The Telegraph, commenting on the dav of general prayer ordered !>y the Prussian King, says: “ The last thing Leonidas and his three hundre ! men did at TU-rmopyhc was (to comb their hair and call upon the gods of then' fathers ” This, of course shmve: 1 very proper feeling on their parti Tliey then “ went iu, ” no doubt, and o uhe I theeneiny’a hair ; atany rate, unless history lies,—which is likely enough—the had i a liar a stilt brush with them.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 450, 2 December 1870, Page 2
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