Datasets:

icheng3

/

book_dataset_1470

like 0

Produced by Marilynda FraserCunliffe Diane Monico andthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet This file was made using scans ofpublic domain works in the International Childrens DigitalLibraryIllustrationCOUNTRY WALKS OF A NATURALISTWITHHIS CHILDRENBYREV W HOUGHTON MA FLSRECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS SHROPSHIREILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT COLOURED PLATES ANDNUMEROUS WOOD ENGRAVINGSSECOND EDITIONLONDONGROOMBRIDGE AND SONS5 PATERNOSTER ROWMDCCCLXXPREFACEIn this little book my desire has been not so much to impartknowledge to young people as to induce them to acquire it forthemselves I have endeavoured to show that Country Walks may be fullof interest and instruction to all who care to make good use of theireyes If I have failed the fault rests with me for the way in which Ihave treated the subject I am aware that I have occasionally usedwords and phrases which may puzzle young brains but I hope thatnearly all will be intelligible to boys and girls of nine or ten yearsold with a little explanation from parents or teachersThe chief if not the sole merit of this little book consists in theillustrations which adorn it and I must express my sincere gratitudeto Mr Gould the eminent ornithologist for his kind permission tocopy some of the magnificent drawings in his work on The Birds ofGreat Britain To Mr R S Chattock of Solihull I am also deeplyindebted for the pains he has taken in reproducing on a reducedscale Mr Goulds drawings and for the drawings of the sticklebacksand the frontispiece My generous friend and neighbour Mr Eyton ofEyton has furnished another instance of his numerous acts ofkindness in allowing me the use of Mr Goulds work and of variouswoodcuts To two lady friends I also express my best thanks and lastthough not least to the publishers Messrs Groombridge for the carethey have taken to present the volume to the public in a veryattractive formCONTENTS PAGEWALK IAPRIL 1On the MoorsSwallowsWatervolesPeewitsMarshMarigoldWaterprimroseMolesHeronsKingfishersMoschatelleWaterscorpionWALK IIAPRIL 17OphrydiumReed SparrowWhirligig BeetlesFreshwaterMusselsZebra MusselTitmiceThrushes crackingSnailshellsDabbling in a PondDyticus or GreatWaterbeetleCorethra LarvaWeaselsWALK IIIMAY 36Searching for Sticklebacks NestsNestmaking FishSnailLeechesOther LeechesCuckoo FlowersBlueSpeedwellStitchwortTadpolesFrogsFrog and CatWALK IVMAY 50The Melicerta or Tubicolous WheelanimalculeWatercrowfootor ButtercupSedgewarblerReedwarblersNestCuckoosHorsetailHydræWALK VMAY 69Drive to ShawburyTrout FishingParasite on TroutCurious habitof a Twowinged FlyEphemeræ or MayfliesWilly hooking outDaceAnother fish ParasiteGlobe FlowerDragonfliesQuotationfrom Thomsons SeasonsWALK VIJUNE 84In the FieldsSt Georges MushroomTreecreepersA handfulof GrassesNettles and Dead NettlesButterflyLarvæ feedingon Nettle LeavesFreshwater PolyzoaEggs of NewtsDevelopmentof NewtsDonacia BeetlesPlanarian WormsWALK VIIJUNE 103Hedgehog and young onesHedgehogs injurious or notOn theMoors againGreat TomtitShrikes or Butcher BirdsLadybirdBeetlesSwiftsCootsWaterhensGrebesConvolvulusWALK VIIIJULY 119Frogs Spawn AlgaOther Freshwater AlgæHawksKestrelSparrowHawkBuzzardShrewmouse superstitions aboutSpiders Nestsand WebsSpiders FangsSpiders FeetWALK IXJULY 133In the Fields againScarlet PimpernelGoats BeardCaddis Wormsand FliesForgetmenotGoldfinchesCruelty of country lads toyoung birdsGrasshoppersCricketsPike voracity and size ofWALK XOCTOBER

