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Short SnorterThree paths led through the woods away from the resort hotel, and of the three two were clearly marked: one with a sign that said it led to the lake, the other pointing toward the golf links. The third pathway was unmarked, and...

The Marrying ManIt wasn't that Pete Cooper didn't love his wives, or that he wanted to see them hurry on into the next world. He always felt real grief when he found himself a widower. But a man must be practical. They were all...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1015, June 10, 1899 SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. VARIETIES. BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL. A QUIVER OF QUOTATIONS. OUR HERO. ON SOME POINTS OF DEPORTMENT IN SINGING. HANGING CASE FOR UMBRELLAS AND STICKS. AFTERNOON TEA; A CHAT OVER THE TEACUPS....

Military Architecture in England During the Middle AgesApart from the late Mr G. T. Clarks Medival Military Architecture, published in 1884, the greater portion of which is a series of monographs dealing with individual castles, there has been no attempt, until within the last...

The Courtship of AnimalsThe nature of Life and its power of reproductionThe stuff of which Life is madeThe EmotionsThe simplest living thingsWhere is neither Birth nor Death yet the Population increasesThe First MarriageThe beginning of sexThe two dominating instinctsThe conditions of survivalThe Oysters narrow...

List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1874Transcribers Note: A large number of obvious printers errors have been corrected, mostly around punctuation and accents, but more or less no attempt has been made to standardise the varying spelling...

HomecomingThe rider was of medium size, with huge, strong hands and seemingly hollow eyes. Strange eyes, alive and aflame. They had no place in the dust-caked, tired body, yet there they were, seeking, always seekingsearching the clear horizon, and never seeming to find what...

About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, TimgadThe following pages are a record of impressions received from a visit Algeria in the early months of 1911. In a former volume I dared to ridicule the pretensions of those who, on the strength of a short...

Rabbits Have Long EarsCommander Losure gave orders to his navigator to bring the ship in on the satellite out of sight of the prying telescopes which no doubt existed on such an invitingly green planet. He was a cautious man and didn't intend to...

A Hand-book of Precious StonesThe object of this little book is to convey to the merchant, the workman, and the amateur, in a condensed and accurate form, information concerning the various properties of precious stones. Besides drawing freely on a number of authorities, the...

The American Practitioner and News. Vol. XXV. No. 3. Feb. 1, 1898 - A Semi-Monthly Journal of Medicine and SurgeryCertainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or...

Deberes de buena sociedadLa educacin es para la cultura lo que el pulimento para el diamante. La ilustracin nos dice dnde lo serio de la educacin termina y dnde el ridculo comienza, ese ridculo tan empalagoso de los hombres y de las mujeres que...

Harper's Round Table, January 26, 1897Everybody will remember the exciting story of the ship Aberfoyle: how her Captain drank himself into delirium-tremens and then poisoned himself, how the crew mutinied, how the mate was washed overboard, and how this ship was eventually safely navigated...

Henry Esmondin historia: Hänen itsensä kertomanaI. Selostus Esmondin perheest Castlewoodin linnassa. II. Kuvaus siit miten Francis, neljs varakreivi, saapuu Castlewoodiin. III. Thomas, kolmas varakreivi, oli vienyt minut sinne paashiksi Isabellalle. IV. Minut pannaan roomalaiskatolisen papin kasvatettavaksi ja kasvatetaan siihen uskoon. Varakreivitr Castlewood. V. Haltiavkeni...

The Super Opener"For two years there hasn't been one lousy improvement in the Piltdon Can-Opener!" roared Mr. Piltdon. "Look at our competitors. The International rips apart cans in three and three-tenths seconds. Universal does it in four." "The Minerva Mighty Midget does it in...

Powhatan; A Metrical Romance, in Seven CantosPoetry is a mere drug, say the publishers; bring us no more poetry, it wont sell. Poetry is a terrible bore, say a majority of the dear public; it is too high-flown; we cant understand it. To all...

Memories of Lincoln CONTENTS FOREWORD I. WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D II. O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! III. HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TODAY IV. THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN LYRICS OF THE WAR BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER...

A-Naughty-Biography and other poemsWe seldom see a preface in the back of a book, or a frontispiece in the middle, but as I have always been considered a little eccentric, I will make a new departure, and thank my indulgent readers here for their...

A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of IndiaThey who reverence ancient descent, and a long line of ancestors, are bound to regard the Thugs with peculiar veneration. Perhaps, neither in Asia nor in Europe are there any other...

RubensDas Original wurde in Frakturschrift gesetzt. Passagen in Antiquaschrift werden im vorliegenden Text kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten Passagen gesperrt, in serifenloser Schrift, oder aber sowohl serifenlos als auch gesperrt erscheinen. Rubens Shne...