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Metsolan pojat: MaalaiselämääVille siirrlsi uutimia ja katseli ulos. Kaukaa tummasta metsnrannasta nkyi kaksi valopilkkua. Lentolasta ne loistivat. Oikeanpuoleinen tuli tuikki navetasta. Neljn aikaan joka aamu se sielt pilkotti. Aikaiseen siell lypsettiin, sill he laittoivat aamumaidon kaupunkiin. Toista tulta ei milloinkaan ennen kuutta sytytetty. Se...

Report of an autopsy on the bodies of Chang and Eng Bunker, commonly known as the Siamese twinsThe few minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcribers note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling...

In the volcano's mouth; or, A boy against an armyWe called this new line of high-class copyrighted stories of adventure for boys by this name because we felt assured that it was bound to win its way into the heart of every true American...

An outline of humor - Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth centurySpeaking exactly, an Outline of the Worlds Humor is an impossibility. For surely the adjectives most applicable to humor are elusive, evasive, evanescent, ephemeral, intangible, imponderable, and other terms...

The bushwhackers & other storiesOne might have imagined that there was some enchantment in the spot which drew hither daily the young mountaineers steps. No visible lure it showed. No prosaic reasonable errand he seemed to have. But always at some hour between the...

Trouble Times TwoThomas Lionel Ph.D., M.M. bounded out of bed with a cheerful bit of off-tune song. He glanced at the calendar and then the clock and he grinned because life was just too good to be true. Everything was according to plan. He'd...

The black cat (vol. I, no. 3, December 1895)THE purest and most perfect Face Powder that science and skill can produce. Makes the skin soft and beautiful and removes Sun-burn, Tan, Freckles, and all shiny appearance. Invisible on closest inspection. Absolutely harmless. We invite...

Good citizenship IT is not of the authors own motion that the following essays are given to the public in this form. With characteristic modesty, Mr. Cleveland was willing that these addresses should lie undiscovered and unread in the limbo of pigeonholes or of...

The power of kindness and other stories - A book for the example and encouragement of the youngFor a boy fourteen years of age, this was a dreadful state of mind to be in. The individual who had offended him was a fellow-student,[8] named...

Manual of the apiaryIn apiculture, as in all other pursuits, it is all-important to make a good beginning. This demands preparation on the part of the apiarist, procuring of bees, and location of his apiary. Before starting in the business, the prospective bee-keeper should...

Can Grande's castle I turn the page and read... . . . The heavy musty air, the black desks, The bent heads and the rustling noises In the great dome Vanish... And The sun hangs in the cobalt-blue sky, The boat drifts over the...

Leliane: een modern sprookjeReeds tien jaren geleden liep ik met het plan rond voor dit boek, waarvan ik toen het begin al had geschreven, dat echter in den loop der tijden is weggeraakt. Ik durfde er nooit weer aan, omdat er zulke onwaarschijnlijke dingen...

Tirano Banderas: Novela de tierra calienteFilomeno Cuevas, criollo ranchero, haba dispuesto para aquella noche armar a sus peonadas, con los fusiles ocultos en un manigual, y las glebas de indios, en difusas lneas, avanzaban por los esteros de Ticomaip. Luna clara, nocturnos horizontes profundos...

The step on the stairI had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by the quick movements and peculiar...

AmericanismFour centuries and a quarter have gone by since Columbus by discovering America opened the greatest era in world history. Four centuries have passed since the Spaniards began that colonization on the main land which has resulted in the growth of the nations of...

Early candlelight storiesGrandma had come to spend the winter, and Bobby and Alice and Pink were watching her fix up her room. It was the guest room, and the children had always thought it a beautiful room, with its soft blue rug, wicker chairs,...

Salt mines and castles: The discovery and restitution of looted European artFrom May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of this assignment, I was engaged in field work which...

The martyrdom of Nurse Cavell - The life story of the victim of Germany's most barbarous crimeIn the early seventies there were living at the country rectory of Swardeston, near Norwich, a clergyman and his wife and little family. There was a New and...

Tea and the effects of tea drinkingIn March, 1904, the Southwark Borough Council at the request of Sir William Collins gave permission for an inquiry to be made into the constituents of tea in order to ascertain what injurious ingredients were present, and if...

Please pass the cream: A comedyR. means right of the stage; C., center; R. C., right center; L., left; 1 E., first entrance; U. E., upper entrance; R. 3 E., right entrance up stage, etc.; up stage, away from footlights; down stage, near footlights....