THE PLEASANT COVE SERIES.

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ARTHUR BROWN,

THE YOUNG CAPTAIN.

BY

REV. ELIJAH KELLOGG,

AUTHOR OF THE ELM ISLAND STORIES—“LION BEN,” “CHARLIE BELL,”
“THE BOY-FARMERS,” “THE ARK,” “THE YOUNG SHIP-
BUILDERS,” “THE HARD-SCRABBLE.”

ILLUSTRATED.

BOSTON:

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
LEE AND SHEPARD,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Copyright, 1898, by Elijah Kellogg.

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All Rights Reserved.

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Arthur Brown.

Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith, Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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PREFACE.

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Notwithstanding kindness is at times rewardedwith ingratitude, and even positive injury, it is byno means so frequent an occurrence as personsnaturally censorious, or whose minds have beensoured by an unblest experience, would have ussuppose.

Benefits conferred usually excite gratitude, andsometimes, when the donors have passed awayare repaid, with interest, to their posterity.

The story of Arthur Brown presents a strikingillustration of this principle. Lashed to a raft,perishing with cold and hunger in the edge ofthe surf, he is rescued by Captain Rhines, who,when a boy, poor and unable either to read orwrite, had been instructed and started in business[6]by Arthur’s father, who was afterwards lostat sea. The old captain, discovering, in the personhe had perilled his life to save, the only sonof his benefactor, receives him with open arms,with a nobility of soul that strengthens our faithin human nature, freely bestowing both time andproperty to aid the son and family of his benefactor,and repay the old debt. His efforts inthis direction, together with those of the youngman to help himself, at a most stirring periodof our country’s history, the adventures growingout of those efforts, and the consequent developmentof character, will, we trust, prove interesting,and not without instruction.

Some references have necessarily been madeto characters of the “Elm Island Series,” thereasons for which are given in the introductorychapter, and the references so explained as torender the connection plain to the reader.