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The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far WestThe Quadroon: Adventures in the Far WestFather of Waters! I worship thy mighty stream! As the Hindoo by the shores of his sacred river, I kneel upon thy banks, and pour forth my soul in wild adoration! Far different are the springs of our...
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Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and AdventureDick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and AdventureThe night was as dark as the inside of a cow! Mr Pryce, the chief mate of the full-rigged sailing ship Golden Fleeceoutward-bound to Melbournewas responsible for this picturesque assertion; and one had only to glance...
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The Giraffe HuntersThe Giraffe HuntersIn that land of which we have so many records of early and high civilisation, and also such strong evidences of present barbarism,the land of which we know so much and so little,the land where Nature exhibits some of her most wonderful...
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The Kopje Garrison: A Story of the Boer WarThe Kopje Garrison: A Story of the Boer WarThey did not look like fishermen, those two young men in khaki, for people do not generally go fishing with magazine-rifles instead of fishing-rodscertainly not in England. But this was in South Africa, and that makes...
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The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True LoveThe Pearl of Lima: A Story of True LoveThe sun had disappeared behind the snowy peaks of the Cordilleras; but the beautiful Peruvian sky long retains, through the transparent veil of night, the reflection of his rays; the atmosphere is impregnated with a refreshing...
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Making People HappyMaking People HappyThe lithe and curving form of the girlfor she was only twenty, although already a wifewas tense now as she stood there in her own drawing-room, stoutly battling to bring order out of chaos. Usually the creamy pallor of her cheeks was...
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Wild Animals at HomeWild Animals at Homeby Ernest Thompson Seton Author of "Wild Animals I Have Known," "Two Little Savages," "Biography of a Grizzly," "Life Histories of Northern Animals," "Rolf in the Woods," "The Book of Woodcraft." Head Chief of the Woodcraft Indians With over 150 Sketches...
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The MessageThe MessageAs a very small lad, at home in Tarn Regis, I had but one close chum, George Stairs, and he went off with his father to Canada, while I was away for my first term at Elstree School. Then came Rugby, where I...
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The Dominant DollarThe Dominant DollarTranscribers Notes: Illustrations have been moved where necessary so that they are not in the middle of a paragraph. Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved as printed, along with the author's punctuation style, except as noted in the text with a...
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La chasse aux lionsLa chasse aux lionsUn jour donc, que nous tions assis tous les deux, Pitou et moi, dans la cantine de la veuve Mouilletrou, du 7e de ligne, pour lors en garnison Bakharapas loin d'Alger, deux cents kilomtresvoil que je me mets biller comme une...
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Les mystères du peuple, tome ILes mystères du peuple, tome I - Histoire d'une famille de prolétaires à travers les âgesLe 23 fvrier 1848, poque laquelle la France depuis plusieurs jours et Paris surtout depuis la veille taient profondment agits par la question des banquets rformistes, l'on voyait rue...
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Un tuteur embarrasséUn tuteur embarrasséLa preuve, c'est que tante Germaine se mouchait avec bruit; or, elle ne se mouche que quand elle pleure, elle ne pleure que devant le trpas; tante Bertrande, elle, rcitait des prires funbres d'une voix entrecoupe de sanglots, et mon oncle Valre...
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Only an Irish GirlOnly an Irish Girl"Ah, mavourneen, may yez never see that day!" nurse Walsh murmurs with passionate fondness, as she takes the girl's hand between her own broad palms and presses and fondles it. "Shure it's like yesterdayI mind it so wellthat yer mother, as...
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A Bachelor's DreamA Bachelor's DreamHe put this question emphatically, with an energetic blow of his gloved hand upon his knee, and seemed very desirous of receiving an answer, although he was jogging along alone in his comfortable brougham. But the Doctor was perplexed, and wanted some...
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Zwei Prager GeschichtenZwei Prager GeschichtenDieses Buch ist lauter Vergangenheit. Heimat und Kindheit beide lngst fern sind sein Hintergrund. Ich wrde es heute nicht so, und darum wohl berhaupt nicht geschrieben haben. Aber damals als ich es schrieb, war es mir notwendig. Es hat mir Halbvergessenes lieb...
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Merry-Garden and Other StoriesMerry-Garden and Other StoriesBeside a winding creek of the Lynher River, and not far from the Cornish borough of Saltash, you may find a roofless building so closely backed with cherry-orchards that the trees seem by their slow pressure to be thrusting the mud-walls...
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MacariaMacariaThe town-clock was on the last stroke of twelve, the solitary candle measured but two inches from its socket, and as the summer wind rushed through the half-closed shutters, the melted tallow dripped slowly into the brightly-burnished brazen candlestick. The flickering light fell upon...
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The Wind in the WillowsThe Wind in the WillowsTHE Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in...
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The Silver Lining: A Guernsey StoryThe Silver Lining: A Guernsey StoryThe mackerel boats from Cobo (a bay in the island of Guernsey) were setting sail; an old woman was detaching limpets from the rocks, and slowly, but steadily, filling up her basket. On the west side of the bay,...
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FantômasFantômasHurrying to the fireplace, the Marquise de Langrune took a large log from a basket and flung it on to the glowing embers on the hearth; the log crackled and shed a brilliant light over the whole room; the guests of the Marquise instinctively...
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