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A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was grown very old, and had lost all his teeth.
There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.
It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness.
Jerome Searing, a private soldier of General Sherman's army, then confronting the enemy at and about Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, turned his back upon a small group of officers with whom he had been talking in low tones, stepped across a light line of earthworks, and disappeared in a forest.
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.