Deals of the Day

Two fares eastThe ranch-house of Uncle Hozie Wheelers Flying H outfit was ablaze with light. Two lanterns were suspended on the wide veranda which almost encircled the rambling old house; lanterns were hanging from the corral fence, where already many saddle-horses and buggy teams...

Donkeys to bald pate"Of course!" he shouted, his accent becoming thicker with his excitement. "It is lunacy to think only man will increase in his intelligence! Animals will tooya, und insects! It will be a fierce competition for the earth beman and the animals!"...

Magic words: A tale for Christmas timeIt was the evening of Christmas Day. The hymn of Peace upon earth, good-will towards men, had been chanted by thousands of voices throughout the land, from the grand cathedral-choir to the simple singers of the village church....

Extra-galactic nebulaeThis contribution gives the results of a statistical investigation of 400 extra-galactic nebulae for which Holetschek has determined total visual magnitudes. The list is complete for the brighter nebulae in the northern sky and is representative to 12.5 mag. or fainter. The classification...

A pénz legendája; Gányó JulcsaEbbl a kt sorbl egsz lete konstrulhat. Harminczegy vig lt, elkel rfi volt, mert kastlyban szletett a neczpli Justhokbl; regnyeket rt, mert mskp nem fordulhatna el e gyjtemnyben, s tdbetegsgben halt meg, mert mit keresne a bksmegyei ember Cannesban, ha...

The power and the glorySlade drew down the corners of his thin mouth. Maybe he is. But Ive got other sources of information, remember. Im sure theressomethingup on Peak Seven Hundred. Something plenty valuable. Youre going to find it for me. His teeth clicked...

The story of Abraham LincolnProduced by: D A Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was created from images of public domain material made available by the University of Toronto Libraries.) In this little book I am going to try...

Address of the President at the unveiling of the monument to General Sheridan, Wednesday, November 25, 1908It is eminently fitting that the Nations illustrious men, the men who loom as heroes before the eyes of our people, should be fittingly commemorated here at the...

The ethics of rhetoricAcknowledgments with thanks are due the following: Charles Scribners Sons for the passage from Allen Tates The Subway, from Poems 1922-1947; Karl Shapiro and Random House, Inc., for the passage from Essay on Rime; and the Viking Press, Inc., for the...

Poetic diction: A study of eighteenth century verseThe studies on which this book is based were begun during my tenure of the William Noble Fellowship in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, and I wish to thank the members of the Fellowship Committee,...

The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the RepublicThis volume is the first to offer in monographic form a detailed treatment of the popular assemblies of ancient Rome. Necessarily much of the material in it may be found in earlier works;...

Problem in solidMartin Hammer should have been prepared for anything. As the world's foremost producer of motion pictures, he should have taken any situation from earthquake to fatherhood without a qualm or a turned eyebrow. But Hammer had not seen everythingyet. A noise presented...

The lighting of the Christmas treeEvery play in this series has been written by a member of the Play-Writing Class at Vassar College. But each play as printed is the product of a group-activity. Not merely an individual seated at a desk, but a...

Birds and their nestsThe birds in these pictures of ours have all nests, which is as it should be; for how could the bird rear its young without its little home and soft little bed, any more than children could be comfortably brought up...

The Martian ShoreRobbo Shaan turned his marsuit temperature unit down a degree. He still perspired freely, but he didn't dare turn it any lower. Only a green Earthand would ignore any survival factor when stranded on the Martian desert. Shaan had no map, no...

Jack the runaway; or, On the road with a circusA dollar, Jack? and Professor Simonedes Klopper, who had retired from the position of mathematical instructor in a large college, to devote his declining years to study, looked over the rims of his big glasses...

Vaaliheimolaiset: RomaaniEduard niin nimitmme erst varakasta, parhaassa miehuudenissns olevaa paronia Eduard oli viettnyt huhtikuisen ehtoopivn kauneimmat hetket taimistossansa uitellen tuoreina silyneit oksaksia nuoriin runkoihin. Vast'ikn askarruksensa ptettyn hn sijoitti kojeensa koteloon ja tarkasteli tytns hyvill mielin, kun puutarhuri astui hnen luoksensa iloiten isnnn osaaottavasta...

Argonaut storiesJohn Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kindcheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like...

The tryal of Mr. Daniel Sutton, for the high crime of preserving the lives of His Majesty's liege subjects, by means of inoculationThis day Daniel Sutton was brought to the bar of the Court upon a Habeas Corpus, in order to be arraigned on...

The wonder womanThis was the customary tenor of my conversation with Joey as we sat before our fire of pine knots of an evening. The lad would point out to me queer kaleidoscopic creatures he saw deep[10] in the heart of the pine fire;...