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The Young Yagers: A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern AfricaMayne Reid The Young Yagers: A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa Chapter One. The Camp of the Young Yägers Near the confluence of the two great rivers of Southern Africa – the Yellow and Orange– behold the camp...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829 VILLAS IN THE REGENT'S PARK MARQUESS OF HERTFORD'S VILLA.DORIC VILLA.The definition of the word villa is a ...

Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American WarF. S. Brereton Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War CHAPTER I THE MARCHANT FOUNDRY The city of Birmingham was wrapped in a mantle of fog so dense that the inhabitants found it difficult to move about. ...

Ladies and GentlemenLadies and Gentlemen A Lady and A Gentleman There were the hotel lobbies; they roared and spun like whirlpools with the crowds that were in them. But the streets outside were more like mill-races, and the exits from the railroad stations became flumes down which all morning an...

Joan of ArcLaura Elizabeth Howe Richards Joan of Arc CHAPTER I FRANCE IMPERISHABLE THE SOUL OF JEANNE D'ARC She came not into the Presence as a martyred saint might come,Crowned, white-robed and adoring, with very reverence dumb —She stood as a straight young soldier, confident, gallant, strong,W...

On Secret ServiceTaft William Nelson On Secret Service / Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government Agents I A FLASH IN THE NIGHT We were sitting in the lobby of the Willard, Bill Quinn and I, watching the constant stream of politicians, pretty women, and petty office seek...

The School QueensMeade L. T. The School Queens BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY L. T. Meade (Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina Smith), English novelist, was born at Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, 1854, the daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, Rector of Novohal, County Cork, and married Toulmin Smith in 1879. She wrote ...

The Riddle of the Purple EmperorThe Riddle of the Purple Emperor CHAPTER I WHICH INTRODUCES A NEW FRIEND It was nearly half-past five on a wild March afternoon, in those happy years before the great war, and Charing Cross Station, struggling in the throes of that desperate agitation which betoken...

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...

The Girl From His TownVan Vorst Marie The Girl From His Town CHAPTER I – DAN BLAIR The fact that much he said, because of his unconscionable slang, was incomprehensible did not take from the charm of his conversation as far as the Duchess of Breakwater was concerned. The brightness of his express...