The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 132
N T ONG, long ago, when there were no rail--*-^ ways or telegraph or telephones, if impor-tant news were to be carried swiftly through acountry, beacon fires were kindled on the hill-tops, and their leaping flames meant either goodor ill to those watching for them. Once theytold England that the… … A FELUCCA I ^HE Furst Bismarck was just entering the-- Mediterranean Sea. Mamma, mamma,called Bobby, leaning over the rail of the steam-ship; come quick, and see these great white birdsflying toward us! Those are not birds, littleson, laughed Mamma, they are boats, calledfeluccas, and you shall…
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