The Edge of the Orient

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36 i > VI CONSTANTIXOPLE Iki:Mi:Mi;i;k wlu-ii a bo}- at school tlie map of Turkcx" used to he a irrcat favorite for draw- ing on the bhickboard from memoi y, because of the fancied resemblance borne by its outline to a biistliui; turkey-cock struttini^ proudly about, with wini^s distended and feathers ruffled, as tliough biddini^ defiance to all of the rest of the map of Europe. Since that time, hcjwever, its plumage has been so rumjjled and ])lucked by the European powers that it has entirely ...lost its arro- gant ap[)carance and no hunger l)ears the slightest resemblance to the proud bird which graces the table of every good New Englander on Thanks- giving Day. The changes in its old capital, Ikmv- evcr, have not been so marked ; and the great walls, stretching from the Sea of Marmora to the Golden Ilorn, constructed by Theodosius nearly fifteen hundred years ago, still mark the western limit of the ancient city.
On these walls, in 1453- fcH Constantine, the last of the Eastern emperors, hghting valiantly against 140 4 * Constantinople odds of fifty to one, and crvincr piteouslv as he died, deserted by his flying troops, " Is there no Cliris- Anciant Culumn* In baint Sophia lian who will cut oil niy head?'' I lien lliiitii:^r|, the ijrcat breaches in the walls rode " I he Con- •43 riiL" Edi^e of the Oiiciil (inrror.


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