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CHAPTER I–THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER How much is conveyed in those two short words–‘The Parish!’ And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Contents: A Christmas TreeWhat Christmas is as we Grow OlderThe Poor Relation’s StoryThe Child’s StoryThe Schoolboy’s StoryNobody’s Story A CHRISTMAS TREE I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects....

Sword Blades and Poppy Seedby Amy Lowell [American (Massachusetts) poet, 1874-1925.] [Note on text: Italicized stanzas or sections are marked by tildes (~). Other italics are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters have been cut and continued on the next line, which is indented 2 spaces unless in a prose poem.] Sword Blades and Poppy Seedby Amy Lowell ~”Face invisible! je t’ai grave/e en me/dailles D’argent doux comme l’aube pa^le,D’or ardent comme le soleil,D’airain sombre comme la nuit;Il y en a de tout me/tal,Qui tintent clair comme la joie,Qui sonnent lourd comme la gloire,Comme l’amour, comme la mort;Et j’ai fait les plus belles de belle argile Se\che et fragile....

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 7. XLV. WITHIN AN INCH OF MY LIFE .XLVI. AMONG GIPSY WOMENXLVII. MY FATHER ACTS THE CHARMER AGAIN XLVIII. THE PRINCESS ENTRAPPEDXLIX. WHICH FORESHADOWS A GENERAL GATHERING L. WE ARE ALL IN MY FATHER’S NETLI. AN ENCOUNTER SHOWING MY FATHER’S GENIUS IN A STRONG LIGHT CHAPTER XLV WITHIN AN INCH OF MY LIFE A single tent stood in a gully running from one of the gravel-pits of the heath, near an iron-red rillet, and a girl of Kiomi’s tribe leaned over the lazy water at half length, striking it with her handkerchief....

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER Part 3 of 4 By The American Anti-Slavery Society 1839 No. 10. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. No. 10. Speech of Hon. Thomas Morris, of Ohio, in Reply to the Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay. No. 11. The Constitution A Pro-Slavery Compact Or Selections From the Madison Papers, &c. No. 11. The Constitution A Pro-Slavery Compact Or Selections From the Madison Papers, &c....

THE BELTED SEAS BY ARTHUR COLTON Cold are the feet and forehead of the earth, Temperate his bosom and his knees, But huge and hot the midriff of his girth, Where heaves the laughter of the belted seas, Where rolls the heavy thunder of his mirth Around the still unstirred Hesperides. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PEMBERTON’S. II. THE “HEBE MAITLAND.” III. THE HOTEL HELEN MAR. IV. SADLER IN PORTATE. V. END OF THE HOTEL HELEN MAR....

THE BURNING SPEAR by John Galsworthy Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in the Time of War Recorded by: A. R. P–M [John Galsworthy] [NOTE: John Galsworthy said of this work: “‘The Burning Spear’ was revenge of the nerves. It was bad enough to have to bear the dreads and strains and griefs of war.” Several years after its first publication he admitted authorship and it was included in the collected edition of his works....

THE CLAIM JUMPERS A ROMANCE BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE 1901 CONTENTS CHAPTER I.–JIM LESLIE WRITES A LETTER II.–THE STORY-BOOK WEST III.–BENNINGTON HUNTS FOR GOLD AND FINDS A KISS IV.–THE SUN FAIRY V.–THE SPIRIT MOUNTAIN VI.–BENNINGTON AS A MAN OF BUSINESS VII.–THE MEETING AT THE ROCK VIII.–AN ADVENTURE IN THE NIGHT IX.–THE HEAVENS OPENED X.–THE WORLD MADE YOUNG XI.–AND HE DID EAT XII.–OLD MIZZOU RESIGNS XIII.–THE SPIRES OF STONE XIV.–THE PIONEER’S PICNIC XV....

THE COLOUR OF LIFE Contents: The Colour of LifeA Point Of BiographyCloudWinds of the WorldThe Honours of MortalityAt Monastery GatesRushes and ReedsEleonora DuseDonkey RacesGrassA Woman in GreySymmetry and IncidentThe Illusion of Historic TimeEyes THE COLOUR OF LIFE Red has been praised for its nobility as the colour of life. But the true colour of life is not red. Red is the colour of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

SCENE:Athens and a wood near it ACT I. SCENE I.Athens. The palace of THESEUS Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and ATTENDANTS THESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon; but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue. HIPPOLYTA. Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities....