Produced by Greg Weeks Bruce Albrecht Stephen Blundelland the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetIllustration UNBORN TOMORROWBY MACK REYNOLDSIllustrated by Freas _Unfortunately there was only one thing he could bring back from the wonderful future and though he didnt want to nevertheless he did_Betty looked up from her magazine She said mildly Youre lateDont yell at me I feel awful Simon told her He sat down at hisdesk passed his tongue over his teeth in distaste groaned fumbled ina drawer for the aspirin bottleHe looked over at Betty and said almost as though reciting What Ineed is a vacationWhat Betty said are you going to use for moneyProvidence Simon told her whilst fiddling with the aspirin bottlewill provideHmmm But before providing vacations itd be nice if Providenceturned up a missing jewel deal say Something where you could deducethat actually the ruby ring had gone down the drain and was caught inthe elbow Something that would net about fifty dollarsSimon said mournful of tone Fifty dollars Why not make it fivehundredIm not selfish Betty said All I want is enough to pay me thisweeks salaryMoney Simon said When you took this job you said it was the romancethat appealed to youHmmm I didnt know most sleuthing amounted to snooping arounddepartment stores to check on the clerks knocking downSimon said enigmatically Now it comes There was a knockBetty bounced up with Olympic agility and had the door swinging widebefore the knocking was quite completedHe was old little and had bug eyes behind pincenez glasses His suitwas cut in the style of yesteryear but when a suit costs two or threehundred dollars you still retain caste whatever the stylingSimon said unenthusiastically Good morning Mr Oyster He indicatedthe clients chair Sit down sirThe client fussed himself with Bettys assistance into the seatbugeyed Simon said finally You know my name thats pretty goodNever saw you before in my life Stop fussing with me young lady Yourad in the phone book says youll investigate anythingAnything Simon said Only one exceptionExcellent Do you believe in time travelSimon said nothing Across the room where she had resumed her seatBetty cleared her throat When Simon continued to say nothing sheventured Time travel is impossibleWhyWhyYes whyBetty looked to her boss for assistance None was forthcoming Thereought to be some very quick positive definite answer She said Wellfor one thing paradox Suppose you had a time machine and traveled backa hundred years or so and killed your own greatgrandfather Then howcould you ever be bornConfound it if I know the little fellow growled HowSimon said Lets get to the point what you wanted to see me aboutI want to hire you to hunt me up some time travelers the old boysaidBetty was too far in now to maintain her proper role of silentsecretary Time travelers she said not very intelligentlyThe potential client sat more erect obviously with intent to hold thefloor for a time He removed the pincenez glasses and pointed them atBetty He said Have you read much science fiction MissSome Betty admittedThen youll realize that there are a dozen explanations of theparadoxes of time travel Every writer in the field worth his salt hasexplained them away But to get on Its my contention that within acentury or so man will have solved the problems of immortality andeternal youth and its also my suspicion that he will eventually beable to travel in time So convinced am I of these possibilities that Iam willing to gamble a portion of my fortune to investigate the presencein our era of such time travelersSimon seemed incapable of carrying the ball this morning so Betty saidBut Mr Oyster if the future has developed time travel why dontwe ever meet such travelersSimon put in a word The usual explanation Betty is that they cantafford to allow the spacetime continuum track to be altered If say atime traveler returned to a period of twentyfive years ago and shotHitler then all subsequent history would be changed In that case thetime traveler himself might never be born They have to tread mightycarefullyMr Oyster was pleased I didnt expect you to be so well informed onthe subject young manSimon shrugged and fumbled again with the aspirin bottle Mr Oyster went on Ive been considering the matter for some timeandSimon held up a hand Theres no use prolonging this As I understandit youre an elderly gentleman with a considerable fortune and yourealize that thus far nobody has succeeded in taking it with himMr Oyster returned his glasses to their perch bugeyed Simon but thennoddedSimon said You want to hire me to find a time traveler and in somemanner or otherany manner will doexhort from him the secret ofeternal life and youth which you figure the future will havediscovered Youre willing to pony up a part of this fortune of yoursif I can deliver a bona fide time travelerRightBetty had been looking from one to the other Now she said plaintivelyBut where are you going to find one of these charactersespecially iftheyre interested in keeping hidThe old boy was the center again I told you Id been considering itfor some time The _Oktoberfest_ thats where theyd be He seemedelatedBetty and Simon waitedThe _Oktoberfest_ he repeated The greatest festival the world hasever seen the carnival _feria_ _fiesta_ to beat them all Every yearits held in Munich Makes the New Orleans Mardi gras look like aquilting party He began to swing into the spirit of his descriptionIt originally started in celebration of the wedding of some localprince a century and a half ago and the Bavarians had such a banguptime theyve been holding it

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandEarl Huberts Daughter by Emily Sarah Holt________________________________________________________________________This is one of Emily Holts admirable and deeply researched historicalnovels this time set in the early years of the thirteenth century Themain players in the story appear at first sight to be the upperclassladies of the Court and their various somewhat confusing relationshipsBut early in the book an old Jewish pedlar comes and displays rich waresof a surprising value and variety One of the girls asks if he can getsome special embroidery done on a scarf she wants to give as a presentAbraham sends in his young daughter Belasez and conditions are agreedsuch that she will not be called upon to do or eat anything she shouldnot and all this seems to work very well But the story involvingBelasez her mother Licorice and her brother Delecresse gets more andmore involved and interesting Belasez realises that there has beensomething in the past that she wants to unearth and gradually the wholestrange story is revealed________________________________________________________________________EARL HUBERTS DAUGHTER BY EMILY SARAH HOLTPREFACEThe thirteenth century was one of rapid and terrible incidentstumultuous politics and in religious matters of low and degradingsuperstition Transubstantiation had just been formally adopted as adogma of the Church accompanied as it always is by sacramentalconfession and quickly followed by the elevation of the host and theinvention of the pix Various Orders of monks were flocking intoEngland The Pope was doing his best aided by the Roman clergy and totheir shame be it said by some of the English to fix his iron yoke onthe neck of the Church of England The doctrine of human merit was atits highest pitch the doctrine of justification by faith was absolutely_unknown_Amid this thick darkness a very small number of trueheartedHeaventaught men bore aloft the torch of truththat is of so muchtruth as they knew One of such men as these I have sketched in FatherBruno And if possibly the portrait is slightly overcharged for thedateif he be represented as a shade more enlightened than at thattime he could well beI trust that the anachronism will be pardoned forthe sake of those eternal verities which would otherwise have been leftwantingThere is one fact in ecclesiastical history which should never beforgotten and this is that in all ages within the visible corporatebody which men call the Church God has had a Church of His own trueliving and faithful He has ever reserved to Himself that typicalseven thousand in Israel of whom all the knees have not bowed untoBaal and every mouth hath not kissed himSuch men as these have been termed Protestants before the ReformationThe only reason why they were not Protestants was because there was asyet no Protestantism The heavenly call to come out of her had notyet been heard These men were to be found in all stations andcallings on the throneas in Alfred the Great Saint Louis and Henrythe Sixth in the hierarchyas in Anselm Bradwardine and Grostestein the cloisteras in Bernard de Morlaix but perhaps most frequentlyin that rank and file of whom the world never hears and of some ofwhom however low their place in it the world is not worthyThese men often made terrible blundersas Saint Louis did when hepersecuted the Jews under the delusion that he was thus doing honour tothe Lord whom they had rejected and Bernard de Morlaix when he led acrusade against the Albigenses of whom he had heard only slanderousreports Do we make no blunders that we should be in haste to judgethem How much more has been given to us than to them How much morethen will be requiredCHAPTER ONEFATHER AND MOTHER He was a true man thiswho lived for England And he knew how to die Sweet There are many sweet things Clovers sweet And so is liquorice though tis hard to chew And sweetbriartill it scratchesLook Margaret Thine aunt Dame Marjory is come to spend thybirthday with theeAnd see my new bower Boudoir O Aunt Marjory I am so gladThe new bower was a very pretty roomfor the thirteenth centurybutits girlowner was the prettiest thing in it Her age was thirteen thatday but she was so tall that she might easily have been supposed two orthree years older She had a very fair complexion violetblue eyesand hair exactly the colour of a cedar pencil If physiognomy may betrusted the face indicated a loving and amiable dispositionThe two ladies who had just entered from the anteroomthe mother andaunt of Margaret were both tall finelydeveloped women with shiningfair hair They spoke French evidently as the mothertongue but in1234 that was the custom of all English nobles These ladies had beenbrought up in England from early maidenhood but they were ScottishPrincessesthe eldest and youngest daughters of King William the Lionby his Norman Queen Ermengarde de Beaumont Both sisters were veryhandsome but the younger bore the palm of beauty in the artists sensethough she was not endowed with the singular charm of manner whichcharacterised her sister Chroniclers tell us that the youngerPrincess Marjory was a woman of marvellous beauty Yet something moreattractive than mere beauty must have distinguished the PrincessMargaret for two men of the most opposite dispositions to have borneher image on their hearts till death and for her husbanda man capableof abject superstition and with his hotheaded youth far behind himtohave braved all the thunders of Rome rather than put her awayThese royal sisters had a singular history Their father King Williamhad put them for education into the hands of King John of England andhis Queen Isabelle of Angouleme when they were little more thaninfants in other words he had committed his tender doves to the chargeof almost the worst man and woman whom he could have selected Therewere just two vices of which His English Majesty was not guilty andthose were cowardice and hypocrisy

