Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 28
re would bebattleships and fortresses, shields, and arrows,and spears, and all the paraphernalia of war,ancient and modern. But beside these, andhaving a sterner significance, would be the toolsand implements of artisans, the windmills, thedykes, the canals; the sluice-gates, the locks,the piles… … THE GlEUX, OR BEGGARS. shown her pluck; nor is hers the boisterous,bragging quality that offends at every turn. Asimpler, steadier, more peacefully inclined peo-ple it would be hard to find; but somehow theyhave an odd way of being actively concernedin the history of other nations. Possibly this is…
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