SAMMIE AND SUSIE LITTLETAIL By HOWARD R. GARIS Illustrations by LOUIS WISA 1910 PUBLISHER’S NOTE These stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N.J., and are reproduced in book form by the kind permission of the publishers of that paper, to whom the author extends his thanks. Contents I. Sammie Littletail in a Trap II. Sammie Littletail is Rescued III. What Happened to Susie Littletail IV. Papa Littletail’s Picture V....
SCIENCE IN THE KITCHEN. A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes. by MRS. E. E. KELLOGG, A.M. Superintendent of the Sanitarium School of Cookery and of the Bay View Assembly School of Cookery, and Chairman of the World’s Fair Committee on Food Supplies, for Michigan 1893 PREFACE....
[TR: ***] = Transcriber Note [HW: ***] = Handwritten Note [FN: ***] = Footnote SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT. 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Illustrated with Photographs WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME IX MISSISSIPPI NARRATIVES Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Mississippi INFORMANTS Allen, Jim Baker, Anna Cameron, John Clark, Gus Cornelius, James Davenport, Charlie Emanuel, Gabe Franks, Dora Franks, Pet Henry, Nettie Hodges, Fanny Smith Holliday, Wayne Johnson, Prince Kennedy, Hamp Lucas, James McAllum, Sam Moses, Charlie Necaise, Henri Singleton, Rev....
Or, The Dog Fiend by CAPTAIN MARRYAT MDCCCXCV Contents CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.CHAPTER V.CHAPTER VI.CHAPTER VII.CHAPTER VIII.CHAPTER IX.CHAPTER X.CHAPTER XI.CHAPTER XII.CHAPTER XIII.CHAPTER XIV.CHAPTER XV.CHAPTER XVI.CHAPTER XVII.CHAPTER XVIII.CHAPTER XIX.CHAPTER XX.CHAPTER XXI.CHAPTER XXII.CHAPTER XXIII.CHAPTER XXIV.CHAPTER XXV.CHAPTER XXVI.CHAPTER XXVII.CHAPTER XXVIII.CHAPTER XXIX.CHAPTER XXX.CHAPTER XXXI.CHAPTER XXXII.CHAPTER XXXIII.CHAPTER XXXIV.CHAPTER XXXV.CHAPTER XXXVI.CHAPTER XXXVII.CHAPTER XXXVIII.CHAPTER XXXIX.CHAPTER XL.CHAPTER XLI.CHAPTER XLII.CHAPTER XLIII.CHAPTER XLIV.CHAPTER XLV.CHAPTER XLVI.CHAPTER XLVII.CHAPTER XLVIII.CHAPTER XLIX.CHAPTER L.CHAPTER LI.CHAPTER LII.CHAPTER LIII.CHAPTER LIV.CHAPTER LV. Prefatory Note The dog fiend, or Snarleyyow is the earliest of the three novels, The Phantom Ship and The Privateersman being the other two, in which Marryat made use of historical events and attempted to project his characters into the past....
SOLDIERS THREE by Rudyard Kipling CONTENTS “LOVE-O’-WOMEN” – from “Many Inventions” THE BIG DRUNK DRAF’THE MUTINY OF THE MAVERICKSTHE MAN WHO WASONLY A SUBALTERNIN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATETHE LOST LEGION – from “Many Inventions” THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFTJUDSON AND THE EMPIRE – from “Many Inventions” A CONFERENCE OF THE POWERS – from “Many Inventions” ‘LOVE-O’WOMEN’ A lamentable tale of thingsDone long ago, and ill done. The horror, the confusion, and the separation of the murderer from his comrades were all over before I came....
SONGS OF TWO BY ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY 1900 SONGS OF TWO I Last night I dreamed this dream: That I was dead; And as I slept, forgot of man and God, That other dreamless sleep of rest, I heard a footstep on the sod, As of one passing overhead,– And lo, thou, Dear, didst touch me on the breast, Saying: “What shall I write against thy name That men should see?...
Steep Trails California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon by John Muir EDITOR’S NOTE The papers brought together in this volume have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir’s life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation. The Utah and Nevada sketches, and the two San Gabriel papers, were contributed, in the form of letters, to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin toward the end of the seventies....
TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES Lord Dunsany CONTENTS The Last Dream Of Bwona KhublaHow the Office of Postman Fell Vacant In Otford-under-the-Wold The Prayer Of Boob AheeraEast And WestA Pretty QuarrelHow The Gods Avenged Meoul Ki NingThe Gift Of The GodsThe Sack Of EmeraldsThe Old Brown CoatAn Archive Of The Older MysteriesA City Of Wonder Beyond the Fields We Know Publisher’s Note First Tale: Idle Days on the Yann Second Tale: A Shop In Go-By Street Third Tale: The Avenger Of Perdondaris [Note that the tale “Idle Days on the Yann” also appears in the collection “A Dreamer’s Tales”....
by Mary Roberts Rinehart I The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately the same things. Characters come, move about and make their final exits through long-familiar doors. And the back drop remains approximately the same from beginning to end. Palace or hovel, forest or sea, it is the background for the moving figures of the play....
