. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . ffi&Stfa&r^jeV+tfftu, 168 CHAPTER XVI. RALPH AT OME at last! And when that longing mother tookher boy in her arms once more, and looked longand earnestly into his weary face, she saw only theboyish Ralph, whom sickness could not change; hewas to her the same lad who had left his homewith strong hopes and sunny smile. True, he wasolder and more care worn looking, but the honest lookof his childhood shone from his eyes, and the sametruthful, frank expression was on
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . ffi&Stfa&r^jeV+tfftu, 168 CHAPTER XVI. RALPH AT OME at last! And when that longing mother tookher boy in her arms once more, and looked longand earnestly into his weary face, she saw only theboyish Ralph, whom sickness could not change; hewas to her the same lad who had left his homewith strong hopes and sunny smile. True, he wasolder and more care worn looking, but the honest lookof his childhood shone from his eyes, and the sametruthful, frank expression was on his , as he rode up from the depot, with his friends, theBoneels, looked around at the old familiar place with expected to find everything changed—he had been absentso long, that to him it seemed as though the landscape, even,must have taken on new features, or at least changed its there was the same gentle slope in front of the door, thesame trees in the fields beyond, the same sunny knoll where hehad played when a little boy. Oh, how long ago that seemedto him, now, when he reviewed the experiences of the past fouryears! Al and his fa
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