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| Title | The Whispers of a Shell; Or, Stories from the Sea |
| Author | Frances Freeling Broderip |
| Publisher | Griffith and Farran (successors to Newbery and Harris), 1871 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 244 pages |
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