Charlie Codman's Cruise

A Story for Boys

(1866)

PREFACE:

In deference to the expressed wishes of
some of his young friends, the author has
essayed a story of the sea, and now presents
"Charlie Codman's Cruise," as the third volume
of the Campaign Series. It will be
found more adventurous than its predecessors,
and the trials which Charlie is called
upon to encounter are of a severer character
than befell Frank Frost or Paul Prescott.
But it will be found that they were met with
the same manly spirit, and a like determination
to be faithful to duty at all hazards. Though not wholly a stranger to the sea,
the author is quite aware of the blunders to
which a landsman is exposed in treating of
matters and a mode of life which, at the best,
he must comprehend but imperfectly, and
has endeavored to avoid, as far as possible,
professional technicalities, as not essential to
the interest of the story. With these few words he submits the
present volume to his young readers, hoping
for it a welcome even more generous than
has been accorded to "Frank's Campaign"
and "Paul Prescott's Charge."

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