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The Disembodied ManIt was snowing. The clean, white, slippery kind of snow that stays for a while, then quickly turns into Chicago slush. Instinctively, he turned his collar up against the cold, and headed for the El, a sentimental relic of the 20th century...

A Soldier's Home Is BattlePrivate First Class Jerry Conlon glanced from the radar screen to the other five members of his Atomic Gun Post team on the outer perimeter of the city. The look in their eyes was one of dazed alarm. Automatically he...

EläinvaltiaitaVesi tuntui paljaaseen ihoon lmpimlt kuin maito ja vkevn suolaisuutensa vuoksi niin kantavalta, ett Johns mielestn saattoi pysy sen pinnalla vaikka kuinka kauan. Voimallisena ja taitavana uimarina hnen ei muuta tarvinnut kuin uida suoraan eteenpin vain, vakaasti ja htilemtt, kunnes joko maan tapaisi tai...

An Uncrowned King: A Romance of High Politics After question-time, the First Lord of the Treasury rose to make a statement with regard to the course of public business, the salient feature of which was the announcement that the Government found themselves compelled to...

Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 1 of 2)It is a great gratification to me that the story of my lifewhich I cannot suppose to be of general interest except in so far as it is linked with...

Summer Flowers of the High AlpsNo one can visit Switzerland for the first time without being struck with the singular beauty of its wild flowers. In the early summer the whole country from the lowland meadows right up to the snowline is ablaze with...

"Pennsylvania Dutch," and other essaysThe leading article in this collection appeared, as first published, in the Atlantic Monthly in October, 1869. After this essay was written I became better acquainted with our plain German sects, and wrote articles describing them, which were published in...

The HoosiersThese pages represent an effort to give some hint of the forces that have made for cultivation in Indiana. While the immediate purpose has been an examination of the States performance in literature, it has seemed proper to approach the subject with a...

Wayside Sketches in TasmaniaNotwithstanding that Tasmania is noted for the salubrity of its climate, and the magnificence of its scenery from one end of the island to the other, still there are localities which may claim the preference, perhaps, in the eyes of the...

At the Emperor's Wish: A Tale of the New JapanWho, by tens and hundreds of thousands, from all the corners of Dai Nippon, great and small, shizoku and heimin, with a simplicity, a courage and a faith that may well stand as models for...

Stories and Story-tellingAll the stories in this book have been tested with children. Favorites easily available in other collections have been omitted. The seventy-five or more very short stories, intended to help young children to express their observations, experiences, and fancies, have been included...

Babies Are Such Fun to Dress: Sizes 6 Months to 4 Years Knit & CrochetStarting at neck edge with F hook, ch 81, s c in 2nd st from hook, 1 s c in each remaining st of ch, ch 3, turn80 sc. 2nd...

Bulkies [Sweaters to Knit and Crochet]ROW 6: K across row on wrong side for hemline. ROW 7: * K 1, with yarn in back of work, sl 1 as if to p; repeat from * to last st, k 1. ROW 8: P across...

How to Get Married, Although a Woman; or, The Art of Pleasing MenIt does not Smart or Irritate the Eye, but is Soothing in its action. Tonic, Astringent and an Antiseptic Lotion, and while it is used by Physicians it is in every sense...

At the North of Bearcamp Water - Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from July to DecemberDuring nearly the whole of the forenoon of July 3, 1892, a soft rain had been falling. It had begun in the night to the discomfiture of...

The Atom and the OceanNuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. It is essential that all...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 39, Vol. I, September 27, 1884In our last paper we spoke of the choice of a sick-room; we shall now proceed to discuss its management. In commencing to nurse a case that promises...

Roses: or, a Monograph of the Genus RosaTHE Rose, for matchless beauty famed, (although by botanists so disregarded) has been the Painters study and the Poets theme, for ages past, and will no doubt for ages yet to come; long after many a curious...

A General History of the Sabbatarian Churches - Embracing Accounts of the Armenian, East Indian, and Abyssinian Episcopacies in Asia and Africa, the Waldenses, Semi-Judaisers, and Sabbatarian Anabaptists of Europe; with the Seventh-day Baptist Denominaton in the United StatesAt the present time, when the...

Damned: The Intimate Story of a GirlThe most imperfect day known for ages in the Court of Gehenna was drawing to a close. The seven Tartarean courtiers had effaced themselves as far back in the auditorium as the folds of its black and red...