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Flying Plover: His stories, told him by Squat-by-the-fire Both of Flying Plover's parents had died when he was a little baby, and ever sincefor six long yearshe had lived with his grandmother. The old woman's name was Squat-by-the-fire. She was the wisest person in...

Coal and the coal minesAt the beginning of the present century the anthracite or stone coal was in general use, in all the districts where it was found, as a fuel for the blacksmiths fire and the iron workers forge. This, however, was the...

Auf märkischer ErdeDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der Buchausgabe von 1910 so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Fremdsprachliche und regional gefrbte Ausdrucksweisen wurden unverndert bernommen. Die Buchversion...

Betty Wales on the campusProduced by: D A Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Scans were from the New York Public Library's Digital Collections; special thanks to the University of Southern Mississippi for providing a quality scan of the book's cover....

The Northmen in BritainThere is no man so high-hearted over earth, nor so good in gifts, nor so keen in youth, nor so brave in deeds, nor so loyal to his lord, that he may not have always sad yearning towards the sea-faring, for...

The island of the stairsIn order to safeguard the reputation of that worthy seaman and most gallant gentleman who writes this memoir, the editor thereof deems it proper to call attention to the fact that Master Hampdon has described accurately the Island of Mangaia...

The story of a sawdust dollToy Town was not a little city off by itself on the shore of some winding river. Nor was Toy Town a place up near the North Pole, where Santa Claus has his workshops for making presents. The Toy...

The making of a mountaineerMans heritage is great. There are the mountains; he may climb them. Mountaineering is a game second only to the greatest and best of all mans gameslife. The War all but dried up the steady stream of youthful and enthusiastic...

Bromoil printing and bromoil transferThe bromoil process has always been one in which it has seemed difficult to attain success. Though many books and articles on the subject have been published, every writer seems to give different directions and every experimenter to have difficulty...

The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. III Had done myself the honour to write to you long ago, but wanted a convenience of sending my letter; for you...

The higher education of womenIn any inquiry of a practical nature, intended to lead to some definite course of action, it is obviously necessary to start with a tolerably clear idea of the end in viewthe object for which it is proposed to provide....

The hellflowerThe book had been thrown at Charles Farradyne. Then they had added the composing room, the printing press, and the final grand black smear of printer's ink. So when Howard Clevis located Farradyne working in the fungus fields of Venus four years later,...

Saltego trans jarmilojKio? u estas eble? Ke mi sidis la tutan nokton super mia manuskripto? Tion mi tute ne rimarkis kaj por konfesi la veron mi estus verkinta ankora is tagmezo a pli longe. Efektive, forte ekkaptis min mia nova romano La ombro, kiun...

Felicidade pela Agricultura (Vol. I)Na solido do seu viver, ento muito incerto e cheio de saudades, entre um rancho de cinco filhos pequeninos a pedirem-lhe instruco e educao, no meio de um povo amigo predisposto para o bem, e com a visinhana do mar,...

An outlaw's diary: revolutionIt was fate that dubbed this book An Outlaws Diary, for it was itself outlawed at a time when threat of death was hanging over every voice that gave expression to the sufferings of Hungary. It was in hiding constantly, fleeing...

Naar den equator, met een voorspel: van pastoor soldaatNa de verschillende aanvallen, die mijn Borneo van Zuid naar Noord te verduren heeft gehad, en waarbij men hoofdzakelijk nevenzaken aangetast heeft, met het kennelijk, zelfs eens met het erkend doel om de waarheidsliefde omtrent de...

An outlaw's pledge; or, The raid on the old stockadeRed RogersA daredevil outlaw, who has broken from jail, killing four men in his escape, and returns to the scenes of his early crimes, that he may carry out a pledge made to a dying...

The West from a car windowProduced by: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was created from images of public domain material made available by the University of Toronto Libraries.) IT is somewhat disturbing to...

The jumping kangaroo and the apple butter catKerchug, the leap frog, was all the time jumping. He stood every morning on the edge of the pond where he lived, and said to all the birds in the trees above him: Isnt it wonderful how...

A discourse on the theory of gunnery - Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1778Among the several experiments communicated to the society, during the course of the preceding year, none seeming so much to engage your attention, as those...