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"Tee työ ja opi pelaamaan!" "Rakkaus puhaltaa mist hn tahtoo, sin kuulet hnen humunsa, mutta etp tied, kusta hn tulee ja kuhunka hn menee". Oletko sin Jehkonen siell sisll vai et? Varmaankaan ei punapartainen, rokonarpinen ajuri Jehkonen kuulunut maan suurimpaan puolueeseen, tai luotti hn...

My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its PeopleNo attempt has been made to create heroes or heroines, or to appeal to the imagination or the heart. The earlier incidents were written out from the authors recollections. The later sketches here given, are the...

The Luck of the KidThe sub-Arctic summer was at its height. The swelter of heat was of almost tropical intensity. No wisp of cloud marred the perfect purity of the steely blue sky, and no breath of wind relieved the intemperate scorch of the...

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) - A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an EpilogueCAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that R. U. R. is subject to a royalty. It is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lewis Carroll They all crowded round it panting and asking, "But who has won?" "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?" An unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off...

Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of AppreciationsNOTE.Copyright protection is taken upon this volume for the sole purpose of protecting the work of Comrade Debs from prejudicial misuse by pirate Capitalist publishers, and will not be invoked against Socialist and Labor...

The Orchid Album, Volume 2 - Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous PlantsEpiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, terete, furrowed, bearing two or three leaves at the attenuated apex, and sheathed at the base with large brown imbricated scales. Leaves oblong-linear, spreading,...

The Ornithologist and Oölogist. Vol. VIII, No. 11, November, 1883 - Birds: Their Nests and EggsA group of entirely different habits and of comparatively rare occurrence is composed of the Cape May Warbler, (P. tigrina,) Bay-breasted Warbler, (D. castanea,) and the Connecticut Warbler, (O....

AristophanesIt has been observed already,[1] in speaking of these ancient classical authors, that some of them, in their tone and spirit, have much more in common with modern literature than with their great predecessors who wrote in the same language, and whose volumes stand...

The Study of Plant LifeThe public and the critics have been so kind to the first edition of this book that I am encouraged to offer them a second. There are no considerable changes in it, but I have profited by some suggestions regarding...

Jean-Christophe VIII - YstävättäriäHuolimatta menestyksest, joka kangasteli Ranskan ulkopuolella, parani ystvysten aineellinen asema hitaasti. Snnllisesti tuli vaikeita aikoja, jolloin oli pakko kirist nlkvyt. Vahinko korvattiin siten, ett sytiin kahta vankemmin, kun saatiin rahaa. Mutta ajan pitkn se oli kuihduttavaa ruokajrjestyst. Tll hetkell oli heill...

The DanceThe gods themselves danced, as the stars dance in the sky, is a saying of the ancient Mexicans. To dance is to take part in the cosmic control of the world, said the ancient Greek philosophers. What do you dance? asks the African...

Harper's Young People, August 8, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyNow that the boys had found cages ready-made, and needing only some bars or slats across the front, they did not think it necessary to hurry. They staid for some time to talk of Abner,...

The White Road of Mystery: The Note-Book of an American AmbulancierTHE sweet, clear notes of a bugle come faintly up to me through the cool air of morning, and as the sound dies away I hear the great guns begin their bombardment, the rumbling...

The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Life & Times, & of His CraftThe paragraphs on this Page and the next have been et in an eighteenth-century Manner. The Type ued is Calon, developed in the early Part of the eighteenth...

Josiah's Alarm, and Abel Perry's FuneralBe calm, Josiah Allen. Dont lets be too hasty in our movements. I dare persume to say we may suffer from the heat ofttimes. But you know it is three or four sizes smaller than the one we laid...

The Eureka Springs StoryLegendary lore concerning the visitation of northern Indian tribes to what is now Eureka Springs, Arkansas is badly mixed and it is difficult to separate truth from fiction. It is difficult to prove the authenticity of a legend. The stories we...

Manon Lescaut: RomaaniHn oli muka hillitn irstailija, petkuttaja, vrentj, luopio. Jopa kerrottiin hnen vihan ja raakuuden puuskauksessa lyneen kuoliaaksi oman isns. Vasta kuluneen vuosisadan loppuvuosina suoritettu elmkerrallinen tutkimus haihdutti sen parjauslegendan, joka niin kauan oli himmentnyt suuren kirjailijan muistoa. Tm tutkimus on osoittanut, ettei...

A. van DyckEinige Abbildungen wurden zwischen die Abstze verschoben und zum Teil sinngem gruppiert, um den Textfluss nicht zu beeintrchtigen. Das Verzeichnis der Abbildungen wurde vom Bearbeiter der bersichtlichkeit halber an den Anfang des Buches verschoben. Passagen in Antiquaschrift werden im vorliegenden Text kursiv...

The Seven StreamsFor a night and a day Tristan le Sauvage had watched his arms before the high altar of the chapel of Purple Isle. For a night and a day he had seen the long tapers glimmering towards their silver sockets, under the...