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    The Lost Child
    The Lost Child
    The Lost Child
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    The Lost Child

    By Henry Kingsley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    The Lost Child
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    Henry Kingsley

    Henry Kingsley, (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of Muscular Christianity in his 1859 work "The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn". (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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      The Lost Child - Henry Kingsley

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lost Child, by Henry Kingsley

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      Title: The Lost Child

      Author: Henry Kingsley

      Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25404]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOST CHILD ***

      Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was made using scans of public domain works in the

      International Children's Digital Library.)

      Looking eagerly across the water.Front.

      THE LOST CHILD.

      BY

      HENRY KINGSLEY.

      "And there he stood, naked and free, on the forbidden ground."

      ILLUSTRATED BY L. FRÖLICH.

      London and New York:

      MACMILLAN AND CO.

      1871.

      PREFACE.

      It is only natural that an author should say a few words about a republication of this kind. The story in its separate form has the advantage of being illustrated by an eminent artist, whose special qualifications are widely known and acknowledged; and it seemed to all concerned best that it should be left entirely untouched. The first two paragraphs and the last short one are simply added: no other liberty has been taken with it.

      To avoid the trouble of those great plagues of literature, foot-notes, the author asks the reader to submit to a few very trifling explanations:

      Quantongs are a bush fruit, of about the same quality as green gooseberries, but, like the

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