Lightning Express : $b or, The rival academies

Name: Lightning Express : $b or, The rival academies
Author: Optic, Oliver

Optic, Oliver

Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Railroad stories

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                        _THE LAKE SHORE SERIES._

                           LIGHTNING EXPRESS;

                                   OR,

                          THE RIVAL ACADEMIES.

                                   BY

                              OLIVER OPTIC,

     AUTHOR OF “YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD,” “THE ARMY AND NAVY STORIES,”
            “THE WOODVILLE STORIES,” “THE BOAT-CLUB STORIES,”
                     “THE STARRY FLAG SERIES,” ETC.

                                 BOSTON:
                      LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
                                NEW YORK:
                      LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
                                  1871.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
                           WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
             In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of
                     the District of Massachusetts.

                           ELECTROTYPED AT THE
                       BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
                           NO. 19 SPRING LANE.

                                   TO

                             MY YOUNG FRIEND

                          _JAMES DEWITT CARSON_

                                This Book

                      IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

_THE LAKE SHORE SERIES._

  1. _THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT_; or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore
         Railroad.

  2. _LIGHTNING EXPRESS_; or, The Rival Academies.

  3. _ON TIME_; or, The Young Captain of the Ucayga Steamer.

  4. _SWITCH OFF_; or, The War of the Students.

  5. _BRAKE UP_; or, The Young Peacemakers.

  6. _BEAR AND FORBEAR_; or, The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga.

PREFACE.

LIGHTNING EXPRESS is the second volume of the LAKE SHORE SERIES, and
has been published in Oliver Optic’s Magazine, Our Boys and Girls. The
story, like its predecessor, relates to the Lake Shore Railroad, though
the war between the rival academies occupies a considerable portion of
the book. Waddie Wimpleton and Tommy Toppleton, as they appear in these
volumes, are not strangers, in real life, to the writer; and probably
all his readers are familiar with similar young gentlemen in their own
spheres.

The author has endeavored to keep the moral movement of the story up to
the proper standard, and is not afraid that any reasonable young man
will like either Tommy or Waddie well enough to imitate their conduct,
while he is satisfied that all will be pleased with the moral heroism
of Wolf Penniman, and will indorse his views of Christian duty.

  HARRISON SQUARE, MASS.,
                July 21, 1869.

CONTENTS.

 CHAPTER I.                         PAGE
 A STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.             11

 CHAPTER II.
 THE STOCKHOLDERS IN COUNCIL.         22

 CHAPTER III.
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROAD.           34

 CHAPTER IV.
 OFF FOR THE CAMP.                    45

 CHAPTER V.
 A BREEZY PROSPECT AHEAD.             57

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