Identifier: americanboysinar00fren (find matches)
Title: American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: French, Harry W. (Harry Willard), 1854-
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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JEWS. A pretty Circassian girl, with a long, slender rod in her hand and a bas-ket on her arm, came up and, smiling, opened the basket, out of whichhopped several little birds. Looking up she said, in English:
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HOLDING BACK THE STARVING PEASANTS. ON TO BALAKLAVA! 181 Fine gentlemen, fine fortune. Me little birds tells fortunes true. There is always a peculiar fascination about gypsies, and a peculiarfascination to the sailor about having his fortune told. There is alwaysan irresistible charm in ones own language, when one meets it unex-pectedly, and Scott, in his impulsive prodi-gality, put a gold piece in her hand. Itwas a Swedish coin, but it was all he had,and sold is arold the wide world over. She smiled, held out the rod, and two ofthe birds lit upon one end of it. She stoodsilently watching them. One began to hopaway, and the other followed. The last onealmost caught up and gave the first a peck,but he jumped away, and the last lost hisbalance, and would have fallen off the rod,but for the help of his wings. They keptit up till they reached the end of the rod;then the first, grasping it in his feet, hungdown, head-first, as though he were dead.A third bird flew up from the basket, lit

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