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan Juliet Sutherland and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet A little Book for A little Cook COPYRIGHT 1905 BY LP HUBBARD PUBLISHED BY Pillsbury Minneapolis DIRECTIONS1 Always use Pillsburys Best Flour2 Sift flour twice before adding to cakes or breakfast cakes3 _Make all measurements_ level by using edge of knife tolightly scrape off from top of cup or spoon until material iseven with the edges4 Use same sized cups or spoons in measuring for the samerecipe5 Before starting to make recipe read through carefully thenput on table all the materials and tools needed in making thatparticular recipe A NOTE TO THE MODERN READER_A Little Book for a Little Cook_ was originally published byPillsbury in 1905 This new reproduction has all of the recipesfrom the original softcover edition but is being reissued withthe modern reader in mind The collector will note some smalldepartures from the original book but the little cook will nodoubt find what is here to be fun to cook delicious and warmlynostalgic For best results we recommend the following recipe changes when preparing these oldfashioned recipes When using Pillsbury BEST Flour there is no need to sift the flour Just lightly spoon the flour into the measuring cup and level it off When combining the flour with other dry ingredients stir the ingredients together with a fork Bread Soak 1 6 oz cake compressed yeast or 1 pkg active dry yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar in 2 tablespoons lukewarm 105110F water for 2 minutes Knead dough 5 to 10 minutes Let dough rise in warm place until it is _almost double in size_ Grease bottom only 84 or 95inch loaf pan Bake at 375F for 35 to 40 minutes or until light golden brown Biscuits Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet at 425F for 9 to 11 minutes Ginger Bread Bake in a greased 13x9inch pan at 350F for 23 to 27 minutes Sponge Cake Bake in a greased and floured 9inch square or 117inch pan at 350F for 24 to 29 minutes Muffins Bake in a greased 12cup muffin pan at 400F for 12 to 16 minutes Creamed Potatoes If a double boiler is unavailable cook in a heavy saucepan over medium heat until mixture thickens about 5 minutes Fudge Cook in a small heavy saucepan pour mixture into a buttered 9x5 or 8x4inch pan Chocolate Cake Bake in a greased and floured 8inch square pan at 350F for 23 to 27 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean Johnny Cake Bake in a greased 8inch square pan at 400F for 15 to 20 minutes BREADMATERIAL12 cup boiling water12 cup milk12 cake yeast2 tablespoons cold water1 teaspoon salt3 cups Pillsburys BestWAY OF PREPARINGSoak yeast in 2 tablespoons cold water Pour 12 cup boilingwater into 12 cup milk _Let cool to lukewarm_ Stir indissolved yeast and salt Add 3 cups Pillsburys Best Turn ontoa kneading board Knead until smooth Let rise until three timesthe original size Knead slightly put into a well greased panLet rise until double its bulk and bake 25 or 30 minutes inmoderate oven It will be well to consult some experienced personas to lightness of sponge and doughBISCUITSMATERIAL1 cup Pillsburys Best12 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons baking powder1 tablespoon cold butter12 cup milkWAY OF PREPARINGSift flour salt and baking powder twice Chop butter in with aknife until mealy Add milk for a soft dough Place on a boardwith a little flour Knead gently until smooth Roll out toonehalf inch thickness Use small cutter and place biscuits ingreased pan Bake in a hot oven until nicely brownedGINGER BREADMATERIAL12 cup molasses1 cup sugar5 tablespoons melted butter12 teaspoon cinnamon12 teaspoon ginger1 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon soda1 egg212 cups Pillsburys Best1

