CLIPPED WINGS BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN ---- "No boy alive will be able to peruse Mr. Westerman's pages without a quickening of his pulses."--Outlook. ---- A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine. Clipped Wings: Thrills in Three Elements. Sea Scouts up-Channel; or, The Cruise of the _Spindrift_. The Wireless Officer. The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story. Sea Scouts Abroad: Further Adventures of the _Olivette_. The Salving of the "Fusi Yama": A Post-War Story of the Sea. Sea Scouts All: How the _Olivette_ was won. Winning his Wings: A Story of the R.A.F. The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge: April, 1918. With Beatty off Jutland: A Romance of the Great Sea Fight. The Submarine Hunters: A Story of Naval Patrol Work. A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front. A Sub and a Submarine: The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War. Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War. Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War. The Fight for Constantinople: A Tale of the Gallipoli Peninsula. A Lad of Grit: A Story of Restoration Times. ---- LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. [Illustration: MAKING UP THE RIVER _Page_ 93] CLIPPED WINGS BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN Author of "The Wireless Officer" "Sea Scouts up-Channel," &c. _Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson_ BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY _Printed and bound in Great Britain_