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Pappina, the Little Wanderer: A Story of Southern ItalyIt was away up in that part of Naples called San Lucia, where clothes seem forever hanging out to dry, that Pappina lived with the rest of the Pierno family, a tribe too large to enumerate....

Picture Posters - A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all Countries In the present volume an attempt has been made briefly to trace (the history of the picture poster from the earliest times!) and...

Doctor Birch and His Young Friends There is no need to say why I became Assistant Master and Professor of the English and French languages, flower-painting, and the German flute, in Doctor Birch's Academy, at Rodwell Regis. Good folks may depend on this that...

The Lu Lu Alphabet You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt of...

The Old Market-Cart IT stood with its thills upon the low stone wall that separated the barn-yard from the house-yard. There were wedges behind the wheels to keep the cart from rolling back, for it was little Sally Reeds baby-house just now. She had...

Aunt Affable's Story of Old Mother Bantry and Her Cat Title: Aunt Affable's Story of Old Mother Bantry and Her Cat Author: Anonymous Release Date: May 1, 2014 [EBook #45551] Language: English Credits: Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the...

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 3 Annes 1807, 1808, 1809 et 1810. Article du Mercure du mois de juillet 1807. J'achte la Valle-aux-Loups et je m'y retire. Les Martyrs. Armand de Chateaubriand. Annes 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814. Publication de l'Itinraire. Lettre du cardinal de Bausset. Mort...

The Air Mystery of Isle La MotteI say now, why are you fellows landing here? The Canadian Mounted Policeman reined in his horse as close to the cock-pit as he could get, and eyed the two occupants in the plane, which had just landed...

Kindheit Ehrenwort! sagte er heftig zu sich selbst und las zum fnfzigsten Male den Titel der philosophischen Abhandlung. Das Geldstck in seiner Hand war na. Der Blick zuckte fortwhrend von der Broschre zum Zifferblatt. Der Zeiger stand knapp vor fnf. Und nahm seinen Schritt...

Hal Kenyon DisappearsThirty lusty juvenile throats, strong with frequent exercise, caused Mummy Caon to ring with this school-yell. It was almost evening, and the boys of Lakefarm School were on their return from a days outing in the mountains. Clad in Boy Scout uniforms...

Dangerous Deeds; Or, The Flight in the DirigibleA heavy fog pressed down upon the city of Washington. To the boy watching it from the vantage point of the window in the top floor of the apartment in which he stood, it spread as mysterious...

The Staying GuestThe house was a great white colonial affair that had belonged to the Flint family for generations; and at present was occupied only by two elderly maiden ladies who admirably fitted their names of Priscilla and Dorinda. Now of course you know,...

Die Aquarell-Malerei - Bemerkungen über die Technik derselben in ihrer Anwendung auf die Landschafts-Malerei. Dritte Auflage.Whrend Deutschland verhltnissmssig wenig fr die Aquarell-Malerei gethan hat ist sie in Frankreich und Belgien schon seit langer Zeit sorgfltig cultivirt worden. Vor[S. 4] Allem aber sind es die...

The Paladins of Edwin the GreatVery little is known for certain of one of the most important events in the history of the world, the coming of the Englishmen to England. It took a long time, fully a century, from 450 A.D. to 550...

Eighteen Months in the War Zone - The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western FrontBy Major-Gen. Sir ALFRED TURNER, K.C.B. In the following pages Miss Kate Finzi gives in a plain, unvarnished style a terrible and graphic picture of the horrors of...

The Art of InventingThere are many kinds of invention. The poet, the artist, the playwright, the novelist all exercise or may exercise invention in the production of their works. The merchant may exercise invention in the devising of a new method of selling goods....

The Christ MythThe time since the appearance of the second edition was too short for any material alterations to be undertaken in the third edition now appearing. However, the phraseology here and there has been improved and many things put more strongly. Above all,...

The Compleat BachelorWe dismounted together at Millicent Dixons door, and were admitted to the hall. Carrie gave my necktie an attentive little tug, slapped my cheek (Carrie is justly proud of her middle-aged brother, and likes to show him off to advantage), and preceded...

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. THE ENCAGED BIRD TO HIS MISTRESS. THE SOUL'S TRUST. MR. AND MRS. TOMPKINS. ROSALIE. STANZAS. 'NURSERIES OF AMERICAN FREEMEN.' OLD AGE. HUNTING SONG. THE POOR RELATION. TO A BELLE. FLORAL ASTROLOGY. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTINCTIONS OF...

InterruptedThe committee, or the society, or the association, whatever it was, was breaking up, for the door was ajar, one young lady standing near it, her hand out as if to open it wider, preparatory to departure, while she waited to say another of...