Produced by Vasco SalgadoGIL VICENTEMONÓLOGO DO VAQUEIROVERTIDO DO CASTELHANOREPRESENTADO NO TEATROD MARIA II LISBÔA1910MONÓLOGO DO VAQUEIROOU DA VISITAÇÃOTyp A EditoraConde Barão 50LisbôaPERSONAGENS DA PRIMEIRA REPRESENTAÇÃO_Vaqueiro_Ignacío Peixoto_Rainha D Maria_Delfina Cruz_Rainha D Beatriz_Maria Pia de Almeida_Duquesa de Bragança_Palmira Torres_ElRei D Manuel_Pinto Costa_Damas__Cortesãos__Pagens__Pastor que traz o cordeirinho_Adelina Abranches_Pastores__Prólogo_Augusto de MelloPrólogo_Prólogo_SENHORAS E SENHORES_Em a noite de 8 de junho de 1502 nesta cidade de Lisbôae na própria câmara da rainha nasceu o teatro nacional Nessanoite mestre Gil um que não tem nem ceitil e faz os aitos a elreirepresentou em castelhano o seu Monólogo do Vaqueiro ouda Visitação que ides ouvir vertido á letra em portuguêsMuito antes de Gil Vicentecerto é e convem recordáloopovo representava nas igrejas na largueza dos seus adros ouá sombra das suas naves os entremeses hieráticos do nascimentoe da Paixão de Christo e das vidas dos santos e cantava osseus vilancicos bailando suas dansas e folias Mas o Monólogodo Vaqueiro naquela noite memoravelque vamos procurarreconstituircomeçou a fixar e a ordenar o elemento dramáticotradicional dandolhe vida eternaA obra de devoção seguintediz a rúbrica de Gil Vicenteprocedeude uma visitação que o autor fez ao parto da muito esclarecidarainha D Maria e nascimento do mui alto e excelente príncepeD João o terceiro em Portugal de este nomeE foicontinua a rúbricaa primeira coisa que o autor feze que em Portugal se representou estando o mui poderoso reiD Manuel a rainha D Beatriz sua mãe e a senhora duquesade Bragança sua filha na segunda noite do nascimento do ditosenhorE estando esta companhia assim juntaconclue a rúbricaentrouum VaqueiroSenhoras e senhores o teatro português vai nascere Gil Vicentevai entrar em scena_ desconveniente era fugir da lingua que mamey e buscar outra prestada pera falar aos meus naturais SAMUEL USQUE _Consolaçam ás Tribulaçoens de Israel_Monólogo do VaqueiroOuvese fóra de scena o vozeio dos guardas do paço e entralogo vestido de briche e ceifões de pele manta do Alentejoao hombro e cajado de azambujeiro na mão o _Vaqueiro_Apre que sete impurrõesme ferrarram á entradamas eu dei uma punhadanum de aqueles figurõesPorém se de tal souberanão vierae vindo não entrariae se entrasse eu olhariade maneiraque nenhum me chegariaMas está feito está feitoe se se fôr a apurarjá que entrei neste lugartudo me sae em proveitoTé me regala ver coisastão formosasque se fica parvo a vêlasEu remiroas porém ellasde lustrosasa nós outros são danosas _Fala á Rainha_Meu caminho não errouDeus queira que seja aquique eu já pouco sei de minem deslindo aonde estouNunca vi cabana talem especialtão notavel de memóriaesta deve ser a glóriaprincipaldo paraiso terrealSeja que não seja emboraquero dizer ao que venhonão diga que me detenhoa nossa aldeia já agoraPor ella vim saber cáse certo éque pariu Vossa NobrezaCrei que sim que Vossa Altezatal estáque de isto mesmo dá féMui alegre e prazenteiramui ufana e esclarecidamui perfeita e mui luzidamuito mais que de antes eraOh que bem tão principaluniversalNunca se viu prazer talPor minha févou saltarEh zagaldiz lá diz lásaltei malQuem queres que não rebentede alegria e gasalhadoDe todos tão desejadoeste príncepe excelenteoh que rei terá de serA meu verdeviamos pôr em gritosa alegria e a esperançaque até os nossos cabritosdesde hontem coa folgançanão cuidam já de pascerE todo o gado retouçatoda a tristeza se quitacom esta nova bemditatodo a mundo se alvoroçaoh que alegria tamanhaa montanhae os prados refloriramporque agora se cumpriramcá nesta mesma cabanatodas as glórias de EspanhaQue grão prazer sentiráa grão côrte castelhanaQuão alegre e quão ufanaa vossa mãe não estaráe á uma toda a naçãoCom razãoque de tal rei procedeuo mais nobre que nasceuseu pendãonão sofre comparaçãoQue pai que filho e que mãeOh que avó que avós os seusE suas tias tambemBemdito o Senhor dos céusporque ell tal familia temViva o príncepe logradoque é o bem aparentadoSe agora vagar tiverae depressa não vieramaldito seja eu entãose aqui a conta não derade esta sua geraçãoSerá rei Dom João Terceiroo herdeiroda fama que nos deixaramnos tempos em que reinaramo Segundo e o Primeiroe indoutros que passaramMas ficaramme lá fórauns trinta ou mais companheirospastores zagaes porqueirose vou chamálos agoraelles trazem pra o nascidoesclarecidoovos e leite fresquinhose um cento de bolinhosmais trouxeramqueijos melo que puderamE ora os quero ir chamarmas por via dos puxõesagarrem os figurõespra gente poder entrarOuvese ao longe uma gaita de folesEntram certas figuras de pastores e oferecem ao príncepe osditos presentesNota_Nota_Quando comecei a traduzir este lindo monólogo os versosentraram logo a construirse espontâneos na nossa linguagem Etão facil foi o trabalho que apenas o verso Juri á Sanjunco santoque representa o pitoresco de uma exclamação sem sentido emportuguês não entra nesta versão quase justalinear Passadoá nossa lingua depois de tantos annos ter incerrada no seuduro castelhano a doce alma portuguesa pareceme que o monólogoganhou em lirismoo lirismo que a nossa linguagem imprestaás falas sinceras que do seu ritmo se ajudam Porque onde ocastelhano aspirado e cerrado põe a força e o garboe põenosaté na doçurao português requebra a modulação suave doseu tom menor Estranho parecerá que nenhum dos nossos homensde teatro que o autor de estas linhas não é se não lembrasseha muito de trazer para a scena este monólogo incantador estapeça da mais viva poesia integrando na decorativa moldura dareconstituição histórica a figura desimpenada do _Vaqueiro_ Quandoeste aparece na câmara da rainha perseguido pelos guardas quelhe estorvam a passagemé em verdade o Povo que aparecefalando de mão a mão ao seu rei na consciência da sua forçameiga e orgulhosaÉ o Povo a criança admirativa que é doida por livros deimagens quem se boquiabre ante a câmara sumptuosa cuja riquezaentanto lhe provoca desconfianças e em cujo sobrado preciosoplanta todavia com firmeza os seus rudos sapatos afeitos atrilhar calhaus de serra É elle ainda quem dirige á rainhacom uma familiaridade tocante e tão graciosa as preguntasextraprotocolares de gótica simplecidade se certo é que pariu Vossa Nobrezae quem logo descobre no rosto da mulher desfalecida e incantadao indício da alegria maternal que a seguir descreve em versosadmiraveis cuja adjectivação nos faz _ver_ a radiação moralde aquele rostoÉ

