am glad that at no time, so far as I can gather, did you despair. You
and Nellie have been tried by fire, and have come out as pure gold.
Heaven be praised for its mercies. The lesson you have learned will go
with you through life. Never despair, but press onward and upward, and
the reward shall be yours at last."

And what did the good man say but that which our own beloved and mourned
poet has so beautifully limned in lines that shall be as immortal as
his own fragrant deeds and revered memory?

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

THE END.

_The second volume of the Wild-Woods Series will be_ "On the Trail
of the Moose."

==THE FAMOUS CASTLEMON BOOKS.==

==BY==

==HARRY CASTLEMON.==

[Illustration: Specimen Cover of the Gunboat Series.]

No author of the present day has become a greater favorite with boys
than "Harry Castlemon:" every book by him is sure to meet with hearty
reception by young readers generally. His naturalness and vivacity lead
his readers from page to page with breathless interest, and when one
volume is finished the fascinated reader, like Oliver Twist, asks "for
more."

*** Any volume sold separately.

* * * * *

==GUNBOAT SERIES.== By Harry Castlemon. 6
vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed
in colors. In box ==$7 50==

==Frank, the Young Naturalist== ==1 25==

==Frank in the Woods== ==1 25==

==Frank on the Prairie== ==1 25==

==Frank on a Gunboat== ==1 25==

==Frank before Vicksburg== ==1 25==

==Frank on the Lower Mississippi== ==1 25==

==GO AHEAD SERIES.== By Harry Castlemon. 3
vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed
in colors. In box ==$3 75==

==Go Ahead;== or, The Fisher Boy's Motto ==1 25==

==No Moss;== or, The Career of a Rolling Stone ==1 25==

==Tom Newcombe;== or, The Boy of Bad Habits ==1 25==

==ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERIES.== By Harry
Castlemon. 3 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth,
extra, printed in colors. In box ==$3 75==

==Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho==