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    A Prize for Edie
    A Prize for Edie
    A Prize for Edie
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    A Prize for Edie

    By Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      A Prize for Edie - Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

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      Title: A Prize for Edie

      Author: Jesse Franklin Bone

      Release Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #26332]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PRIZE FOR EDIE ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Andrew Wainwright, Dave Lovelace, and the

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      A PRIZE ... FOR EDIE

      By J. F. BONE

      Illustrated by Schoenherr

      The letter from America arrived too late. The Committee had regarded acceptance as a foregone conclusion, for no one since Boris Pasternak had turned down a Nobel Prize. So when Professor Doctor Nels Christianson opened the letter, there was not the slightest fear on his part, or on that of his fellow committeemen, Dr. Eric Carlstrom and Dr. Sven Eklund, that the letter would be anything other than the usual routine acceptance.

      "At last we learn the identity

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