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Miracle Mongers and Their MethodsMiracle Mongers and Their Methods - A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. "All wonder," said Samuel Johnson, "is the effect of novelty on ignorance." Yet we...
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KidnappedKidnapped While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henleys enthusiasm swept him...
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The Bible in SpainThe Bible in Spain - Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the PeninsulaIt is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed, of late years, most books have been sent...
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John Jacob AstorJohn Jacob AstorThe man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him richI merely mean that such a man will in...
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The Souls of Black FolkThe Souls of Black Folk Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem...
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The CrossingThe Crossing I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River,...
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Edinburgh: Picturesque NotesEdinburgh: Picturesque NotesThe ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her...
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A Journal of the Plague YearA Journal of the Plague Year - Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London It...
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The mans hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck....
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The Outlaw of TornThe Outlaw of Torn Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being...
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The Land of Little RainThe Land of Little Rain I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him. Thus he may be Mighty-Hunter, or Man-Afraid-of-a-Bear, according as he is called by...
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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and FablesThe Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables Three of the following Tales have appeared in the Cornhill Magazine; one in Longmans; one in Mr. Henry Normans Christmas Annual; and one in the Court and Society Review. The Author desires to make proper acknowledgements...
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Margaret OgilvyMargaret OgilvyOn the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a womans long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-note and the thirty threepenny-bits they cost,...
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Myths and Legends of the SiouxMyths and Legends of the Sioux In publishing these Myths of the Sioux, I deem it proper to state that I am of one-fourth Sioux blood. My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army,...
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The Soul of the Indian: An InterpretationThe Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. It teaches us to be thankful, to be united, and to love one another! We never quarrel...
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Old Indian LegendsOld Indian Legends IKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round...
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Indian BoyhoodIndian Boyhood WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away...
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Indian Heroes and Great ChieftainsIndian Heroes and Great Chieftains EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in...
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United States Declaration of IndependenceUnited States Declaration of Independence in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which...
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Remember the AlamoRemember the Alamo CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER II. ANTONIA AND ISABEL. CHAPTER III. BUILDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTER IV. THE SHINING BANDS OF LOVE. CHAPTER V. A FAMOUS BARBECUE. CHAPTER VI. ROBERT WORTH IS DISARMED. CHAPTER VII. A MEETING AT...
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