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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Watch and Wait, by Oliver Optic This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives Author: Oliver Optic Release Date: February 9, 2009 [EBook #28038] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WATCH AND WAIT *** Produced by David Edwards, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: CYD HAS A BAD FIT. Page 196.] WOODVILLE STORIES BY OLIVER OPTIC WATCH AND WAIT. BOSTON. LEE & SHEPARD. WATCH AND WAIT; OR, THE YOUNG FUGITIVES. A Story for Young People. BY OLIVER OPTIC, AUTHOR OF "THE BOAT CLUB," "ALL ABOARD," "NOW OR NEVER," "TRY AGAIN," "POOR AND PROUD," "LITTLE BY LITTLE," "RICH AND HUMBLE," "IN SCHOOL AND OUT," "THE SOLDIER BOY," "THE RIVERDALE STORY BOOKS," ETC. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, (SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.) 1868. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY, 4 Spring Lane. TO WALTER F. POPE This Book IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY HIS UNCLE. THE WOODVILLE STORIES. IN SIX VOLUMES. LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. BY OLIVER OPTIC. 1. RICH AND HUMBLE. 2. IN SCHOOL AND OUT. 3. WATCH AND WAIT. 4. WORK AND WIN. 5. HOPE AND HAVE. 6. HASTE AND WASTE. PREFACE. However much the author of "WATCH AND WAIT" may sympathize with that portion of the population of our country to which the principal characters of the story belong, he is forced to acknowledge that his book was not written in the interests of the anti-slavery cause. His young friends require stirring incidents of him, and the inviting field of adventure presented by the topic he has chosen was the moving spring which brought the work into existence; and if the story shall kindle any new emotion of sympathy
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