IN MEMORY OF _MY NEPHEW_, WILLIAM PARKER JEWETT Who Died January 4, 1884, TO WHOM This Book WAS ORIGINALLY DEDICATED "THE BOAT CLUB" was written and published more than forty years ago, and was the first juvenile book the author had ever presented to the public. Young people who read it at the age of eighteen have now reached threescore, and those who read it at ten have passed their half-century of life. The electrotype plates from which it has been printed for more than a generation of human life have suffered so much from severe wear that new ones have become necessary, and they must be replaced. This condition affords the author the opportunity to revise the work, in fact, to make a new…
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