LION BEN
OF
ELM ISLAND.

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ELM ISLAND STORIES.

LION BEN
OF
ELM ISLAND.

BY

REV. ELIJAH KELLOGG,
AUTHOR OF “SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS,”
“GOOD OLD TIMES,” ETC.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD.
1869.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
19 Spring Lane.

ELM ISLAND STORIES.

Others in preparation.

PREFACE.

If the writer ever tasted unalloyed happiness, it has been whenexciting to manly effort a noble boy, whose nature responded to theimpulse as a generous horse leaps under the pressure of the knee.

Hours and years thus spent have brought their own reward. The desireto meet a want not as yet fully satisfied, to impart pleasure, and, atthe same time, inspire respect for labor, integrity, and every noblesentiment, has originated the stories contained in the “Elm IslandSeries,” in which we shall endeavor to place before American youth thehome life of those from whom they sprung; the boy life of those whogrew up amid the exciting scenes and peculiar perils and enjoymentsincident to frontier life, by sea and land; in fine, that type6 ofcharacter which has transformed a wilderness into a land of liberty andwealth, and replaced the log canoe of the pioneer by a commerce, themarvel of the age;—to the intent that, as insects take the color ofthe bark on which they feed, they also may learn to despise effeminacyand vice, and sympathize with, and emulate, the virtues they here findportrayed.

CONTENTS.