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The Riverside Library for Young People

Number 5

COAL AND THE COAL MINES

By HOMER GREENE

COAL AND THE COAL MINES

BY

HOMER GREENE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1898

Copyright, 1889.

By HOMER GREENE.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, U. S. A.:

Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

To

MY SON,

GILES POLLARD GREENE,

WHO WAS BORN ON THE DAY THIS BOOK WAS BEGUN,

AND WHOSE SMILES AND TEARS

THROUGH HALF A YEAR

HAVE BEEN A DAILY INSPIRATION IN THE WORK,

This Completed Task

IS NOW DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.