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... fire- arms as earnestly as a country club group of our day dis- cusses golf balls and automobiles . Even ten - year - old boys became expert executioners of birds and rabbits . Ulysses , with his horror of game - hunting , must have ...
... fire- arms as earnestly as a country club group of our day dis- cusses golf balls and automobiles . Even ten - year - old boys became expert executioners of birds and rabbits . Ulysses , with his horror of game - hunting , must have ...
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... fire on the Mexican troops inside the city . The fire from the steeple was so damaging to the enemy that General Worth sent for Grant to compliment him on its effectiveness . Worth's messenger to the young man in the steeple was ...
... fire on the Mexican troops inside the city . The fire from the steeple was so damaging to the enemy that General Worth sent for Grant to compliment him on its effectiveness . Worth's messenger to the young man in the steeple was ...
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... fire , in such a driving storm . Grant and his staff spent the night in a ramshackle farm - house , lying on the floor . But if Grant's army was in bad shape , that of the Con- federates was worse . They had no overcoats , and not many ...
... fire , in such a driving storm . Grant and his staff spent the night in a ramshackle farm - house , lying on the floor . But if Grant's army was in bad shape , that of the Con- federates was worse . They had no overcoats , and not many ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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