Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 342
ds. Slowly, imposingly,our long column steamed up the picturesque river.The news must have reached the city early, for onone bank motor-cars were speeding toward us.Even at that distance we could see the whiteflutter of handkerchiefs and flags. And over allthe summer sunlight fell and drenched the… … 780 AMERICA BEGINS TO PAY HER DEBT [July. thronged with cars and with folks afoot, and atone place, where the channel led us close, a girlin a white gown and something blue in her hatstood up on a seat of one of the .cars and spreada big American flag as wide as her arms would the sunlight glinting…
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