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THE LOG OF THE WATER WAGON




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[Illustration: THE ORIGINAL WATER WAGON]




THE LOG of THE WATER WAGON

  or

THE CRUISE OF THE GOOD SHIP “LITHIA”


BY BERT LESTON TAYLOR _and_ W. C. GIBSON

ILLUSTRATIONS _by_ L. M. GLACKENS

[Illustration: Bacchus and Neptune]

PUBLISHED BY H. M. CALDWELL CO. BOSTON




  _Copyright, 1905_
  By H. M. Caldwell Co.


  _COLONIAL PRESS_
  _Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
  Boston, U.S.A._




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