Till the brood was fledged and flown,
Singing o'er those walls of stone
Which the cannon-shot had shattered.
—Longfellow.
Transcriber's Note:
- Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
- Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
- Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
- Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that references them.
- The Contents table was added by the transcriber.