Mason A. Walton
Reading edition
(The Hermit of Gloucester)

Boston
Dana Estes & Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1903 By Dana Estes & Company All rights reserved
A HERMIT'S WILD FRIENDS Published October, 1903
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
To the Lovers of Nature, everywhere, this volume is fraternally dedicated.