The Old Tobacco Shop / A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure

By WILLIAM BOWEN The Enchanted Forest The Old Tobacco Shop

Lord bless us! cried the hunch back. Look at that!
Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man, and of good judgment, believeth still what is told him, and that which he finds written. —Rabelais.
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1921 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and Electrotyped. Published October, 1921
FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY NEW YORK
To BILLY AND JOHN TWO LITTLE BOYS
Freddie Mr. Toby Aunt Amanda Mr. Punch The Churchwarden Mr. Hanlon The Sly Old Fox The Old Codger with the Wooden Leg Mr. Lemuel Mizzen The Cabin-Boy Marmaduke Captain Lingo Ketch the Practitioner The Third Vice-President Mr. Matthew Speak Shiraz the Rug-Merchant The King and Queen Robert, Jenny, and James Mr. Punch's Father