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Title: Dave Porter and the Runaways
Last Days at Oak Hall

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Illustrator: H. Richard Boehm

Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28654]

Language: English

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Dave Porter Series

DAVE PORTER

AND THE RUNAWAYS

OR

LAST DAYS AT OAK HALL

BY

EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," "The Lakeport Series,"
"Old Glory Series," "Pan-American Series," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY H. RICHARD BOEHM

BOSTON

LOTHROP LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, March, 1913

Copyright, 1913, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

All Rights Reserved

Dave Porter and the Runaways

Norwood Press

Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass.

U.S.A.

PREFACE

"Dave Porter and the Runaways" is a complete story in itself, but
forms the ninth volume of a line issued under the general title of
"Dave Porter Series."

In the first volume of this series, entitled "Dave Porter at Oak
Hall," the reader was introduced to a typical American lad, and the
particulars were given of his doings at an up-to-date boarding
school.

There was a cloud over Dave's parentage, and in order to solve the
mystery of his identity he took a long voyage over the ocean, as
related in the second volume, called "Dave Porter in the South Seas."
Then he came back to his schoolmates, as told of in "Dave Porter's
Return to School," and then took a long trip to Norway, to hunt up his
father, the particulars of which are given in "Dave Porter in the Far
North."

Having settled the matter of his identity to his satisfaction, our
hero came back to Oak Hall and had a number of strenuous contests,
related in detail in "Dave Porter and His Classmates." Following this
came the summer vacation, and the youth made a trip West, the
happenings of which are set down in "Dave Porter at Star Ranch."

When Dave r