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  AN ALPHABET
  OF HISTORY

  _The Words by Wilbur D. Nesbit_
  _The Pictures by Ellsworth Young_

      Who frets about the mystery
      Enshrouding all of history
      On reading this will, maybe, see
      We've made it plain as A, B, C.

  _Paul Elder and Company Publishers,_
  _San Francisco_




  ACKNOWLEDGMENT

    In their original form, the contents of this book appeared
    in the _Chicago Sunday Tribune_, which newspaper is hereby
    thanked for the privilege of reproducing this Alphabet


  Copyright, 1905
  by Paul Elder and Company
  San Francisco


  The Tomoye Press
  San Francisco




ALEXANDER THE GREAT


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  Alexander the Great was a victim of fate,
    And he sighed there was naught to delight him
  When he brandished his sword and defiantly roared
    And could not get a country to fight him.

  All the armies he'd chased, all the lands laid to waste,
    And he clamored for further diversions;
  And our history speaks of his grip on the Greeks
    And his hammerlock hold on the Persians.

  Though the Gordian knot, cut in two, in a spot
    In his palace was labeled a relic,
  Though Bucephalus, stuffed, gave him fame, he was huffed--
    He was grouchy and grumpy, was Aleck.

  And the cause of