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Title: Make or Break
or, The Rich Man's Daughter

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: September 23, 2008 [EBook #26695]

Language: English

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STARRY FLAG SERIES

OLIVER OPTIC

THE STARRY FLAG SERIES,

BY OLIVER OPTIC.

I. THE STARRY FLAG; OR, THE YOUNG FISHERMAN OF CAPE ANN.

II. FREAKS OF FORTUNE; OR, HALF ROUND THE WORLD.

III. BREAKING AWAY; OR, THE FORTUNES OF A STUDENT.

IV. SEEK AND FIND; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A SMART BOY.

V. MAKE OR BREAK; OR, THE RICH MAN'S DAUGHTER.

VI. DOWN THE RIVER; OR, BUCK BRADFORD AND HIS TYRANTS.

[Illustration: THE BANKER'S PRIVATE OFFICE.--Page 199.]

MAKE OR BREAK;

OR,

THE RICH MAN'S DAUGHTER.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY STORIES,"
"THE WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE BOAT-CLUB STORIES," "THE RIVERDALE
STORIES," ETC.

BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
All rights reserved.

MAKE OR BREAK.

TO

MY YOUNG FRIEND

KATE V. AUSTIN

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

"MAKE OR BREAK," is the fifth of the serial stories published in "OUR
BOYS AND GIRLS"--a magazine which has become so much the pet of the
author, that he never sits down to write a story for it without being
impressed by a very peculiar responsibility. Twenty thousand youthful
faces seem to surround him, crying out for something that will excite
their minds, and thrill their very souls, while a calmer, holier voice,
speaking in the tones of divine command, breathes gently forth, "Feed
my lambs."

The lambs will not eat dry husks; they loathe the tasteless morsel
which well-meaning s