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Colonel Carter of CartersvilleI dedicate this book to the memory of my counselor and my friend,that most delightful of story-tellers, that most charming of comrades,my dear old Mother; whose early life was spent near the shade of the Colonel's porch, and whose keen enjoyment...

Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned GentlemanIt will be remembered, doubtless, that the chronicles of my very dear friend, Colonel Carter (published some years ago), make mention of but one festival of importancea dinner given at Carter Hall, near Cartersville, Virginia;...

Colonel Chabert This exclamation was made by a lawyers clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumpera messenger in factwho at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to...

Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas f all the strange gatherings that have distinguished Madison Square Garden, the strangest was probably on the occasion, last Christmas, when the now well-known Colonel D. A. Crockett, of Waco, rented the vast auditorium for one thousand dollars, and threw...

Colonel Edward Buncombe, Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment - His Life, Military Careeer, and Death While a Wounded Prisoner in Philadelphia During the War of the RevolutionIt is no small privilege which the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati enjoys when it meets in...

Colonel Henry Ludington: A MemoirThe part performed by the militia and militia officers in the War of the Revolution does not seem always to have received the historical recognition which it deserves. It was really of great importance, especially in southern New England and...

Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict ArnoldThis address was delivered for the purpose of calling attention to the present condition of the marble monument erected at Stone Arabia, N.Y., to the memory of Colonel Brown in 1836, now insecure...

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. To take...

Colonel Sion S. Bass, 1827-1862The members of this Board include the members of the Board of Trustees of the School City of Fort Wayne (with the same officers) together with the following citizens chosen from Allen County outside the corporate City of Fort Wayne:...

Colonel Starbottle's Client It may be remembered that it was the habit of that gallant war-horse of the Calaveras democracy, Colonel Starbottle, at the close of a political campaign, to return to his original profession of the Law. Perhaps it could not be called...

Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-stealer, 1618-1680 The story which follows is, without doubt, one of the most curious and extraordinary in English history. It is, in fact, so remarkable that it seems necessary to begin by assuring the cautious reader that it is true. Much...

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret Colonel Thorndyke's Secret is a story so far out of the ordinary that it will not be inappropriate to speak a few words regarding the tale and its unusually successful author, Mr. George Alfred Henty. The plot of the story hinges...

Colonel WashingtonThe following pages contain a glimpse of the youth Washington when he first stepped into public view. It is said the President and General are known to us but George Washington is an unknown man. Those, to whom the man is lost in...

Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland bushWhere the road to the west from Birralong dips down to the valley of Boulder Creek, a selection stretches out on the left-hand side, well cleared and fenced, and with the selector's homestead standing back a couple...

Colonial Homes and Their FurnishingsThe wonderfully good collection of antiques for which Salem is noted was of great interest to me, being owned by personal friends who kindly consented to allow me for the first time to go through their homes and pick out...

Colonial Homes in North CarolinaThis booklet, planned for young student readers, discusses a group of colonial homes scattered over North Carolina, which remain and can be seen today. They begin in the early 18th century, for earlier homes have long since disappeared. The fate...

Colonial Records of VirginiaThe three succeeding papers are printed from the De Jarnette collection. The first is a census in gross without any details of sex, age or social condition. In these respects it lacks the interest which one feels in the list made...

Trail and Trading Post; or, The Young Hunters of the OhioTrail and Trading Post is a complete story in itself, but forms the sixth and last volume of a line known under the general title of Colonial Series. As I have mentioned before, when...

Critical differenceMassy waked that morning when the only partly-opened port of his sleeping-cabin closed of itself and the room-warmer began to whir. He found himself burrowed deep under his covering, and when he got his head out of it the already-bright room was bitterly...

Exploration TeamThe nearer moon went by overhead. It was jagged and irregular in shape, and was probably a captured asteroid. Huyghens had seen it often enough, so he did not go out of his quarters to watch it hurtle across the sky with seemingly...