  Crest Frontispiece "'YOU YOUNG FOOL!' EXCLAIMED CHARLIE, 'THE WATER ROUND HERE IS THICK WITH SHARKS!'" "'YOU YOUNG FOOL!' EXCLAIMED CHARLIE, 'THE WATER ROUND HERE IS THICK WITH SHARKS!'" A.L. BURT COMPANY Published by arrangement with Doubleday, Page & Company Copyright, 1918, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1918, BY THE BUTTERICK PUBLISHING COMPANY LIFE BEING OF THE NATURE BOTH OF A TREASURE-HUNT AND A PIRATICAL EXPEDITION, I DEDICATE THIS NARRATIVE TO THE FOLLOWING SAILING COMPANIONS OF MINE ON THIS ENTERTAINING OLD PIRATE CRAFT WE CALL THE EARTH, IN THE HOPE THAT EACH MAY FIND HIS TREASURE, AND, AT LEAST, ESCAPE HANGING AT THE END OF THE TRIP—TO WIT: HARRY DASH JOHNSON, SAM NICHOLSON, BERT WILLSIE AND CHARLEY BETHEL, ALL ENGAGED IN ONE OR ANOTHER OF THE PIRATICAL PROFESSIONS. |
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