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The King of the Park

Chapter 1: THE KING OF THE PARK
By Marshall Saunders
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A warm, episodic tale set around a public park follows a kindly police sergeant, local children, and a devoted boy who reveres a statuary emperor. Small daily dramas—teasing among children, the boy’s arrest after a misunderstanding, rivalries among neighborhood cats, and a decisive rescue—draw in neighbors, a curate, and the sergeant’s household. Through humor and gentle conflict the community negotiates responsibility, compassion, and loyalty, leading to reconciliations, a marriage proposal, and the restoration of calm around the park’s informal monarchs, both human and animal.

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Title: The King of the Park

Author: Marshall Saunders

Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry

Release date: March 24, 2018 [eBook #56831]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Larry B. Harrison and the Online Distributed
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING OF THE PARK ***
Eugene and King Boozy.

THE
KING OF THE PARK

BY
MARSHALL SAUNDERS,
AUTHOR OF “BEAUTIFUL JOE,” “CHARLES AND HIS LAMB,”
“FOR THE OTHER BOY’S SAKE,” ETC.
 
FOURTH THOUSAND
 
New York: 46 East Fourteenth Street
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY
Boston: 100 Purchase Street

Copyright, 1897,
By Thomas Y. Crowell & Company.
 
 
Typography by C. J. Peters & Son, Boston.
 
Presswork by Rockwell & Churchill.

I Inscribe This Book
TO
POLICE-SERGEANT CHARLES WESLEY HEBARD
OF THE BACK BAY FENS, AND HIS HUMANE
ASSOCIATES,
TO
MRS. HEBARD,
HIS KIND-HEARTED WIFE, AND TO THE PARENTS
OF THE DEAR GIRLS AND BOYS WHO PLAY
ABOUT THE HOME OF THE WELL-KNOWN
KING OF THE PARK.

Marshall Saunders.