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Title: The Village of Hide and Seek

Author: Bingham Thoburn Wilson

Illustrator: W. Herbert Dunton

Release date: July 28, 2017 [eBook #55214]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VILLAGE OF HIDE AND SEEK ***

THE VILLAGE OF HIDE AND SEEK.

"The now smiling vagabond stood bowing and scraping in the middle of the sunbaked road."

THE VILLAGE

HIDE AND SEEK

BINGHAM THOBURN WILSON

AUTHOR OF

"YE MOUNTAINEER," "THE TALE OF THE PHANTOM YACHT," ETC.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

W. HERBERT DUNTON

NEW YORK

CONSOLIDATED RETAIL BOOKSELLERS

1905

Copyrighted, 1905, by

CONSOLIDATED RETAIL BOOKSELLERS

REGISTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON

Published, October, 1905.

{Printed in the United States of America}.

Dedication.

TO THE CHILDREN OF POVERTY AND RAGS. TO THE

HOUSEHOLD OF SORROW AND BURDENSOME CARE.

TO THE LIVES IN THE SHADOW OF THE DARK GAUNT

FORM OF WOE. TO THOSE WHOSE EARS HAVE BEEN

ATTUNED TO THE HOLLOW, MOCKING VOICE OF

GRIEF. TO THE HUMBLEST OF THE HUMBLE, THE

POOR; THE VERY POOR. AND MAY THIS STORY

PROVE TO BE STARLIGHT IF NOT SUNSHINE.

VERY RESPECTFULLY,

THE AUTHOR.