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Everything was perfectly swell.
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848.
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
Commander Losure gave orders to his navigator to bring the ship in on the satellite out of sight of the prying telescopes which no doubt existed on such an invitingly green planet.
15 EAST 56th STREET NEW YORK _Traditions and Old China_ _Copyright, 1920, Gilman Collamore & Company, Inc._ _Traditions and Old China_ From early days when the ancients showed their ap...
The large horse plodded slowly over the shifting sand.
Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant.
CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN _Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years_ Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. [Illustration] DUCKWORT...
APOLOGIA HORSE SENSE If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him.
Chuck Dane patted shaving lotion on his face, enjoying the second of vicious sting.
_The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools._ They had almost finished with the loading.
CHILD'S OWN BOOK _of Great Musicians_ MOZART [Illustration] _By_ ...
Lauria Swept down the spiral staircase in regal dignity, and wished there were someone there to witness her entrance.
It wasn't that Pete Cooper didn't love his wives, or that he wanted to see them hurry on into the next world.
Three paths led through the woods away from the resort hotel, and of the three two were clearly marked: one with a sign that said it led to the lake, the other pointing toward the golf links.
For a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition.
Larry Thomas bought a cuckoo clock for his wife--without knowing the price he would have to pay.
I. Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But...
She'd paid good money to see the inevitable ...
What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself after starting from midnight slumber!
I Strings in the earth and air Make music sweet; Strings by the river where The willows meet.
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets--when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta--there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
The Place de France is the town's hub.
(Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly of September, 1858) With numerous original illustrations by Thomas McIlvaine Frederick A. Stokes Company 1897 [Illustration: 008] [Illustration: 013] [I...
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Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced Science Fiction Stories 1953.
Edited by Ernest Rhys Note from the Editor of the Electronic version.
When Marsy Gras shot off its skyrockets, Mars Observatory gave it the works--fireworks!
Full text of the Riot Act (c. 1714-1715) Typed in this February 8, 2002 by Jonathan Walther.
Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" etc.
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 ...
of the Great Composers for Children," "Music Talks with Children," "First Studies in Music Biography," and others.
ESSAY, FOR DISCUSSION, READ AT A MEETING OF THE HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN CLUB OF HARTFORD, AND OFFERED FOR THE THIRTY-DOLLAR PRIZE.[*] [*] Did not take the prize.
QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM MARK TWAIN QUOTATIONS FROM MARK TWAIN SOME OF THE EDITOR'S FAVORITES Aim and object of the law and lawyers was to defeat justice All life seems to be sacred excep...
_Because they were so likable and intelligent and adaptable--they were vastly dangerous!_ [Illustration: Illustrated by ASHMAN] It's difficult, when you're on one of the asteroids, to keep from...
[Illustration] The cruiser vanished back into hyperspace and he was alone in the observation bubble, ten thousand light-years beyond the galaxy's outermost sun.
Mr. Emmett did his duty by the visitor from another world--never doubting the right of it.
[Illustration: SHOP] Because there were few adults in the crowd, and Colonel "Biff" Hawton stood over six feet tall, he could see every detail of the demonstration.
Betsy would never wash herself When from her bed she rose, But just as quickly as she could She hurried on her clothes.
_Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman_ BOSTON D. LOTHROP COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS COPYRIGHT, 1888 BY D. LOTHROP COMPANY.
_Author of_ _"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," &c._ _Pussy-cat sits by the fire--how should she be fair?_ _In walks the little dog--says "Pussy are you there?_ _How do you do Mistress Pussy?
COMIC BIBLE SKETCHES Reprinted From "The Freethinker" By G. W. Foote Part I. London: Progressive Publishing Company 28 Stonecutter Street, E.C. 1885.
The following story, the simple and domestic incidents of which may be deemed scarcely worth relating, after such a lapse of time, awakened some degree of interest, a hundred years ago, in a princi...
The Minister of Peace asked the United States President if he had heard from the Secretary of State.
By Stanley P. Young, _Principal Biologist, in Charge, Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control, Bureau of Biological Survey_ THE AMERICAN MOUNTAIN-LION (_Felis concolor_) is one of the la...
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