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An alphabet of history (1905)

Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927, Young, Ellsworth, [from old catalog] illus · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 33

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so that it met His active funny bone. He was to war a stranger; His kingdom had no debt;Each of his laws possessed a clause That barred out care and fret —Tis told that when expiring He wasted his last breathIn one long laugh in lifes behalf, And thus went to his death. There was a king of Yvetot —… … ENOBIA Zenobia was empress of the people ofPalmyra;She tried to boss the army when sheshould have stayed at home.Aurelian, the soldier, led a sort of a hegiraOf armies up to fight her —they came all theway from Rome. Full soon he was pursuing them, with spears anddaggers shooing them.At last he…

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