Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life (1887)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty · Boston, Roberts Brothers · leaf 345
be- THUS TO THE STARS! 11/ hind him rose the voice of the V. C., singing to hislittle friend — They climbed the steep ascent of Heaven,Through peril, toil, and pain — The men sang on; but the V. C. stopped, as if hehad been shot. For a mans hand had come to theBarrack Masters window and pulled the… … RUE to its character asan emblem ofhuman life,the Campstands on,with all itslittle mannersand customs,whilst themen who gar-rison it passrapidly away.Strange asthe vicissi-tudes of awhole gener-ation else-where, arethe changesand chancesthat a fewyears bring to those who were stationed there…
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