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Across India
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Title: Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
Author: Oliver Optic
Release Date: April 4, 2005 [EBook #15540]
Language: English
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ACROSS INDIA
OR
LIVE BOYS IN THE FAR EAST
BY
OLIVER OPTIC
AUTHOR OF "A MISSING MILLION" "A MILLIONAIRE AT SIXTEEN" "A YOUNG KNIGHT-ERRANT" "STRANGE SIGHTS ABROAD" "AMERICAN BOYS AFLOAT" "THE YOUNG NAVIGATORS" "UP AND DOWN THE NILE" "ASIATIC BREEZES" AND UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED OTHER VOLUMES
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET
1895
* * * * *
TO
MY LONG-TRIED FRIEND OF MORE THAN FORTY YEARS, WITH WHOM IN ALL THAT TIME, I HAVE NOT HAD A BICKER OR A SHADOW OF UNPLEASANTNESS THOUGH HE HAS BEEN MY SENIOR PUBLISHER FOR MORE THAN AN ENTIRE GENERATION, AND TO WHOM I HAVE NOT DEDICATED A BOOK FOR THIRTY YEARS
WILLIAM LEE
This Volume
IS RESPECTFULLY AND CORDIALLY INSCRIBED BY HIS FAITHFUL AND EVER GRATE