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AFLOAT AND ASHORE

A SEA TALE

BY

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER







"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
_Two Gentlemen of Verona_



PREFACE.

The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted
was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as truth,
that, in the present instance, he is resolved to say nothing on the
subject. Each of his readers is at liberty to believe just as much, or
as little, of the matter here laid before him, or her, as may suit