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A BROKEN MISSISSIPPI RIVER LKVEE AT LUCCA, ARKANSAS 



Not only Holland and the Acadian home of Evangeline have protected themselves hy dikes, 

 but scores of the great rivers of the world are paralleled by earthen or stone embankments. 



Photograph from H. C. Frankenfield 



REFUGEES ON LOG RAFT \T XEBLETT, MISSISSIPPI, WAITING FOR A STEAMER 



Face to face with a common peril, the people of the flooded districts unite in building 

 log rafts that, with the arrival of more refugees, come to have as many necessaries and such 

 luxuries as the Swiss Family Robinson salvaged from the wreck. 



