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The fairy babiesOnce there was a little dwarf who lived alone in the woods. He lived in a little blue house with a red chimney. He was very proud of his red chimney. He painted the chimney every spring. The little dwarf looked down...

The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; vol. 2 of 2 - Being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics In this volume will be found a selection of...

The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; vol. 1 of 2 - Being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics This work, which has been nearly three years going...

The Haliburton primerHow to teach a child to read so as to create and preserve the right attitude toward reading is one of the most important problems of the school. That it has not been solved to the joint satisfaction of theorist and of...

Loved you better than you knewCould one lift the impenetrable veil of mystery that hides the future from our curious eyes, what secrets would often be revealed, what shadows would fall upon hearts now light and thoughtlessshadows of grief, of horror, and despair! Good...

The Isle of RetributionThe manifold powers of circumstance were in conspiracy against Ned Cornet this late August afternoon. No detail was important in itself. It had been drizzling slowly and mournfully, but drizzle is not uncommon in Seattle. Ned Cornet had been passing the...

Babbitt: Tarina amerikkalaisesta miehestä, hänen perheestään ja ainoasta ystävyydestäänUsva oli armelias aikaisempien miespolvien kuluneita rakennuksia kohtaan: preill peitetty mansardikattoista postitaloa, honteloiden vanhojen talojen, nokisten, pieni-ikkunaisten tehtaiden, likavrill maalattujen vuokrakasarmien punaisia savupiippuja kohtaan. Kaupunki oli tynn tmmisi kummallisuuksia, mutta muhkeat tornit olivat tyntneet ne pois...

The country ChristmasSally Brown remembered the Mulvaneys. It was no wonder the child talked of them at first; but, when she had lived in the country two months, her mother and brother Alfred begged her to change the subject. "Really, Sally," her mother remonstrated...

The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891In looking over this work for a second edition, I find little to add to the material as it appeared in the first, and next to nothing to alter. Sir John...

Die Hexe: Eine ErzählungAn einem schnen Maimorgen des Jahres 1751 fuhr eine festliche Gesellschaft in einem Dutzend alter Staatskutschen aus dem Falkentor der Reichsstadt Frankenthal auf das Appental los. Es galt, der Grundsteinlegung des Schlosses Monrepos anzuwohnen, das der Frstbischof Adam Friedrich von Helmsttt...

The isle of dead shipsThere is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our very doors, in the direct path of every steamer from the Gulf...

The little acrobat: a story of ItalyCopyright, 1919, By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published, September, 1919 Norwood Press Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A. The...

To the lightsAs chairman of one of the largest of the Billingsgate wholesale fish-dealing companies, I can assure your correspondent that the cause for the current high prices does not rest with the dealers. Your correspondent, who is evidently ignorant of basic facts, asserts...

A bacteriological study of ham souringSir: I have the honor to transmit and to recommend for publication as a bulletin of this Bureau a paper entitled A Bacteriological Study of Ham Souring, by Dr. C. N. McBryde, senior bacteriologist in the Biochemic Division of...

Precision locating and dividing methodsThe degree of accuracy that is necessary in the construction of certain classes of machinery and tools, has made it necessary for toolmakers and machinists to employ various methods and appliances for locating holes or finished surfaces to given dimensions...

The angel of his presence; and Gabriel the AcadianJohn Wentworth Stanley stood on the deck of an Atlantic Liner looking off to sea and meditating. The line of smoke that floated away from his costly cigar followed the line of smoke from the steamer...

Histoire de CorseLe chroniqueur Giovanni della Grossa.On peut dire de Giovanni della Grossa et de Pietro Cirneo que leurs chroniques sont les sources uniques dhistoire interne du Moyen Age en Corse utilises jusqu nos jours. Je parlerai peu du second dont la rputation surfaite...

La raza: DescubridoresDeshauciado Coln en la Corte, pasen compaa de su hijo Diego, al dirigirse a Huelva, donde viva un cuado suyo, por el Convento de la Rbida, y llamando a sus puertas en solicitud de socorro, encontr en fray Prez no slo quien...

John de Lancaster: a novel; vol. III.In the morning of the day after that, in which the miserable remains of old Ap Reess hapless daughter were interred, the whole party under orders of march for Kray Castle took their leave of Glen Morgan; the...

John de Lancaster: a novel; vol. II.When Philips confidential interview with Colonel Wilson was concluded, he directly bent his course to the chamber of David Williams. It was a station equally well adapted to the studies of the poet, the astronomer or the musician,...