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The Day of the DogThe Day of the DogSWALLOW (in color) Frontispiece CROSBY DRIVES TO THE STATION THE HANDS HAD GONE TO THEIR DINNER THE BIG RED BARN THE TWO BOYS MRS. DELANCY AND MRS. AUSTIN MR. AUSTIN MRS. DELANCY PLEADS WITH SWALLOW THEY EXAMINE THE DOCUMENTS "SHE...
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The Maid of Maiden LaneThe Maid of Maiden Lane Never, in all its history, was the proud and opulent city of New York more glad and gay than in the bright spring days of Seventeen-Hundred-and-Ninety-One. It had put out of sight every trace of British rule and occupancy,...
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St. George and St. MichaelSt. George and St. MichaelIt was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass...
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The Guest of QuesnayThe Guest of Quesnay There are old Parisians who will tell you pompously that the boulevards, like the political cafes, have ceased to exist, but this means only that the boulevards no longer gossip of Louis Napoleon, the Return of the Bourbons, or of...
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Lysbeth, a Tale of the DutchLysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch In token of the earnest reverence of a man of a later generation for his character, and for that life work whereof we inherit the fruits to-day, this tale of the times he shaped is dedicated to the...
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St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2Had it been till midnight, so long as there was a chance of his appearing, Dorothy would have waited. Caspar did his best to amuse her, and succeeded,showing her one curious thing after another,amongst the rest a watch...
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St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3Early the next morning, after Richard had left the cottage for Raglan castle, mistress Rees was awaked by the sound of a heavy blow against her door. When with difficulty she had opened it, Richard or his dead...
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In SecretIn SecretChief of Police were you, by gosh! Gol ding it! how you bumped the Boche! Handed 'em one with club and gun Until the Hun was on the run: And that's the way the war was won. The case in question concerned a...
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St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the...
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The Ancient AllanThe Ancient Allan Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange...
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She and AllanShe and Allan A long while ago I jotted down in it the history of the events that it details with more or less completeness. This I did for my own satisfaction. You will have noted how memory fails us as we advance in...
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The Fat and the ThinThe Fat and the Thin THE FAT AND THE THIN, or, to use the French title, Le Ventre de Paris, is a story of life in and around those vast Central Markets which form a distinctive feature of modern Paris. Even the reader who...
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Smoke BellewSmoke Bellew In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew. And in the end he was known by no other...
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The Valley of the GiantsThe Valley of the Giants In the summer of 1850 a topsail schooner slipped into the cove under Trinidad Head and dropped anchor at the edge of the kelp-fields. Fifteen minutes later her small-boat deposited on the beach a man armed with long squirrel-rifle...
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Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt PeasleyCappy Ricks; Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley Who skippered the first five-masted schooner ever built, brought her, on that first voyage, through the worst typhoon that ever blew, and upon arriving at the Yang Tse Kiang River for the first time in his...
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The Professional AuntThe Professional Aunt A boy's profession is not infrequently chosen for him by his parents, which perhaps accounts for the curious fact that the shrewd, business-like member of a family often becomes a painter, while the artistic, unpractical one becomes a member of the...
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Friends and HelpersFriends and HelpersThe object of this book is to teach children to treat all living creatures with considerate kindness and to appreciate the services of man's helpers in the animal world. In many homes this teaching is entirely neglected, and it is left for...
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Janice Meredith: A Story of the American RevolutionJanice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution Into the warp and woof of every book an author weaves much that even the subtlest readers cannot suspect, far less discern. To them it is but a cross and pile of threads interlaced to form...
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A House of GentlefolkA House of Gentlefolk THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, a widow. Marfa Timofyevna Pestov, her aunt. Sergei Petrovitch Gedeonovsky, a state councillor. Fedor Ivanitch Lavretsky, kinsman of Marya. Elisaveta Mihalovna (Lisa), daughters of Marya. Lenotchka, Shurotchka, an orphan...
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GerminalGerminalDans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans toiles, d'une obscurit et d'une paisseur d'encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes Montsou, dix kilomtres de pav coupant tout droit, travers les champs de betteraves. Devant lui, il ne voyait mme pas...
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