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Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' EditionHarriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition CHAPTER I UNCLE TOM AND LITTLE HARRY ARE SOLD VERY many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. These slaves were paid no wages. Thei...

The Little Princess of Tower HillMeade L. T. The Little Princess of Tower Hill THE LITTLE PRINCESS OF TOWER HILL CHAPTER I. HER VERY YOUNG DAYS All the other children who knew her thought Maggie a wonderfully fortunate little girl. She was sometimes spoken about as the "Little Princess of Tower H...

Woman in Sacred HistoryWoman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources INTRODUCTION The object of the following pages will be to show, in a series of biographical sketches, a history of Womanhood under Divine culture, tending toward the develo...

The Sea LadyHerbert George Wells The Sea Lady CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY ISuch previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the ...

The Coming of the FairiesThe Coming of the Fairies PREFACE This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of th...

The True-Born EnglishmanThe True-Born Englishman A Satire Statuimus pacem, et securitatem et concordiam judicum et justiciam inter Anglos et Normannos, Francos et Britanes, Walliæ, et Cornubiæ, Pictos et Scotos, Albaniæ, similiter inter Francos et insulanos provincias et patrias, quæ pertinent ad...

The Rome ExpressArthur Griffiths The Rome Express CHAPTER I The Rome Express, the direttissimo, or most direct, was approaching Paris one morning in March, when it became known to the occupants of the sleeping-car that there was something amiss, very much amiss, in the car.The train was travellin...

Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves.Charles A. Scott «Old Scrooge»: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. / Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story CHARACTERS Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly brokerFrederick Merry, a nephew to ScroogeBob Cratchit, clerk to ScroogeGhost of Jac...

AbandonedVerne Jules Abandoned INTRODUCTION The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L'Abandonné. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes – a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien propo...