Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
indChristine how long she had been kept on watchwhile Christine and the Captain were ashore,and how Christine herself had slept soundlyduring the only exciting part of the sail ? Nancy Lee still smiled sweetly, and neverlost her temper nor said an unpleasant word.And yet no sooner had Christine put… … HOW THE TURKS CAME BY THEIR CRESCENT.When Philip of Macedon approached by night withhis troops to scale the walls of Byzantium, the moon,then new or in crescent, shone out and discovered hisdesign to the besieged, who repulsed him. The cres-cent was after that adopted as the favorite badge of…
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