Produced by David Starner katsuya and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTRANSCRIBERS NOTESPunctuation spelling and obvious printers errors have been correctedFootnotes from the original text have been collated at the end of thisebook and references to them have been amended according to the newfootnote numbering used in this ebookIllustration Kostes PalamasKOSTES PALAMASLIFE IMMOVABLE_FIRST PART_TRANSLATED BY ARISTIDES E PHOUTRIDESWITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THE TRANSLATORCAMBRIDGEHARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS1919COPYRIGHT 1919HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESSTO MRS EVELETH WINSLOWTHIS VOLUME OF TRANSLATIONS IS DEDICATED AS A TOKEN OF HERAPPRECIATION OF THE POETS WORKPREFACEThe translations contained in the present volume were undertaken sincethe beginning of the great war when communication with Greece andaccess to my sources of information were always difficult and at timesimpossible In hastening to present them to the English speakingpublic before discussing them with the poet himself and my friends inAthens I am only yielding to the urgent requests of friends on bothsides of the Atlantic who have regarded my delay with justifiableimpatience I am thoroughly conscious of the shortcomings that werebound to result from the above difficulties and from the interruptioncaused by my two years service in the American army and were it notfor the encouragement and loyal assistance of those interested in mywork it would have been impossible for me to bring it at all beforethe public My earnest effort has been to be as faithful to the poetas possible and for this reason I have not attempted to render rimea dangerous obstacle to a natural expression of the poets thought anddiction But I hope that the critics will judge my work as that of amere pioneer I know there is value in the theme and if this value ismade sufficiently evident to arouse the interest of poetry lovers inthe achievements of contemporary Greece I shall have reaped my bestrewardI wish to express my thanks to Dr Christos N Lambrakis of Athensfor the information which he has always been willing to furnish meregarding various dark points in the work translated to Mrs EvelethWinslow of Washington for many valuable suggestions and criticismsand above all to Professor Clifford H Moore of Harvard Universityfor the interest he has shown in the work and the readiness with whichhe has found time in the midst of his duties to take charge of mymanuscript in my absence and to assist in seeing it through the pressARISTIDES E PHOUTRIDESWASHINGTON DCJuly 7 1919CONTENTSINTRODUCTION KOSTES PALAMAS A NEW WORLDPOET LIFE IMMOVABLE FIRST PARTTRANSLATIONS LIFE IMMOVABLEINTRODUCTORY POEMFATHERLANDS FATHERLANDS IXII THE SONNETS EPIPHANY MAKARIA THE MARKET PLACE LOVES WHEN POLYLAS DIED TO PETROS BASILIKOS SOLDIER AND MAKER THE ATHENA RELIEF THE HUNTRESS RELIEF A FATHERS SONG TO THE POET L MAVILES IMAGINATION MAKARIAS DEATH TO PALLIS FOR HIS ILIAD HAIL TO THE RIMETHE RETURN DEDICATION THE TEMPLE THE HUT THE RING THE CORD GRASS FESTIVAL THE FAIRY OUT IN THE OPEN LIGHT FIRST LOVE THE MADMAN OUR HOME THE DEAD THE COMRADE RHAPSODY IDYL AT THE WINDMILL WHAT THE LAGOON SAYS PINKS RUINS PENELOPE A NEW ODE BY THE OLD ALCAEUSFRAGMENTS FROM THE SONG TO THE SUN IMAGINATION THE GODS MY GOD HELEN THE LYRE GIANTS SHADOWS THE HOLY VIRGIN IN HELL SUNRISE DOUBLE SONG THE SUNBORN ON THE HEIGHTS OF PARADISE THE STRANGER AN ORPHIC HYMN THE POET KRISHNAS WORDS THE TOWER OF THE SUN A MOURNING SONG PRAYER OF THE FIRSTBORN MEN THOUGHT OF THE LASTBORN MEN MOLOCH ALL THE STARS ARROWSVERSES OF A FAMILIAR TUNE THE BEGINNING THE PARALYTIC ON THE RIVERS BANK THE SIMPLE SONG THREE KISSES ISMENE THOUGHTS OF EARLY DAWN TO A MAIDEN WHO DIED TO THE SINNER A TALK WITH THE FLOWERS TO MY WIFE THE ANSWER THOUGHT THE SINNER THE ENDTHE PALM TREE THE PALM TREEINTRODUCTIONKOSTES PALAMAS1A NEW WORLDPOET _And then I saw that I am the poet surely a poet among many a mere soldier of the verse but always the poet who desires to close within his verse the longings and questionings of the universal man and the cares and fanaticism of the citizen I may not be a worthy citizen but it cannot be that I am the poet of myself alone I am the poet of my age and of my race And what I hold within me cannot be divided from the world without_ KOSTES PALAMAS Preface to _The Twelve Words of the Gypsy_ _Kostes Palamas is raised not only above other poets of Modern Greece but above all the poets of contemporary Europe Though he is not the most known he is incontestably the greatest_ EUGÈNE CLEMENT _Revue des Études Grecques_ITHE STRUGGLEKostes Palamas A name I hated once with all the sincerity of a youngand blind enthusiast as the name of a traitor This is no exaggerationI was a student in the third class of an Athenian Gymnasion in 1901when the Gospel Riots stained with blood the streets of Athens Thecause of the riots was a translation of the New Testament into thepeoples tongue by Alexandros Pallis one of the great leaders of theliterary renaissance of Modern Greece The translation appeared inseries in the daily newspaper _Akropolis_ The students of theUniversity animated by the fiery speeches of one of their ProfessorsGeorge Mistriotes the bulwark of the unreconcilable Purists who wouldmodel the modern language of Greece after the ancient regarded thistranslation as

