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A Soldier's Life on the Western Frontier in 1813The 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...

Jim Long-KnifeThirteen-year-old Jim Hudson thumped a melon with practiced fingers, then pulled it from the vine and laid it in a pile with the others. He wiped his hot forehead with his sweaty shirtsleeve, turning with a smile toward his mother. Look, Ma! he...

George CroghanThe 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. George Croghan, an...

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:...

Fortune's FoolThe times were full of trouble; but Martha Quinn was unperturbed. Hers was a mind that confined itself to the essentials of life: its sustenance and reproduction. Not for her to plague herself with the complexities of existence, with considerations of the Hereafter...

The Cosmic BluffTo everyone in the Solar System I was a big shot, understand? Everyone but twothe two that counted most. One of the two was Suzi, and the other was me. The difference was that Suzi made no bones about telling me I...

Que nada se sabeRevolviendo ha poco mi biblioteca, Diego carsimo, di casualmente con este opsculo que compuse y trabaj durante siete aos con propsito de no darle a luz antes del noveno; mas ahora que le hall, hecho una criba de la polilla y...

WanderlustSomehow George Barlow had sensed that something was wrong the moment his son drove into the barnyard that evening. He had been waiting impatiently for Tad's return all afternoon; the men needed those tractor bolts before they could do the mowing. But George had...

For love and life; vol. 2 of 2There is, perhaps, no such crisis in the life of a man as that which occurs when, for the first time, he feels the welfare and happiness of another to be involved in his own. A woman...

For love and life; vol. 1 of 2Three people were walking slowly along together by the side of the water. One of them an invalid, as was apparent by the softly measured steps of her companions, subdued to keep in harmony with hers. These...

All WoolSay, Zeb, I wonder if them same jaspers didnt hit that sheep? By golly! Ill bet that was it. Mebbyaw say, Zeb, if that was uh rifle-bullet why dont we hear th report? Come on up, Zeb, he urged. Three miles is uh...

The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes THE ROMANCE OF WAR. THE AIDE-DE-CAMP. THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER. BOTHWELL. JANE SETON: OR, THE QUEEN'S ADVOCATE. PHILIP ROLLO. THE BLACK WATCH. MARY OF LORRAINE. OLIVER ELLIS; OR, THE FUSILEERS. LUCY ARDEN: OR, HOLLYWOOD HALL. FRANK HILTON: OR, THE...

No Time For Toffee!Just as he stepped to the microphone Marc caught sight of the swarthy man. He saw the red scar across the left eyebrow, the dull flash of metal in the large hairy hand. By then it was too late even to...

Marcel Proust, an English TributeTHE death of Marcel Proust in Paris on November 18, 1922, and the manner in which the news of his death was, by no means numerously, reported in London, brought into question the extent of his rumoured rather than defined...

The Illustrators of MontmartreThere is no modern illustrator whose work has more completely won the admiration of his fellows of the brush, whatever their predilection in art, than Steinlen. Be the studio in Paris, in London, in Munich, be it even in Timbuctoo, from...

Toisten ihmisten lapsetErn tunnetun, paljon moititun kirjan kirjottaja istui ern pivn vaimoineen aamiaispydss, ja keskustelu kntyi, kuten monta kertaa ennenkin, kahteen poikaviikariin, jotka olivat tuottaneet niin paljon huvia joutavanpivisten kertomusten ihailijoille ja koko joukon mieliharmia enollensa. Kiitos tuon naisellisen jalomielisyyden, joka vaipan tavoin peitt...

On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in FemalesIn offering this little book to my professional brethren, I do not for one moment wish it to be understood that I claim any originality in the surgical treatment herein described....

Madeleine: One of Love's JansenistsFictionto adapt a famous definition of lawis the meeting-point of Life and Art. Life is like a blind and limitless expanse of sky, for ever dividing into tiny drops of circumstances that rain down, thick and fast, on the just...

PatrolThey made their camp high on the breast of the gently swelling hill. As the small planet turned toward the sunset, MacMartree stood a moment on the hillside, watching. Far out on the grass-covered plain their ship stood gleaming, a slender candle, touched by...

"Hey Ma, Where's Willie?"Just where Willie went, I ain't sure. I wonder sometimes, especially around harvest because that is about the time we found Willie was missing. I should pine after him a little. He was my son, but somehow I never took a...