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than a scruffy seaman.
    â€œWhen you come,” the Mayor said, relenting, “will you bring him for a visit? And do you promise we’ll see you inside of the month?”
    William nodded. But even so, as he set off down the road with the dulcimer under his arm and the coat dragging behind him, a sadness came into the eyes of Jules and the Mayor.
    â€œI don’t like to see him going off alone.” The Mayor sighed.
    It was Jules, with his sensitive ears, who heard the faint songs first. He lifted his eyes, and then the Mayor lifted his. Accompanying William, singing as they wheeled high over his head, was a great flock of birds, dark birds from the forest, white birds from the sea.

About the Author and the Illustrator
    TOR SEIDLER is the celebrated author of the National Book Award finalist MEAN MARGARET . He has also written numerous children’s classics, including TERPIN, A RAT’S TALE, THE REVENGE OF RANDAL REESE-RAT, THE WAINSCOTT WEASEL, THE TAR PIT, THE SILENT SPILLBILLS, BROTHERS BELOW ZERO, BRAINBOY AND THE DEATHMASTER , and TOES . He lives in New York City.
    BRIAN SELZNICK is the illustrator of many books for children, among them the Caldecott Honor Book THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS , as well as his own THE BOY OF A THOUSAND FACES and THE HOUDINI BOX . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Credits
    Cover art © 2003 by Brian Selznick
    Cover design by Brian Selznick
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Copyright
    THE DULCIMER BOY . Text copyright © 1979 by Tor Seidler. Illustrations copyright © 2003 by Brian Selznick. First published in 1979 by The Viking Press. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Seidler, Tor.
    The dulcimer boy / Tor Seidler; illustrations by Brian Selznick.
    p. cm.
    Summary: Twin brothers are abandoned on their uncle’s doorstep in early twentieth-century New England with nothing but a silver-stringed dulcimer.
    ISBN 0-06-623609-6—ISBN 0-06-623610-X (lib. bdg.)—ISBN 0-06-441048-X (pbk.)
    [1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Dulcimer—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction. 4. New England—Fiction.] I. Selznick, Brian, ill. II. Title.
    PZ7.S45526 Du 2003     2001023875
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    First Harper Trophy edition, 2004
    EPub Edition © January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-203341-3
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