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    Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres
    Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres
    Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres
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    Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres

    By Frederick Simpson Coburn and William Henry Drummond

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres

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      Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres - Frederick Simpson Coburn

      PHIL-O-RUM'S CANOE AND MADELEINE VERCHERS

      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 with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license.

      Title: Phil-o-rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres

      Author: William Henry Drummond

      Release Date: July 07, 2012 [EBook #40152]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PHIL-O-RUM'S CANOE AND MADELEINE VERCHERES ***

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      O ma ole canoe, wat 's matter wit' you, an' w'y was you be so slow?

      Title page

      Phil-o-rum's

      Canoe

      and

      Madeleine

      Vercheres

      Two Poems by

      William

      Henry

      Drummond

      Author of "The

      Habitant," etc.

      Illustrated by

      Frederick

      Simpson

      Coburn

      G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      The Knickerbocker Press

      1898

      COPYRIGHT, 1898

      BY

      G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

      Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

      The Knickerbocker Press, New York

      headpiece

      PHIL-O-RUM'S CANOE.

      "O ma ole canoe, wat 's matter wit' you,

      an' w'y was you be so slow?

      Don't I work hard enough on de paddle, an'

      still you don't

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