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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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n with a grip like avise. His weight was insufficient to stop thefrightened animal, which dragged the boy, hisfeet hardly touching the ground, from the pointwhere he seized it, over the entire distance to theupper gate. Here I also was able to clutch thebridle, and we brought the horse to a standstill.When the father came up, he was so agitated thathe could not speak. Such was the adventure so simply told byHarry, when he said— But I helped, too. The readers of St. Nicholas may be glad toknow that this is no story made up from imagina-tion. Harry is a real live boy, only elevenyears old now, though of course his name is notHarry, nor his fathers name Bradford. Theincident here recorded happened in August,1883, and Harry will be as much surprisedas any of you when he reads about it ; for he is aseager to read his St. NICHOLAS when it comes,as he is happy to ride his pony or to divethrough the big waves when the surf breaks onthe beach. 788 HISTORIC BOYS. [August, AN ARTISTIC SURPRISE
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wont the man be surprised, when /j HE DETS BACK AND FINDS ITALL DONE ? THE MAN 1VOS SURPRISED. HISTORIC BOYS.*By E. S. Brooks. VII. BALDWIN OF JERUSALEM : THE BOY CRUSADER. [Known as Baldwin III., the Fifth of the Lathi Kings o/Jerusalem.] How many of my young readers know any-thing of that eventful and romantic chapter in thehistory of Palestine, when, for eighty-eight years,from the days of Duke Godfrey, greatest of theCrusaders, to the time of Saladin, greatest of theSultans, Jerusalem was governed by Christiannobles and guarded by Christian knights, drawnfrom the shores of Italy, the plains of Normandy,and the forests of Anjou ? It is a chapter full ofinterest and yet but little known, and it is at about the middle of this historic period, in the fall of theyear 1147, that our sketch opens. In the palace of the Latin kings, on the slopesof Mount Moriah, a boy of fifteen and a girl often were leaning against an open casement andlooking out through the clear September airtoward the
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