Billy Topsail & Company: A Story for Boys

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BILL O’ BURNT BAY AND THE BOYS OF THE SPOT CASH COULD NOT FATHOM THE MYSTERY OF THE BLACK EAGLE .
A STORY FOR BOYS
By NORMAN DUNCAN
Author of “ The Adventures of Billy Topsail ,” “ Doctor Luke of The Labrador ,” “ The Mother ,” “ Dr. Grenfell’s Parish ”
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FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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Copyright, 1910, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
To Chauncey Lewis and to “Buster,” good friends both, sometimes to recall to them places and occasions at Mike Marr’s: Dead Man’s Point, Rolling Ledge, the Canoe Landing, the swift and wilful waters of the West Branch, Squaw Mountain, the trail to Dead Stream, the raft on Horseshoe, the Big Fish, the gracious kindness of the L. L. of E. O., (as well as her sandwiches), and the never-to-be-forgotten flapjacks that “didn’t look it” but were indeed “all there.”