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All Aboard
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Title: All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club"
Author: Oliver Optic
Release Date: February 9, 2005 [EBook #15002]
Language: English
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All Aboard or Life on the Lake
A Sequel to "The Boat Club"
By Oliver Optic
CHICAGO: M.A. DONOHUE & CO.
PREFACE.
"ALL ABOARD" was written to gratify the reasonable curiosity of the readers of "THE BOAT CLUB" to know what occurred at Wood Lake during the second season; and, though it is a sequel, it has no direct connection with its predecessor. The Introduction, in the first chapter, contains a brief synopsis of the principal events of the first season; so that those who have not read "The Boat Club," will labor under no disadvantage on that account.
The story of each book is entirely distinct from that of the other. As the interest of the first centers in Tony Weston, so that of the second does in Charles Hardy. I have tried to make the boys believe that the path of truth and rectitude is not only the safest, but the pleasantest path; and the experience of Charles with the "Rovers" illustrates and supports the position.
Perhaps some of the older readers of these books will think that, in providing the boys at Wo