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Title: Forests of Maine
Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge

Author: Jacob S. Abbott

Release Date: March 14, 2008 [EBook #24831]

Language: English

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MARCO PAUL'S
ADVENTURES
IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE.

FORESTS OF MAINE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

ROLLO, JONAS, AND LUCY BOOKS.

BOSTON:
T. H. CARTER & COMPANY,
118 1/2 WASHINGTON STREET.

1843.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1843,

BY T. H. CARTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY
GEORGE A. CURTIS,
N. ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY, BOSTON.

[Illustration: FROM THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE MOUTH OF THE KENNEBEC. 11
II. THE LOST BUCKET. 21
III. A RAFT. 32
IV. THE DESERT ISLAND. 43
V. THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. 54
VI. EBONY AND PINE. 66
VII. THE BEAR IN THE MILL. 77
VIII. THE BIVOUACK. 88
IX. THE ENCAMPMENT. 98
X. LOST IN THE WOODS. 110
XI. THE SHINGLE WEAVER'S. 120
XII. A VOYAGE ON THE POND. 130

[Illustration: _"Joe and two others were despatched to row it
ashore."_--See p. 31.]

PREFACE.

The design of the series of volumes, which it is intended to issue under
the general title of MARCO PAUL'S ADVENTURES IN THE PURSUIT OF
KNOWLEDGE, is not merely to entertain the reader with a narrative of
juvenile ad