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Title: Work and Win
or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: December 7, 2007 [EBook #23758]

Language: English

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WORK AND WIN

OR

NODDY NEWMAN ON A CRUISE

A Story for Young People

BY

OLIVER OPTIC

AUTHOR OF "BOAT CLUB," "ALL ABOARD," "NOW
OR NEVER," ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

To

MY YOUNG FRIEND,

Edward C. Bellows,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

In the preparation of this volume, the author has had in his mind the
intention to delineate the progress of a boy whose education had been
neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from
vice and indifference to the development of a high moral and religious
principle in the heart, which is the rule and guide of a pure and true
life.

The incidents which make up the story are introduced to illustrate the
moral status of the youth, at the beginning, and to develop the
influences from which proceeded a gentle and Christian character.
Mollie, the captain's daughter, whose simple purity of life, whose
filial devotion to an erring parent, and whose trusting faith in the
hour of adversity, won the love and respect of Noddy, was not the least
of these influences. If the writer has not "moralized," it was because
the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept,
however skilfully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the
moralist.

Once more the author takes pleasure in acknowledging the kindness of his
young friends, who have so favorably received his former works; and he
hope