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Mousseline: romanLE long de la grille du chemin de fer, le pre Trbuc faisait les cent pas. Il marchait lentement, les mains derrire le dos, la tte droite, le kpi bien plant, en homme consciencieux qui sait comment il doit se tenir, mme si...

Practical hints to builders and those contemplating building - Facts worth considering relating to foundation, cellar, kitchen, chimney, cistern, brick-work, mortar, heating, ventilation, the roof, and many items of interest to builders.The object of this little book is to give to builders a few...

Happy: The life of a beeYears ago, banished into the far Rio Grande region, I became a keeper of bees. As a child I had loved them, even caressed them, and many a time have I held them one and a hundred at once...

The call of Cthulhu"Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms...

Butchering and curing meats in ChinaThe Chinese, like most people, are lovers of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry, and consume these meats, both fresh and cured, in large quantities each year. Fresh meat is practically all consumed within a few miles of the locality...

Le Démon SecretJe considrais ma table, ou bien encore le feu dans la chemine, et, de temps autre, ma lampe, quand lentre de Ted Williams me fit quitter cette inspection o je tchais de trouver quelque plaisir. Gros malin! mcriai-je. Voil qui est vident!...

Latent ImageJohn McBride stood on the roof garden of Satan's Hotel, looking across the River Styx at Sharon. To his left, the River Styx emptied into the Sulphur Sea, and in the evening sky to his right, the dancing flames lighted the cloud banks...

The well in the desertBlue Gulch was relaxing after the ardors of its working-day. From the direction of the Cheerful Heart Dance Hall issued sounds of mirth and festivity, and a weaving fantasy of shadows on its canvas walls proclaimed to those without that...

Off duty: A dozen yarns for soldiers and sailorsIn my work here at Pelham Bay Camp with our wounded from abroad, with our sick boys who did not get over there, and with the well but often lonely men, who frequent our library, I...

The blood of the vampireIt was the magic hour of dining. The long Digue of Heyst was almost deserted; so was the strip of loose, yellow sand which skirted its base, and all the tables dhtes were filling fast. Henri, the youngest waiter of...

Slavery and the slave trade in AfricaIt is desirable that accurate information on the enormities of the slave trade should be spread at home and abroad, and that to slave-holding states all evidence proving the superior advantages of free labor should be freely supplied,...

The war of the CarolinasThere was a daisy-meadow, that flowed brimming to the stone wall at the roadside, and on the wooded crest beyond a lamp twinkled in a house round which stole softly the unhurried, eddyless dusk. You stood at the gate, your...

Neva's three lovers: a novelSir Harold Wynde, Baronet, was standing upon the pier head at Brighton, looking idly seaward, and watching the play of the sunset rays on the waters, the tossing white-capped waves, and the white sails in the distance against the blue...

Love's bitterest cupJudge Paul McCann, an old bachelor, who was one of his most valuable patientsa chronic patient dying of good living, and taking a long, long time to do it ingave a heavy dinner party, to which he invited only married or middle-aged...

TroubleTom Lionel, Consulting Engineer, awoke with a shake of his head. At once, he was out of bed. He consulted first the calendar and then the clock. The thought struck him funny. He hadn't been drinking, but the idea of looking at a calendar...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 21Ce journal ne contient aucune histoire et aucune aventure intressantes. Ayant fait, au printemps dernier, une petite croisire sur les ctes de la Mditerrane, je me suis amus crire, chaque jour, ce que jai vu et...

A History of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)This history has been compiled at the request of the Colonel and Officers of the Seventeenth Lancers. The materials in possession of the Regiment are unfortunately very scanty, being in fact little more than the...

The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1865] - Being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of management, with full directions, adapted for the cottager, farmer, or scientific apiarianOur apology for preparing a bee book is...

The loves of Pelleas and EtarreThe author hereby acknowledges the courtesy of the publishers of Appletons Magazine, The Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Delineator, Everybodys Magazine, The Outlook, The Saturday Evening Post, The Smart Set, and The Womans Home Companion, in permitting the reprint here of...

The cross word puzzle bookWhen I was first made unwilling Cross Word Puzzle Editor some two years ago, the procedure in deciding what puzzle would be run was limited to picking out a good-looking one from among the bunch and sending it upstairs to...