OLIVER OPTIC’S YACHT CLUB SERIES.

OCEAN BORN.

LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON ]

THE YACHT CLUB SERIES.

OCEAN-BORN; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE CLUBS.

BY OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF “YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD,” “THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES,” “THE WOODVILLE STORIES,” “THE STARRY FLAG SERIES,” “THE LAKE SHORE SERIES,” “THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES,” “THE BOAT CLUB SERIES,” ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC.

_WITH THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS._

BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS 1903

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY ALICE ADAMS RUSSELL.

OCEAN-BORN.

TO MY YOUNG FRIEND

_LEE SHEPARD DILLINGHAM LEAVITT_,

OF HAMPTON, N. H.,

_For his own sake, as well as for that of the triplet of honored names he bears, besides his own_,

This Book is Affectionately Dedicated.