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The Third StringThe Third String - Odd Craft, Part 12. Love? said the night-watchman, as he watched in an abstracted fashion the efforts of a skipper to reach a brother skipper on a passing barge with a boathook. Don't talk to me about love, because I've...
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A Spirit of AvariceA Spirit of Avarice - Odd Craft, Part 11. Mr. John Blows stood listening to the foreman with an air of lofty disdain. He was a free-born Englishman, and yet he had been summarily paid off at eleven o'clock in the morning and told...
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Blundell's ImprovementBlundell's Improvement - Odd Craft, Part 3. Venia Turnbull in a quiet, unobtrusive fashion was enjoying herself. The cool living-room at Turnbull's farm was a delightful contrast to the hot sunshine without, and the drowsy humming of bees floating in at the open window...
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The Changing NumbersThe Changing Numbers - Odd Craft, Part 8. The tall clock in the corner of the small living-room had just struck eight as Mr. Samuel Gunnill came stealthily down the winding staircase and, opening the door at the foot, stepped with an appearance of...
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The CastawayThe Castaway - Odd Craft, Part 2. Mrs. John Boxer stood at the door of the shop with her hands clasped on her apron. The short day had drawn to a close, and the lamps in the narrow little thorough-fares of Shinglesea were already...
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Dixon's ReturnDixon's Return - Odd Craft, Part 10. Talking about eddication, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, the finest eddication you can give a lad is to send 'im to sea. School is all right up to a certain p'int, but arter that comes the sea. I've...
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The Money BoxThe Money Box - Odd Craft, Part 1. Sailormen are not good 'ands at saving money as a rule, said the night-watchman, as he wistfully toyed with a bad shilling on his watch-chain, though to 'ear 'em talk of saving when they're at sea...
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Establishing RelationsEstablishing Relations - Odd Craft, Part 7. Mr. Richard Catesby, second officer of the ss. Wizard, emerged from the dock-gates in high good-humour to spend an evening ashore. The bustle of the day had departed, and the inhabitants of Wapping, in search of coolness...
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Delsarte System of OratoryDelsarte System of OratoryOrators, you are called to the ministry of speech. You have fixed your choice upon the pulpit, the bar, the tribune or the stage. You will become one day, preacher, advocate, lecturer or actor; in short, you desire to embrace the...
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Lawyer QuinceLawyer Quince - Odd Craft, Part 5. Lawyer Quince, so called by his neighbours in Little Haven from his readiness at all times to place at their disposal the legal lore he had acquired from a few old books while following his useful occupation...
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The Persecution of Bob PrettyThe Persecution of Bob Pretty - Odd Craft, Part 9. The old man sat on his accustomed bench outside the Cauliflower. A generous measure of beer stood in a blue and white jug by his elbow, and little wisps of smoke curled slowly upward...
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The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New WorldThe Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New WorldThe waiting April woods, sensitive in every leafless twig to spring, stood in silence and dim nightfall around a lodge. Wherever a human dwelling is set in the wilderness, it becomes,...
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Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the author of the Taming...
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Mr. ScraggsMr. ScraggsI had met Mr. Scraggs, shaken him by the hand, and, in the shallow sense of the word, knew him. But a man is more than clothes and a bald head. It is also something of a trick to find out more about...
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Breaking a SpellBreaking a Spell - Odd Craft, Part 6. "Witchcraft?" said the old man, thoughtfully, as he scratched his scanty whiskers. No, I ain't heard o' none in these parts for a long time. There used to be a little of it about when I...
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Red Saunders: His Adventures West and EastRed Saunders: His Adventures West & EastWell, as I was saying, I'd met a lot of the boys up in town this day, and they threw as many as two drinks into me; I know that for certain, because when we took the parting...
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The Mystery of MetropolisvilleThe Mystery of MetropolisvilleA novel should be the truest of books. It partakes in a certain sense of the nature of both history and art. It needs to be true to human nature in its permanent and essential qualities, and it should truthfully represent...
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Bill's LapseBill's Lapse - Odd Craft, Part 4. Strength and good-naturesaid the night-watchman, musingly, as he felt his bicepsstrength and good-nature always go together. Sometimes you find a strong man who is not good-natured, but then, as everybody he comes in contack with is, it...
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Liza Or, "A Nest of Nobles"Liza; Or, "A Nest of Nobles"The author of the Dvoryanskoe Gnyezdo, or "Nest of Nobles," of which a translation is now offered to the English reader under the title of "Liza," is a writer of whom Russia may well be proud.[A] And that, not...
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The Gentleman from EverywhereThe Gentleman from EverywhereI. Launching of My Life Boat II. My First Voyage III. Near to Nature's Heart IV. Joys and Sorrows of School-Days V. Career of a Dominie-Pedagogue VI. Dreams of My Youth VII. A Disenchanted Collegian-Preacher VIII. In Shadow Land IX. Sunlight...
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