HASTE AND WASTE 

OR 

THE YOUNG PILOT OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN 

A STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 

BY 

OLIVER OPTIC 

BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 

William Taylor Adams, American author, better known and loved by
boys and girls through his pseudonym "Oliver Optic," was born July
30, 1822, in the town of Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, about
twenty-five miles from Boston.  For twenty years he was a teacher in
the Public Schools of Boston, where he came in close contact with boy