The Last of the Flatboats
Reading edition
A Story of the Mississippi and its interesting family of rivers
By
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
Author of “The Big Brother,” “Captain Sam,” “The Signal Boys,” “The Wreck of the Red Bird,” etc., etc.
BOSTON LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
TO MY LAST-BORN BOY
CARY EGGLESTON
A brave, manly fellow Who knows how to swim How to catch fish How to handle his boat How to shoot straight with a rifle And how to tell the truth every time
I Dedicate
This Story about some other Boys of his kind
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
Culross-on-Lake-George