Fiction
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With The Eyes ShutWith The Eyes Shut - 1898 Railroad rides are naturally tiresome to persons who cannot read on the cars, and, being one of those unfortunates, I resigned myself, on taking my seat in the train, to several hours of tedium, alleviated only by such...
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LostLost - 1898 The 25th of May, 1866, was no doubt to many a quite indifferent date, but to two persons it was the saddest day of their lives. Charles Randall that day left Bonn, Germany, to catch the steamer home to America, and...
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At Pinney's RanchAt Pinney's Ranch - 1898 John Lansing first met Mary Hollister at the house of his friend Pinney, whose wife was her sister. She had soft gray eyes, a pretty color in her cheeks, rosy lips, and a charming figure. In the course of...
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A Positive RomanceA Positive Romance - 1898 My friend Hammond is a bachelor, and lives in chambers in New York. Whenever we meet on my occasional visits to the city, he insists on my spending the night with him. On one of these occasions we had...
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The Old Folks' PartyThe Old Folks' Party - 1898 And now what shall we do next Wednesday evening? said Jessie Hyde, in a business-like tone. It is your turn, Henry, to suggest. Jessie was a practical, energetic young lady, whose blue eyes never relapsed into the dreaminess...
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Two Days' Solitary ImprisonmentTwo Days' Solitary Imprisonment - 1898 Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzas which make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather. His nose had acquired the shape of a turnip and the complexion of a beet....
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A Summer Evening's DreamA Summer Evening's Dream - 1898 It is a village street, with great elms on either side, while along the middle stands another row set in a narrow strip of grassy common, so that the street and roadway are in reality double. The dwellings...
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Potts's Painless CurePotts's Painless Cure - 1898 Pouting lips and delicate brows fretted in pretty importunity over the troubled eyes enforced the pleading tones, and yet the young man to whom they were addressed found strength to reply: I 'm afraid I can't get rid of...
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Hooking WatermelonsHooking Watermelons - 1898 The train slackened, a brakeman thrust his head in at the door and shouted Bah,a mysterious formality observed on American trains as they enter towns,and an elderly lady, two drummers, and a young man with a satchel got out, followed...
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To Whom This May ComeTo Whom This May Come - 1898 It is now about a year since I took passage at Calcutta in the ship Adelaide for New York. We had baffling weather till New Amsterdam Island was sighted, where we took a new point of departure....
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An Echo Of AntietamAn Echo Of Antietam - 1898 The air was tremulous with farewells. The regiment, recruited within sight of the steeples of Waterville, and for three months in camp just outside the city, was to march the next morning. A series of great battles had...
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The Blindman's WorldThe Blindman's World - 1898 The narrative to which this note is introductory was found among the papers of the late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom they were bequeathed, I was requested to prepare it for...
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Jack Wright and His Electric Stage or, Leagued Against the James BoysJack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys As the 11:30 A. M. express train from New York was speeding toward the fisher village of Wrightstown, one of the passengers went out on the rear platform of the last car...
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Joan of Arc of the North WoodsJoan of Arc of the North WoodsJoan of Arc of the North Woods When Egypt Went Broke All-wool Morrison The Rider of the King Log The Skipper and the Skipped The Red Lane The Ramrodders The Landloper Where Your Treasure Is Squire Phin Blow...
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The Young Miner Or, Tom Nelson in CaliforniaThe Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California[Pg 5]When "The Young Adventurer" was published, a year since, as the initial volume of The Pacific Series, it was announced that the second volume would be "The Young Pioneer." This has been changed to "The Young...
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The Rainy Day Railroad WarThe Rainy Day Railroad War All at once the stump-dotted, rocky hillside became clamorous and animated. From the little shacks sheathed with tarred paper, from the sodded huts, from burrows sunk into the hillside men suddenly came popping out with shrill cries. Three men,...
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ClarimondeClarimonde Brother, you ask me if I have ever loved. Yes. My story is a strange and terrible one; and though I am sixty-six years of age, I scarcely dare even now to disturb the ashes of that memory. To you I can refuse...
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The Severed HandThe Severed Hand - From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation I was born in Constantinople; my father was a dragoman at the Porte, and besides, carried on a fairly lucrative business in sweet-scented perfumes and silk goods. He gave me a...
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A Ghetto VioletA Ghetto Violet - From "Christian and Leah" Through the open window came the clear trill of a canary singing blithely in its cage. Within the tidy, homely little room a pale-faced girl and a youth of slender frame listened intently while the bird...
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King CandaulesKing Candaules Five hundred years before the Trojan war, and seventeen hundred and fifteen years before our own era, there was a grand festival at Sardes. King Candaules was going to marry. The people were affected with that sort of pleasurable interest and aimless...
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