he is much older. Jack is first mate, and will be a
captain before he is twenty-five. His mother is living, and happy in his
success, and enjoying the comfortable home he has provided for her.

Harry obtained a position for Joel in the city, but he proved
unsatisfactory to his employer and was soon discharged. Another
situation he held as brief a time. At last he was obliged to go home and
assist his father, who treats him almost as penuriously as he would have
done Harry. Joel is dissatisfied and unhappy, and his mother thinks he
was born to bad luck, but those who know Joel think his want of success
springs from a different source. Harry and Jack obtained success because
they deserved it. If Joel were more like them he too might succeed. And
I am sorry to say he is looking forward impatiently to the time when he
shall inherit his father's property. It is very wrong, but perhaps Mr.
Fox himself is partly to blame.

Whenever Jack comes home from a voyage he calls upon Harry, and together
they talk over their adventures in a New World. Sometimes Obed Stackpole
calls also. He has two boys, whom he has named respectively Harry and
Jack in honor of his two companions in Australia.

THE END.

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 . . . . . . . .