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***NOTE TO READERS***

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The text in this file contains a number of characters not contained in
the standard ASCII character set. To enable the display of these
characters the following alternatives have been placed in the text:

A macron is indicated by the character | immediately after the
accented letter. For example a| is used to indicate the letter a
with a macron diacritical.

A breve is indicated by the character ~ immediately after the
accented letter. For example a~ is used to indicate the letter a
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The characters | and ~ only appear in the text to indicate the
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_By_ ROCK & POOL
On An Austral Shore

_By_ LOUIS BECKE

AUTHOR OF "PACIFIC TALES,"
"BY REEF AND PALM," ETC., ETC.