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Title: Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer

Author: Avis A. (Burnham) Stanwood

Release Date: October 27, 2007 [eBook #23214]

Language: English

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FOSTINA WOODMAN, THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURER.

by

A. A. BURNHAM.

[Illustration: THE SHIP ESSEX SAILS FOR CALIFORNIA.]

Boston:
1854.

Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1850, by
A. A. Burnham,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts

Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

Description of Fostina's Home--Introduction of Herself and Parents
to the Reader--Aunt Aubrey--Sudden Calamity--The Two Brothers and
Lewis Mortimer--Introduction of her Uncle, and the Great Change in
Fostina's Life.

CHAPTER II.

The Ship Essex sails for California, with Lewis Mortimer and the
two Brothers on Board--Fostina's Grief at their Departure--Her
Uncle's Family--Fosti