MDCCCXXXIX. Volume 2. (Chapters XI. to XVII.) Contents: CHAPTER XICheltenham–Matrimonial Adventure–Showing how to make love for a friend CHAPTER XIIDublin–Tom O’Flaherty–A Reminiscence of the Peninsula CHAPTER XIIIDublin–The Boarding-house–Select Society CHAPTER XIVThe Chase CHAPTER XVMems Of the North Cork CHAPTER XVITheatricals CHAPTER XVI* (The chapter # is a repeat in the print copy.) The Wager CHAPTER XVIIThe Elopement CHAPTER XI. CHELTENHAM–MATRIMONIAL ADVENTURE–SHOWING HOW TO MAKE LOVE FOR A FRIEND. It was a cold raw evening in February as I sat in the coffee-room of the Old Plough in Cheltenham, “Lucullus c....

THE COUNTERPANE FAIRY by Katharine Pyle Contents Chapter I — THE PRINCESS OF THE GOLDEN CASTLE Chapter II — THE OWLS AND THE GAMBLESOME ELF Chapter III — STARLEIN AND SILVERLINGChapter IV — THE MAGIC CIRCUSChapter V — AT THE EDGE OF THE POLAR SEA Chapter VI — THE RUBY RINGChapter VII — THE RAINBOW CHILDREN Chapter VIII — HARRIETT’S DREAMChapter IX — DOWN THE RAT-HOLEChapter X — THE COUNTERPANE FAIRY SAYS GOOD-BYE THE COUNTERPANE FAIRY....

[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.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 15. V. Upon Some verses of Virgil. CHAPTER V UPON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL CHAPTER V. By how much profitable thoughts are more full and solid, by so much are they also more cumbersome and heavy: vice, death, poverty, diseases, are grave and grievous subjects....

Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature’s general laws. They appear to conceive man to be situated in nature as a kingdom within a kingdom: for they believe that he disturbs rather than follows nature’s order, that he has absolute control over his actions, and that he is determined solely by himself. They attribute human infirmities and fickleness, not to the power of nature in general, but to some mysterious flaw in the nature of man, which accordingly they bemoan, deride, despise, or, as usually happens, abuse: he, who succeeds in hitting off the weakness of the human mind more eloquently or more acutely than his fellows, is looked upon as a seer....

THE EVOLUTION OF “DODD” A Pedagogical Story Giving his Struggle for the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Tracing HIS CHANCES, HIS CHANGES, AND HOW HE CAME OUT. BY WILLIAM HAWLEY SMITH. MDCCCXCVII. “Happy is the man who grinds at the mill; The mill turns ’round and he stands there still.” “Social institutions are made for man, and not man for social institutions.” “The supreme purpose of creation is the development of the individual....

The Financierby Theodore Dreiser Chapter I The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existence–the telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails. There were no postage-stamps or registered letters....

CONTENTS CHAPTER I ENTER MR. FEURSTEIN II BRASS OUTSHINES GOLD III FORTUNE FAVORS THE IMPUDENT IV A BOLD DASH AND A DISASTER V A SENSITIVE SOUL SEEKS SALVE VI TRAGEDY IN TOMKINS SQUARE VII LOVE IN SEVERAL ASPECTS VIII A SHEEP WIELDS THE SHEARS IX AN IDYL OF PLAIN PEOPLE X MR. FUERSTEIN IS CONSISTENT XI MR. FEURSTEIN’S CLIMAX XII EXIT MR. FUERSTEIN THE FORTUNE HUNTER ENTER MR. FEUERSTEIN On an afternoon late in April Feuerstein left his boarding-house in East Sixteenth Street, in the block just beyond the eastern gates of Stuyvesant Square, and paraded down Second Avenue....

GALSWORTHY PLAYS–SERIES 3 THE FUGITIVEA Play in Four Acts By John Galsworthy PERSONS OF THE PLAY GEORGE DEDMOND, a civilianCLARE, his wifeGENERAL SIR CHARLES DEDMOND, K.C.B., his father. LADY DEDMOND, his motherREGINALD HUNTINGDON, Clare’s brother EDWARD FULLARTON, her friendDOROTHY FULLARTON, her friendPAYNTER, a manservantBURNEY, a maidTWISDEN, a solicitorHAYWOOD, a tobacconistMALISE, a writerMRS. MILER, his caretakerTHE PORTER at his lodgingsA BOY messengerARNAUD, a waiter at “The Gascony”MR. VARLEY, manager of “The Gascony” TWO LADIES WITH LARGE HATS, A LADY AND GENTLEMAN, A LANGUID LORD, HIS COMPANION, A YOUNG MAN, A BLOND GENTLEMAN, A DARK GENTLEMAN....

[Illustration: The canoe sped out into the gloom.] THE GOLD HUNTERS A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds BYJAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 1909 To the sweet-voiced, dark-eyed little half-Cree maiden at Lac-Bain, who is the Minnetaki of this story; and to “Teddy” Brown, guide and trapper, and loyal comrade of the author in many of his adventures, this book is affectionately dedicated. CHAPTER I THE PURSUIT OF THE HUDSON BAY MAIL The deep hush of noon hovered over the vast solitude of Canadian forest....