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STARRY FLAG SERIES

OLIVER OPTIC

[Illustration: THE WRECK OF THE CARIBBEE.--Page 273.]




FREAKS OF FORTUNE;

OR,

HALF ROUND THE WORLD.



BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY STORIES,"
"THE WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE BOAT-CLUB STORIES,"
"THE RIVERDALE STORIES," ETC.



BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
All rights reserved.

FREAKS OF FORTUNE.




TO

MY YOUNG FRIEND,

_THOMAS POWELL, JR._

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.




PREFACE.


"FREAKS OF FORTUNE" is the fourth of the serial stories published in
"OUR BOYS AND GIRLS." It was