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The Depot Master THE DEPOT MASTER -- CHAPTER I -- AT THE DEPOT CHAPTER II -- SUPPLY AND DEMAND CHAPTER III -- STINGY GABE CHAPTER IV -- THE MAJOR CHAPTER V -- A BABY AND A ROBBERY CHAPTER VI -- AVIATION AND AVARICE CHAPTER...

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings I am advised by my publishers that this book is to be included in their catalogue of humorous publications, and this friendly warning gives me an opportunity to say that however humorous it may be in effect,...

A Set of Six The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal experiences. In...

Legends and Lyrics. Part 2A Legend of Provence Envy Over the Mountain Beyond A Warning Maximus Optimus A Lost Chord Too Late The Requital ReturnedMissing In the Wood Two Worlds A New Mother Give Place My Will King and Slave A Chant Dream-Life Rest...

Legends and Lyrics. Part 1In the spring of the year 1853, I observed, as conductor of the weekly journal Household Words, a short poem among the proffered contributions, very different, as I thought, from the shoal of verses perpetually setting through the office of...

Poor Folk MY DEAREST BARBARA ALEXIEVNA,How happy I was last nighthow immeasurably, how impossibly happy! That was because for once in your life you had relented so far as to obey my wishes. At about eight oclock I awoke from sleep (you know, my...

A Simpleton It has lately been objected to me, in studiously courteous terms of course, that I borrow from other books, and am a plagiarist. To this I reply that I borrow facts from every accessible source, and am not a plagiarist. The plagiarist...

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex The nature of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man,...

PandoraIt has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligent young German, Count Otto...

Great AstronomersIt has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances...

Snow-Bound at Eagle's For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upward as if obeying some mysterious impulse from behind, so faint...

Pillars of Society Karsten Bernick, a shipbuilder. Mrs. Bernick, his wife. Olaf, their son, thirteen years old. Martha Bernick, Karsten Bernick's sister. Johan Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's younger brother. Lona Hessel, Mrs. Bernick's elder half-sister. Hilmar Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's cousin. Dina Dorf, a young girl...

Waifs and Strays - Part 1 Espirition, the Mexican, who had been sent forty miles in a buckboard from the Espinosa Ranch to fetch it, returned with a shrugging shoulder and hands empty except for a cigarette. At the small station, Nopal, he had...

Anthology of Massachusetts Poets The moon is a wavering rim where one fish slips, The water makes a quietness of sound; Night is an anchoring of many ships Home-bound. There are strange tunnelers in the dark, and whirs Of wings that die, and hairy...

A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA) Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity: Before...

Yet Again Till I gave myself the task of making a little selection from what I had written since last I formed a book of essays, I had no notion that I had put, as it were, my eggs into so many basketsThe Saturday...

David Elginbrod Note from electronic text creator: I have compiled a word list with definitions of most of the Scottish words found in this work at the end of the book. This list does not belong to the original work, but is designed to...

Twenty-Two Goblins On the bank of the Godavari River is a kingdom called the Abiding Kingdom. There lived the son of King Victory, the famous King Triple-victory, mighty as the king of the gods. As this king sat in judgment, a monk called Patience...

Rosmersholm John Rosmer, of Rosmersholm, an ex-clergyman. Rebecca West, one of his household, originally engaged as companion to the late Mrs. Rosmer. Kroll, headmaster of the local grammar school, Rosmer's brother-in-law. Ulrik Brendel. Peter Mortensgaard. Mrs. Helseth, Rosmer's housekeeper. (SCENEThe sitting-room at Rosmersholm; a...

Through Russia The year was the year '92the year of leannessthe scene a spot between Sukhum and Otchenchiri, on the river Kodor, a spot so near to the sea that amid the joyous babble of a sparkling rivulet the ocean's deep-voiced thunder was plainly...