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DEERING OF DEAL

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

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“DON’T HAVE A FIT, DEERING, IT’S ONLY MACLAREN”

DEERING OF DEAL

OR

THE SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL

BY

LATTA GRISWOLD

“Toujours fidèle et sans souci”

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1914

All rights reserved

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Copyright, 1912
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1912.
Reprinted July, 1913, July, 1914.

PRESS OF T. MOREY & SON
GREENFIELD, MASS., U. S. A.

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To

JOHN GLENOE WRIGHT
LEE HALL JONES
ROBERT GROSVENOR
LUCIUS SCOTT LANDRETH, JR.
HARRY L. FENNER
SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER, JR.

in warm friendship and in memory of
many happy days at school

FOREWORD

The Author desires to state that none of the charactersin this story, either boys or masters, are portraits.The incidents are entirely fictitious, and Deal School,though it shares certain topographical features withthe school with which the Author is connected, existsonly in his imagination.

St. George’s School,

Newport: 18 April, 1912.

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MAP OF DEAL SCHOOL