Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 452
Jack, as usual, returns to thehotel: but Brigham advances, pushing ahead of theguides, choosing his own path, digressing now andthen, yet always returning in safety to the lightof the lamps. Brigham and I became fast friends, during myfortnights stay at Mammoth Cave, last summer.The gentle dignity… … theater ! It really seemed but an act of commonpoliteness to explain to him that these were histori-cal relics; and that the saltpeter made here wascarried by oxen and pack-mules to Philadelphia, tobe used in making gunpowder, during the war withGreat Britain in 1812. Each striking object — the…
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