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Teddy and the Mystery DeerThe type in which this book and others of the same series is set is especially designed to conform to the type in the school books which are used by boys and girls of the age to which these stories...

The RaiderThey dropped the raider on the night side, less than thirty miles from Thanlar, the capitol city. The dark, slim ship drifted silently to the ground, discharged its passenger and lifted again, moving slowly like a great shark in the night. On the...

Mother Goose's Melody Title: Mother Goose's Melody Release Date: October 8, 2019 [EBook #60459] Language: English Credits: Produced by hekula03, Jwala Kumar Sista and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)...

MidnightRUTHERFORD MONTGOMERY would rather write than do anything else in the world. Most of his books are about animals and the wilderness he knows so well. As a boy, Mr. Montgomery would listen to the tales told by hunters, and his favorite sport then...

When I Was a Little GirlThere used to be a little girl who does not come here any more. She is not dead, for when certain things happen, she stirs slightly where she is, perhaps deep within the air. When the sun falls in...

From Office Boy to Reporter; Or, The First Step in JournalismMy Dear Boys: I have tried to write for you a story of newspaper life and tell how a boy, who started in the lowest position,that of a copy carrier,rose to become a reporter....

Highland Mary: The Romance of a Poet - A NovelI have made use of some of the most romantic episodes in the life of Robert Burns, such as his courtship of Mary Campbell and his love affair with Jean Armour, the Belle of Mauchline,...

Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets - Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.Having found that sixty-five of our previous pages, in the second volume of the Drolleries Reprint, were filled with songs and poems that also appear in...

The Border Bandits - An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws, Jesse and Frank JamesThe career of Jesse and Frank James has been as checkered as the sunlight that streams through a latticed window, and their crimes are a commentary upon the...

Off Sandy Hook, and other storiesOn board the Rampatina liner, eleven days and a half out from Liverpool, the usual terrific sensation created by the appearance of the pilot-yacht prevailed. Necks were craned and toes were trodden on as the steamer slackened speed, and...

The Mystery of Suicide PlaceWhen the beautiful Miss Maybelle Maury, of Mount Vernon, New York, was returning in October, 1894, from her tour of Europe with her chaperon, Mrs. Vere de Vere, a New York society leader, she was introduced by the latter to...

Les naufragés du JonathanCtait un gracieux animal, le cou long et dune courbure lgante, la croupe arrondie, les jambes nerveuses et effiles, les 2 flancs effacs, la robe dun roux fauve tachet de blanc, la queue courte, en panache, trs fournie de poils. Son...

Historical Record of the Seventy-first Regiment, Highland Light Infantry - Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1777, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1852TO THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT, HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. During the last century several corps,...

William Blake PREFACE PART I INTRODUCTION WILLIAM BLAKE PART II - RECORDS FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES (I.) EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES OF HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. IN DR. WILLIAMS'S LIBRARY (1810-1852) (1) FROM CRABB ROBINSON'S DIARY (2) FROM...

The Twins of Emu PlainsTHE final struggle in the tennis match between Merriwa and Kooringal schools was raging, and the very air about the court at Merriwa was vibrant with excitement. The western side, which gave the best view, without the sun in ones...

Norah of BillabongMrs. Bruce writes with a freedom and grace which must win hosts of readers, and there is a lovableness about her Australian youths and maidens which makes one never tired of their healthy and sociable views of life. There can be no...

Jim and WallyTHE trench wound a sinuous way through the sodden Flanders mud. Underfoot were boards; and then sandbags; and then more boards, added as the mud rose up and swallowed all that was put down upon it. Some of the last-added boards had...

From Billabong to LondonIF you came to the homestead of Billabong by the front entrance, you approached a great double gate of wrought iron, which opened stiffly, with protesting creaks, and creaked almost as much at being closed. Then you found yourself in a...

EddiePhilip Duncan, the St. Louis attorney and former FBI agent, who wrote the definitive "History of Espionage", observes that in all the records dealing with spies and counterspies there is no more significant case than that of Dr. John O'Hara Smith, an electronics research...

Captain PeabodyThe gavel rapped sharply, and the murmur of conversation throughout the banquet room drifted into hushed silence. The occasion was the seventy-fifth meeting of RETSCAP, the organization of Retired Space Captains; the place, a banquet room in the Empire Club on the hundred...