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 420
llectedwater; and in winter, with sliding on the ice andbuilding snow barricades, which we called forts,and, dividing the boys into two armies, and usingsnowballs for ammunition, we contended for thepossession of these strongholds. I was one of theirswiftest runners in the race, and not inexpert… … William Cullen Bryant 393 had read in the Iliad, and, fitted out with swordsand spears and homemade armor, they would enactin the barn the great battles of the Trojan War. Not only the Iliad, but other carefully chosenworks of literature were discovered by the boy inhis fathers library, and he read…
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