AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD" "THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES"
"THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES" "THE WOODVILLE SERIES" "THE
STARRY-FLAG SERIES" "THE BOAT-CLUB STORIES" "THE
ONWARD AND UPWARD SERIES" "THE YACHT-CLUB
SERIES" "THE LAKE-SHORE SERIES" "THE
RIVERDALE SERIES" "ALL ADRIFT"
"SNUG HARBOR" "SQUARE AND
COMPASSES" "STEM TO
STERN" ETC. ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM
1887
Copyright, 1886,
By WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
All rights reserved.
All Taut.
TO
My Young Friend,
FRED G. BERGER, Jr.,
OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.,
This Book
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
PREFACE.
"All Taut" is the fifth volume of "The Boat-BuilderSeries," which will be finished in thenext book. Nearly all the characters presented, andall who take prominent parts in the story, have beenintroduced in the preceding volumes. The principalof the Beech Hill Industrial School entertains somedoubts in regard to the principle upon which he hasbeen conducting the institution, and brings about apartial change in its character. He is a firm believerin the utility of the school as he has organized it;and, apart from its industrial mission, he believes itmay accomplish another purpose
