id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
9242	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Old Ticonderoga, a Picture of the Past (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")			.txt	text/plain	1938	78	71	with the grim visage of a precipice on old Ticonderoga, is merely a long The old soldier and the old fortress would be emblems Ticonderoga in the lake, would harmonize with the gray influence of the over a circle of French or English soldiers. ruins, and cast a dream-like glance over pictures of the past, and scenes light paddle dips into the lake, a birch canoe glides round the point, I tried to make a series of pictures from the old French war, when fleets were on the lake and armies in the woods, and especially of Abercrombie's the barracks, after the fortress had surrendered to Sir Jeffrey Amherst. over the frontier fortress, till Ethan Allen's shout was heard, summoning my eyes, and behold only the gray and weed-grown ruins. trumpet stir up a soldier's heart, in this old fort of Ticonderoga. trees have grown upon its ramparts, since the last garrison marched out,	./cache/9242.txt	./txt/9242.txt