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Each Man KillsEach Man KillsNow that it's all over, it seems like a bad dream. But when I look at Maria's picture on my desk, I realize it couldn't have been a dream. Actually, it was only six months ago that I sat at this same...
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StradellaStradellaThe Senator Michele Pignaver, being a childless widower of several years' standing and a personage of wealth and worth in Venice, made up his mind one day that he would marry his niece Ortensia, as soon as her education was completed. For he was...
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Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the PriestLavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the PriestLavengro made its first appearance more than one and twenty years ago. It was treated in anything but a courteous manner. Indeed, abuse ran riot, and many said that the book was killed. If by killed was meant...
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The Youth of JeffersonThe Youth of Jefferson - Or, a Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764This little tale is scarcely worth a preface, and it is only necessary to say, that it was written as a relaxation after exhausting toil. If its grotesque...
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The Rover Boys Under Canvas Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked SubmarineThe Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked SubmarineMy Dear Boys: This book is a complete story in itself, but forms the third volume in a line issued under the general title, The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans. As...
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The White Rose of LangleyThe White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden TimeThe woman addressed languidly roused herself from the half-sheltered nook of the forest in which she and her child had taken refuge. She was leaning with her back supported by a giant oak,...
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Feats on the FiordFeats on the Fiord - The third book in "The Playfellow"Every one who has looked at the map of Norway must have been struck with the singular character of its coast. On the map it looks so jagged, such a strange mixture of land...
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The Peasant and the PrinceThe Peasant and the PrinceOne fine afternoon in April, 1770, there was a good deal of bustle in the neighbourhood of the village of Saint Menehould, in the province of Champagne, in France. The bride of the Dauphin of France,the lady who was to...
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Janet's Love and ServiceJanet's Love and ServiceThe longest day in all the year was slowly closing over the little village of Clayton. There were no loiterers now at the corners of the streets or on the village squareit was too late for that, though daylight still lingered....
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Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River IndiansOowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River IndiansThat Oowikapun was unhappy, strangely so, was evident to all in the Indian village. New thoughts deeply affecting him had in some way or other entered into his mind, and he could not but show...
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The King Of Beaver, and Beaver LightsThe King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Success was the word most used by the King of Beaver. Though he stood before his people as a prophet assuming to speak revelations, executive power breathed from him. He...
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The Mothers Of HonoréThe Mothers Of Honoré - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The sun was shining again after squalls, and the strait showed violet, green, red, and bronze lines, melting and intermingling each changing second. Metallic lustres shone as if some volcanic fountain on the...
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MariansonMarianson - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 When the British landed on the west side of Mackinac Island at three o'clock in the morning of July 17,1812, Canadians were ordered to transport the cannon. They had only a pair of six-pounders, but these...
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The Indian On The TrailThe Indian On The Trail - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Maurice Barrett sat waiting in the old lime-kiln built by the British in the war of 1812a white ruin like much-scattered marble, which stands bowered in trees on a high part of...
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A British IslanderA British Islander - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Well, I wish you could have been here in Mrs. Gunning's day. She was the oddest woman on Mackinac. Not that she exerted herself to attract attention. But she was such a character, and...
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The Cobbler In The Devil's KitchenThe Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Early in the Mackinac summer Owen Cunning took his shoemaker's bench and all his belongings to that open cavern on the beach called the Devil's Kitchen, which was said to derive...
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The Blue ManThe Blue Man - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The lake was like a meadow full of running streams. Far off indeed it seemed frozen with countless wind-paths traversing the ice, so level and motionless was the surface under a gray sky. But...
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The Black FeatherThe Black Feather - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Over a hundred voyageurs were sorting furs in the American Fur Company's yard, under the supervision of the clerks. And though it was hard labor, lasting from five in the morning until sunset, they...
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The Skeleton On Round IslandThe Skeleton On Round Island - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The old quarter-breed, son of a half breed Chippewa mother and French father, took with him into silence much wilderness lore of the Northwest. He was full of stories when warmed to...
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The Cursed PatoisThe Cursed Patois - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 As his boat shot to the camp dock of beach stones, the camper thought he heard a child's voice behind the screen of brush. He leaped out and drew the boat to its landing...
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