Chapter II: Preface

“BEAR AND FORBEAR” is the sixth and last of the Lake Shore Series, and was one of the serials which appeared in Oliver Optic’s Magazine. The story itself is complete, and independent of its predecessors, though the characters that have been prominent in the other volumes of the series are again presented, to be finally dealt with according to their several deserts. The writer has endeavored to show that fidelity to duty prospers even in this world, and that evil doing brings pain and misery; and if he has awarded “poetical justice” to each, it will only make the contrast the more evident.

The author has endeavored to make a proper use of the Christian precept which forms the principal title; and he trusts that his readers, both young and old, will be able to deduce the moral from the story, and, profiting by it, be enabled to avoid such disagreeable ruptures as that which threatened the peace of the two communities in the story, but which the “two bears” happily prevented.

In closing this series, the author desires once more to thank his juvenile and his adult friends for the kind consideration they have always extended to him, and for the increasing favor bestowed upon his efforts to please and to instruct.

HARRISON SQUARE, BOSTON.
June 1, 1870.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE ON BOARD THE BELLE. 11

CHAPTER II. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE. 22

CHAPTER III. AN ANGRY GUARDIAN. 33

CHAPTER IV. FIRE ON THE LAKE. 45

CHAPTER V. THE RESCUED PASSENGER. 57

CHAPTER VI. THE ENGLISH LORD AND THE DRUMMER. 69

CHAPTER VII. MISS DORNWOOD’S STORY. 82

CHAPTER VIII. THE STRANGE BOAT. 94

CHAPTER IX. THE ROBBERY OF THE CENTREPORT BANK. 107

CHAPTER X. THE ROBBERS SEPARATE. 119

CHAPTER XI. A LITTLE SPARK KINDLES A BIG FIRE. 131

CHAPTER XII. THE LANDING OF THE ROBBER. 142

CHAPTER XIII. TOM WALTON WOUNDED. 153

CHAPTER XIV. THE ROBBER TAKES THE BACK TRACK. 164

CHAPTER XV. THE ROBBER IN A TRAP. 175

CHAPTER XVI. SHOWERS OF ROCKS. 187

CHAPTER XVII. A BLOW WITH THE BOAT-HOOK. 198

CHAPTER XVIII. AT THE CATARACT HOUSE. 209

CHAPTER XIX. THE OTHER BANK ROBBER. 221

CHAPTER XX. THE END OF LORD PALSGRAVE. 232

CHAPTER XXI. THE ADVENTURES OF NICK VAN WOLTER. 243

CHAPTER XXII. COLONEL WIMPLETON’S WRATH. 254

CHAPTER XXIII. MAJOR TOPPLETON EXPLAINS. 265

CHAPTER XXIV. BEAR AND FORBEAR. 276

CHAPTER XXV. MISS DORNWOOD’S GUARDIAN. 287

CHAPTER XXVI. THE YOUNG SKIPPER OF THE BANSHEE. 298

BEAR AND FORBEAR;

OR,

THE YOUNG SKIPPER OF LAKE UCAYGA.