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Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war's alarms;
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When the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as purple.
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from ...
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do?
Many the hopes that have vanished,
After the ball.
He saw Mr. Lincoln but once; at the melancholy function called an Inaugural Ball. Of course he looked anxiously for a sign of char ...
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successivel ...
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any cr ...
The cannon thunders ... limbs fly in all directions ... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the ...
I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ball ...
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