Oliver Optic

Up the River Oliver Optic

Excerpt from Up the River: Or Yachting on the Mississippi

To his young friends, - some of the earlier of Whom are now middle-aged men and women, with boys and girls of their own, reading the same books their fathers and mothers read a quarter Of a century ago, - to his young friends the author again returns his sincere and hearty thanks for the favor they have bestowed upon his numerous volumes.

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