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                        CHARLIE CODMAN'S CRUISE

                           A Story for Boys


                         BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.

            AUTHOR OF "FRANK'S CAMPAIGN," "ERIE TRAIN BOY,"
                   "ADRIFT IN NEW YORK," ETC., ETC.


                               NEW YORK
                            HURST & COMPANY
                              PUBLISHERS




                               PREFACE.


In deference to the expressed wishes of some of his young friends,
the author has essayed a story of the sea, and now presents "Charlie
Codman's Cruise," as the third volume of the Campaign Series. It will
be found more adventurous than its predecessors, and the trials which
Charlie is called upon to encounter are of a severer character than
befell Frank Frost or Paul Prescott. But it will be found that they
were met with the same manly spirit, and a like determination to be
faithful to duty at all hazards.

Though not wholly a stranger to the sea, the author is quite aware of
the blunders to which a landsman is exposed in treating of matters and
a mode of life which, at the best, he must comprehend but imperfectly,
and has endeavored to avoid, as far as possible, professional
technicalities, as not essential to the interest of the story.

With these few words he submits the present volume to his young
readers, hoping for it a welcome even more generous than has been
accorded to "Frank's Campaign" and "Paul Prescott's Charge."




                       CHARLIE CODMAN'S CRUISE.




                                  I.

                        CHARLIE AND THE MISER.


Charlie Codman turned out of Washington into Bedford Street just as the
clock in the Old South steeple struck two. He was about fourteen, a
handsome, well-made boy, with a bright eye and a manly expression.