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The Orange-Yellow DiamondJ. S. Fletcher The Orange-Yellow Diamond CHAPTER ONE THE PRETTY PAWNBROKER On the southern edge of the populous parish of Paddington, in a parallelogram bounded by Oxford and Cambridge Terrace on the south, Praed Street on the north, and by Edgware Road on the east and Sp...

The First Days of ManThe First Days of Man / As Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Author desires to express his thanks to Dr. William K. Gregory, of the American Museum of Natural History, as well as to the other Museum authorities, for their courtesy and assistance in th...

Romantic Ireland;. Volume 1/2M.F and B. McM. Mansfield Romantic Ireland CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY IN times past books of travel were frequently written for the perusal of “a few intimate friends.” Such was the purpose of a little pamphlet entitled “A Trip to Ireland,” which a few years ago fell int...

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...

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First SeriesHans Christian Andersen Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First Series PREFACE The Hans Andersen Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children the author has no rival in power to enl...

Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can ReadDickens Charles Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read PREFACE To the Young Reader:Charles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth C...

The Stretton Street AffairWilliam Le Queux The Stretton Street Affair PROLOGUE IS ABOUT MYSELF The whole circumstances of the Stretton Street Affair were so complicated and so amazing from start to finish that, had the facts been related to me, I confess I should never have for a moment given the...

La BarracaVicente Blasco Ibáñez La Barraca AL LECTOR He contado en el prólogo de mi libro En el país del Arte (Tres meses en Italia) cómo á mediados de 1895 tuve que huir de Valencia, después de una manifestación contra la guerra colonial, que degeneró en movimiento sedicioso, dando origen á un c...

Sir TomMrs. Oliphant Sir Tom CHAPTER I. HOW SIR TOM BECAME A GREAT PERSONAGE Sir Thomas Randolph had lived a somewhat stormy life during the earliest half of his career. He had gone through what the French called a jeunesse orageuse; nothing very bad had ever been laid to his charge; but he had b...

Friend Mac DonaldO'Rell Max Friend Mac Donald CHAPTER I A Word to Donald. – The Scotch Anecdote and its Character. – The Scotch painted by Themselves. Ah! my dear Donald, what good stories you told me in the few months that I had the pleasure of passing with you! How you stuffed and saturated me ...