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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 318

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Itook off my shoes and gaiters, and swarmed upthe pole, carrying the line with me. Greatwas my disappointment, on getting near thetop, to see that there was no block or pulleythrough which I could reeve the line. ASpanish flag had been flown, but it had beennailed to the pole, and they had left it… … HOISTING THE UNITED STATES FLAG ON THE STAN1SH FORTIN. ship blew her whistle, and the cheers of themen were heard even above this vast tooting. Ordering Piatt—who had stolen my thunderby first showing the flag—to come help me, bymeans of a pole placed against the building Inow climbed up to the…

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