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Title: The Lightning Conductor Discovers America

Author: C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel)
Williamson

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THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR DISCOVERS AMERICA

by

C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

Illustrated

[Illustration: Patricia Moore]

Published by
Doubleday Page & Company
Garden City New York

Copyright, 1916, by
C. N. And A. M. Williamson

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Patricia Moore _Frontispiece_

PAGE

Long Island

"There's absolutely nothing like it on the other
side of the water, not even in Devonshire or
Dorset" 87

Easthampton

"You enter beside the Great Pond, which is so
charming in itself and in its flat frame of village
green" 95

Long Island--South shore

"Artists would find a paradise of queer, cozy
gables, and corners of gardens crowded with
old-fashioned flowers" 102

"Southampton's soul is very, very old, full of
memories of Indians" 122

Sunnyside

"Washington I