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
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:
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.
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.
PREFACE.
The Lake Shore Series, of which this book is the first volume, includes six stories, whose locality and principal characters are nearly the same, and which were originally published in Oliver Optic’s Magazine, Our Boys and Girls. The railroad, which is the basis of the incidents in the first and second volumes, was suggested by the experience of several young gentlemen in Ohio, who had formed a company, and transacted all the business of a railroad in regular form, for the purpose of obtaining a practical knowledge of the details of such a corporation. They issued certificates of shares, bonds, with interest coupons, elected officers, and appointed all the employees required for the management of a well-ordered railroad. The author is the fortunate possessor of one of the bonds of this company—“The Miami Valley Railroad.”
The young engineer is doubtless a smart boy; but so far as his mechanical skill is concerned, several counterparts of him have come to the knowledge of the writer. If he has an “old head,” he has a young heart, which he endeavors to keep pure and true. As he appears in this and the subsequent volumes of the series, the author is willing to commend him as an example of the moral and Christian hero, who cannot lead his imitators astray; for he loves truth and goodness, and is willing to forgive and serve his enemies.
