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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 623

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of Persia, was invading the country, and, after defeat-ing the Greeks at Thermopylae, had advanced rapidlytoward the Peloponnesian peninsula. Athens was ingreat danger. Themistocles, a famous Athenian, wentto the oracle for advice. The oracle said, when every-thing else failed, a wooden wall would… … A HEADING FOR MARCH. BY VICTOR H. SEARS, AGE 15. A GREAT HERO. BY CONSTANCE GARDNER(AGE 10). I d like to be a heroOf olden times gone by ; I d like to be George Wash-ington,Who never told a lie. I d like to be a soldierWho was as great as he ; But it is useless wishing,As that will never be. THE…

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