Produced by Judith Boss and Martin RobbMY ANTONIABy Willa CatherCONTENTS Introduction BOOK I The Shimerdas BOOK II The Hired Girls BOOK III Lena Lingard BOOK IV The Pioneer Womans Story BOOK V Cuzaks BoysTO CARRIE AND IRENE MINER In memory of affections old and trueOptima dies prima fugit VIRGILINTRODUCTIONLAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a seasonof intense heat and it was my good fortune to have for a travelingcompanion James Quayle BurdenJim Burden as we still call him in theWest He and I are old friendswe grew up together in the same Nebraskatownand we had much to say to each other While the train flashedthrough neverending miles of ripe wheat by country towns andbrightflowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun we sat inthe observation car where the woodwork was hot to the touch and reddust lay deep over everything The dust and heat the burning windreminded us of many things We were talking about what it is like tospend ones childhood in little towns like these buried in wheat andcorn under stimulating extremes of climate burning summers when theworld lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky when one is fairlystifled in vegetation in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavyharvests blustery winters with little snow when the whole country isstripped bare and gray as sheetiron We agreed that no one who had notgrown up in a little prairie town could know anything about it It was akind of freemasonry we saidAlthough Jim Burden and I both live in New York and are old friends Ido not see much of him there He is legal counsel for one of the greatWestern railways and is sometimes away from his New York office forweeks together That is one reason why we do not often meet Another isthat I do not like his wifeWhen Jim was still an obscure young lawyer struggling to make his wayin New York his career was suddenly advanced by a brilliant marriageGenevieve Whitney was the only daughter of a distinguished man Hermarriage with young Burden was the subject of sharp comment at the timeIt was said she had been brutally jilted by her cousin Rutland Whitneyand that she married this unknown man from the West out of bravado Shewas a restless headstrong girl even then who liked to astonishher friends Later when I knew her she was always doing somethingunexpected She gave one of her town houses for a Suffrage headquartersproduced one of her own plays at the Princess Theater was arrestedfor picketing during a garmentmakers strike etc I am never able tobelieve that she has much feeling for the causes to which she lends hername and her fleeting interest She is handsome energetic executivebut to me she seems unimpressionable and temperamentally incapable ofenthusiasm Her husbands quiet tastes irritate her I think and shefinds it worth while to play the patroness to a group of young poets andpainters of advanced ideas and mediocre ability She has her own fortuneand lives her own life For some reason she wishes to remain Mrs JamesBurdenAs for Jim no disappointments have been severe enough to chill hisnaturally romantic and ardent disposition This disposition though itoften made him seem very funny when he was a boy has been one of thestrongest elements in his success He loves with a personal passion thegreat country through which his railway runs and branches His faithin it and his knowledge of it have played an important part in itsdevelopment He is always able to raise capital for new enterprises inWyoming or Montana and has helped young men out there to do remarkablethings in mines and timber and oil If a young man with an idea can onceget Jim Burdens attention can manage to accompany him when he goes offinto the wilds hunting for lost parks or exploring new canyons then themoney which means action is usually forthcoming Jim is still able tolose himself in those big Western dreams Though he is over forty nowhe meets new people and new enterprises with the impulsiveness by whichhis boyhood friends remember him He never seems to me to grow olderHis fresh color and sandy hair and quickchanging blue eyes are thoseof a young man and his sympathetic solicitous interest in women is asyouthful as it is Western and AmericanDuring that burning day when we were crossing Iowa our talk keptreturning to a central figure a Bohemian girl whom we had knownlong ago and whom both of us admired More than any other person weremembered this girl seemed to mean to us the country the conditionsthe whole adventure of our childhood To speak her name was to callup pictures of people and places to set a quiet drama going in onesbrain I had lost sight of her altogether but Jim had found her againafter long years had renewed a friendship that meant a great deal tohim and out of his busy life had set apart time enough to enjoy thatfriendship His mind was full of her that day He made me see her againfeel her presence revived all my old affection for herI cant see he said impetuously why you have never written anythingabout AntoniaI told him I had always felt that other peoplehe himself for one knewher much better than I I was ready however to make an agreement withhim I would set down on paper all that I remembered of Antonia if hewould do the same We might in this way get a picture of herHe rumpled his hair with a quick excited gesture which with him oftenannounces a new determination and I could see that my suggestion tookhold

Produced by Annie McGuire and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican Libraries

