The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 49
and obtained the letters, and were thus encouraged to hold outuntil the besieging army was attacked and driven away. In their grat.itude for their deliverance they voted to support the pigeons and theirdescendants forever afterwards at the public expense. But are they really supported at public… … TIIK BRIDGK OF SIGHS. PIGEONS AS TIME-KEEPERS. 29 A little beforetwo oclock on thenext day ourfriends were in thePiazza. As theclock struck thehour the pigeonscame flying fromall directions, andgathered beneatha certain windowon the north sideof the square. Thewindow openedsuddenly, and aquantity…
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