E-text prepared by Woodie4, Curtis Weyant, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28861-h.htm or 28861-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28861/pg28861-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28861/28861-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/daveporterinfarn00straiala Dave Porter Series DAVE PORTER IN THE FAR NORTH Or The Pluck of an American Schoolboy by EDWARD STRATEMEYER Author of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," "Dave Porter in the South Seas," "Dave Porter's Return to School," "Old Glory Series," "Pan American Series," "Defending His Flag," etc. Illustrated By Charles Nuttall [Illustration: In a twinkling the turnout was upset.--_Page 206._] [Illustration: Publishers mark] Boston Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Published, March, 1908 Copyright, 1908, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. All rights reserved DAVE PORTER IN THE FAR NORTH Norwood Press BERWICK & SMITH CO. Norwood, Mass. U. S. A. PREFACE "Dave Porter in the Far North" is a complete story in itself, but forms the fourth volume in a line issued under the general title of "Dave Porter Series." In the first volume, entitled "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," I introduced a typical American lad, full of life and vigor, and related the particulars of his doings at an American boarding school of to-day--a place which is a little world in itself. At this school Dave made both friends and enemies, proved that he was a natural leader, and was admired accordingly. The great cloud over Dave's life was the question of his parentage. His enemies called him "that poorhouse nobody," which hurt him deeply. He made a discovery, and in the second volume of the series, entitled "Dave Porter in the South Seas," we followed him on a most unusual voyage, at the end of which he found an uncle, and learned something of his father and sister, who were at that time traveling in Europe. Dave was anxious to meet his own family, but could not find out just where they were. While waiting for word from them, he went back to Oak Hall, and in the third volume of the series, called "Dave Porter's Return to School," we learned how he became innocently involved in a mysterious series of robberies, helped to win two great games of football, and brought the bully of the academy to a realization of his better self.