The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 419
g e r, I stoppeda while to pick outthe arrows thatstuck in my handsand face: andrubbed on some ofthe same ointmentthat was given meat my first arrival,as I have formerlymentioned. 1 thentook off my specta-cles, and waitingabout an hour tillthe tide was a littlefallen, I wadedthrough the middle with… … moon, but could not discern me, who was up tomy breast in water. When I advanced to themiddle of the channel, they were yet more in pain,because I was under water to my neck. The em-peror concluded me to be drowned, and that the enemys fleet wasapproaching in ahostile manner: buthe was soon easedof…
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