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Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s line of such gardens bordered the road-sides from onecity to another, backed by olive groves with vines trailing along their walls,and their entrances arched with golden or purple clusters hung in tempt-ing profusion. Further in the country were the ruder gardens of those who raisedflowers to sell. These were enclosed with high strong walls, along thesouthern face of which, just where the busy inhabitants could find plentyof sweets, were rows of beehives. When a Greek was shut up hopelessly in a city, where he could haveno garden, he made one on his window ledge, in a silver basket, sculpturedall over with rustic imagery, if he could afford it, if not, in one of wood orosier. In this some native of the distant mountains and valleys was cherished and coaxed to grow and bloom. The Heroes of Marathon.—For many years there was strife in ancientGreece between the cities of Athens and Sparta. The Athenians were morecultured and elegant than their southern neighbors; the Spartans claimed
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MODERN GREEKS. 424 Persons and Places in Europe. the honor of being better soldiers. But when at last an opportunity camefor the Athenians to show their valor, the Spartans coiild no more boastover them in this respect, in fact they had reason to hide their heads inshame. For when the great Persian host came before Athens, the Spar-tans excused themselves from coming to their aid and left the Athenians, amere handful before the vast number of their enemies. But the men ofAthens did not stop to count the foe. They knew that an awful crisis hadcome in the history of their country . They knew that defeat meant ruinand shame, the loss of their beautiful capital, the enslavement of theirwives and children and so they prepared for a life or death struggle tomeet the enemy. Shop-keepers and artisans, merchants and politicians,and farmers, took down their spears and shields, pocketed their biscuit andsalt fish, kissed their wives and walked through their doors with no ideathat they were going

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