Identifier: summerdaysdownea00swee (find matches)
Title: Summer days down East
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Portland : Chisholm Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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of the post. The dining-room seatssix hundred; and in a single dinner these hearty sons of Mars con-sume a full ton of meat and fish. Every month they make waywith two tons of sugar, a ton of coffee, and over a hundred barrelsof flour, — so that any temporary delinquencies of the old-timecommissariats in Virginia or Georgia are now more than amply made upto the grizzled veterans. Here and there are venerable Uncle Tobyswhose army service began almost as far back as the days of the Legionof the West, and who speak of Chapultepec and Monterey withkindling eye. Others have grim memories of battles on the plains withthe wild Comanches and Dakotas, or ghastly scenes among themountain fastnesses of the Apaches and the Utes. • The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugles stirring blast,The charge, the dreadful cannonade. The din and shout are passed.Nor Wars wild notes, nor Glorys peal. Shall thrill with fierce delightThese breasts, that nevermore may feel The rapture of the fight.
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Q^ (^ A Valley From Augusta to Waterville. 37 THE VALLEY FROM AUGUSTA TOWATERVILLE. The line crosses the Kennebec on a high bridge of stone and iron,with good views of the great Kennebec Dam on the left, and of thebroad stream on the right. Running northward on the east bank, theriver is almost constantly in view, with the trees on its banks mirroredin the clear water, and here and there stranded or floating logs fromthe vast forests of the North. Farther along is the station of Riverside, where a ferry crosses tothe west bank of the river, and roads run into the corn-producingback country. At Vassalboro, the next station, stages are in waiting tocarry passengers over the hills to North and East Vassalboro and China,— pretty rural villages to the eastward. This wealthy old town, richlydiversified in its scenery, and famous for its luscious fruits and promis-ing water-powers, was first settled in 1760, and included among itspioneers two of the guides of Arnolds expedition, one of who

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