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Title: Little By Little
or, The Cruise of the Flyaway

Author: William Taylor Adams

Release Date: August 21, 2007 [EBook #22365]

Language: English

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LITTLE BY LITTLE

OR

The Cruise of the Flyaway

BY
WILLIAM TAYLOR ADAMS

(OLIVER OPTIC)

CHICAGO
UNION SCHOOL FURNISHING COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

TO

CHARLES LABAN ADAMS

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY HIS UNCLE.

PREFACE

In presenting to his young friends the sixth volume of the "Library for
Young People," the author cannot be unconscious of what the readers of
his former books require of him. They will turn the leaves of "Little by
Little," expecting to find an abundance of stirring incidents; and he
hopes they will not be disappointed. Some of the older readers and
sterner critics will look for romantic and rather exaggerated events;
but he thinks they will look in vain, for as we grow older we become
more reasonable, and do not expect showers of gold to fall upon every
seedy hero, or to see nice young gentlemen leap over lofty precipices
without sometimes being dashed to pieces.

But the author hopes that something more than exciting incidents will be
found upon his pages; that, though he has seldom, if ever, gone out of
his way to define the moral quality, or measure the moral quantity, of
the words and deeds of his characters, the story will not be found
wanting in a true Christian spirit.

Paul Duncan, the hero of this volume, is a nautical young gentleman, and
most of the events of the story occur upon the water; but the author
hopes his young lady friends will not make faces at him on this
account. The boys insisted upon having a sea story, and being the "lords
of creation," of course they must be indulged; bu