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    The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle
    The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle
    The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle
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    The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle

    By Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry and Annie F. Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle

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      The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle - Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the

      Bicycle, by Annie Fellows Johnston

      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

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle

      Author: Annie Fellows Johnston

      Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry

      Release Date: December 3, 2005 [EBook #17214]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUILT THAT JACK BUILT ***

      Produced by David Garcia, Jeannie Howse and the Online

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

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)

      THE QUILT THAT JACK BUILT

      HIS SERIOUS LITTLE FACE PUCKERED INTO AN ANXIOUS FROWN

      (See page 4)ToList

      Cosy Corner Series

      THE QUILT

      THAT JACK BUILT

      HOW HE WON THE BICYCLE

      By

      Annie Fellows Johnston

      Author of The Little Colonel Series, Big Brother,

      The Story of Dago, Joel: A Boy of Galilee, etc.

      Illustrated by

      Etheldred B. Barry

      Boston

      The Page Company

      Publishers

      Copyright, 1904

      by L.C. Page & Company

      (INCORPORATED)

      All rights reserved

      Published October, 1904

      Third Impression, March, 1910

      Fourth Impression, February, 1911

      Fifth Impression, March, 1914

      Sixth impression, July, 1919

      THE COLONIAL PRESS

      C.H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.

      TO

      THE BOY

      WHO HAS MADE ALL BOYHOOD DEAR TO ME—

      MY ONLY SON

      John

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