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    Tam O'Shanter
    Tam O'Shanter
    Tam O'Shanter
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    Tam O'Shanter

    By Harry L. Miller and Robert Burns

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 1980

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      Tam O'Shanter - Harry L. Miller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tam O'Shanter, by Robert Burns

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Tam O'Shanter

      Author: Robert Burns

      Illustrator: Harry L. Miller

      Release Date: June 9, 2008 [EBook #25733]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TAM O'SHANTER ***

      Produced by Tamise Totterdell and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

      She tauld thee well thou was a skellum.

      Tam O' Shanter.

      Robert Burns.

      Decorations

      by

      Harry L. Miller.

      The

      Saalfield Publishing Company.

      Akron Ohio

      New York Chicago.

      Copyright, 1908.

      BY

      The Saalfield Publishing Company.

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