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H. Rider Haggard h3l2w

The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I was stopping with him at the place he bought in Yorkshire. Shortly after that, the death of his only son so unsettled him that he immediately.. 1z1m6z

Richmal Crompton 4r6i1g

Robert Brown, aged seventeen, in whose room the meeting took place, leaned forward eagerly. He was thoroughly enjoying the meeting. The only drawback was the presence of his younger brother, William, aged eleven. By some mistake someone had itted William, and by some still greater mistake no one had ejected him; and now it was too late. He gave ..

Marion Cook Stow 3j3y3v

This, little Dear-My-Love, is the story of a Child whom I am sure you would have loved. For people did love her very much, she was so quaint and dear. She was a remarkably bright Child and the beauty of her being bright was that she did not know it. She did bright things and said bright things and it never entered her mind to marvel at her own clev..

W. C. Tuttle o5e4x

Piperock looks like a siesta settlement, but she sure is deceiving. Few folks ever get killed in the town. The good old village usually invigorates ’em to a mile-a-minute clip, and we makes it a point never to shoot anybody in the back.She ain’t the birthplace of nobody, and nothing much except horse-thieves are buried there. When it comes to law a..

Elodie L. Mijatovich 3x356d

A collection of Serbian fairy tales including THE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE AND THE NINE PEAHENSPAPALLUGA; OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPERSATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHTGOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOSTTHE WICKED STEPMOTHERBIRD GIRLSIR PEPPERCORNBASH-CHALEK; OR TRUE STEELTHE BITER BITTHE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWSTHE THREE SUITORSTHE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINSTHE DREAM OF THE..

William Elliot Griffis 5y3b3f

We Americans ought to know who the Walloons are; for, in 1624, some of these people—even before the Dutch mothers and fathers, boys and girls came—settled New York and New Jersey. It was they who introduced on our soil the marguerite, or white-and-yellow daisy, and they were the first farmers in the Middle States. Moreover, when New Netherland rece..

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding 1ep6h

The Taylors had objected very much to the marriage of their only son. Even when the marriage was made, and there was no earthly use in objecting, they kept on, in a very unpleasant way. All the misfortunes which the young man brought upon his wife and child by his recklessness and folly only increased their anger against the victims; and when he di..

Jeanie Oliver Smith 6z2u6v

Bruno knew his little friend Edwy. The boy stood stroking the dog’s ears and speaking gentle words to him. The dog seemed to listen but although he was all attention and laid his head down on crossed paws, one eye was alert for the movements of his master.A dog, an English setter like Bruno, was one thing which Edwy had sought with constant iterati..