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                                   A

                          CHANCE FOR HIMSELF;

                                  OR,

                     JACK HAZARD AND HIS TREASURE.

                                   BY

                           J. T. TROWBRIDGE,

   AUTHOR OF “JACK HAZARD AND HIS FORTUNES,” “LAWRENCE’S ADVENTURES,”
                          “COUPON BONDS,” ETC.


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                                BOSTON:
                      JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
            LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
                                 1872.




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        Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,

                       BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,

       in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.




          UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE.




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                               CONTENTS.

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  CHAPTER                                                          PAGE
       I. THE THUNDER-SQUALL                                          7
      II. WHAT JACK FOUND IN THE LOG                                 13
     III. “TREASURE-TROVE”                                           19
      IV. IN WHICH JACK COUNTS HIS CHICKENS                          28
       V. WAITING FOR THE DEACON                                     32
      VI. “ABOUT THAT HALF-DOLLAR”                                   36
     VII. HOW JACK WENT FOR HIS TREASURE                             41
    VIII. JACK AND THE SQUIRE                                        49
