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PIRATE GOLD

by

F. J. STIMSON
(J. S. of Dale)







Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1896

Copyright, 1895 and 1896,
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Copyright, 1896,
by F. J. Stimson.
All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. 