Produced by Norbert H Langkau Thorsten Kontowski and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Paetels Taschenausgaben 23 __________________________________________________ Im Sonnenschein Drei Sommergeschichten von Theodor Storm Dreizehnte Auflage Verlag von Gebrüder Paetel Berlin __________________________________________________ Druck von G Kreysing in Leipzig __________________________________________________ Meiner Mutter zum Weihnachtabend 1854 __________________________________________________ IM SAALAm Nachmittag war Kindtaufe gewesen nun war es gegen Abend Die Elterndes Täuflings saßen mit den Gästen im geräumigen Saal unter ihnen dieGroßmutter des Mannes die andern waren ebenfalls nahe Verwandte jungeund alte die Großmutter aber war ein ganzes Geschlecht älter als dieältesten von diesen Das Kind war nach ihr Barbara getauft wordendoch hatte es auch noch einen schöneren Namen erhalten denn Barbaraallein klang doch gar zu altfränkisch für das hübsche kleine KindDennoch sollte es mit diesem Namen gerufen werden so wollten es beideEltern wieviel auch die Freunde dagegen einzuwenden hatten Die alteGroßmutter aber erfuhr nichts davon daß die Brauchbarkeit ihreslangbewährten Namens in Zweifel gezogen warDer Prediger hatte nicht lange nach Verrichtung seines Amtes denFamilienkreis sich selbst überlassen nun wurden alte liebe ofterzählte Geschichten hervorgeholt und nicht zum letzten Male wiedererzählt Sie kannten sich alle die Alten hatten die Jungen aufwachsendie Ältesten die Alten grau werden sehen von allen wurden dieanmutigsten und spaßhaftesten Kindergeschichten erzählt wo kein andrersie wußte da erzählte die Großmutter Von ihr allein konnte niemanderzählen ihre Kinderjahre lagen hinter der Geburt aller andern dieaußer ihr selbst etwas davon wissen konnten hätten weit über jedesMenschenalter hinaus sein müssen Unter solchen Gesprächen war esabendlich geworden Der Saal lag gegen Westen ein roter Schimmer fieldurch die Fenster noch auf die Gipsrosen an den weißen mitStukkaturarbeit gezierten Wänden dann verschwand auch der Aus derFerne konnte man ein dumpfes eintöniges Rauschen in der jetzteingetretenen Stille vernehmen Einige der Gäste horchten aufDas ist das Meer sagte die junge FrauJa sagte die Großmutter ich habe es oft gehört es ist schon langeso gewesenDann sprach wieder niemand draußen vor den Fenstern in dem schmalenSteinhof stand eine große Linde und man hörte wie die Sperlinge unterden Blättern zur Ruhe gingen Der Hauswirt hatte die Hand seiner Fraugefaßt die still an seiner Seite saß und heftete die Augen an diekrause altertümliche GipsdeckeWas hast du fragte ihn die GroßmutterDie Decke ist gerissen sagte er die Simse sind auch gesunken DerSaal wird alt Großmutter wir müssen ihn umbauenDer Saal ist noch nicht so alt erwiderte sie ich weiß noch wohlals er gebaut wurdeGebaut Was war denn früher hierFrüher wiederholte die Großmutter dann verstummte sie eine Weile undsaß da wie ein lebloses Bild ihre Augen sahen rückwärts in einevergangene Zeit ihre Gedanken waren bei den Schatten der Dinge derenWesen lange dahin war Dann sagte sie Es ist achtzig Jahre her deinGroßvater und ich wir haben es uns oft nachher erzählt die Saaltürführte dazumal nicht in einen Hausraum sondern aus dem Hause hinaus ineinen kleinen Ziergarten es ist aber nicht mehr dieselbe Tür die altehatte Glasscheiben und man sah dadurch gerade in den Garten hinunterwenn man zur Haustür hereintrat Der Garten lag drei Stufen tiefer dieTreppe war an beiden Seiten mit buntem chinesischen Geländer versehenZwischen zwei von niedrigem Bux eingefaßten Rabatten führte ein breitermit weißen Muscheln ausgestreuter Steig nach einer Lindenlaube davorzwischen zweien Kirschbäumen hing eine Schaukel zu beiden Seiten derLaube an der hohen Gartenmauer standen sorgfältig aufgebundeneAprikosenbäume Hier konnte man Sommers in der Mittagsstunde deinenUrgroßvater regelmäßig auf und abgehen sehen die Aurikeln undholländischen Tulpen auf den Rabatten ausputzend oder mit Bast an weißeStäbchen bindend Er war ein strenger akkurater Mann

Produced by Norbert H Langkau Thorsten Kontowski and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Paetels Taschenausgaben 23 __________________________________________________ Im Sonnenschein Drei Sommergeschichten von Theodor Storm Dreizehnte Auflage Verlag von Gebrüder Paetel Berlin __________________________________________________ Druck von G Kreysing in Leipzig __________________________________________________ Meiner Mutter zum Weihnachtabend 1854 __________________________________________________ MARTHE UND IHRE UHRWährend der letzten Jahre meines Schulbesuchs wohnte ich in einemkleinen Bürgerhause der Stadt worin aber von Vater Mutter und vielenGeschwistern nur eine alternde unverheiratete Tochter zurückgebliebenwar Die Eltern und zwei Brüder waren gestorben die Schwestern bis aufdie jüngste die einen Arzt am selbigen Ort geheiratet hatte ihrenMännern in entfernte Gegenden gefolgt So blieb denn Marthe allein inihrem elterlichen Hause worin sie sich durch das Vermieten des früherenFamilienzimmers und mit Hilfe einer kleinen Rente spärlich durchs Lebenbrachte Doch kümmerte es sie wenig daß sie nur Sonntags ihrenMittagstisch decken konnte denn ihre Ansprüche an das äußere Lebenwaren fast keine eine Folge der strengen und sparsamen Erziehung dieder Vater sowohl aus Grundsatz als auch in Rücksicht seinerbeschränkten bürgerlichen Verhältnisse allen seinen Kindern gegebenhatte Wenn aber Marthen in ihrer Jugend nur die gewöhnlicheSchulbildung zuteil geworden war so hatte das Nachdenken ihrer spätereneinsamen Stunden vereinigt mit einem behenden Verstande und demsittlichen Ernst ihres Charakters sie doch zu der Zeit in der ich siekennen lernte auf eine für Frauen namentlich des Bürgerstandesungewöhnlich hohe Bildungsstufe gehoben Freilich sprach sie nicht immergrammatisch richtig obgleich sie viel und mit Aufmerksamkeit las amliebsten geschichtlichen oder poetischen Inhalts aber sie wußte sichdafür meistens über das Gelesene ein richtiges Urteil zu bilden und wasso Wenigen gelingt selbständig das Gute vom Schlechten zuunterscheiden Mörikes Maler Nolten der damals erschien machtegroßen Eindruck auf sie so daß sie ihn immer wieder las erst dasGanze dann diese oder jene Partie wie sie ihr eben zusagte DieGestalten des Dichters wurden für sie selbstbestimmende lebende Wesenderen Handlungen nicht mehr an die Notwendigkeit des dichterischenOrganismus gebunden waren und sie konnte stundenlang darübernachsinnen auf welche Weise das hereinbrechende Verhängnis von sovielen geliebten Menschen dennoch hätte abgewandt werden könnenDie Langeweile drückte Marthen in ihrer Einsamkeit nicht wohl aberzuweilen ein Gefühl der Zwecklosigkeit ihres Lebens nach außen hin siebedurfte jemandes für den sie hätte arbeiten und sorgen können Bei demMangel näher Befreundeter kam dieser löbliche Trieb ihren jeweiligenMietern zugute und auch ich habe manche Freundlichkeit undAufmerksamkeit von ihrer Hand erfahren An Blumen hatte sie einegroße Freude und es schien mir ein Zeichen ihres anspruchslosen undresignierten Sinnes daß sie unter ihnen die weißen und von diesenwieder die einfachen am liebsten hatte Es war immer ihr erster Festtagim Jahre wenn ihr die Kinder der Schwester aus deren Garten die erstenSchneeglöckchen und Märzblumen brachten dann wurde ein kleinesPorzellankörbchen aus dem Schranke herabgenommen und die Blumen ziertenunter ihrer sorgsamen Pflege wochenlang die kleine KammerDa Marthe seit dem Tode ihrer Eltern wenig Menschen um sich sah undnamentlich die langen Winterabende fast immer allein zubrachte so liehdie regsame und gestaltende Phantasie die ihr ganz besonders eigen warden Dingen um sie her eine Art von Leben und Bewußtsein Sie borgteTeilchen ihrer Seele aus an die alten Möbel ihrer Kammer und die altenMöbel erhielten so die Fähigkeit sich mit ihr zu unterhalten meistensfreilich war diese Unterhaltung eine stumme aber sie war dafür destoinniger und ohne Mißverständnis Ihr Spinnrad ihr braungeschnitzterLehnstuhl waren gar sonderbare Dinge die oft die eigentümlichstenGrillen hatten vorzüglich war dies aber der Fall mit einer altmodischenStutzuhr die ihr verstorbener Vater vor über fünfzig Jahren auchdamals schon als ein uraltes Stück auf dem Trödelmarkt zu Amsterdamgekauft hatte Das Ding sah freilich seltsam genug aus

