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Harper's Round Table, July 7, 1896The porch of Bishop's storethe heart, so to speak, of the Jim-Ned Creek settlementwas deserted, for the November day was bleak and raw. Half a score or more men lounged over the counters within, or sat silent and ruminant...

Fences, Gates and Bridges: A Practical Manual Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by the O. JUDD CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. It is authoritatively stated that the building and maintenance of the farm...

The Trials of a Country ParsonIn a volume which I published three years ago1 I attempted to give a faithful picture of the habits and ways of thinking, the superstitions, prejudices and grounds for discontent, the grievances and the trials, of the country folk...

George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted PapersI have to thank Arthur Edmund Street, Esq., of London, for the generous loan of some notebooks and drawings, and through these for a more intimate knowledge of his great fathers fine temper and manly art. And...

The Military Sketch-Book. Vol. 1 (of 2) - Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at homeIn presenting these Sketches to the public, the Author begs leave to say, that although in their production he sometimes indulged his imagination, fancy has only...

Harper's Young People, July 4, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyDr. Flaxman stood up in his old chaise before the door of the last white cottage in Wicketiquok village, and shouted until he was purple in the face. The nine-o'clock June sun shone bright upon...

A Book of the United States - Exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ... and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present time....

Sons and DaughtersSo it isso it was when I selected it for you. Theres no harm in the training. Few boys come out of it with your ridiculous prejudices against their bread and butter. Its not the training, its youthat are a fool, Gervase....

The Market Reporter, Vol. 4, No. 15The movement of red clover seed from growers hands has been below normal, but that of alsike clover has been fully normal, according to reports received by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates during the week ending...

The Modern Bicycle and Its AccessoriesTo the Cyclist who appreciates the advantage of understanding his wheel, its mechanism and its construction, for the same reason and because of the same interest felt by a horseman in his roadster, an engineer in his locomotive, or...

Grania, The Story of an Island (Complete)This story was always intended to be dedicated to you. It could hardly, in fact, have been dedicated to anyone else, seeing that it was with you it was originally planned; you who helped out its meagre scraps...

Grania, The Story of an Island; vol. 2/2Thus the weeks went on, one week after the other, all exactly alike, and no new light came to aid Grania in her investigations about the stolen turf. What was hardly less important, however, the depredations themselves...

Grania, The Story of an Island; vol. 1/2This story was always intended to be dedicated to you. It could hardly, in fact, have been dedicated to anyone else, seeing that it was with you it was originally planned; you who helped out its meagre...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Amelia Barr "Holding Bendigo's bridle, he had walked with her to the Harlow residence"...Frontispiece "He knew her for his own ... as she stood with her father at the gate of their little garden"...72 "Noiselessly he stepped...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Stephen Leacock You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...

Kyläkertomuksia IKyll Jussin nyt teki kovasti mieli konserttiin. Ei hn olisi malttanut olla poissa konsertista, ei, vaikkapa kotona olisi tuli ollut nurkassa, tai Priita-Maija olisi aikonut ottaa rohki eronsa koko miehest, jos vaan sinne meni. Ja muutoinkin hn oli jo ollut niin monta vuotta...

Colored Troops in the French Army - A Report from the Department of State Relating to the Colored Troops in the French Army and the Number of French Colonial Troops in the Occupied TerritorySir: In response to an informal request made by your secretary...

Multitude and Solitude What play do they play? Some confounded play or other. Let's send for some cards. I ne'er saw a play had anything in't. A True Widow. Roger Naldrett, the writer, sat in his box with a friend, watching the second act...

Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems, with Sonnets O earth, give us the corn, Come rain, come sun; We men who have been born Have tasks undone. Out of this earth Comes the thing birth, The thing unguessed, unwon. O wretched man, that for a...

MinkieMINKIE says I ought to begin this story, because I am the biggest and strongest. I dont see that at all, but she thinks I cant see much, anyhow, owing to my silly habit of wearing blinkers, which is just her irritating way of...