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Title: In School and Out
or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: February 26, 2008 [EBook #24698]

Language: English

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IN SCHOOL AND OUT;

OR,

THE CONQUEST OF RICHARD GRANT.

A Story for Young People.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "THE BOAT CLUB," "ALL ABOARD," "NOW OR NEVER,"
"TRY AGAIN," "POOR AND PROUD," "LITTLE BY LITTLE,"
"RICH AND HUMBLE," "THE RIVERDALE
STORY BOOKS," ETC.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
1873.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
19 Spring Lane.

TO

EDWARD JENKINS HOWE

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY HIS UNCLE.

THE WOODVILLE STORIES.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

A LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

BY OLIVER OPTIC.

1. RICH AND HUMBLE.
2. IN SCHOOL AND OUT.
3. WATCH AND WAIT.
4. WORK AND WIN.
5. HOPE AND HAVE.
6. HASTE AND WASTE.

PREFACE.

The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of
Richard Grant, "in school and out." We are sorry to say that Richard
had become a bad boy, and was in the habit of getting into the most
abominable scrapes, some of which are detailed in the first chapters of
this book. But he is not what is sometimes called a vicious boy, for he
has many good qualities, which redeem him from absolute condemnation.
There is something noble in his character, which is the germ of his
ultimate salvation from the sins which so easily beset him.

Richard, like thousands of others, finds his strongest and most
dangerous foe within his own heart; and the conquest he achieves is no