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Title: Our young folks (serial)
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916 Hamilton, Gail, 1833-1896 Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
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Publisher: (Boston : Ticknor and Fields)
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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reatment! Friend-less, a foreigner, amid strange scenes, in the city of a despot whose willwas law, she clasped her child to her heart, and for a moment, we may wellbelieve, wished herself safe back in her English home. To add to her fears, all was confusion about her. It was evening; theriver was alive with all sorts of queer boats and vessels,—junks, canoes,gondolas, proas, rafts, sails, oars, paddles, — and the air was filled withthe wild shouts and cries of a half-naked population that seemed almost tolive in the water. She was preparing to spend the night with her child on the deck of thelittle steamer, in the midst of flying clouds of coal-dust and the screams ofcoolies, when a gondola, in which appeared a hearty English face, passing near, was hailed, and Captain B came on board. In him she found truly a friend in need. He took her off in his gondola; and soon thescene changed from coal-dust and confusion to dream-like sweetness and 664 The Schoolmistress in Siam. (November
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The King of Siam beauty. Bangkok is a sort of Oriental Venice. But it is more wonderfulthan Venice, in the manner in which it is built upon the water. It is — atleast a large part of it is — a floating city. When it first became the capital i872.) The Schoolmistress in Siam. 66s

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