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The Shipwreck: A Story for the Young

by Fr. Joseph Spillman

Willy Brown and his friend, Joseph, an orphan, are taken aboard the ship "St. George," but their wicked uncle plans a shipwreck onto a cannibal island.

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Latin

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Joseph Spillmann was a Swiss Jesuit children's author. He attended the primary school and gymnasium in Zug, but bad health necessitated his leaving his studies and devoting himself to his father's bus...

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