This book was awardedthe John NewberyMedal by the Children’sLibrarians’Section of the AmericanLibrary Association,for the most distinguishedcontribution toAmerican Children’sliterature during theyear 1925.
SHEN OF THE SEA
A Book for Children
BY
ARTHUR BOWIE CHRISMAN
“Author of The Wind That Wouldn’t Blow”
Illustrated with over Fifty Silhouettes
BY
ELSE HASSELRIIS
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & CO., Inc.
Copyright 1925 by
E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
Copyright renewal 1953
by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
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Thirty-fifth Printing November 1966
Printed in the U. S. A.
To
V. T. S.
This Book
Is Dedicated
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I have heard
That the Plain of Fat Melons
Is more than flat.
It is hollowed like a bowl.
And my purse
Was quite as flat.
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