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THE CRUISE OF THE "LIVELY BEE"


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BOYS OF LIBERTY LIBRARY.

12mo. Cloth, handsomely bound. Price, each, postpaid, 50 cents.


  PAUL REVERE and the Boys of Liberty. By John De Morgan.

  THE FIRST SHOT FOR LIBERTY or The Minute Men of Massachusetts. By
  John De Morgan.

  FOOLING THE ENEMY. A Story of the Siege of Boston. By John De Morgan.

  INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH or The Boys of Liberty at the Battle of Long
  Island. By John De Morgan.

  THE HERO OF TICONDEROGA or Ethan Allen and His Green Mountain Boys.
  By John De Morgan.

  ON TO QUEBEC or With Montgomery in Canada. By John De Morgan.

  FIGHTING HAL or From Fort Necessity to Quebec. By John De Morgan.

  MARION AND HIS MEN or The Swamp Fox of Carolina. By John De Morgan.

  THE YOUNG AMBASSADOR or Washington's First Triumph. By John De Morgan.

  THE YOUNG GUARDSMAN or With Washington in the Ohio Valley. By John De
  Morgan.

  THE CRUISE OF THE LIVELY BEE or A Boy's Adventure in the War of 1812.
  By John De Morgan.

  THE TORY PLOT or Saving Washington's Life. By T. C. Harbaugh.

  IN BUFF AND BLUE or Serving under Old Put. By T. C. Harbaugh.

  WASHINGTON'S YOUNG SPY or Outwitting General Howe. By T. C. Harbaugh.

  UNDER GREENE'S BANNER or The Boy Heroes of 1781. By T. C. Harbaugh.

  FOR FREEDOM'S CAUSE or On to Saratoga. By T. C. Harbaugh.

  CAPTAIN OF THE MINUTE MEN or The Concord Boys of 1775. By Harrie
  Irving Hancock.

  THE TRADER'S CAPTIVE or The Young Guardsman and The French Spies. By
  Lieut. Lounsberry.

  THE QUAKER SPY, A Tale of the Revolutionary War. By Lieut. Lounsberry.

  FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM or The Birth of the Stars and Stripes. By Lieut.
  Lounsberry.

  BY ORDER OF THE COLONEL or The Captain of the Young Guardsmen. By
  Lieut. Lounsberry.

  A CALL TO DUTY or The Young Guardsman. By Lieut. Lounsberry.

  IN GLORY'S VAN or The Young Guardsman at Louisbourg. By Lieut.
  Lounsberry.

  THE YOUNG PATRIOT or The Young Guardsmen at Fort William Henry. By
  Lieut. Lounsberry.

  "OLD PUT" THE PATRIOT or Fighting for Home and Country. By Frederick
  A. Ober.

  THE LEAGUE OF FIVE or Washington's Boy Scouts. By Commander Post.

  THE KING'S MESSENGER or The Fall of Ticonderoga. By Capt. Frank Ralph.

  DASHING PAUL JONES, The Hero of the Colonial Navy. By Frank Sheridan.

  FROM MIDSHIPMAN TO COMMODORE or The Glories of Our Infant Navy. By
  Frank Sheridan.

  THE CRUISE OF THE ESSEX or Making the Stars and Stripes Respected. By
  Frank Sheridan.

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THE CRUISE OF THE "LIVELY BEE"

Or

A Boy's Adventure in the War of 1812

by

JOHN DE MORGAN

Author of
"Paul Revere," "The Young Ambassador," "The First
Shot for Liberty," "The Young Guardsman," etc.







[Illustration: BOYS OF LIBERTY LIBRARY]

Philadelphia
David McKay, Publisher
610 South Washington Square

Copyright, 1892
By Norman L. Munro

The Cruise of the "Lively Bee"




THE CRUISE OF THE "LIVELY BEE."




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER I. DECLARATION OF WAR.
  CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTURE.
  CHAPTER III. THE LIEUTENANT'S STORY.
  CHAPTER IV. THE CHALLENGE.
  CHAPTER V. THE CHASE.
  CHAPTER VI. STORM