THE ANTI-SLAVERY HARP: A COLLECTION OF SONGS FOR ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS COMPILED BY WILLIAM W. BROWN, A FUGITIVE SLAVE. 1848. PREFACE. The demand of the public for a cheap Anti-Slavery Song-Book, containing Songs of a more recent composition, has induced me to collect together, and present to the public, the songs contained in this book. In making this collection, however, I am indebted to the authors of the “Liberty Minstrel,” and “the Anti-Slavery Melodies,” But the larger portion of these songs has never before been published; some have never been in print....
THE ARGONAUTS OF NORTH LIBERTY by Bret Harte PART I CHAPTER I The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath sun, after vainly trying to coax a smile of reciprocal kindliness from the drawn curtains and half-closed shutters of the austere dwellings and the equally sealed and hard- set churchgoing faces of the people, at last settled down into a blank stare of stony astonishment....
[Transcriber’s note: Italics and bold markup only occurred in the ads for other books at the beginning and end, and using the standard italics or bold just made it hard to read, so this markup has been removed in the plain-text version.] FRANK R. STOCKTON’S WRITINGS. * * * * * New Uniform Edition. THE BEE-MAN OF ORN, and Other Fanciful Tales. THE LADY OR THE TIGER? and Other Stories....
INTRODUCTION BEGGAR, PLAYER. BEGGAR. If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles’s. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets can say. PLAYER. As we live by the Muses, it is but Gratitude in us to encourage Poetical Merit wherever we find it....
A BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH BALLADS with an Accompaniment of Decorative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards And an Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie [1896] CONTENTS Introduction Chevy Chace King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid King Leir and his Three Daughters Fair Rosamond Phillida and Corydon Fair Margaret and Sweet William Annan Water The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington Barbara Allen’s Cruelty The Douglas Tragedy Young Waters Flodden Field Helen of Kirkconnell Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne Robin Hood’s Death and Burial The Twa Corbies Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny The Nut-brown Maid The Fause Lover The Mermaid The Battle of Otterburn The Lament of the Border Widow The Banks o’ Yarrow Hugh of Lincoln Sir Patrick Spens Introduction Goethe, who saw so many things with such clearness of vision, brought out the charm of the popular ballad for readers of a later day in his remark that the value of these songs of the people is to be found in the fact that their motives are drawn directly from nature; and he added, that in the art of saying things compactly, uneducated men have greater skill than those who are educated....
THE BOY SCOUTS ON PICKET DUTY by Scout Master Robert Shaler CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. The Mysterious Steamer II. A Contraband Cargo III. On a Lone Scout IV. The Hut on the Beach V. Kidnapped by Smugglers VI. The Flight of the “Arrow” VII. A Gathering of the Clan VIII. The Blazing Beacon IX. Deeds in the Darkness X. The End of the Raid XI. Aboard the “Arrow” XII. A Surprising Adventure CHAPTER I THE MYSTERIOUS STEAMER In the wake of an easterly squall the sloop Arrow, Lemuel Vinton master and owner, was making her way along the low coast, southward, from Snipe Point, one of the islands in Florida Bay about twelve miles northeast of Key West....
The Chaperon by Henry James CHAPTER I. An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them....
SCENE: Rome and the neighbourhood ACT 1. SCENE I.Rome. Before the Capitol Flourish. Enter the TRIBUNES and SENATORS aloft; and then enter belowSATURNINUS and his followers at one door, and BASSIANUS and his followersat the other, with drums and trumpets SATURNINUS. Noble patricians, patrons of my right, Defend the justice of my cause with arms; And, countrymen, my loving followers, Plead my successive title with your swords. I am his first born son that was the last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome; Then let my father’s honours live in me, Nor wrong mine age with this indignity....
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK VI. Hoc erat in votis: Modus agri non ila magnus Hortus ubi, et leclo vicinus aqua fons; Et paululum sylvae superhis forel....
The COPY-CAT& Other Stories BYMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN CONTENTS PAGE I. THE COPY-CAT . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. THE COCK OF THE WALK . . . . . . . . . 33 III. JOHNNY-IN-THE-WOODS . . . . . . . . . 55 IV. DANIEL AND LITTLE DAN’L . . . . . . . . 83 V. BIG SISTER SOLLY ....
THE DEPOT MASTER by Joseph C. Lincoln CONTENTS CHAPTER I.–AT THE DEPOT II.–SUPPLY AND DEMAND III.–“STINGY GABE” IV.–THE MAJOR V.–A BABY AND A ROBBERY VI.–AVIATION AND AVARICE VII.–CAPTAIN SOL DECIDES TO MOVE VIII.–THE OBLIGATIONS OF A GENTLEMAN IX.–THE WIDOW BASSETT X.–CAPTAIN JONADAB GOES XI. THE GREAT METROPOLIS XII.–A VISION SENT XIII.–DUSENBERRY’S BIRTHDAY XIV.–EFFIE’S FATE XV.–THE “HERO” AND THE COWBOY XVI.–THE CRUISE OF THE RED CAR XVII.–ISSY’S REVENGE XVIII.–THE MOUNTAIN AND MAHOMET THE DEPOT MASTER CHAPTER I AT THE DEPOT Mr....
