. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls . m —FrontispiecePAUL NEVER HAD REALIZED HOW SMOOTH THATROUNDED BODY OF THE MACHINE WAS AROUND THE WORLDIN TEN DAYS BY CHELSEA CURTIS ERASER Author of Work-a-Day Heroes, Secrets of the Earth, Boys Book of Battles, Boys Book of Sea Fights, The Young Citizens Own Book, etc. ILLUSTRATED IN COLORBy HOWARD L. HASTINGS NEW YORKTHOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS ^ll^ i\ bo86^ Copyright 1922, byTHOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY Printed i^i ilie United Siates of America PREFACE THOSE who pick up this book for thefirst time will probably exclaim: Tendays!
. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls . m —FrontispiecePAUL NEVER HAD REALIZED HOW SMOOTH THATROUNDED BODY OF THE MACHINE WAS AROUND THE WORLDIN TEN DAYS BY CHELSEA CURTIS ERASER Author of Work-a-Day Heroes, Secrets of the Earth, Boys Book of Battles, Boys Book of Sea Fights, The Young Citizens Own Book, etc. ILLUSTRATED IN COLORBy HOWARD L. HASTINGS NEW YORKTHOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS ^ll^ i\ bo86^ Copyright 1922, byTHOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY Printed i^i ilie United Siates of America PREFACE THOSE who pick up this book for thefirst time will probably exclaim: Tendays! Why, nobody can go around theworld in ten days! That is just the sentiment which people ex-pressed away back in the year 1873, when JulesVerne sent his mythical hero, Phileas Fogg,around the world in eighty days. Eighty days!Everybody said that might do for a story-book,but no real flesh-and-blood man could ever hopeto circumnavigate the earth in any such ridicu-lously short period. Judge, then, of everybodys astonishmentwhen a mere woman, Nellie Elforresterspictor00fgcr
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