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BonesEdgar Wallace Bones / Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country PROLOGUE SANDERS—C.M.G I You will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with ...

In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in ColoradoG. A. Henty In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado PREFACEMY DEAR LADS,Until comparatively lately that portion of the United States in which I have laid this story was wholly unexplored. The marvellous cañons of t...

With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and OmdurmanG. A. Henty With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman Preface The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever undertaken. The...

The Young BuglersG. A. Henty The Young Buglers PREFACETo my Young Readers.I remember that, as a boy, I regarded any attempt to mix instruction with amusement as being as objectionable a practice as the administration of powder in jam; but I think that this feeling arose from the fact that in thos...

The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerTo Mr HENRY DAVIS, Bookseller, in LondonTo the Revd. Mr JONATHAN DUSTWICH, at—THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKERTo Dr LEWIS To Mrs GWYLLIM, house-keeper at Brambleton-hall To Sir WATKIN PHILLIPS, Bart. of Jesus college, Oxon To Mrs JERMYN at her house in Gloucester...

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot GreavesTobias Smollett The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves INTRODUCTION It was on the great northern road from York to London, about the beginning of the month of October, and the hour of eight in the evening, that four travellers were, by a violent shower of r...

The Adventures of AkbarFlora Annie Webster Steel The Adventures of Akbar A DEDICATION Oft when the house lay silent in the heatMy thoughts would be so full of you, my sweet,That dreaming half—I seemed to hear once moreYour little fingers fluttering at the door,The pitter patter of your childish f...

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. CompletePART IINTRODUCTION TO DOCTOR – CHAPTER ONE. SOME SAGE OBSERVATIONS THAT NATURALLY INTRODUCE OUR IMPORTANT HISTORY CHAPTER TWO. A SUPERFICIAL VIEW OF OUR HERO’S INFANCY CHAPTER THREE. HE IS INITIATED IN A MILITARY LIFE, AND HAS THE GOOD FORTUNE TO ...

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Volume 02PART IICHAPTER THIRTY-NINE. OUR ADVENTURER IS MADE ACQUAINTED WITH A NEW SCENE OF LIFE CHAPTER FORTY. HE CONTEMPLATES MAJESTY AND ITS SATELLITES IN ECLIPSE CHAPTER FORTY-ONE. ONE QUARREL IS COMPROMISED, AND ANOTHER DECIDED BY UNUSUAL ARMS CHAPTER...

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Volume 01PART IINTRODUCTION THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM CHAPTER ONE. SOME SAGE OBSERVATIONS THAT NATURALLY INTRODUCE OUR IMPORTANT HISTORY CHAPTER TWO. A SUPERFICIAL VIEW OF OUR HERO'S INFANCY CHAPTER THREE. HE IS INITIATED IN A MILITARY LIFE...