Chapter I: Front Matter

AMERICAN BOYS’ SERIES

The books selected for this series are all thoroughly American, by such favorite American authors of boys’ books as Oliver Optic, Elijah Kellogg, Prof. James de Mille, and others, now made for the first time at a largely reduced price, in order to bring them within the reach of all. Each volume complete in itself.

UNIFORM CLOTH BINDING ILLUSTRATED NEW AND ATTRACTIVE DIES Price per volume $1.00

1. ADRIFT IN THE ICE FIELDS By Capt. Chas. W. Hall 2. ALL ABOARD or Life on the Lake By Oliver Optic 3. ARK OF ELM ISLAND By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 4. ARTHUR BROWN THE YOUNG CAPTAIN By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 5. BOAT CLUB, THE, or the Bunkers of Rippleton By Oliver Optic 6. BOY FARMERS OF ELM ISLAND, The By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 7. BOYS OF GRAND PRÉ SCHOOL By Prof. James de Mille 8. “B. O. W. C.” THE By Prof. James de Mille 9. BROUGHT TO THE FRONT or the Young Defenders By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 10. BURYING THE HATCHET or the Young Brave of the Delawares By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 11. CAST AWAY IN THE COLD By Dr. Isaac I. Hayes 12. CHARLIE BELL THE WAIF OF ELM ISLAND By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 13. CHILD OF THE ISLAND GLEN By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 14. CROSSING THE QUICKSANDS By Samuel W. Cozzens 15. CRUISE OF THE CASCO By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 16. FIRE IN THE WOODS By Prof. James de Mille 17. FISHER BOYS OF PLEASANT COVE By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 18. FOREST GLEN or the Mohawk’s Friendship By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 19. GOOD OLD TIMES By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 20. HARDSCRABBLE OF ELM ISLAND By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 21. HASTE OR WASTE or the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain By Oliver Optic 22. HOPE AND HAVE By Oliver Optic 23. IN SCHOOL AND OUT or the Conquest of Richard Grant By Oliver Optic 24. JOHN GODSOE’S LEGACY By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 25. JUST HIS LUCK By Oliver Optic 26. LION BEN OF ELM ISLAND By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 27. LITTLE BY LITTLE or the Cruise of the Flyaway By Oliver Optic 28. LIVE OAK BOYS or the Adventures of Richard Constable Afloat and Ashore By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 29. LOST IN THE FOG By Prof. James de Mille 30. MISSION OF BLACK RIFLE or On the Trail By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 31. NOW OR NEVER or the Adventures of Bobby Bright By Oliver Optic 32. POOR AND PROUD or the Fortunes or Kate Redburn By Oliver Optic 33. RICH AND HUMBLE or the Mission of Bertha Grant By Oliver Optic 34. SOPHOMORES OF RADCLIFFE or James Trafton and His Boston Friends By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 35. SOWED BY THE WIND or the Poor Boy’s Fortune By Rev Elijah Kellogg 36. SPARK OF GENIUS or the College Life of James Trafton By Elijah Kellogg 37. STOUT HEART or the Student from Over the Sea By Rev Elijah Kellogg 38. STRONG ARM AND A MOTHER’S BLESSING By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 39. TREASURE OF THE SEA By Prof. James de Mille 40. TRY AGAIN or the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West By Oliver Optic 41. TURNING OF THE TIDE or Radcliffe Rich and his Patients By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 42. UNSEEN HAND or James Renfew and His Boy Helpers By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 43. WATCH AND WAIT or the Young Fugitives By Oliver Optic 44. WHISPERING PINE or the Graduates of Radcliffe By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 45. WINNING HIS SPURS or Henry Morton’s First Trial By Rev Elijah Kellogg 46. WOLF RUN or the Boys of the Wilderness By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 47. WORK AND WIN or Noddy Newman on a Cruise By Oliver Optic 48. YOUNG DELIVERERS OF PLEASANT COVE By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 49. YOUNG SHIPBUILDERS OF ELM ISLAND By Rev. Elijah Kellogg. 50. YOUNG TRAIL HUNTERS By Samuel W. Cozzens

ADDED IN 1900

In 1899 we increased this immensely popular series of choice copyrighted books by representative American writers for the young to fifty titles. In 1900 we added the ten following well-known books, making an important addition to an already strong list:

51. =Field and Forest= or The Fortunes of a Farmer By Oliver Optic 52. =Outward Bound= or Young America Afloat By Oliver Optic 53. =The Soldier Boy= or Tom Somers in the Army By Oliver Optic 54. =The Starry Flag= or The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann By Oliver Optic 55. =Through by Daylight= or The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad By Oliver Optic 56. =Cruises with Captain Bob around the Kitchen Fire= By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) 57. =The Double-Runner Club= or The Lively Boys of Rivertown By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) 58. =Ike Partington and His Friends= or The Humors of a Human Boy By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) 59. =Locke Amsden the Schoolmaster= By Judge D. P. Thompson 60. =The Rangers= By Judge D. P. Thompson

ADDED IN 1901

This year we still further increase this list, which has become standard throughout the country, by adding the ever-popular “Green Mountain Boys” and four volumes of “Oliver Optic,” “All Over the World Library,” especially timely books in view of the present interest in Asiatic matters.

61. =The Green Mountain Boys= By Judge D. P. Thompson 62. =A Missing Million= or The Adventures of Louis Belgrave By Oliver Optic 63. =A Millionaire at Sixteen= or The Cruise of the “Guardian Mother” By Oliver Optic 64. =A Young Knight Errant= or Cruising in the West Indies By Oliver Optic 65. =Strange Sights Abroad= or Adventures in European Waters By Oliver Optic

LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Boston

_THE LAKE SHORE SERIES._

THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT; OR, THE YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE LAKE SHORE RAILROAD.

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 Storybook,” “Yacht-Club Series,” and “The Boat-Builder Series.”_

BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS

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.

Copyright, 1897, by Alice Adams Russell.

_All Rights Reserved._

THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT.

TO

MY YOUNG FRIEND,

JAMES ELLIOT BAKER,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.