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DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR


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                BOOKS BY
              E. F. BENSON

    REX
    DAVID OF KING’S
    DAVID BLAIZE
    DAVID BLAIZE AND
        THE BLUE DOOR
    DODO THE SECOND
    MRS. AMES
    THE OAKLEYITES

        HODDER & STOUGHTON, LTD.
    PUBLISHERS          LONDON, E.C.4

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[Illustration: The flame-cats and the black man
 coming down the chimney]


DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR

by

E. F. BENSON

[Illustration]

Illustrated by H. J. Ford







Hodder and Stoughton
Limited            London

Made and Printed in Great Britain by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd.,
Liverpool, London and Prescot.




ILLUSTRATIONS

   The flame-cats