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Cat o' mountainCat o' mountainInto his new-laid rock the giant crashed his huge hammer, smashing asunder his handiwork, gouging out chasms, splitting it into fissure and cavern and abyss, slashing its eastern edge into a frowning precipice. When he had gone, up into some of his...
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The gnome's gneissThe gnome's gneissA mood was upon Kevan MacGreene. As of the moment, he did not consider this the best of all possible worlds. In fact, many arguments to the contrary were running through his headon shoes of iron, it seemed. Only twenty-five years of...
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How Jack Mackenzie won his epaulettesHow Jack Mackenzie won his epaulettes There is a glamour and romance about war that appeals to the heart of every young man worthy of the name in these islands. This is as it should be. We are a nation of sailors, it is...
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La firmao de la kato kiu pilkludasLa firmao de la kato kiu pilkludasHonor de Balzac naskiis en Tours 1799 kaj mortis en Parizo 1850. Li estis filo de ekssekretario de la rea konsilantaro. Li studis en Vendma kolegio, liveris psedonime tre juna mezbonajn romanojn; li estis presisto en Parizo (1826-1829),...
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The lion's shareThe lion's shareThe first time that Colonel Rupert Winter saw Cary Mercer was under circumstances calculated to fix the incident firmly in his memory. In the year 1903, home from the Philippines on furlough, and preparing to return to a task big enough to...
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BulldogBulldogWhen Zinn came home from prison, no one was at the station to meet him except the constable, Tom Frejus, who laid a hand on his shoulder and said: Now, Zinn, let this here be a lesson to you. Give me a chance to...
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Multum in parvo library, vol. 2, no. 17, May, 1895The unique story bookDo you remember the diamonds we found up at old Gray Jake Wagners house when we were making that little raid around Taylorsville? was asked of Colonel Andrew M. Benson, of Portland, Me., by a former companion with whom he was...
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Récits marocains de la plaine et des montsRécits marocains de la plaine et des montsLa mosque est un vaste btiment que la prsence dun chrtien ou celle dun juif na jamais souill. Elle a une entre sur chaque rue et les portes en sont constamment ouvertes la dvotion des fidles. Quand...
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From outer spaceFrom outer spaceThe grizzled old space veteran leaned back in his chair and stared up through the transparent dome. In the black sky myriad white specks gleamed without twinkling, their light unbent by atmosphere or dust. The steady pulse of the airmakers kept rhythm...
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Lady Barbarity: A RomanceLady Barbarity: A RomanceTo deny that I am an absurdly handsome being would be an affectation. Besides, if I did deny it, my face and shape are always present to reprove me. Some women I knowwe call each other friendswho happen to possess an...
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The pretender: A story of the Latin QuarterThe pretender: A story of the Latin QuarterWith this reflexion I let myself collapse into a padded chair of transcendent comfort, lit a cigarette and inspected once more the amazing bank-book. Since I had seen it last several credit entries had been madeover twenty...
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The hollow lensThe hollow lensIn the _argot_ of the underworld, Chester Fay, alias Edward Letchmere, an expert on other peoples strong-boxes, had lammistered to Short Hills, California, where an excellent golf-links surrounds a half-hotel, half-clubhouse of the superior order. After finishing a game, upon the twelfth...
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The penultimate trumpThe penultimate trumpHarley D. Haworth had been a doughty warrior in the American manner. Many a powerful Wall Street foe had bowed to his strength and thousands of innocent victims had cursed his name. But that was many a misty year ago. Now even...
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Elsie LindtnerElsie Lindtner - A sequel to "The Dangerous Age"Readers and admirers of The Dangerous Ageand their name is legionwill find themselves perfectly at home in the following story. To them, Elsie Lindtners rambling aphorisms, her Bashkirtseffian revelations of soul, the remarkably frank letters which...
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And we sailed the mighty darkAnd we sailed the mighty darkYou've seen themthe old ships, the battered and ruined ships, the ships that have made one voyage too many, and are so ancient you can't remember their names or the reputations they've earned for themselves in deep space! Sure...
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In self-defenseIn self-defenseProhibition, remarked Ike Harper, loosening up a notch in his belt and rolling a fresh smoke, is goin to make two roses bloom in this country where only one bloomed before. Cause why? One drink uh bootleg hooch will bring blossoms to th...
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Mistake insideMistake insideThis was England, two hundred years before bomb craters had become a fixed feature of the English landscape, and while the coffee house still had precedence over the pub. The fire roared, and the smoke from long clay church-warden pipes made a blue...
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Climate—disorderedClimate—disorderedThe President of the Chamber of Commerce of Wheedonville by the Sea was stately and rather terrifying in his measured wrath. Nor was his peroration against the dapper young-old man who sat at the foot of the long mahogany conference table lessened by the...
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Ajax, for exampleAjax, for exampleHorse sense, says Magpie Simpkins, consists of knowing something that no school-teacher could pound into your head with a pile-driver. Its a sort of an initiative and referendum that books cant tell you about, and if you aint got it, Ike, you...
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The Londoners: An AbsurdityThe Londoners: An AbsurdityMrs. Verulam came into her drawing-room slowly and rather wearily. It was a sultry afternoon in Mayindeed, the papers were quite in a ferment about the exceptional heat-wave that was passing over London; and a premature old General, anxious apparently to...
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