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by Frank R. Stockton In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still ...

* * * * * In the ancient country of Orn, there lived an old man who was called the Bee-man, because his whole time was spent in the company of bees.

A Greenhorn under the Black Flag

CHAPTER I TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH The month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood of Bridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes.

file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration] A CHOSEN FEW SHO...

An Inspiration XLI.

CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTORY DISASTER Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner _Castor_, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru.

ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES In Lands of FACT AND FANCY BY FRANK R STOCKTON ...

by FRANK R. STOCKTON New York--Cincinnati--Chicago American Book Company 1896 Copyright, 1896, by American Book Company.

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THE MAGIC EGG AND OTHER STORIES BY FRANK R. STOCKTON CONTENTS THE MAGIC EGG "HIS WIFE'S DECEASED SISTER" THE WIDOW'S CRUISE CAPTAIN ELI'S BEST EAR LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST THE ST...

CHAPTER I THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER It was a beautiful summer morning when slowly I wheeled my way along the principal street of the village of Walford.

On a wooden bench under a great catalpa-tree, in the front yard of a comfortable country-house in Virginia, sat Harry and Kate Loudon worrying their minds.

CHAPTER I. THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUTERPE-THALIA It was about noon of a day in early summer that a westward-bound Atlantic liner was rapidly nearing the port of New York.

_POMONA'S TRAVELS_ _A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her former Handmaiden_ [Illustration] POMONA'S TRAVELS [Illustration] BY FRANK R. STOCKTON ILLUSTRATED BY A.B. F...

CHAPTER I. There was a wide entrance gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family or visitors; although occasionally a load of wood, drawn by two horse...

BY FRANK R. STOCKTON 1899 PREFATORY NOTE The story told in this book is based upon legendary history, and the statements on which it is founded appear in the chronicles of Abou-djafar Mohamme...

CHAPTER I ALONE WITH HER WEALTH On a beautiful September afternoon in a handsome room of one of the grand, up-town hotels in New York sat Mrs. Cliff, widow and millionaire.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein [Illustration: "Are you going to ask me to marry your husband if you should happen to die?"] John Gaythe...

BY FRANK R. STOCKTON Author of "The Lady or the Tiger," "Rudder Grange," "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine," "What Might Have Been Expected," etc., etc.

CHAPTER I. Treating of a Novel Style of Dwelling-house CHAPTER II. Treating of a Novel Style of Boarder CHAPTER III. Treating of a Novel Style of Girl CHAPTER IV. Treating o...

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Frank B. Stockton _Etching by Jacques Reich from a photograph._ The Holt, Mr. Stockton's home near Convent, N.J. Claymont, Mr. Stockton's home near Charles Tow...

E-text prepared by Steven desJardins and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders AMOS KILBRIGHT; HIS ADSCITITIOUS EXPERIENCES With Other Stories by FRANK R. STOCKTON 1888 CONTENTS.

MY TERMINAL MORAINE By Frank E. Stockton Copyright, 1892, by P. F. Collier A man's birth is generally considered the most important event of his existence, but I truly think that what I am abou...

Team [Illustration: Frank R. Stockton] The Stories of the Three Burglars By FRANK R. STOCKTON 1889 THE STORIES OF THE THREE BURGLARS.

by FRANK R. STOCKTON.

PART I [Illustration] I was on my way from San Francisco to Yokohama, when in a very desultory and gradual manner I became acquainted with Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine.

CHAPTER I DR. TOLBRIDGE It was about the middle of a March afternoon when Dr. Tolbridge, giving his horse and buggy into the charge of his stable boy, entered the warm hall of his house.

The sun shone warm and soft, as it shines in winter time in the semi-tropics.

THE DUSANTES A SEQUEL TO "THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE" PART I When the little party, consisting of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, Mr. Enderton, my newly made wife, and mysel...

I THE STEAMBOAT PIER The steamboat _Manasquan_ was advertised to leave her pier on the east side of the city at half-past nine on a July morning.

CHAPTER I THE DAWN OF A WEDDING-JOURNEY Mr. and Mrs. Hector Archibald were prosperous and happy dwellers in a suburb of one of our large towns.