Great Western Series,” “Onward and Upward Stories,” “Woodville Stories,” Famous “Boat-Club Series,” “The Starry-Flag Series,” “Young America Abroad,” “Lake Shore Series,” “Riverdale Story-Book,” “Yacht-Club Series,” and “The Boat-Builder Series.”

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

WILLIAM T. ADAMS,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE

BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,

No. 19 Spring Lane.

TO

HELEN HAMLIN, FRANK HAMLIN, JARVIS L. CARTER, EDWARD STETSON, CHARLIE HAMLIN, ISAIAH STETSON, ADDIE HAMLIN, MARY STETSON,

AND “A THOUSAND AND ONE OTHER BOYS AND GIRLS” OF THE CITY OF BANGOR, WHO SENT ME A BLACK BEAR, IN TOKEN OF THEIR LOVE AND ESTEEM, ADMONISHING ME NOT TO EAT HIM, BUT TO INSTRUCT AND TO PRESERVE HIM FROM THE EVILS OF THIS WICKED WORLD,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

Though I did not eat him, nor any part thereof, and his life was too short to permit him to profit by any instruction I might have been able to give him, yet he is preserved from “the evils of this wicked world” at the rooms of the Society of Natural History, and I hope my readers will profit by the story he suggested.

O. O.

THE LAKE SHORE SERIES.

THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT; or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad.

LIGHTNING EXPRESS; or, The Rival Academies.

ON TIME; or, The Young Captain of the Ucayga Steamer.

SWITCH OFF; or, The War of the Students.

BRAKE UP; or, The Young Peacemakers.

BEAR AND FORBEAR; or, The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga.