Field and Forest - The Fortunes of a Farmer

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Field and Forest, by Oliver Optic This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer Author: Oliver Optic Release Date: February 11, 2008 [EBook #24582] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIELD AND FOREST *** Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) OLD MATT AND THE HORSE-THIEVES. PAGE 12. THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES. F I E L D A N D F O R E S T ; OR, THE FORTUNES OF A FARMER. By OLIVER OPTIC, AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY STORIES," "THE WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE BOAT-CLUB STORIES," "THE STARRY FLAG STORIES," "THE LAKE-SHORE STORIES," ETC. WITH FOURTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD. NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. TO MY EXCELLENT YOUNG FRIEND CHARLES H. FOWLE IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES. 1.