WORK AND WIN

CONTENTS.


CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Mischief-Makers 9

II. The Circus at Whitestone 21

III. A Moral Question 33

IV. Noddy's Confession 45

V. Squire Wriggs at Woodville 57

VI. Noddy's Engagement 70

VII. The Ring-Master 81

VIII. Good-by to Woodville 93

IX. An Attempt to Work and Win 105

X. Poor Mollie 117

XI. The Schooner Roebuck 129

XII. The Drunken Captain 141

XIII. The Shark 154

XIV. The Yellow Fever 167

XV. The Demon of the Cup 180

XVI. Night and Storm 193

XVII. After the Storm 206

XVIII. The Beautiful Island 217

XIX. The Visitors 228

XX. Homeward Bound 239

XXI. The Clergyman and his Wife 247




WORK AND WIN;

OR,

NODDY NEWMAN ON A CRUISE.




CHAPTER I.

THE MISCHIEF-MAKERS.


"Here, Noddy Newman! you haven't washed out the boat-house yet," said
Ben, the boatman, as the young gentleman thus addressed was ambling down
towards the river.

"Hang the boat-house!" exclaimed Noddy, impatiently, as he stopped short
in his walk, and seemed to be in doubt whether he should return or
continue on his way.

"You know what Miss Bertha says--don't you?"

"Yes, I know what she says," added Noddy, rubbing his head, as though he
were trying to reconcile his present purpose, whatever it was, with the
loyalty he owed to Bertha. "I suppose it don't make much difference to
her whether I wash out the boat-house now or by and by."

"I don't know anything about that, my boy," said the old man. "Miss
Bertha told me to find some regular work for you to do every day. I
found it, and she say you must wash out the boat-house every morning
before nine o'clock. If you don't do it, I shall report you to her.
That's all I've got to say about it."

"I calculate to wash out the boat-house."

"You've only half an hour to do it in, then. You've not only got to wash
it out every morning, but you have got to do it before nine o'clock.
Them's the orders. I always obey orders. If Miss Bertha should tell me
to tie you up, and give you as big a licking as you deserve, I should do
it."

"No, you wouldn't."

"I haven't got any such orders, mind ye, Noddy; so we won't dispute
about that. Now, go and wash out the boat-house like a good boy, and
don't make any fuss about it."

Noddy deliberated a few moments more. He evidently disliked the job, or
did not wish to do it at that particular time; but Miss Bertha's
influence was all-powerful; and though he would have fought, tooth and
nail, against anything like compulsion on the part of Ben, he could not
resist the potent spell which the name of his young mistress cast upon
him.

"Hang the old boat-house!" exclaimed he, as he stamped his foot upon the
ground, and then slowly retraced his steps towards the boatman.