Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 40
THE ORIGIN OF THE SALUTE On the road, or in the arena before the tilting-match, clicking up of the visor was an indispensable courtesy.This custom has come down to us in the form of the salute. {See page 581.) 578 ST. NICHOLAS Vol. XLV. MAY, 1918 Copyright, 1918, by Tjie Century Co. All rights… … You are not soldiers; you are crusaders! the ac-tual descendants of those knights of old who gavetheir all for their cause! Had these words been spoken by the clergy,the assembled troops would have been respect-fully attentive, and, sad to say, the slogan wouldhave passed unheeded. But a…
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