Novel e-books (3h to read) of Frank Richard Stockton

* * * * * 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.

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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.

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...

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

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.