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The Golden Boys on the River DriveTwo boys were standing on a little wharf looking out over the ice covered surface of Moosehead Lake in northern Maine. They were fine specimens of American boyhood. Bob Golden, nineteen years old, lacked but a trifle of...

Atolls of the SunAtolls of the Sun is a book of experiences, impressions, and dreams in the strange and lonely islands of the South Seas. It does not aim to be literal, or sequential, though everything in it is the result of my wanderings...

Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer (1915 edition)Whether a bird is beneficial or injurious depends almost entirely upon what it eats. In the case of species which are very abundant, or which feed to some extent on the crops of the farmer, the...

Untuvan avioliitto " sill sinun issi ei ole jttnyt jlkeens muuta kuin velkoja, etk sin omista pennikn" Oi! tunnen tuon virren! Sin olet veisannut sit minulle niin usein, etten ensi hdss sit unohda, ole varma siit! Sen thden, ett min en tahdo menn naimisiin...

Kuinka vaimon sain: Leikillinen kertomusAikaa voittaen oli minusta ehtinyt tulla vanha poika. Olin heittelehtnyt mailmassa ymprins, milloin sinne, milloin tnne. Vliin oli pni levnnyt pehmell tyynyll, vliin oli vsynyt ruumiini saanut tyyty herneenvarsiin vuoteenaan. Mutta sit mukaa kuin vanhenin, eivt herneenvarret minua yht hyvin...

Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations - A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateThe Fundamental Problem of Geology.The investigation of the successive changes and modifications which the earths crust has undergone during past ages is the province of geology. It will...

Ignotus novelláibólHat rtl fogva settsg volt az egsz tartomnyban. Hideg harmat csapdott le az rnykba borult kiaszott fldre; mg akin ruha volt is, megdermedt ltben vagy lltban. A megfesztettnek gyakor bjttl, hitvny tpllktl, sok virrasztstl lefogyott meztelen testt a hidegsg, a vrveszts, a gytrelem,...

El criticón (tomo 1 de 2)GABRIEL ALOMAR, AZORN, PO BAROJA, JACINTO BENAVENTE, BERNARDO G. DE CANDAMO, AMRICO CASTRO, JULIO CEJADOR, ENRIQUE DEZ-CANEDO, FERNANDO FORTN, RICARDO FUENTE, VICENTE GARCA DE DIEGO, J. GMEZ OCERN, FRANCISCO A. DE ICAZA, JUAN R. JIMNEZ, RICARDO LEN, EDUARDO MARQUINA,...

La città italiana nell'alto Medio Evo: Il periodo langobardo-franco La storia delle condizioni delle citt italiane nell'alto medio evo fu oggetto di gravi e fondamentali ricerche, per opera di numerosi storici italiani e stranieri, a cominciare dal Muratori, dal Fumagalli, dal Sismondi, dal Pagnoncelli...

The Boy WhalemanWhen I was a boy, New Bedford was not, as it is now, a great manufacturing city, but the best known and largest whaling port in the world. The wharves were then busy places; there vessels were fitted, as they used to...

A guide, descriptive and historical, through the Town of ShrewsburyShrewsbury, the capital town of Shropshire, lies nearly in the centre of that fertile county, and occupies a commanding eminence which gradually rises from the bed of the river Severn, whose stream gracefully bends its...

The Arabian Nights' EntertainmentsThis text is based on what is called the Grub Street edition of the One Thousand and One Nights, that first appeared in London in 1706. It was translated indirectly by anonymous translator(s) from the French translation of Antoine Galland titled...

Forestry for FarmersSir: I have the honor to recommend that the two articles contributed by me to the Yearbooks for 1894 and for 1895 on forestry for farmers be reprinted as a Farmers' Bulletin. The articles contain information in popular form regarding the growth...

Ducks and Geese: Standard Breeds and ManagementSir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for publication as a Farmers' Bulletin, an article on Ducks and Geese, prepared by Mr George E. Howard, secretary of the National Poultry and Pigeon Association. It comprises an enumeration...

The Belt of Seven Totems: A Story of MassasoitThe following story is not intended as a history; it is merely an effort to reconcile certain apparently conflicting facts and to explain an otherwise inexplicable situation. At the time of the Pilgrim Fathers all American...

The Camp Fire Boys at Log Cabin Bend; Or, Four Chums Afoot in the Tall TimberThats a fact; and say, I might have noticed it before now, only I was so busy watching some honey-bees working in the wild flowers alongside the road, and...

The Old Oak TreeFirst, at the foot of it, lived Bunny the Rabbit, with Mrs. Bunny, his wife, and a fine family of sixteen children. There they ran in and out, cocking up their little white tails, and popping into their hole as quick...

A szentlélek lovagja Ne kapkodd a fejedet, des fiam, mert n beleltok m. n tudom, des j fiam, hogy mi van benne Nekem hiba nyalod magadat kivlrl angol lordra, bell egy szegny kupecivadk ijedt lelke reszket benned. -6- Nekem hiba adod a tudst, n...

The Superstition of DivorceThe earlier part of this book appeared in the form of five articles which came out in the New Witness at the crisis of the recent controversy in the Press on the subject of divorce. Crude and sketchy as they confessedly...

Loges et coulissesGabrielle Rju est ne dans lun des quartiers les plus purement parisiens de la capitale, 14, rue de la Douane, quartier de commerce et dindustrie, qui nest pas encore le faubourg et qui nest pas le boulevard. Son enfance sest donc passe...