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Harper's Round Table, December 8, 1896It was "so wide" only at the stern, and it narrowed to a blunt edge at the prow. All of its lines were pretty nearly straight. Its bottom was as flat as a floor. At its forward end it...

Harper's Round Table, February 11, 1896A very strange old room it was, in a very strange old house, part of which was brick, and part of which was wood. The wood had been cut from the neighboring hill-sides, and the brick had traversed many...

Harper's Round Table, February 16, 1897When I was a boy I belonged to a small company of young fellows, all under fourteen, who had banded themselves together for the purpose of practising archery. Our company owed its name to our great admiration for Major...

Harper's Round Table, February 18, 1896There was a suspicious sniffle, then a series of gulps, and then the letters grew blurred and indistinct, and even hard winking would not keep the tears back; to Charlie's mortification they actually splashed down on the page before...

Harper's Round Table, February 2, 1897Jenks, the master-at-arms, otherwise known as Jimmylegs, was the best Jimmylegs in the naval service of the United States. His countenance was usually as stolid as a mummy's, and his voice as steady as the Sphinx's might have been....

Harper's Round Table, February 23, 1897As far as the eye could see, and for leagues beyond the reach of vision, one of the most wonderful landscapes of the world was outspread in every direction. Castles of massive build with battlemented towers, Greek temples, slender...

Harper's Round Table, February 25, 1896Alaric Dale Todd was his name, and it was a great grief to him to be called "Allie." Allie Todd was so insignificant and sounded so weak. Besides, Allie was a regular girl's name, as he had been so...

Harper's Round Table, February 4, 1896Though the Indians of New England were for many years vastly superior in numbers to the white men, they were never wholly united, and their cowardice and lack of discipline were weaknesses for which their treachery and deceit could...

Harper's Round Table, February 9, 1897There was a vague apprehension in the air; every one appeared conscious that something was about to happen, though no one seemed to know precisely what; and so, as childhood is naturally curious, the writer of these lines, being...

Harper's Round Table, Index, 1896Africa:An African Stratagem, 492; Stories of Congo Discovery, 584, 585; Exploring New-found Rivers, 608, 609: The Long-vexed Question of the Mobangi-Makua River, 728, 729; A New Water Route to Central Africa, 800, 801; Adventures With Friend Paul, 1113. American-Nights' Entertainments:Martha...

Harper's Round Table, January 12, 1897It was a strange fact that those in authority at Washington and those in charge of the immediate conduct of the Union armies in the field did not early in the war recognize the immense importance of a well-organized...

Harper's Round Table, January 14, 1896It was a dark, murky night when George reached the headquarters at West Point. He had been delayed often in the journey, having been forced to hide in the woods to avoid meeting stragglers from the guerilla forces, and...

Harper's Round Table, January 19, 1897Throughout most of the ranch country there are two kinds of deer, the black-tail and the white-tail. The white-tail is the same as the deer of the East; it is a beautiful creature, a marvel of lightness and grace...

Harper's Round Table, January 21, 1896On the 20th of December, 1848, I sailed from Honolulu, where I had been naval-store-keeper for many years. My vessel was the Chilean merchant-ship Maria Helena, and she carried as passengers several others who had long resided in the...

Harper's Round Table, January 24, 1882 The wind may blow the snow about, For all I care, says Jack, And I don't mind how cold it grows, For then the ice won't crack. Old folks may shiver all day long, But I shall never...

Harper's Round Table, January 26, 1897Everybody will remember the exciting story of the ship Aberfoyle: how her Captain drank himself into delirium-tremens and then poisoned himself, how the crew mutinied, how the mate was washed overboard, and how this ship was eventually safely navigated...

Harper's Round Table, January 28, 1896Ned Peterson leaned back in one of the great rocking-chairs on the upper gallery of the Htel de France, in Port of Spain, on the island of Trinidad, and puffed his cigar as complacently as though the gold were...

Harper's Round Table, January 5, 1897It was I who called him the Little Bishop. His name was Phillips Brooks Sanderson, but one seldom heard it at full length, since "Phil" was quite enough for an urchin just in his first trousers, and those assumed...

Harper's Round Table, January 7, 1896Fred Hallowell was sitting at his desk in the Gazette office, looking listlessly out into the City Hall Park, where the biting wind was making the snowflakes dance madly around the leafless trees and in the empty fountain, and...

Harper's Round Table, July 14, 1896The younger boy ceased his efforts to close the gates, and advancing a few steps before the entrance of the fort, looked up the valley to where the road from Prescott appeared from behind a spur of the foot-hills....