Chapter I: Front Matter

QUARTERDECK AND FOK’SLE
STORIES OF THE SEA

BY
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
_Author of Young Heroes of Our Navy, Children of Destiny, Maid Marian,
Throckmorton, etc._

ILLUSTRATED

BOSTON AND CHICAGO
W. A. WILDE COMPANY

Copyright, 1895.
By W. A. WILDE & CO.
_All rights reserved._

CONTENTS.

A QUARTERDECK STORY.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Capture of the Fort 9
II. Young Brydell’s Chums 21
III. Brydell’s First Failure 33
IV. Brydell’s Second Failure 45
V. Striking Out for Himself 57
VI. A New Life 71
VII. The Summer Cruise 87
VIII. A Question of Honor 100
IX. Grubb’s Honorable Discharge 112
X. In Command of the Squadron 120
XI. A Safe Return 135
XII. Brydell Redeems His Promise 139

A FOK’SLE STORY.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. On Board the Diomede 151
II. A Gallant Rescue 163
III. Dicky’s Patriotism 175
IV. An Important Errand 185
V. An Adventure with the Redcoats 194
VI. Jack Bell’s Secret 205
VII. General Prescott’s Capture 214
VIII. Dicky’s New Song 223
IX. Dicky Enlists 236
X. An Unexpected Encounter 245
XI. The Enemy Outwitted 258

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
“I was just trying to scare Grubb” (Frontispiece) 14
“Brydell, with Atkins, a very Smart Sailor, was at the Wheel” 95
“Brydell got the thumbed Bible and read to him” 117
“‘Look out, you Young Rebel,’ called out the Sergeant” 197
“The Yankees they have come and stolen Prescott from his Bed” 232

A QUARTERDECK STORY.