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A British IslanderA British Islander - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Well, I wish you could have been here in Mrs. Gunning's day. She was the oddest woman on Mackinac. Not that she exerted herself to attract attention. But she was such a character, and...
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The Cobbler In The Devil's KitchenThe Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Early in the Mackinac summer Owen Cunning took his shoemaker's bench and all his belongings to that open cavern on the beach called the Devil's Kitchen, which was said to derive...
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The Blue ManThe Blue Man - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The lake was like a meadow full of running streams. Far off indeed it seemed frozen with countless wind-paths traversing the ice, so level and motionless was the surface under a gray sky. But...
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The Black FeatherThe Black Feather - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Over a hundred voyageurs were sorting furs in the American Fur Company's yard, under the supervision of the clerks. And though it was hard labor, lasting from five in the morning until sunset, they...
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The Skeleton On Round IslandThe Skeleton On Round Island - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The old quarter-breed, son of a half breed Chippewa mother and French father, took with him into silence much wilderness lore of the Northwest. He was full of stories when warmed to...
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The Cursed PatoisThe Cursed Patois - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 As his boat shot to the camp dock of beach stones, the camper thought he heard a child's voice behind the screen of brush. He leaped out and drew the boat to its landing...
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Mistress AnneMistress AnneThe second day of the New Year came on Saturday. The holiday atmosphere had thus been extended over the week-end. The Christmas wreaths still hung in the windows, and there had been an added day of feasting. Holidays always brought people from town...
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Mister Galgenstrick: und andere HumoreskenMister Galgenstrick: und andere HumoreskenWar ich, in meiner Ungeduld ber Walters Ausbleiben, zu grob gewesen? Ich wollte mein Unrecht wieder gut machen und leitete die Friedensverhandlungen durch einen jener Blicke ein, die Frulein Berta mit der lchelnden Drohung zu quittieren pflegt: Sie, das sag'...
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La copa de VerlaineLa copa de VerlainePABLO Verlaine tena una sed fatal, una sed monstruosa y suicida, y bebi hasta la muerte. Tal vez oa la voz de una sirena fabulosa en el fondo glauco del ajenjo. El ruiseor protervo iba al caf D'Harcourt y beba, beba......
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Rich EnoughRich Enough - a tale of the timesWelcome, said Mr. Draper, the rich merchant, to his brother, who entered his counting-room one fine spring morning. I am truly glad to see youbut what has brought you to the city, at this busy country season,...
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Good BloodGood Blood Is it possible that there are people quite free from curiosity? People who can pass on behind any one they see gazing earnestly and intently toward some unknown object without feeling an impulse to stop, to follow the direction of the others...
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The Fête At CoquevilleThe Fête At Coqueville - 1907 Coqueville is a little village planted in a cleft in the rocks, two leagues from Grandport. A fine sandy beach stretches in front of the huts lodged half-way up in the side of the cliff like shells left...
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The Story of the Little MamsellThe Story of the Little Mamsell "Have you got something good? Then put the basket down and go along home!" This was one usual greeting from old Mahlmann when we brought him provisions. He was very old, and rarely out of his bed, only...
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The Roll-Call Of The ReefThe Roll-Call Of The Reef "Yes, sir," said my host, the quarryman, reaching down the relics from their hook in the wall over the chimneypiece; "they've hung here all my time, and most of my father's. The women won't touch 'em; they're afraid of...
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Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful AdventurerFostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained. The Table of Contents was not contained in the book and has been created for the convenience of the reader. Reader,...
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Old EbenezerOld EbenezerIn more than one of the sleepy neighborhoods that lay about the drowsy town of Old Ebenezer, Sam Lyman had lolled and dreamed. He had come out of the keen air of Vermont, and for a time he was looked upon as a...
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Americans AllAmericans All - Stories of American Life of To-DayIn the years before the war, when we had more time for light pursuits, a favorite sport of reviewers was to hunt for the Great American Novel. They gave tongue here and there, and pursued the...
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Cenas ContemporâneasScenas Contemporaneas Title: Scenas Contemporaneas Author: Camilo Castelo Branco Release Date: October 26, 2007 [EBook #23203] Language: Portuguese Original Publication: , Porto: Em Casa De Cruz Coutinho--Editor Rua Dos Caldeireiros N.s 18 E 20 Porto--Typographia De Antonio Jos Da Silva Teixeira, Rua Da Cancella...
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Gold Seekers of '49Gold Seekers of '49 Part of God's providence it was to found A Nation's bulwark on this chosen ground; Not Jesuit's zeal nor pioneer's unrest Planted these pickets in the distant West, But He who first the Nation's fate forecast Placed here His fountains...
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The White Chief: A Legend of Northern MexicoThe White Chief: A Legend of Northern MexicoOn the north a chaos of mountains, that continues on through thirty parallels to the shores of the Arctic Sea! On the south, the same mountains,here running in separate sierras, and there knotting with each other. On...
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