Optic, Oliver 1822-1897 creator Kilburn, Samuel Smith 1831-1903 Sayer, Reimunt text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Bear and forbear" by Oliver Optic is a juvenile adventure novel written in the late 19th century. Set on Lake Ucayga, it follows young skipper Wolf Penniman, with friends Waddie Wimpleton and Tom Walton, through brisk nautical exploits that mix moral instruction (“bear and forbear”), friendship, and rivalry-turned-reconciliation. Early episodes involve a gifted tame bear, a daring lake rescue, and a troubled young woman, Edith Dornwood, entangled with a domineering guardian and a dubious “English lord.” The opening of the story finds Wolf, now supervising a unified rail-and-steamboat line, taking a short vacation cruise in the sailboat Belle with Waddie and Tom. After a jovial bargain that transfers the Belle to Tom, they encounter a frightened girl in a grove—only to discover her menace is a tame black bear owned by Captain Portman, who then gifts the animal to Wolf. Tension rises when Edith Dornwood’s harsh guardian, Charles Overton, berates her, with the bear’s antics briefly thwarting his attempt to drag her away. That night the trio saves a hardware “drummer,” Schleifer, from a burning canal-boat, then later agrees to spirit Edith to friends in Ruoara after she recounts years of coercion and pressure to accept the suit of a so-called Lord Palsgrave. As they sail through the Narrows, they collide with a silent rowboat whose occupants flee toward Centreport, prompting Wolf and Tom to search ashore for signs of wrongdoing, where the episode breaks off with no immediate trace of the mysterious night rowers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-11-04 Terry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) Originally published: Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869 Christian life -- Juvenile fiction Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Travel -- Juvenile fiction Duty -- Juvenile fiction Robbery -- Juvenile fiction Steamboats -- Juvenile fiction Good and evil -- Juvenile fiction PZ Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?q1=Bear+and+forbear&field1=ocr&a=srchls&ft=ft&lmt=ft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77177 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?q1=Bear+and+forbear&field1=ocr&a=srchls&ft=ft&lmt=ft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77177 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134804.0 77177