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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Austin and His Friends, by Frederic H. Balfour
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Title: Austin and His Friends
Author: Frederic H. Balfour
Release Date: June 21, 2005 [eBook #16099]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUSTIN AND HIS FRIENDS***
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AUSTIN AND HIS FRIENDS
by
FREDERIC H. BALFOUR
Author Of "The Expiation of Eugene," etc.
London
Greening & Co., Ltd.
1906
[Illustration: DAPHNIS AT THE FOUNTAIN]
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