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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 306

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vast horde reached the pass, Xerxes laughedat the handful there to meet him. Four days he waitedfor them to take the offensive, and when they did not,he attacked. Two days they fought, and the Greeksseemed as impregnable as a pillar of stone. Then, at night, a wretched Greek betrayed to the… … HISTORIC SPOT. BY BETTY LOWE, AGE 17. (Tens chapel, Lake Lucerne.) (HONOR MEMBER.) only his three hundred Spartans, and seven hundredThespians, bravest of all the Greeks, who pledged them-selves to die at their post. Bravely they fought and nobly they died ; for by thetime their little band lay…

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