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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 222

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s W. Whit-tlesey, carried with him on the advance CherAmi, who had been carefully trained by Cap-tain Carney, an old soldier with a liking forhoming-pigeons, which he cultivated at Pitts-burg between wars, having served in Cuba andthe Philippines and China. He took over thisimportant… … CHEB AMI IN THE HANDS OF HIS COMMANDING OFFICER,CAPTAIN JOHN L. CAKNEY, A. E. F. man sharp-shooters, always on the lookout forcarrier-pigeons. So when the beleaguered bat-talion found itself cut off and without food, amessage was tied to the birds left leg, close up 709 710 under the feathers, and…

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