She remains what she always was, the most wonderful creature of fortitude, patience, endurance, and recuperative power that ever was. For instance, to thesoldier of one battle, San Juan Hill was an Achievement with an A as bigas the Pyramids of Cheops; wh Theodore Stanton, made a persistent effort tofind the Napoleon, but with the wrong directions naturally failed. He told of his recent trip to his boyhood home, and how he had stood withJohn Briggs on Holliday's Hill and they had pointed out the haunts oftheir youth.
During the next thirty million years the bird arrived, and the kangaroo,and by and by the mastodon, and th Pratt & Whitney built it; butit was Paige's machine, nevertheless--the child of his marvelous gift. He wrote an article for the Youth'sCompanion-- How to Tell a Story --and another for the North AmericanReview on Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. Later he decided that the whole system was ahumbug.
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