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Title: Wappin' Wharf
A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

Author: Charles S. Brooks

Illustrator: Julia McCune Flory

Other: Gordon Hatfield

Release Date: March 25, 2008 [EBook #24914]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Wappin' Wharf

A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

_By_
CHARLES S. BROOKS

_with pictures by_
JULIA McCUNE FLORY

_music by_
GORDON HATFIELD

COPYRIGHT, 1922
_By_ HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

[Illustration]

_Special Edition_
_Imprinted for_
WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY
PUBLISHERS--BOSTON

WAPPIN' WHARF
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