had the courage to tear
himself away from her. I have no doubt they will be man and wife in due
time, though my father says his mother will never consent to the match.
As soon as the train started we returned to the Sylvania. The two
waiters we had hired in Florida wanted to seek their fortune in New
York, and Colonel Shepard promised to do all he could for them on their
arrival.

Cobbington returned to Montomercy with my father and myself. He was now
in apparently good health, but he declared that it would cost him his
life to remain in the North over winter. Governor Hungerford wrote to
me, as he had promised to do, during the summer. Before the cold
weather came, I had secured a situation in Baton Rouge for the invalid,
where at the last accounts he was in good health, acting as messenger
for the governor.

My father and I were so well contented in the home of the Bricklands,
that we remained there the rest of the season. He built a summer
residence on an island in Lake Superior, where we expect to go every
season in the Sylvania. I liked my home in the west too well to think
of giving it up, though I was admitted to the college at Racine in
September, as Washburn was at Brunswick.

My story is told; but I hope, when I have graduated, to make another
such trip as that in which we circumnavigated twenty-four states,
besides New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, coasted along the whole eastern
shore of the United States, visited the interior of Florida, crossed
the Gulf of Mexico, and sailed "UP THE RIVER," yachting on the
Mississippi.

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LEE & SHEPARD'S

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JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS.

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OLIVER OPTIC'S BOOKS.

Each Set in a neat Box with Illuminated Titles.

Army and Navy Stories. A Library for Young and Old, in 6 volumes.
16mo. Illustrated. Per vol. $1.25

The Soldier Boy.
The Sailor Boy.
The Young Lieutenant.
The Yankee Middy.
Fighting Joe.
Brave Old Salt.

Famous "Boat-Club" Series. A Library for Young People.
Handsomely Illustrated. Six volumes, in neat box. Per vol. 1.25

The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton.
All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake.
Now or Never; or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright.
Try Again; or, The Trials and Triumphs of Harry West.
Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redbu