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Excerpt from The Story of Bacchus: And Centennial Souvenir
Most romantic and historically picturesque in the world's record. Its Whole narrative is crowded with romance. What more romantic than the midnight ride of Paul Revere, starting from the shore opposite Boston, at the gleam of the signal light in the tower of the old South Church, and dashing through village streets, across rural lanes, over deserted highways, sound ing every where the note of alarm, and rousing the country people to arm for the approaching fray? What more wildly roman tic and picturesque than the escape of General Putnam from the pursuing British dragoons, by dashing down the rocky slope at Greenwich, in this instance daring to lead where none dared to follow? What more grandly romantic and picturesque than Washington's passage across the Dela ware, in the darkness of night, among the ¿oating blocks and ¿oes Of ice? What more.
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