Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 358
he stretched neck, and staggering knees,And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank,As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank. So we were left galloping, Joris and I,Past Locz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky;The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh;Neath our feet broke the… … I CAST LOOSE MY BUFF-COAT Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone;And there was my Roland to bear the whole weightOf the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim,And with circles of red for his eye-sockets rim. 338 Good News from…
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