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Ellen Robinson buttoned her long cloak forcefully, and arose with a haughty air from the rocking-chair where she had pointed her remarks ...
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One evening in the beginning of the eighteenth century—as nearly as we can conjecture, the year might be that of 1720—some ti...
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Little Folks December 1884 issue by VariousTranscriber's Note: A table of Contents has been added for this HTML version. Amendments c...
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Stead Stirring the Porridge. Finding of Emlyn Farewell to the Cavaliers Emlyn at the Market Stead Before the Roundheads UNDER THE STORM: ...
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OURSELVES I'm Jack. I've always been Jack, ever since I can remember at least, though I suppose I must have been called 'Baby...
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ANY news, mother?" asked Edna one Friday afternoon when she came home from school. "There's a letter from grandma," re...
CHILDREN, down on the planet which you call Earth, allow me to introduce myself to you! I am the Man in the Moon. I have no doubt that yo...
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ALL day long over the gray Islington Street October, casting pearly mists, had turned the sun to silver and made London a city of meditat...
There is very little to be said about this book in the shape of a preface. The superstition of the Evil Eye is, and has been, one of the ...
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years...
CHAPTER I. An Adventure and an Escape. CHAPTER II. The Cooleen Baum. CHAPTER III. Daring Attempt of the Red Rapparee CHAPTER IV. His Riva...
John A. Gray, 97 Cliff St. PREFACE. "There is a wisdom in calling a thing fitly. Names should note particulars."—PROVERBI...
There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothi...
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To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupatio...
The house itself was clean and smelled better than most city apartments, and Moira kept geraniums in the windows. However, it was dark on...
VOL. XIV., NO. 389.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1829. [PRICE 2d. SION HOUSE. SION HOUSE. Taylor, the water poet, or Samuel Ireland, the pict...
An unassuming book, still one of those which grip the reader from beginning to end. When the author started to write his daily impression...
AMTMANNIN MARIA Kirj. E. Marlitt Suomennos. Tampereella, Emil Wesander'in kirjakaupan kustannuksella, 1883. Tampereella, Takausyhti&#...
Twelve stories about the six-footed creatures, the fascinating little insects that children see every day. As interesting as fiction, yet...
The tadpoles of this species have been described by Bragg (Copeia, 1936: 14-20, figs. 1-13; Amer. Midl. Nat., 18:273-284, figs. 1-5, 1937...
For some months after our marriage, Euphemia and I boarded. But we did not like it. Indeed, there was no reason why we should like it.
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, a...
I opened my eyes and saw a pea-green world all around me. Then I heard the doctor say: “Give ’er another whiff or two.”...
JANUARY. 1.—Austrian Goulasch. Boil 2 calves' heads in salted water until tender; then cut the meat from the bone. Fry 1 dozen ...
É assym sobre a gente de nação Portugueza, que está em huma grande Ilha, que n'ella forão ter no tempo da pe...
My name is Louis Roubien. I am seventy years old. I was born in the village of Saint-Jory, several miles up the Garonne from Toulouse.
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Lector amigo: Si eres hombre corrido y poco asustadizo, conocedor de las miserias humanas y amante de la verdad, aunque esta amargue, ...
The evening on which Charley Muirhead made his first appearance at Doolan's was a memorable one; the camp was in wonderful spirits. W...
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