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Miss Nellie Patterdale and Don John. Frontispiece.THE YACHT CLUB SERIES.
THE YACHT CLUB;
OR,
THE YOUNG BOAT-BUILDER.
BY
OLIVER OPTIC,
"THE WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE STARRY FLAG SERIES," "THE
BOAT CLUB STORIES," "THE LAKE SHORE SERIES,"
"THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES,"
ETC., ETC.
WITH THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
By WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
MY YOUNG FRIEND
CHARLES H. HASTINGS,
OF NEW YORK,
This Book is Affectionately Dedicated.
The Yacht Club Series.
2. THE YACHT CLUB; or, The Young Boat-builder.
3. MONEY-MAKER; or, The Victory of the Basilisk.
4. THE COMING WAVE; or, The Hidden Treasure of High Rock.
5. THE DORCAS CLUB; or, Our Girls Afloat.
PREFACE.
"The Yacht Club" is the second volume of the Yacht ClubSeries, to which it gives a name; and like its predecessor, is anindependent story. The hero has not before appeared, thoughsome of the characters of "Little Bobtail" take part in theincidents: but each volume may be read understandingly withoutany knowledge of the contents of the other. In this story,the interest centres in Don John, the Boat-builder, who is certainlya very enterprising young man, though his achievementshave been more than paralleled in the domain of actual life.
Like the first volume of the series, the incidents of the storytranspire on the waters of the beautiful Penobsco