Chapter I: Front Matter

_THE LAKE SHORE SERIES._

BEAR AND FORBEAR;

OR, THE

YOUNG SKIPPER OF LAKE UCAYGA.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

_Author of “Army and Navy Stories,” “Great Western Series,” “Onward
and Upward Stories,” “Woodville Stories,” Famous “Boat-Club
Series,” “The Starry-Flag Series,” “Young America
Abroad,” “Lake Shore Series,” “Riverdale Story-Book,”
“Yacht-Club Series,” and “The
Boat-Builder Series.”_

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
No. 19 Spring Lane.

TO

_HELEN HAMLIN_, _FRANK HAMLIN_, _JARVIS L. CARTER_,
_EDWARD STETSON_, _CHARLIE HAMLIN_, _ISAIAH STETSON_,
_ADDIE HAMLIN_, _MARY STETSON_,

AND “A THOUSAND AND ONE OTHER BOYS AND GIRLS” OF THE
CITY OF BANGOR, WHO SENT ME A BLACK BEAR, IN TOKEN
OF THEIR LOVE AND ESTEEM, ADMONISHING ME
NOT TO EAT HIM, BUT TO INSTRUCT AND
TO PRESERVE HIM FROM THE EVILS
OF THIS WICKED WORLD,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

Though I did not eat him, nor any part thereof, and his life was too short to permit him to profit by any instruction I might have been able to give him, yet he is preserved from “the evils of this wicked world” at the rooms of the Society of Natural History, and I hope my readers will profit by the story he suggested.

O. O.

_THE LAKE SHORE SERIES._

1. _THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT_; or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore
Railroad.

2. _LIGHTNING EXPRESS_; or, The Rival Academies.

3. _ON TIME_; or, The Young Captain of the Ucayga Steamer.

4. _SWITCH OFF_; or, The War of the Students.

5. _BRAKE UP_; or, The Young Peacemakers.

6. _BEAR AND FORBEAR_; or, The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga.