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Reading edition
BOOKS BY CAROLINE DALE SNEDEKER
Seth Way: A Romance of the New Harmony Community
The Spartan
The Perilous Seat
THE PERILOUS SEAT
BY CAROLINE DALE SNEDEKER
The untaught maid Mounting the perilous high seat can, for the god Speak wisdom kings will seek for, but herself The god will soon destroy.
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
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TO MY SON KARL SNEDEKER WHOSE GREEK SCHOLARSHIP HAS AIDED MY TASK, THIS STORY OF OLD GREECE IS DEDICATED