By
WILLIAM BOWEN
The Enchanted Forest
The Old Tobacco Shop
"Lord bless us!" cried the hunch back. "Look at that!"
The Old Tobacco Shop
A True Account of What Befell
a Little Boy in Search
of Adventure
By
WILLIAM BOWEN
Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man,and of good judgment, believeth still what is told him, and thatwhich he finds written.—Rabelais.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1921
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and Electrotyped. Published October, 1921
FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY
NEW YORK
To
BILLY AND JOHN
TWO LITTLE BOYS
PRINCIPAL PERSONS
Freddie
Mr. Toby
Aunt Amanda
Mr. Punch
The Churchwarden
Mr. Hanlon
The Sly Old Fox
The Old Codger with the Wooden Leg
Mr. Lemuel Mizzen
The Cabin-Boy
Marmaduke
Captain Lingo
Ketch the Practitioner
The Third Vice-President
Mr. Matthew Speak
Shiraz the Rug-Merchant
The King and Queen
Robert, Jenny, and James
Mr. Punch's Father
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- "Lord bless us!" cried the hunch back. "Look at that!"Frontispiece
- "I'm Lemuel Mizzen, A.B., that's me!" 50
- "L-l-Lem!" shrieked the parrot. "Who's your f-f-f-friends?" 86
- Mr. Hanlon was standing on his feet by the log on which his head had been cut off 134
- Shiraz the Rug-Merchant looked at his visitor with little beady black eyes 188
- "Ah, yes," said Aunt Amanda, "there's no place like the Old Tobacco Shop after all" 235