



Produced by John Pobuda









THE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN

OR A CHASE FOR A FORTUNE


BY Arthur M. Winfield

(Edward Stratemeyer)




INTRODUCTION


My dear Boys: "The Rover Boys on the Ocean" is a complete tale in
itself, but forms a companion volume to "The Rover Boys at
School," which preceded it.

In the former volume I tried to give my young readers a glimpse
of life as it actually is in one of our famous military boarding
schools, with its brightness and shadows, its trials and
triumphs, its little plots and counterplots, its mental and
physical contests, and all that goes to make up such an
existence; in the present tale I have given a little more of
this, and also related the particulars of an ocean trip,