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The Flaming Jewel, by Robert W. Chambers
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Title: The Flaming Jewel
Author: Robert W. Chambers
Release Date: September 18, 2008 [EBook #26651]
Language: English
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THE FLAMING JEWEL
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
The Flaming Jewel
TRIANGLE BOOKS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
TRIANGLE BOOKS EDITION PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1942
TRIANGLE BOOKS, 14 West Forty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y.
PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE AMERICAN BOOK--STRATFORD PRESS, INC., N. Y. C.
TO MY FRIEND
R. T. HAINES-HALSEY
WHO UNRESERVEDLY BELIEVES EVERYTHING I WRITE
To R. T.
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Three Guests at dinner! That's the life!-- Wedgewood, Revere, and Duncan Phyfe!
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You sit on Duncan--when you dare,-- And out of Wedgewood, using care, With Paul Revere you eat your fare.
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From Paul you borrow fork and knife To wage a gastronomic strife In porringers; and platters rare Of blue Historic Willow-ware.
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Banquets with cymbal, drum and fife, Or ro