WILLIAM T. ADAMS.

(OLIVER OPTIC),

author of “outward bound,” “shamrock and thistle,” “red cross,” “dikes and ditches,” “palace and cottage,” “down the rhine,” etc.

BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. New York: lee, shepard and dillingham, Nos. 47 And 49 Greene St. 1875.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, By WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane.

TO

MY EVER-CHEERFUL AND GOOD-NATURED FRIEND

SHEPARD K. MATTISON,

whom i met for the first time at trollhätten, on the göta canal, and with whom i journeyed through sweden, russia, austria, spain, and portugal,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.