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Title: The Enchanted Island

Author: Fannie Louise Apjohn

Release Date: September 24, 2007 [EBook #22756]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "With these on you will see everything as it really is,
no matter how it may look to other people."]

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

BY

FANNIE LOUISE APJOHN

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

681 FIFTH AVENUE

Copyright 1919

By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

All rights reserved

ILLUSTRATIONS

"With these on you will see everything as it
really is, no matter how it may look to other
people" . . . _Frontispiece_

The toucan . . . seized the basket by the handle
and flew away

Up sprang the lid, and there behold! were the
wonderful big pellets

He was trying to induce her to make an effort to
pass the dead tigers

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

CHAPTER I

Once upon a time many years ago there lay five islands in the South
Pacific ocean where the weather was always fine.

Four of them were set in a kind of square, but the fifth, which was
much smaller than any of the others, stood in the center of the group
so that it was nearer to each island than they were to each other, for
they were all so many miles apart that they could not see each other's
shores.

The little island in the middle was not inhabited, but was surrounded
by very dangerous reefs. It was called the Island of Despair, though
nobody seemed to know how it got its name, and was supposed to be
haunted.

It had not always been there, and that was another reason why it was
looked upon as an uncanny place, for all the grandmothers and
grandfathers could remember when there had been nothing but the great
sea between the four islands, and then suddenly one morning a ship had
come upon the small island and nearly wrecked itself on the great rocks
about it. After that of course it was put on all the charts, but even
so, many a ship had since gone on the rocks in a storm and been lost.

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