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  _THE PLEASANT COVE SERIES._

  ARTHUR BROWN,

  THE YOUNG CAPTAIN.

  BY

  REV. ELIJAH KELLOGG,

  AUTHOR OF THE ELM ISLAND STORIES—“LION BEN,” “CHARLIE BELL,” “THE BOY-FARMERS,” “THE ARK,” “THE YOUNG SHIP- BUILDERS,” “THE HARD-SCRABBLE.”

  _ILLUSTRATED._

  BOSTON:

  LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

  LEE AND SHEPARD,

  in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

  COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY ELIJAH KELLOGG.

  _All Rights Reserved._

  =ARTHUR BROWN.=

  Norwood Press:

  Berwick & Smith, Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

  PREFACE.

  NOTWITHSTANDING kindness is at times rewarded with ingratitude, andeven positive injury, it is by no means so frequent an occurrence aspersons naturally censorious, or whose minds have been soured by anunblest experience, would have us suppose.

  Benefits conferred usually excite gratitude, and sometimes, when thedonors have passed away are repaid, with interest, to their posterity.

  The story of Arthur Brown presents a striking illustration of thisprinciple. Lashed to a raft, perishing with cold and hunger in the edgeof the surf, he is rescued by Captain Rhines, who, when a boy, poorand unable either to read or write, had been instructed and startedin business by Arthur’s father, who was afterwards lost at sea. Theold captain, discovering, in the person he had perilled his life tosave, the only son of his benefactor, receives him with open arms,with a nobility of soul that strengthens our faith in human nature,freely bestowing both time and property to aid the son and family ofhis benefactor, and repay the old debt. His efforts in this direction,together with those of the young man to help himself, at a moststirring period of our country’s history, the adventures growing out ofthose efforts, and the consequent development of character, will, wetrust, prove interesting, and not without instruction.

  Some references have necessarily been made to characters of the “ElmIsland Series,” the reasons for which are given in the introductorychapter, and the references so explained as to render the connectionplain to the reader.

  CONTENTS

  PAGE

  CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 9

  CHAPTER II. THE WRECK AND THE RESCUE. 16

  CHAPTER III. A GLAD SURPRISE. 30

  CHAPTER IV. CAPTAIN RHINES MANIFESTS HIS GRATITUDE. 44

  CHAPTER V. “WE WERE PUT INTO THIS WORLD TO HELP ONE ANOTHER.” 60

  CHAPTER VI. THE YOUNG CAPTAIN UNDER FIRE. 74

  CHAPTER VII. LITTLE NED AND HIS MOTHER. 94

  CHAPTER VIII. MOONLIGHT CONVERSATION BY THE BROOK. 106

  CHAPTER IX. THE GRIFFINS. 122

  CHAPTER X. WHERE THE HARD STREAK CAME FROM. 137

  CHAPTER XI. RECONNOITRING. 155

  CHAPTER XII. DID I BEAR IT LIKE A MAN, WALTER? 169

  CHAPTER XIII. THE BASKET-MAKER. 181

  CHAPTER XIV. A STRANGE DISCOVERY. 191

  CHAPTER XV. HOMEWARD BOUND. 204

  CHAPTER XVI. DEAR-BOUGHT WIT. 223

  CHAPTER XVII. DEATH AND BURIAL OF TIGE RHINES. 240

  CHAPTER XVIII. THE MEETING. 253

  CHAPTER XIX. NED AMONG THE GRIFFINS. 272

  CHAPTER XX. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. 283

  ARTHUR BROWN,

  THE YOUNG CAPTAIN.