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The Arkansaw Bear, by Albert Bigelow Paine
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Title: The Arkansaw Bear A Tale of Fanciful Adventure
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator: Frank Ver Beck
Release Date: March 10, 2009 [EBook #28302]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE ARKANSAW BEAR
[Illustration]
NEW YORK R. H. RUSSELL PUBLISHER
[Illustration: BOSEPHUS AND HORATIO]
THE ARKANSAW BEAR
A TALE OF FANCIFUL ADVENTURE
TOLD
IN SONG AND STORY BY
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
IN PICTURES BY
FRANK VER BECK
[Illustration]
NEW YORK: R. H. RUSSELL LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO.
MDCCCXCVIII
COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY
ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL
Printed in the United States of America
DEDICATION
TO MASTER FRANK VER BECK,
FOR WHOSE
BEDTIME ENTERTAINMENT
THE ARKANSAW BEAR
FIRST PERFORMED
CHAPTER PAGE
I The Meetin