The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 44
soft splash of oars every-where. And then when we crossed the platformto go to our hotel, there were the very boats, thegondolas, I had seen in pictures so many years,skimming back and forth over the canal. After-ward we had a gondola of our own, and Fran-cesco for a gondolier. I got mighty fond… … THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL IV /fANY years after Nebuchadnezzar had-^^-*- died, Cyrus, King of Persia, tried totake Babylon, his armies under Darius layingsiege to it. On the night of the 3d of July,five hundred and thirty-eight years before theChrist Child slept in the cattle-shed at Bethle-hem…
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