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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 999, February 18, 1899 LINNA; THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP. A DREAM OF FAIR SERVICE. OUR HERO. EXERCISE: IN MODERATION. THINGS IN SEASON, IN MARKET AND KITCHEN. FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW. ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE. OUR LILY GARDEN. ANSWERS...

The Enchanted Burro - And Other Stories as I Have Known Them from Maine to Chile and CaliforniaAUTHOR OF Strange Corners of Our Country, A Tramp Across the Continent, Mexico Today, The Spanish Pioneers of America, My Friend Will, The Gold Fish of Gran...

HeritageTwo years of my life were spent in a rough gray village of the Apennines; a shaggy village, tilted perilously up the side of the hill; a rambling village, too incoherent to form a single perspectived street, but which revolved around, or, rather, above...

The Red ChancellorHe is a Captain of Cavalry, Master of the Horse; a gentleman, noble, no doubt, by birth, but a simple, if magnificent, Rittmeister. The ladyhe glanced round towards the dark shadows of the trees, gave another shrug of caution and lowered his...

The Hawkeye Ornithologist and Oologist. Vol. 1. No. 4 April 1888By a Rage Collector is meant one who is suddenly seized with the idea that he is deeply interested in oology, and must get together a collection of eggs as soon as possible. Some...

The Tale of the Spinning Wheel The Tale of the Spinning-Wheel is revised and enlarged from a paper read before the Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Connecticut; New England Society in the City of New York, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City; Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, D....

Die Berg-Maria, oder: Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten. - Eine Geschichtliche Erzählung aus Pennsylvanien.Der vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1880 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und altertmliche Schreibweisen, insbesondere bei Personen- und Ortsnamen...

Flint Hills Cook Bookhere is a custom, hoary with the accumulated dust of ages, originating many a long century ago, in a certain, but now extinct garden, of which we all know more or less, viz: That man will and must eat. Out of...

Doctor Dolittle's Post OfficeNearly all of the history of Doctor Dolittle's post office took place when he was returning from a voyage to West Africa. Therefore I will begin (as soon as I have told you a little about how he came to take...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1008, April 22, 1899All the bright expectations, with which he had started on this expedition, were dashed to the ground. In every direction he had met with indifference, vacillationeven oppositionwhere he ought to have found only warm...

The master of St. Benedict's, Vol. 2 (of 2)Lucy was five minutes late the next morning in keeping her appointmentat least, her understood appointmentin the lane. There was a reasonable excuse for it. It was not a morning fit for a dog to go...

The Living MummyI was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling wonderfully self-satisfied in consequence,...

The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race: - A Discourse Delivered at the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1848Dear Sir:The members of F. B. S., having listened to your discourse...

In the Dozy Hours, and Other PapersAND OTHER PAPERS BY AGNES REPPLIER BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1894 Copyright, 1894, By AGNES REPPLIER. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed...

Gegen den Strich Gedrngt und eingeengt in ihre alten Rahmen, die sie mit ihren breiten Schultern gnzlich ausfllen, knnten sie uns mit ihren starren Augen, den la yatagans gedrehten Schnurrbrten und ihrer mit gewlbtem Panzer bedeckten Brust nahezu erschrecken. So sahen die Ahnen der...

The Wolf Demon; or, The Queen of the KanawhaThe great, round moon looked down in a flood of silver light upon the virgin forest by the banks of the Scioto, the beautiful river which winds through the richest and fairest valley in all the...

The Dolphin in HistoryRecently the dolphin has become the focus of much scientific interest and investigation which have led to flattering pronouncements about its remarkable intelligence, amiability, and astonishing friendliness towards man. It was in consequence of such activities that a symposium was held...

English Hours The papers gathered into this series, originally published in various periodicals, have already been reprintedthe earliest in date more than thirty years ago; the others, with the exception of two, more recently, in a volume entitled Portraits of Places. They have been...

The Mary Frances Sewing Book; Or, Adventures Among the Thimble PeopleThe entire contents of this book are protected by the stringent new copyright law, and all persons are warned not to attempt to reproduce the text, in whole or in part, or any of...

Soljalan emäntäErn kevisen iltapivn, jolloin aurinko valaa maisemille surunvoittoisinta kullanhohtoansa, istui pienen pappilan akkunan ress mietteisiins vaipuneena nuori nainen. Hnen ulkonssn oli samalla sek ylhiseen vivahtavaa kauneutta ett maalaismaista rotevuutta ja terveytt. Nen oli hiukan kymy, suu erittin kauniisti muodostunut, kulmakarvat ja pitkt silmripset...