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The treasure chest of my bookhouse (1920)

Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 334

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out soquickly,—out there, bobbing up and down on the swelling blue,half way back to the galley and going at a tremendous clip, hesaw the small boat, loaded with men, and there alone on theshore he stood, Alexander Selkirk, alone, all alone! In a trice with a sudden revulsion of feeling, it came… … human face—for years, perhaps forever! He raised his voice ina cry that was almost a shriek, stretched out his arms toward hiscomrades and rushed to the very edge of the water. Comeback! Comeback! Come back! he cried. The windcarried his voice away, and yet it seemed to him he heard fromthe stem of…

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