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Title: Emmy Lou
Her Book and Heart

Author: George Madden Martin

Illustrator: Charles Louis Hinton

Release Date: January 17, 2008 [EBook #24347]

Language: English

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EMMY LOU

HER BOOK & HEART

By
GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN

And Illustrated By
CHARLES LOUIS HINTON

"My Book and Heart Must Never Part."
--New England Primer

GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers--New York

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Copyright, 1901, 1902, by
S. S. McClure Co.

Copyright, 1902, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Fifteenth Impression

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To My Sister
THE AUNT CORDELIA
of these stories, this
book is
affectionately inscribed

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CONTENTS

PAGE
The Right Promethean Fire 1
A Little Feminine Casabianca 29
Hare-and-Tortoise or the Bliss of Ignorance 49
"I Sing of Honour and the Faithful Heart" 81
The Play's the Thing 113
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