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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 344

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great that it washer acknowledged policy never to let a single Englishman returnto Europe who had any knowledge of the South Seas. If hewere to fall into the hands of Spanish sailors they would eitherkill him or make him a slave to work in their rich SouthAmerican mines. This much was certain… … 341 MY BOOK HOUSE a spacious wood, a spot most difficult to come at, and soconcealed as to be well nigh undiscoverable, he selected thatspot as the site for his hut. By the exercise of much toil and patience, he then cut downwith the small axe at his disposal, a sufficient number of pimentotrees…

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