Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 288
he shadows were lengthening, and hadalready hidden the splendid band of travelers. They had gone with the day, and alreadylittle Alfred was among strangers in a dim anduntried world. How they pitied him! After all, they felt that it was better to be inthe safe old shelter than to lead even thatband… … THE OLD KEAKSARGE AS SHE LOOKED WHEN SHE FOUGHT THE ALABAMA. THE KEARSARGES PENNANT AT MANILA BAY. On the evening before the battle of ManilaI sat at my desk in my state-room on the Bal-timore, sipping a cup of after-dinner coffee,and putting my personal affairs in such shapethat if I fell a victim…
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