[A Jolly Fellowship by Frank R. Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookA Jolly Fellowship CHAPTER IV 5/21
It is just outside of the town, and you can walk all the way on the sea-wall, which is about a yard wide on top,--just a little too wide for one fellow, but not quite wide enough for two. The United States government holds the fort now, of course, and calls it Fort Marion, but the old Spanish name was San Marco, and we disdained to call it anything else.
When we went over the drawbridge, and across the moat, we saw the arms of Spain on a shield over the great gate of the fort.
We walked right in, into a wide hall, with dark door-ways on each side, and then out into a great inclosed space, like a parade-ground, in the centre of the fort, and here we saw a whole crowd of Indians.
We didn't expect to find Indians here, and we were very much surprised. They did not wear Indian clothes, but were dressed in United States military uniform.
They didn't look like anything but Indians, though, for all that.
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