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ELSIE YACHTING WITH THE RAYMONDS
A LIST OF THE ELSIE BOOKS.
Arranged in the order of theirpublication.
ELSIE DINSMORE.
ELSIE'S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS.
ELSIE'S GIRLHOOD.
ELSIE'S WOMANHOOD.
ELSIE'S MOTHERHOOD.
ELSIE'S CHILDREN.
ELSIE'S WIDOWHOOD.
GRANDMOTHER ELSIE.
ELSIE'S NEW RELATIONS.
ELSIE AT NANTUCKET.
THE TWO ELSIES.
ELSIE'S KITH AND KIN.
ELSIE'S FRIENDS AT WOODBURN.
CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDMA ELSIE.
ELSIE AND THE RAYMONDS.
ELSIE YACHTING WITH THE RAYMONDS.
ELSIE'S VACATION.
ELSIE AT VIAMEDE.
ELSIE AT ION.
ELSIE YACHTING
WITH THE RAYMONDS
BY
MARTHA FINLEY
AUTHOR OF
"ELSIE DINSMORE," "ELSIE'S WOMANHOOD," "ELSIE'S KITH AND
KIN," "ELSIE AND THE RAYMONDS," "THE MILDRED
BOOKS," "WANTED—A PEDIGREE," ETC.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD, AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1890
By Dodd, Mead, and Co.
All rights reserved.
PREFATORY NOTE.
The Author, having received many lettersfrom young and interested readers, has decidedto acknowledge them in this way,because feeble health and much work forthe publishers make it impossible to write aseparate reply to each gratifying epistle.
She also desires to freely acknowledge indebtednessfor much information regardingRevolutionary times and incidents, to Bancroftand Lossing; and for the routine atWest Point, to an article in Harper's Magazinefor July, 1887, entitled "Cadet Life atWest Point," by Charles King, U. S. A.
M. F.
CHAPTER I.
The train, which for some hours had beenrunning very fast and too noisily to admit ofmuch conversation, suddenly slackened its speed,and Lulu turned upon her father a bright, eagerlook, as though some request were trembling onher tongue.
"Well, daughter, what is it?" he asked, withan indulgent smile, before she had time to uttera word.
"Oh, Papa!" she began in a quick, excitedway, and quite as if she expected her requestwould be granted, "I know we're going throughNew York State, and I've just been thinkinghow much I would like to see Saratoga,—especiallythe battle-field where the Americans gained