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Title: The Yacht Club
or The Young Boat-Builder

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23351]

Language: English

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[Illustration: YACHT CLUB SERIES]

[Illustration: MISS NELLIE PATTERDALE AND DON JOHN. Frontispiece.]

[Illustration: OLIVER OPTIC'S YACHT CLUB SERIES.

THE YACHT CLUB.
LEE & SHEPARD,
BOSTON]

THE YACHT CLUB SERIES.

* * * * *

THE YACHT CLUB;

OR,

THE YOUNG BOAT-BUILDER.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES,"
"THE WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE STARRY FLAG SERIES," "THE
BOAT CLUB STORIES," "THE LAKE SHORE SERIES,"
"THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES,"
ETC., ETC.

_WITH THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS._

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

* * * * *

Brown Type-Setting Machine Company.

TO

MY YOUNG FRIEND

_CHARLES H. HASTINGS_,

OF NEW YORK,

This Book is Affectionately Dedicated.

The Yacht Club Series.

1. LITTLE BOBTAIL; OR, THE WRECK OF THE PENOBSCOT.

2. THE YACHT CLUB; OR, THE YOUNG BOAT-BUILDER.

3. MONEY-MAKER; OR, THE VICTORY OF THE BASILISK.

4. THE COMING WAVE; OR, THE HIDDEN TREASURE OF HIGH ROCK.

5. THE DORCAS CLUB; OR, OUR GIRLS AFLOAT.

(The sixth in preparation.)

PREFACE.

"THE YACHT CLUB" is the second volume of the YACHT CLUB SERIES, to which
it gives a name; and like