And in front of these, a clumsy fishing boat rose and fell on each passing wave.  Two sailors sat in the stern, holding the rope and tiller, and in the bow, with their backs turned forever toward Opeki, stood two young boys, their faces lit by the glow of the setting sun and stirred by the sight of the great engines of war plunging past them on their errand of vengeance.

“Stedman,” said the elder boy, in an awestruck whisper, and with a wave of his hand, “we have not lived in vain.”

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GALLEGHER,

AND OTHER STORIES.

BY

Richard Harding Davis.

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As pictures of human life in a great city, these ten stories are simply unique.—­Newark Advertiser.

New York has a new meaning to his readers, as London has a new meaning to the reader of Dickens.—­N.Y.  Commercial Advertiser.

Mr. Davis is a writer of unquestioned genius.  His sketches of city life in the poorer districts have a force which makes them exceptionally vivid and inspiring.—­Albany Express.

Ten remarkable newspaper and magazine stories.  They will make capital winter reading, and the book is one that will find a welcome everywhere.—­N.Y.  Journal of Commerce.

The freshness, the strength, and the vivid picturesqueness of the stories are indisputable, and their originality and their marked distinction are no less decided.—­Boston Saturday Gazette.

His figures stand forth clear cut, and marvellously truthful and lifelike.  Their wholesome tone is in grateful contrast to the false and exaggerated note so often struck by young authors,—­Philadelphia Ledger.

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STORIES FOR BOYS.

BY

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.

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WITH SIX FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Of intense interest.  It will be very popular with all boys.—­Detroit
Tribune.

Crisp in style, and animated in incident.  For a wholesome, hearty boy, we can fancy no more entertaining volume.—­Newark Advertiser.

It will be astonishing, indeed, if youths of all ages are not fascinated with these stories.  Mr. Davis knows infallibly what will interest his readers.—­Boston Beacon.