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Updated: June 4, 2025
We then took possession of two little dressing-rooms no bigger than sentry-boxes, and were presently in the water. The scene now became very animated.
There is a tower on each side of the gateway, and the sentry-boxes, and loopholes through which the guards used to look out for Indians and other enemies, are still there. Along the harbor edge of the town is a wall nearly a mile long, built at great expense by the United States Government as a defense against the encroachments of the sea.
"No guards were visible anywhere, no sentry-boxes, but, as I stood hesitating in the middle of the frontier and just why I hesitated I don't know I saw half a dozen jagers of a German mounted regiment ride up on the German side of the boundary.
Sometimes they are put in upright boxes like sentry-boxes sometimes in small enclosures but usually kept neat, and those of the chiefs frequently painted.
On one side of the narrow river a collection of ramshackle mud huts, neglected gardens, foul smells, beggars, and dogs Persia; on the other, a score of neat stone houses, well-kept roads and paths, flower-gardens, orchards, a pretty church, and white fort surrounded by the inevitable black-and-white sentry-boxes, guarded by a company of white-capped Cossacks Russia.
The German soldiers by the innumerable sentry-boxes looked strangely like German toys, and the clean-cut battlements of the castle, gilded by the sunshine, looked the more like the gilt gingerbread. For it was brilliant weather.
As the light grew more distinct, there stood revealed, on the top of the walls, four sentry-boxes. At short intervals, through the mist, the forms of the sentries could be seen, as they slowly paced to and fro, with rifles resting on their shoulders. The thick air was suddenly pierced by the penitentiary clock discordantly striking the hour of five.
Lawrence, and found the company so agreeable in its way, and the cars themselves so easy, well ventilated, and comfortable, that, were it not for the disgusting practice of spitting upon the floors in which the lower classes of Americans indulge, I should greatly prefer them to our own exclusive carriages, denominated in the States "'coon sentry-boxes."
Here and there, around the enclosure, large garden-seats, shaped like sentry-boxes, were reserved for the mothers and sisters of the members of the club, so that they could observe, from a comfortable shelter, the evolutions of those in whom they were interested.
When the guard is changed and the band has played a selection of music, the same ceremony is repeated, and the standard deposited again in its resting-place. Then the released guard, headed by the band playing merry tunes, march back to their barracks followed by an enthusiastic crowd. The fresh guard take their place beside the sentry-boxes, which stand around the palace square.
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