I’m always looking for stories like “The Devil and Daniel Webster” and “A Man Without A Country,” and I just happened upon this one by Oliver Wendell Holmes over at the Online Books Page Project Gutenberg. The Web Presentation version is illustrated by Howard Pyle and the story is in verse and not very long – only took 5 minutes to read – but I actually teared up at the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle
Sadly, I think that our streets in America today are littered with wounded young men who only want for a nice girl to patch them up and love them.
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