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All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake / A Sequel to The Boat Club""

All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake / A Sequel to The Boat Club""

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION.

Word Count: 1192    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

are permitted to reunite with them, to introduce whatever new friends may be waiting to join them in the sports of the second season at Wood Lake. However wea

character. He is not what some people would call an "old fogy," and likes to have the boys enjoy themselves in everything

r which often haunts the minds of fond parents, and has purchased a beautiful club

sen for his son was too dangerous in itself, and too likely to create in him a taste for aquatic pursuits that may one day

and respectable man, on the sea. So, of course, he could not sympathize with the general opinion that a ship must necessarily be a "sink of iniquity," a school of vice, and that nothing good can be

ed a rude raft, upon which they paddled about on the lake, and appeared to enjoy themselves very much. Captain Sedley, who had forbidden his son to venture upon the lake on the raft, or even in a boat, without permiss

me very expert in the management of the boat. A building was erected for the use of the association, in which, besides the boat-house, was a club room containing a library, and furnished with conveniences for holding meetings for mutual instruction and recreation. A constitution for the government of the club was adopted, in which th

ry duties, was both varied and useful. Inasmuch as it reduced their recreation to a system, the laws of the club acting as a sal

f Frank Sedley against Tim Bunker, and had thus obtained the ill will of the leader of the "Bunkers," and is accused of stealing a wallet, which is afterwards proved to have bee

une in his possession. The brother, George Weston, builds a fine house for his mother, and, impelled by a warm admiration for T

es of his mother before George returned required a great deal of sacrifice on his part, and called into action a great many

rescued Tim Bunker from a watery grave, though Tim was even then laboring to ruin him. He loved to sacrifice his own comfort to that of others and found his g

n." He is sometimes selfish and ambitious; though the beneficent influence of

ched in the month of A

ded for her a boat-hous

furnished with a club

oting the objects

on, and my new ones put in possession of all that is necessary to a proper unders

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