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THE HEROISM OF ARNOLD WINKELRIED AT THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH.
ARNOLD WINKELRIED'Slioroic sacrifice achieved the independence of Switzerland. "Make way for liberty he cried, make way for liberty and died" is
" the poet's commemoration familiar to every school boy and girl in the land. The famous picture shown herewith from Ridpath's History is but
one out of 2,000 in the complete work and serves to illustrate but ono event out of all the thousands which make up the world famed publication.
RIDPATH'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD
THE PUBLISHER'S FAILURE placo'd In our hands the entire unsold edition of this monumental work. BRAND NEW,
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