Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons

Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons (1910)
by Augusta Huiell Seaman
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JACQUELINE OF THE
CARRIER PIGEONS

Jacqueline and her Carrier Pigeon in the Procession


Jacqueline of the
carrier pigeons

by
Augusta Huiell Seaman



With Decorations by
George Wharton Edwards

New York
Sturgis and Walton Company
MCMX
All rights reserved.

Copyright 1910
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY


Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910

TO
MY SEVEREST CRITIC,
MY FATHER,
AND TO
VIRGINIA
WHO WAS ITS INSPIRATION,
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

Introduction

CONTENTS

  1. chapterpage
  2. I.
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    3
  3. II.
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    19
  4. III.
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    35
  5. IV.
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    51
  6. V.
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    67
  7. VI.
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    83
  8. VII.
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    99
  9. VIII.
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    113
  10. IX.
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    129
  11. X.
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    141
  12. XI.
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    155
  13. XII.
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    169
  14. XIII.
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    185
  15. XIV.
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    201
  16. XV.
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    213
  17. XVI.
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    229
  18. XVII.
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    245
  19. XVIII.
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    261
  20. XIX.
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    277
  21. XX.
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    289

ILLUSTRATIONS


FROM DECORATIVE DRAWINGS
BY GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS


  1. Jacqueline and her carrier pigeons in the procession
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    Frontispiece
  2. facing page
  3. Gysbert draws the portrait of Alonzo De Rova
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    62
  4. The Prince lay in a huge four-post bed
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    120
  5. Dirk Willumhoog seizes Jacqueline
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    292

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