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Title: Tales from far and near : history stories of other lands
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Terry, Arthur Guy Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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Publisher: Evanston, Ill. : Row, Peterson and Company
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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sea. Then there was joy among the men.They threw^ themselves down at the feetof Columbus and begged him to forgivethem. They knew now what a wise andbrave leader he was. Columbus and his men landed on theisland, and the brown people who livedthere crow^ded round them. Instead ofwearing clothes, they put paint upontheir skins. Thev were full of wonderto see the white men, and their clothes,and boots, and their strange ships. But the white men did not stav Ions;.They sailed aw^ay and found some otherislands. Then they went back to Spain.What a wonderful story they had to tell 95 of new lands, and strange people, andanimals, and birds, and flowers! When the other seamen heard thatColumbus had come back safe, they wereno longer afraid to sail far away fromhome. Many of them went across the seain their ships, to see for themselves thenew lands which had been found. Some went farther still, and foundother lands in the New World. Thegreat land which is now called Americaw^as one of these. 96
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By perniissiTJti of ftre crwneTS of the copyright, Messrs. HiUiesheimer A? Co., uoiidor» THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON From the painting by Stanhope A. Forbes, R.A., in the Royal Exchange, Londoo I I The Great Fire of London When a house is set on fire in thesedays, firemen rush with their engines to13ut it out. But in old days there wereno firemen and no fire engines. A firewas then a much more dreadful thingthan it is now. Once ujDon a time, nearly all the bigcity of London was burned to ashes. Thefire began on a windy night, at a bakersshop in a narrow street. The strong wind blew the fiames fromthe bakers house to the next, and thento the next. Very soon all the houses inthe street were blazing. They were madeof wood, so they burned very quickly. Before long the fire spread to othernarrow streets of wooden houses. Whata dreadful sight it was! Sparks flew 99 about, flames blazed and crackled, androofs and chimnej^s fell ^yitll a crash. The j)oor people did not know what todo. They ran

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