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                      THE MESSIAH OF THE CYLINDER


[Illustration:

  I put my feet inside and squeezed down to the bottom

  [_Page 28_]
]




[Illustration:

  The Messiah
  of the
  Cylinder


  by
  Victor Rousseau

  Illustrated by
  Joseph Clement Coll
]

                                CHICAGO
                           A.C. McCLURG & CO.
                                  1917




                               Copyright
                          A. C. McClurg & Co.
                                  1917


                        Published October, 1917


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