Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley), b. 1869 · New York : Funk & Wagnalls · leaf 374
h.Here shooting galleries popped away andwheels of fortune whizzed for prizes. A patienthorse ground simultaneously the organ and amerry-go-round. At the sound of a ta-ra-ta-ta oftrumpets in the distance, the excited crowdrushed back to the top of the cobble-stoned hilland waited breathlessly with… … 328 HOW PARIS AMUSES ITSELF they had passed — eight pompiers^ the noblevolunteer fire brigade of the town—amid cheersand sighs of regret from the crowd that it wasall over. Not for another year would Limayblaze in glory. A fair wind the next day filled my sail as far asVetheuil. The river had…
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