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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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too, had a story. It was said to have belonged to Charlemagne. At St. Catherines they knew nothing about it when Jeannes messenger went for the sword. But search was made, and it was found buried back of the altar and covered with rust. They polished it and made for it a splendid sheath of crimson velvet. The citizens of Tours gave another scabbard of cloth of gold. But Jeanne, meaning to carry the sword in battle, laid these showy coverings aside and had a plain leather one made. She would not have the blade sharpened, saying that she would never kill any one. Indeed, once only did she use it, and then to strike a wrong-doer with the flat of it. Jeanne d'Arc was not only a great general and the savior of her country; she was all that was pure and fine, noble and lovely. With her, love of France was not a sentiment, it was a passion. A slender girl in her first young bloom, in her hand the sacred sword that shall sever the bonds of France, this statue represents to all the world the spirit of patriotism
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THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Author of Mark Twain, a Biography, etc. Chapter XVI THE SOLDIER When he reached Hannibal, Samuel Clemens found a very mixed condition of affairs. The country was in an uproar of war preparation; in a border State there was a confusion of sympathies, with much ignorance as to what it was all about. Any number of young men were eager to enlist for a brief camping-out expedition, and small private companies were formed, composed about half and half of Union and Confederate men as it turned out later. Missouri, meantime, had allied herself with the South, and Samuel Clemens on his arrival in Hannibal decided that, like Lee, he would go with his State. Old friends, who were getting up a company to help Governor Claib Jackson repel the invader, offered him a lieutenancy if he would join. It was not a big company; it had only about a dozen members, most of whom had been schoolmates, some of them fellow-pilots, and Sam Clemens was needed to make it complete

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