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Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ed where I was. It tookme all the next day and theday after that to skin herand get her skin and meatand cubs down to my campon the river. But I did getem down, and I made abetter thing of it than Ishould have done to fol-low up the elk. I sent themeat down to the Bay. andit brought me §96. I keptthe cubs till they were aboutsix months old, and thenI took them down myself,and each one brought meaWaas-Molitorslug. Pret-ty good, wasnt it ? Brought you a what :Waas—something ? Oh, I forgot that you never saw any of such things.In the old times in Frisco they had fifty-dollar coins,and those with the stamp of Waas & Molitor were just asgood as United States money. Six-sided they were, notround. Two slugs : that made $196 for that one afternoonswork! Pretty fair doing, Jake ; though I do not knowabout standing the rush of that old bear for it. I amquite inclined to think your advice is better than yourexample. I shall let grizzlies alone. OCTOBER 16, 1883. HARPEITS YOUNG PEOPLE. 793
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THE BABY KNIGHT.—SEE PAGE 7M. 794 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. THE KNIGHTHOOD OF A BABY PRINCE. BY ELIOT McCORMICK. f^\ ENTURIES ago, when countries were at war all the\J time, and nearly every man was a soldier, the bravestami mostdistinguished officers were called knights. Thesewould go into battle, forming the body-guard of the King,or attended by their followers and servants, while in timeof peace they would meet one another in tournaments, ormock fights, or travel around the country in search ofadventures. In those days adventures were not hard to find. Thecountry swarmed with robber bands, who fell upon vil-lages and unprotected castles, and took noble ladies andhelpless children captive; so that, even when there was nowar, the knights sword had no chance of becoming rusty.It was a rude and lawless life, and in some things theknight was rude and lawless himself, but his vow ofknighthood bound him to respect the innocent and help-less to defend the Christian faith, and to d

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