The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat
Books by Lewis E. Theiss
In Camp at Fort Brady
A CAMPING STORY. 304 Pages.
His Big Brother
A STORY OF THE STRUGGLESAND TRIUMPHS OF A LITTLESON OF LIBERTY. 320 Pages.
Lumberjack Bob
A TALE OF THE ALLEGHANIES. 320 Pages.
The Wireless Patrol at CampBrady
A STORY OF HOW THE BOYCAMPERS, THROUGH THEIRKNOWLEDGE OF WIRELESS,“DID THEIR BIT.” 320 Pages.
The Secret Wireless
A STORY OF THE CAMP BRADYPATROL. 320 Pages.
The Hidden Aerial
THE SPY LINE ON THE MOUNTAIN. 332 Pages.
Cloth Bound—Colored Frontispiece
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The Young WirelessOperator—Afloat
or
HOW ROY MERCER WON HIS SPURSIN THE MERCHANT MARINE
By
LEWIS E. THEISS
Illustrated by Original Photographs
W. A. WILDE COMPANY
BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyrighted, 1920,
By W. A. Wilde Company
All rights reserved
The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat
Dedication
To few of us is it given to know where ourarrows come to earth or what shore is washed bythe ripples we create in the sea of life. But somuch is certain: somewhere our arrows do cometo earth, and somewhere the waves we set inmotion do wash the beach. And each arrow shotfrom our bows and each wavelet we set in motionis fraught with unseen possibilities for good orevil. Whether we be man or child or growingyouth, we cannot escape the responsibilities entailed;and, if we do with our might what ourhands find to do, our arrows and our ripples inTime’s sea can cause only good.
In His wise providence the Almighty has so ordainedthat the faith and enthusiasm of youth areoften more effective than the coldly reasoned actsof maturity. If so be that many lads shall read thisand companion stories of the wireless and findtherein either pleasure or profit, they will owe theirgain to the fact that a youth who has passed to thegreat beyond shot his arrow into the