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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...

An Englishwoman in AngoraOthers, moved by curiosity, have sought permission to visit the country under its new rgime, but Nationalist Turkey has bidden them waituntil she is sure that her guests will write, or speak, the truth about what they may see, and can...

Tales from Westminster Abbey Told to ChildrenSome of you may have read a book called Tom Browns School Days, and if so you will remember Toms great friend, Arthur, who began his school life a lonely and home-sick little boy, but who as the...

Johann Sebastian BachThere is no person in musical or general history whose life can be studied by young people with more advantage, or followed in its general characteristics with more profit than Johann Sebastian Bach. The old saying that genius is only the highest...

A haldokló oroszlánGoszpelda tisztelend fl- s aljrklt a szobban. Ebd utn mindig gy tett, hogy el ne nyomja az lom, mivelhogy a gyomra, ez a gonosz, rest gyomor, menten flmondta a szolglatot, ha tkezs utn el tallt aludni. Teht jrklt fl, le. vek ta...

Tulenkantajat: Nuoren Voiman Liiton kirjallisen piirin albumi. 1924Uuno Kailas: Me. Ilmari Jmaa: Nuori virta. Elina Vaara: Kaksi runoa. Elsa Enjrvi: Nuoria lyyrikoita. Lauri Viljanen: Poppelit. Arvi Kivimaa: Saaressa. Martti Haavio: Sininen purje. Katri Vala: Kolme runoa. Yrjn Vilho: Hullu huilunsoittaja. Lauri Viljanen: Ruotsin vanha...

A Jayhawker in EuropeThese letters were printed in the Hutchinson Daily News during the summer of 1911. There was no ulterior motive, no lofty purpose, just the reporters idea of telling what he saw. They are now put in book form without revision or...