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Title: The Old Tobacco Shop
A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure

Author: William Bowen

Release Date: October 20, 2008 [EBook #26977]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _The Old Tobacco Shop_
_By William Bowen_]

The Old Tobacco Shop

Also By
WILLIAM BOWEN
The Enchanted Forest
The Old Tobacco Shop

[Illustration: "Lord bless us!" cried the hunch back. "Look at that!"]

_The Old Tobacco Shop_

_A True Account of What Befell
a Little Boy in Search
of Adventure_

_By
William Bowen_

_Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man, and
of good judgment, believeth still what is told him, and that which
he finds written._--RABELAIS.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
_All rights reserved_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1921
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and Electrotyped. Published October, 1921

FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY
NEW YORK

To
BILLY AND JOHN
TWO LITTLE BOYS

PRINCIPAL PERSONS

Freddie
Mr. Toby
Aunt Amanda
Mr. Punch
The Churchwarden
Mr. Hanlon
The Sly Old Fox
The Old Codger with the Wooden Leg
Mr. Lemuel Mizzen
The Cabin-Boy
Marmaduke
Captain Lingo