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Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There'Carleton B. Case Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There' THE MAN WHO “CAME BACK” ONE of the strangest of the many personal romances which the war has brought is the tale of a man w...

Wild FolkSamuel Scoville Wild Folk I THE CLEANLYS All winter long the Barrens had slept still and white. Rows and regiments of low pitch-pine trees, whose blue-green needles grow in threes instead of the fives of the white or the twos of the Virginia pines, marched for miles and miles across the ...

The Secret TrailsCharles G. D. Roberts The Secret Trails The Black Boar of Lonesome Water IThe population of Lonesome Water – some fourscore families in all – acknowledged one sole fly in the ointment of its self-satisfaction. Slowly, reluctantly, it had been brought to confess that the breed of ...

English Jests and AnecdotesVarious English Jests and Anecdotes / Collected from Various Sources LACHRYMAL CANALSA lady who kept a boarding-school some years ago, near London, wrote a novel, in which, among other extravagant expressions, occurred the following: – “His Lordship could not weep; the ...

The Ledge on Bald FaceCharles G. D. Roberts The Ledge on Bald Face I THE LEDGE ON BALD FACE The Ledge on Bald FaceThat one stark naked side of the mountain which gave it its name of Old Bald Face fronted full south. Scorched by sun and scourged by storm throughout the centuries, it was bleached t...

Brave Deeds of Union SoldiersSamuel Scoville Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers Foreword In these days when even our skies are shadowed by wars and rumors of wars, it is fitting to remember what men and women and children of our blood have done in the past. In this chronicle have been included not alo...

The House in the Water: A Book of Animal StoriesRoberts Charles G. D. The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories The House in the Water CHAPTER I The Sound in the Night UPON the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stilln...

The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal LifeRoberts Charles G. D., Sir The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life Prefatory Note THE present collection of stories dealing with creatures of the wilderness differs from its companion volumes, "The Kindred of the Wild" and "The Watche...

Genius in Sunshine and ShadowBallou Maturin Murray Genius in Sunshine and Shadow PREFACE The volume in hand might perhaps better have been entitled "Library Notes," as the pages are literally the gathered notes of the author's library-hours. The reader will kindly peruse these pages remembering t...

Medical Life in the NavyStables Gordon Medical Life in the Navy Chapter One. By Rail to London. Little Moonface. Euston Square I chose the navy. I am not at all certain what it was that determined my choice; probably this – I have a mole on my left arm, which my gossiping old nurse (rest the old ...