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    The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons
    The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons
    The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons
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    The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons

    By James Fairfax McLaughlin

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons - James Fairfax McLaughlin

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Cyclops, the Hero of New

      Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons, by James Fairfax McLaughlin

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons

      Author: James Fairfax McLaughlin

      Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21274]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN CYCLOPS ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness, David T. Jones and the Online

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

      file was produced from scans of public domain works at the

      University of Michigan's Making of America collection.)

      Picture 1."A pot-house soldier, he parades by day,

      And drunk by night, he sighs the foe to slay."

      Page  19 .

      [Pg 2]

      THE

      AMERICAN CYCLOPS,

      THE

      AND

      SPOILER OF SILVER SPOONS.

      Dubbed LL.D.

      by

      PASQUINO.

      BALTIMORE:  KELLY & PIET.

      1868.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

      KELLY & PIET,

      In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

      District of Maryland.

      [Pg 3]

      HE following little illustrated effusion is offered to the public, in the hope that it may not prove altogether uninteresting, or entirely inappropriate to the times. The famous pre-historic story of Ulysses and Polyphemus has received its counterpart in the case of

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