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Mary-'GustaLincoln, Joseph Crosby

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Mary-'Gusta

Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction; Guardian and ward -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction

Captain Shad looked after him. Then he turned to his friend and partner
and said earnestly:

“Do you know, Isaiah's gettin' real kind of sensible in his old age.”

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