Work and Win; Noddy Newman on a Cruise

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>WORK AND WIN</h1> <h4>OR</h4> <h2>NODDY NEWMAN ON A CRUISE</h2> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>OLIVER OPTIC</h2> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2>PREFACE.</h2> <p><span class="smcap">In</span> the preparation of this volume, the author has had in his mind the intention to delineate the progress of a boy whose education had been neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from vice and indifference to the development of a high moral and religious principle in the heart, which is the rule and guide of a pure and true life.</p> <p>The incidents which make up the story are introduced to illustrate the moral status of the youth, at the beginning, and to develop the influences from which proceeded a gentle and Christian character. Mollie, the captain's daughter, whose simple purity of life, whose filial devotion to an erring parent, and whose trusting faith in the hour of adversity, won the love and respect of Noddy, was not the least of these influences. If the writer has not "moralized," it was because the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept, however skil<span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</SPAN></span>fully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the moralist.</p> <p>Once more the author takes pleasure in acknowledging the kindness of his young friends, who have so favorably received his former works; and he hopes that "<span class="smcap">Work and Win</span>," the fourth of the Woodville Stories, will have as pleasant a welcome as its predecessors.</p> <div class='right'> <span style="margin-right: 1.5em;">WILLIAM T. ADAMS.</span><br/></div> <p><span class="smcap">Harrison Square. Mass.</span>,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">November 10, 1865.</span><br/></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>CONTENTS.</h2> <div class='center'> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> <tr><td align='left' colspan='2'><small>CHAPTER</small></td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'>The Mischief-Makers</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_9">9</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'>The Circus at Whitestone</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_21">21</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'>A Moral Question</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_33">33</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'>Noddy's Confession</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_45">45</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'>Squire Wriggs at Woodville</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_57">57</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>VI.</td><td align='left'>Noddy's Engagement</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_70">70</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>VII.</td><td align='left'>The Ring-Master</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_81">81</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>VIII.</td><td align='left'>Good-by to Woodville</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_93">93</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>IX.</td><td align='left'>An Attempt to Work and Win</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_105">105</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>X.</td><td align='left'>Poor Mollie</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_117">117</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XI.</td><td align='left'>The Schooner Roebuck</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_129">129</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XII.</td><td align='left'>The Drunken Captain</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_141">141</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XIII.</td><td align='left'>The Shark</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_154">154</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XIV.</td><td align='left'>The Yellow Fever</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_167">167</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XV.</td><td align='left'>The Demon of the Cup</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_180">180</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XVI.</td><td align='left'>Night and Storm</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_193">193</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XVII.</td><td align='left'>After the Storm</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_206">206</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XVIII.</td><td align='left'>The Beautiful Island</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_217">217</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XIX.</td><td align='left'>The Visitors</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_228">228</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XX.</td><td align='left'>Homeward Bound</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_239">239</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='right'>XXI.</td><td align='left'>The Clergyman and his Wife</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_247">247</SPAN></td></tr> </table></div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>WORK AND WIN;</h2> <h4>OR,</h4> <h3>NODDY NEWMAN ON A CRUISE.</h3> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />