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Jaspersohn, William.
THE SCRIMSHAW RING
Middlebury, VT : Vermont Folklife Center, 2002.
IL K-3, RL 3.8
ISBN 0916718190
Do you like to make up stories?  William did.  He loved to make up stories about pirates and far away places.  No one took him seriously.  It was just William telling tales.  But, one day, his parents went to town leaving William alone with the cook.  And, can you guess what happened?  Pirates!   Who will ever believe him?  This book is based on a true life story that happened 300 years ago.
SUBJECTS:     Pirates -- Fiction.
                        Heirlooms -- Fiction.
                        Newport (R.I.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.

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