The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 162
ew Guinea, just hollowedout trunks of trees. And then of the trim littlecanoes made of sealskin the Esquimaux use, withfunny paddles flat at both ends. Father says thatthey can be paddled so fast that a boat with tenoars cannot catch them. And then he told me ofthe birch-bark canoes of the American… … THE SILVER SPOONS /^^NE day a Prussian officer was dining at^^ a restaurant in Berlin. At his side sata disagreeable man. Soon the officer saw theman slip one of the silver table spoons up hissleeve. The officer said nothing but quietlyslipped a spoon through one of the braidingsof his tunic. When…
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