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CHARLIE BELL,
THE WAIF OF ELM ISLAND.
Frontispiece
Charlie Surprised.—Page 158.
ELM ISLAND STORIES.
CHARLIE BELL,
THE WAIF OF ELM ISLAND.
BY
REV. ELIJAH KELLOGG,

AUTHOR OF “SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS,” “LION BEN,” “THE BOYFARMERS,” “THE YOUNG SHIP-BUILDERS,” “THE HARD-SCRABBLE,”THE “PLEASANT COVE STORIES,” THE “WHISPERINGPINE SERIES,” ETC.
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BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
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.
Copyright, 1896, by Elijah Kellogg.
All rights reserved.
CHARLIE BELL.
 INTRODUCTION.
There is a period in the life of all boys, when, in the homely phraseof Uncle Isaac, “they stand up edgeways.” At this critical period, asstreams are tinged by the soils through which they filter, so theircharacter for life is in a great measure shaped by their playmates, theexamples set before them, and the associations amid which they grow up.
Lion Ben, the principal character in the first volume of the series,with nothing but his hands, narrow axe, and a true-hearted, lovingwoman,—his equal in enterprise,—goes on to an island, an unbrokenforest in the midst of breakers, that, by reason of the peril of livingon it, can be bought cheap, thus coming within their scanty means,there to struggle for a homestead and acres of their own.
4Though bred a seaman, yet cherishing a love for the soil, withqualities of mind and heart commensurate with his great physical power,he appreciates the beauty of the spot.
His reluctance to devote it to axe and firebrand excites him to effortsequally daring and original, in order that he may so husband hisresources as to pay for the land without stripping it of its majesticcoronal of timber and forests, any farther than is necessary to renderit available for cultivation.
In this he is aided by the counsels of an old friend of himselfand his family,—a most original and sagacious man,—Isaac Murch.In their sayings and doings is represented the subsoil of Americancharacter—the home life and modes of thought of those who made theculture and progress; thus endeavoring, in a pleasing manner, to teachthose great truths which lie at the foundation of thrift, progress, andmorality.
Charlie Bell, the hero of the second volume of the s                        
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