. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. THE OBELISK IN CENTRAL GENERAL VIEW OF HADRIANS WALL, AT CUDDYS CKAG. A DAY WITH HADRIAN BY EDWIN L. ARNOLD History would be the pleasantest sort of learningin existence if all the nations of the past had leftmemorials such as the Romans have, and if wecould take our class-books afield and read ofevents there where they actually happened. Thisthought occurred to me last summer when I wasbicycling alone in the wild, unpeopled fell coun-try which still separates England from Scotland,and came almost by chance upon
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. THE OBELISK IN CENTRAL GENERAL VIEW OF HADRIANS WALL, AT CUDDYS CKAG. A DAY WITH HADRIAN BY EDWIN L. ARNOLD History would be the pleasantest sort of learningin existence if all the nations of the past had leftmemorials such as the Romans have, and if wecould take our class-books afield and read ofevents there where they actually happened. Thisthought occurred to me last summer when I wasbicycling alone in the wild, unpeopled fell coun-try which still separates England from Scotland,and came almost by chance upon the remains ofthe great wall which the Emperor Hadrian builtto keep those lively gentlemen, the Picts andScots, out of the Roman province of Britain. I had read of it before, as every boy has, andtraced the long seventy-mile line of that wonder-ful fortification on my map right across Northum-berland from the Atlantic to the German Ocean;but it was just a line to me, as it probably is toyou. And then all of a sudden that day, milesfrom even a shepherds hut, I came upon thesplendid ruin zigzagging ac
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