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The
GOLDEN BOUGH
BY
GEORGE GIBBS
AUTHOR OF "THE SECRET WITNESS," "PARADISE GARDEN,"
"THE YELLOW DOVE," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
TORONTO
GEORGE J. McLEOD, LIMITED
PUBLISHERS
1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT 1918, BY THE PICTORIAL REVIEW CO.
Printed in the United States of America
TO
DR. JOHN BACH McMASTER
Your Muse, a-weary with the stress
Of putting facts in careful dress,
Has doffed her dignity and made
Of History a masquerade.
She prays you, sir, to follow me
Into the Realm of Fantasy
Where Clio in a cap and bells,
With blither mien, our story tells.
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