![]() ![]() " Facing a brutal Mexican army, he does not turn away instead, "springing upon one of the guns which continued to belch forth fire, he thrice wave the flag over his head, and then plant it upon the battery!" (425). When his fellow soldier falls in siege, Traverse takes the American flag from him and "march into the very mouths of the cannon that were vomiting fire upon. ![]() Southworth's The Hidden Hand, another "young hero" and "young adventurer," Traverse Rocke, fights valiantly in the US-Mexico War (449, 432). Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe,Ī few short chapters after Capitola Black defends her honor in a duel with Craven Le Noir and captures the local bandit Black Donald in E. Few things are in worse taste than for a man needlessly to busy himself in women's work and yet a man never appears in a more interesting attitude than when, by skill in such matters, he can save a mother or wife from care and suffering.Ĭatharine E. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |