Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children

by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

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This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the American Library Association, for the most distinguished contribution to American Children’s literature during the year 1925.

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SHEN OF THE SEA

A Book for Children

BY

ARTHUR BOWIE CHRISMAN

“Author of The Wind That Wouldn’t Blow”

Illustrated with over Fifty Silhouettes

BY

ELSE HASSELRIIS

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & CO., Inc.

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Copyright 1925 by

E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.

Copyright renewal 1953

by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

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Thirty-fifth Printing November 1966

Printed in the U. S. A.

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To

V. T. S.

This Book

Is Dedicated

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I have heard

That the Plain of Fat Melons

Is more than flat.

It is hollowed like a bowl.

And my purse

Was quite as flat.

Then the Philadelphia North American,

And What To Do, of Elgin,

Bought some of my stories—

Paying good round money—

Which the baker was quick to take from me.

Furthermore,

These papers

Have given permission

To put the stories in a Book.

And the Book

Is open before you.

The North American,

And What To Do,

Have been as kind to me

As Wu Ta Lang was

To the red cherry tree.

And I thank them—

Not once—but twice—

And twice that—

More times than there are leaves

In Hu Pei Forest.

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