Blundell's Improvement Odd Craft, Part 3.

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES By W. W. Jacobs THE MONKEY'S PAW I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fi...

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

SHIP'S COMPANY By W.W. Jacobs THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA "What I want you to do," said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, "is to be an uncle to me."

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES By W. W. Jacobs CONTENTS THE LADY OF THE BARGE THE MONKEY'S PAW BILL'S PAPER CHASE THE WELL CUPBOARD LOVE IN THE LIBRARY CAPTAIN ROGERS A TIGER'S SKIN...

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

SAILORS' KNOTS By W.W. Jacobs 1909 CONTENTS DESERTED HOMEWARD BOUND SELF-HELP SENTENCE DEFERRED "MATRIMONIAL OPENINGS" ODD MAN OUT "THE TOLL-HOUSE" PETER'S PENCE THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY PRIZE...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.