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Bear and forbear

Chapter 1: BEAR AND FORBEAR;
By Oliver Optic
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The narrative follows life around Lake Ucayga, where a feud between two wealthy neighbors divides towns and fuels rivalry between a steamboat and a railroad run in connection with student companies. A young skipper and the line's agent confront fires, a passenger rescue, a mysterious English visitor, and the robbery of the Centreport bank; pursuits, wounds, and narrow escapes lead to captures and revelations. Interwoven are Miss Dornwood's past, courtroom and social reckonings, and reconciliations that restore peace. Practical duty, loyalty, and forbearance are emphasized throughout, while misdeeds bring misfortune and the community's disputes are ultimately settled through courage, resourcefulness, and temperate conduct.

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Title: Bear and forbear

or, The young skipper of lake Ucayga

Author: Oliver Optic

Engraver: Samuel Smith Kilburn

Illustrator: Reimunt Sayer

Release date: November 4, 2025 [eBook #77177]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869

Credits: Terry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)

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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.