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Wise Billy and the Bowmanville Boy Poet Hero
A Bowmanville youth nicknamed Wise Billy defies mockery to nurture a love of birds and poetry. He frees trapped bobolinks, befriends a field botanist, and dies saving a caged lark from a fire, his life hailed as a field poets life. Panama tale follows with Morgan’s raid and grand siege finale.
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Billy
Bowmanville
Wise Billy
Hiawatha
Chicago
Big City
Robert of Lincoln
Bryant
Budlong Wood
Ralph, Waldo Emerson
Heaven's Gate
Lark
Panama
R. P
John Morgan
Morgan
John
Esquemieling
Howard Pyle
Esquemeling
Fort San Lorenzo
Chagres River
Brodely
Corps du Guard
Chagres
Cruces
Canal
Jungs
Cruce
South Sea
St. Stanislaus
Gatun
King Bird
Bes Martin
Martin
Western Plains
King