s it is to work the dry details of
geography and history into a story, the writer intends to persevere in
his efforts to make these books instructive, as well as interesting;
and he is confident that no reader will fail to distinguish the good
boys from the bad ones of the story, or to give his sympathies to the
former.

HARRISON SQUARE, BOSTON,
May 10, 1871.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
I. A WAIF ON THE NORTH SEA 11
II. OFF THE NAZE OF NORWAY 27
III. AN ACCIDENT TO THE SECOND CUTTER 43
IV. NORWAY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT 59
V. MR. CLYDE BLACKLOCK AND MOTHER 76
VI. A DAY AT CHRISTIANSAND 92
VII. UP THE CHRISTIANIA FJORD 110
VIII. SIGHTS OF CHRISTIANIA, AND OTHER MATTERS 128
IX. THE EXCURSION WITHOUT RUNNING AWAY 146
X. GOTTENBURG AND FINKEL 164
XI. ON THE WAY TO THE RJUKANFOS 181
XII. THE BOATSWAIN AND THE BRITON 201
XIII. THE MEETING OF THE ABSENTEES 218
XIV. THROUGH THE SOUND TO COPENHAGEN 237
XV. COPENHAGEN AND TIVOLI 255
XVI. EXCURSION TO KLAMPENBORG AND ELSINORE 274
XVII. TO STOCKHOLM BY GOETA CANAL 292
XVIII. UP THE BALTIC 310
XIX. THE CRUISE IN THE LITTLE STEAMER 329
XX. STOCKHOLM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 349

* * * * *

UP THE BALTIC;
OR,
YOUNG AMERICA IN NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK.

CHAPTER I.

A WAIF ON THE NORTH SEA.

"Boat on the weather bow, sir!" shouted the lookout on the top-gallant
forecastle of the Young America.

"Starboard!" replied Judson, the officer of the deck, as he discovered
the boat, which was drifting into the track of the ship.

"Starboard, sir!" responded the quartermaster in charge of the wheel.

"Steady!" added the officer.

"Steady, sir," repeated the quartermaster.

By this time a crowd of young officers and seamen had leaped upon the
top-gallant forecastle, and into the weather rigging, to obtain a view
of the little boat, which, like a waif on the ocean, was drifting down
towards the coast of Norway. It contained only a single person, who
was either a dwarf or a boy, for he was small in stature. He lay upon
a se