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The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas RhymeThe Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas RhymeSeveral pieces in the following Rhyme were written many years ago, and will be recognised by my early friends. They were the fruit of impressions derived from the local associations of boyhood, (of which, the reader, if inclined,...
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Famous Scots Series, 6The BalladistsNot much more has been attempted in these pages than to extract the marrow of the Scottish Ballad Minstrelsy. They will have served their purpose if they help to awaken, or to renew, a relish for the contents of the Ballad Book. To...
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The Princess VirginiaThe Princess VirginiaThats the best compliment any one can give me, which is lucky, as its given so often, laughed the Princess. Dear, adorable Virginia! She cuddled into the pink hollow of her hand the pearl-framed ivory miniature of a beautiful, smiling girl, which...
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Another SheafAnother SheafThe road stretched in a pale, straight streak, narrowing to a mere thread at the limit of visionthe only living thing in the wild darkness. All was very still. It had been raining; the wet heather and the pines gave forth scent, and...
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The Hound From The NorthThe Hound From The NorthA pallid sun, low, gleaming just over a rampart of mountain-tops. Sundogsheralds of stormy weatherfiercely staring, like sentries, upon either hand of the mighty sphere of light. Vast glaciers shimmering jewel-like in the steely light of the semi-Arctic evening. Black...
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The Fiery TotemThe Fiery Totem - A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West"Well, good-bye, boys! You won't go far from camp before we return, will you?" The speaker was one of two men seated in an Indian canoe. He gripped the forward paddle, while his...
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IdentityIdentity "Flat-chested Faye, flat-chested Faye," chanted the girls on the table next to Faye and Rebecca's. The large hall smelled of cabbages, potatoes and baked beans, and everyone else was talking and eating and moving chairs so loudly that Faye could hardly hear herself...
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Less than HumanLess than Human From the roof of the legal bookstore, I have a clear shot at my target, Jon Russell. He's sitting down at a table outside a caf where Chancery Lane meets Fleet Street, sipping a cardboard cup of coffee. I briefly ponder...
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The Greater PowerThe Greater PowerIt was winter in the great coniferous forest which rolls about the rocky hills and shrouds the lonely valleys of British Columbia. A bitter frost had dried the snow to powder and bound the frothing rivers; it had laid its icy grip...
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The Serpent Knight, and Other BalladsThe Serpent Knight, and Other BalladsNote.The above Ballad is a later, and greatly improved, version of one which appeared under the title The Merman only, in the Romantic Ballads of 1826. The introduction of the incident of the changing by magic of the horse...
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The Island MysteryThe Island MysteryThe Island Mystery Gossamer Minnies Bishop and Other Stories General John Regan The Lost Tribes Spanish Gold Lalages Lovers The Search Party The Simpkins Plot The Majors Niece Priscillas Spies The Red Hand of Ulster The Adventures of Dr. Whitty The Seething...
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The Twins of Suffering CreekThe Twins of Suffering CreekHe was swabbing the floor with a rag mop; a voluntary task, undertaken to relieve his wife, who was lounging over the glowing cookstove, reading a cheap story book. Once or twice he paused in his labors, and his mild,...
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The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana HillsThe Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana HillsAn elderly woman looked up from the crystal globe before her. The sound of horses hoofs, clattering up to the veranda, had caught her attention. But the hard, gray eyes had not yet recovered their normal...
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Famous Scots Series, 15Sir Walter ScottTo the very probable remark that 'Another little book about Scott is not wanted,' I can at least reply that apparently it is, inasmuch as the publishers proposed this volume to me, not I to them. And I believe that, as a...
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Famous Scots Series, 10James BoswellThe literature of the Johnsonian period has assumed, in spite of the lexicographer's own dislike of that adjective, prodigious dimensions. After the critical labours of Malone, Murphy, Croker, J. B. Nichols, Macaulay, Carlyle, Rogers, Fitzgerald, Dr Hill and others, it may appear hazardous...
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William Shakespeare: His Homes and HauntsWilliam Shakespeare: His Homes and HauntsIn telling the story of Shakespeare's life and work within strict limits of space, an attempt has been made to keep closely to essential matters. There is no period of the poet's life, there is no branch of his...
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The Temple of GlassThe Temple of GlassTranscriber's Note: As the characters used to display the, that and thou are not in unicode, they were replaced with the words that they represent. The character for per is found in unicode, but is rare, so it was also replaced...
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The Spanish JadeThe Spanish Jade Almost alone in Europe stands Spain, the country of things as they are. The Spaniard weaves no glamour about facts, apologises for nothing, extenuates nothing. Lo que ha de ser no puede faltar! If you must have an explanation, here it...
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SilhouettesSilhouettes AN ingenuous reviewer once described some verses of mine as unwholesome, because, he said, they had a faint smell of Patchouli about them. I am a little sorry he chose Patchouli, for that is not a particularly favourite scent with me. If he...
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The Red Hand of UlsterThe Red Hand of UlsterIn a book of this kind some of the characters are necessarily placed in the positions occupied by living men; but no character is in any way copied from life, and no character must be taken as representing any real...
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