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Concerning "Bully" HayesConcerning "Bully" Hayes - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 "BULLY" HAYES! Oh, halcyon days of the sixties and seventies, when the Pacific was not, as now, patrolled by men-of-war from lonely Pylstaart, in the Friendlies, to the...
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The Americans in the South SeasThe Americans in the South Seas - 1901 Perhaps the proper title of this article should be "The Influence of American Enterprise upon the Maritime Development of the first Colony in Australia," but as such a long-winded phrase would convey, at the outset, no...
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The Beginning of the Sea Story of AustraliaThe Beginning of the Sea Story of Australia - 1901 To many people in England the mention of Australia conjures pictures of tented gold-fields and tall, black-bearded, red-shirted bushrangers; of mounted police recruited from "flaxen-haired younger sons of good old English families, well-groomed and...
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The Tapu of BanderahThe Tapu of Banderah - 1901 As the rising sun had just begun to pierce the misty tropic haze of early dawn, a small, white-painted schooner of ninety or a hundred tons burden was bearing down upon the low, densely-wooded island of Mayou, which...
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TommyTommyMy only qualification for writing this simple story of "Tommy" is that I have tried to know him, and that I greatly admire him. I met him before he joined the army, when for more than six months I addressed recruiting meetings. I have...
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Comedies of CourtshipComedies of Courtship The Wheel of Love, published in Scribners Magazine during the past year, and The Lady of the Pool, both protected by American copyright, are here printed for the first time in book form. The four other stories appeared without their authors...
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Roger TrewinionRoger Trewinion ALL MEN ARE LIARS FIELDS OF FAIR RENOWN ISHMAEL PENGELLY THE STORY OF ANDREW FAIRFAX JABEZ EASTERBROOK THE MONK OF MAR-SARA ZILLAH: A Romance WEAPONS OF MYSTERY MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH THE BIRTHRIGHT: A ROMANCE AND SHALL TRELAWNEY DIE? THE SCARLET WOMAN THE...
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"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in...
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The Flemmings and "Flash Harry" of SavaitThe Flemmings and "Flash Harry" of Savait - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 On a certain island in the Paumotu Group, known on the charts as Chain Island, but called Anaa by the people themselves, lived a...
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Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And OthersÂmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 mona was, as his master so frequently told himaccentuating the remark with a blow or a kickonly a miserable kanaka. Of his miserableness...
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From a Cornish WindowFrom a Cornish Window - A New EditionI plead only that they were written at intervals, and in part for recreation, during years in which their author has striven to maintain a cheerful mind while a popular philosophy which he believed to be cheap...
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MuftiMuftiThe officer lying back in the home-made chair tilted the peak of his cap over his eyes and let his book slip gently to the ground. A few moments later, after various unavailing waves of the hand, he pulled out a handkerchief of striking...
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The Man Who KnewThe Man Who KnewThe room was a small one, and had been chosen for its remoteness from the dwelling rooms. It had formed the billiard room, which the former owner of Weald Lodge had added to his premises, and John Minute, who had neither...
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The Green RustThe Green Rust"I don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and...
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The Honourable Mr. TawnishThe Honourable Mr. TawnishMyself and Bentley, who, though a good fellow in many ways, is yet a fool in more (hence the prominence of the personal pronoun, for, as every one knows, a fool should give place to his betters)myself and Bentley, then, were...
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The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738)The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) - Or, A new and compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.In the Preface to the First Number of this Catalogue, I mentioned that the Design of it was Principally intended to...
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Robert ElsmereRobert Elsmere SEPARATED, IN MY THOUGHT OF THEM, BY MUCH DIVERSITY OF CIRCUMSTANCE AND OPINION; LINKED, IN MY FAITH ABOUT THEM, TO EACH OTHER, AND TO ALL THE SHINING ONES OF THE PAST, BY THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE SERVICE OF MAN: The...
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The Call of the SouthThe Call of the South - 1908 Guess I'm getting round, and the big, bronzed-faced man raised his eyes to mine as he lay under the awning on the after deck of his pearling lugger. I sat down beside him and began to talk....
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The Ebbing Of The TideThe Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 A boy and a girl sat by the rocky margin of a deep mountain pool in Ponape in the North Pacific. The girl was weaving a basket from the leaves of a cocoa-nut....
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Curious, if TrueCurious, if True - Strange Tales You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl...
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