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Return Engagement"The ingratitude of humans," McBream said broodingly, "is amazing. Loan a Martian a couple of I.U.'s when he's in a spot, and he'll send you greeting cards on the anniversary for the rest of his life. Fish a terrestrial out of the water...

Trouble on Sun-sideJansen began to sweat as soon as he left the spaceship. The bloated, swollen sun hovering near the horizon here in twilight zone was dazzling even through his protective goggles. Jansen knew he would have to get used to it: Mercury's twilight...

Ride the Crepe RingMimas was a cold little world where the sun's rays seldom reached. You stayed under a big glassite dome on the four-hundred mile sphere if you stayed there at all, and you hardly saw the sun anyway because Saturn and its...

An Observer in the Near EastThe reason of the anonymity of this book is obvious. Revealing as it does the actual state of affairs in the Balkan Peninsula in this present year of grace 1907, it contains many plain truths and much outspoken criticism....

A Traveler at FortyI have just turned forty. I have seen a little something of life. I have been a newspaper man, editor, magazine contributor, author and, before these things, several odd kinds of clerk before I found out what I could do. Eleven...

Intiaanin kiitollisuus: Seikkailuja kaukaisessa lännessäI. Simon Kenton. II. Mul-Keep-Mo. III. Ottelu. IV. Laupias samarialainen. V. Ripley ja shawneet. VI. Iloinen kohtaus. VII. Ystvllisi vihollisia. VIII. Tuskaa. IX. Uudistalo. X. Saarroksissa. XI. Scipion seikkailut. XII. Ripley vaarassa. XIII. Mkin lhell. XIV. Miami ja Shawnee. XV....

Billy Whiskers at the FairAFFAIRS at Cloverleaf Farm had been running very smoothly for a month or more. School had begun, the boys were occupied with studies and so well out of mischiefs way for five hours each day. Summer crops had been harvested,...

Florence Nightingale: A BiographyIt is hardly necessary to say that this little biography is based mainly upon the work of others, though I hope and believe it is honest enough to have an individuality of its own and it has certainly cost endless individual...

A Merchant Fleet at WarDuring a war, which was at last to draw into its vortex practically the whole human racethe issue depending, first and foremost, on sea powerthere was little time or opportunity or, indeed, inclination on the part of British seamen to...

When Titans DriveWith muscles tense and legs spread wide apart, Bob Bainbridge found himself crouching in the middle of the office shanty. It was yet dark, and in his ears still seemed to sound the dull, rumbling detonation which had made him leap from...

The Devil's DooryardWhere? I asks politely. Me and you aint found none of it, Hashknife. Since we shook loose from Willer Crick we aint done nothin more romantic than gettin bucked off or lettin a gun go off accidental. There aint a man left...

Jill, Vol. 2 (of 2)Immediate preparations were made for our departure from the spot where we were. A couple of coarse handkerchiefs were tied across the lower part of our faces, so as to stifle our voices if we should uplift them on the...

Last Essays of Maurice HewlettLovers of Mr. Hewletts work will understand that these Essays have not been subjected to the severe revision which Mr. Hewlett would undoubtedly have given them before publication in this book. In one or two minor points his Executors have...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, Issue 368, January 15, 1887 THE SHEPHERDS FAIRY. BERCEUSE. MERLES CRUSADE. FAITH AND UNFAITH. THE INHERITANCE OF A GOOD NAME. VARIETIES. MORE ABOUT Y.W.C.A.; GIRLS OWN PAPER BRANCH. TINNED MEATS; THEIR VALUE TO HOUSEKEEPERS. A PRINCESS OF THULE...

Jill, Vol. 1 (of 2)I have heard people say that men are more apt to be of an adventurous disposition than women, but that is an opinion from which I differ. I suppose it has arisen because timidity and sensitiveness are hostile to the...

The Middleton Place Privy House - An Archeological View of Nineteenth Century Plantation LifeI wish to thank Harvey S. Teal and George B. Hartness of Columbia, South Carolina; M. Mellanay Delham of Charlotte, North Carolina; Harmon Wray of Memphis, Tennessee; and Jan B. Eklund...

Earl Russell and the Slave PowerThe Mayor of Manchester. Thomas Bazley, Esq., M.P. E. A. Leathem, Esq., M.P. P. A. Taylor, Esq., M.P. James Kershaw, Esq., M.P. W. Coningham, Esq., M.P. Charles Sturge, Esq., Mayor of Birmingham. G. L. Ashworth, Esq., Mayor of Rochdale....

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 360, November 20, 1886In the early days of the present century, during which period the events of this story took place, the education of the lower classes was of the meagrest description; boys like Jack Shelley, with...

L'Arche de NoéLorsque arrive le soir, [p. 8] le Tigre quitte son repaire et va chercher sa proie. Tapi dans les hautes herbes, au bord de ltang, il bondit sur le buffle qui vient boire et le dvore. Les Indignes lappellent le "mangeur dhommes"....

Life in CanadaIn the following pages will be found some contributions towards the history of Canada and of the manners and customs of its inhabitants during the hundred years beginning October 5th, 1792. On that date my ancestor, Roger Conant, a graduate of Yale...