Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 827
r whom there was no prison ? An elephant would have seemed a trifle to havein hand compared with the smallest man in theworld. Yet the tiny, trembling hand—so like the handof a baby-—which clung to his steel breastplate,took fast hold of the soldiers heart, too. He would as soon have left the flag,… … THEN THE BIG DEFIANT CHAMPION GATHERED THE SMALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD TENDERLY INTO HIS ARMS AND COVERED HIM WITH THE LARGE SLEEVE OF HIS TABARD. -how was this He appealed to a man of consequence, denoted bya heavy gold chain about his neck, who looked asthough he had power to do anything. This…
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