Produced by Norbert H Langkau Thorsten Kontowski and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Paetels Taschenausgaben 23 __________________________________________________ Im Sonnenschein Drei Sommergeschichten von Theodor Storm Dreizehnte Auflage Verlag von Gebrüder Paetel Berlin __________________________________________________ Druck von G Kreysing in Leipzig __________________________________________________ Meiner Mutter zum Weihnachtabend 1854 __________________________________________________ IM BRAUERHAUSEEs war in einem angesehenen Bürgerhause wo wir am Abendteetisch invertrautem Kreis beisammensaßen Unsere Wirtin eine Fünfzigerin vonfrischem Wesen mit einem Anflug heiterer Derbheit stammte nicht auseiner hiesigen Familie sie war in ihrer Jugend als wirtschaftlicheStütze in das elterliche Haus ihres jetzigen Mannes unseres trefflichenWirtes gekommen und hatte in solchem Verhältnisse dort gelebt bis dereinzige Sohn so glücklich gewesen war sie als seine Ehefrau bleibendfestzuhalten Das Vertrauen womit des Bräutigams Mutter gleich nach derHochzeit der Jüngeren ihren eigenen Platz im Hause einräumte hat diesenun schon manches Jahr über das Leben ihrer beiden Schwiegerelternhinaus gerechtfertigt Bei ihrem jetzt den Siebzigern nahen Ehemannselber begann schon das Greisenalter seine leise Spur zu ziehen aber woihm eine Kraft versagte da suchte sie unbemerkt die ihre einzusetzenwo ihrerseits eine Entsagung nötig oder auch nur erwünscht schien dablickte sie nur mit um so freundlicheren Augen auf ihren Mann und bliebbei ihm allein wenn andere dem Vergnügen nachgingen Der alte Herrselber war nicht von vielen Worten aber die ruhige Sicherheit einergegenseitig bewährten Liebe war in diesem Hause allen fühlbar und allefühlten sich dort wohlAm heutigen Abend jedoch wollte das gewohnte Gespräch worin man sichsonst über Stadt und Landesangelegenheiten mit Behaglichkeit ergingnoch immer nicht in rechten Fluß geraten denn in einer unsererNachbarstädte war früh am Morgen etwas Ausnahmsweises und Entsetzlicheses war die Hinrichtung eines Raubmörders dort vollzogen worden und dieLuft schien mit diesem Unterhaltungsstoffe so erfüllt daß kaum etwasanderes daneben zur Geltung kommen konnte Hier war nun überdies nochein abergläubischer Unfug im Gefolge der Exekution gewesen einEpileptischer hatte von dem noch rauchenden Blute des Justifiziertentrinken und dann zwischen zwei kräftigen Männern laufen müssen bis erplötzlich von seinen Krämpfen befallen zu Boden gestürzt war Dennochgalt dies Verfahren als ein untrügliches Heilmittel seiner KrankheitUnd noch zu anderen Kuren und sympathetischen Wundern sollten HaareBlut und Fetzen von der Kleidung des Hingerichteten unter die Leutegekommen seinAn unserem Teetisch erhob sich darüber ein lebhaftes Durcheinanderredenalle diese Dinge wurden gleichzeitig als unzulässig und strafbar alsverabscheuungswürdig und als lächerlich bezeichnet Nur unsere verehrtesonst so teilnehmende Wirtin saß plötzlich so still und in sichversunken da daß endlich alle es bemerken mußtenAls wir sie eben darauf ansahen rief ihre älteste Tochter zu ihrhinüber Mutter du denkst gewiß an Peter Liekdoorns FingerJa ja Peter Liekdoorn sagte nun auch der alte Herr das ist eineGeschichte Erzähl sie nur Mutter deine Gedanken kommen sonst ja dochnicht davon los und zu verschweigen ist ja nichts dabeiNein mein Vater sagte die alte Dame es ist ja einstens auch genugdavon geredet wordenDann sah sie uns alle der Reihe nach mit ihren freundlichen Augen anund als auch wir dann baten begann sie in ihrer mitteilsamen WeiseMein seliger Vater hatte wie das Ihnen allen wohl bekannt ist eineBrauerei keine bayerische wie sie heutzutage sind es wurde nurGutbier und Dünnbier gebraut aber beides war gut für den Durst undnicht so gallenbitter wie das jetzige das nicht einmal zu einerBiersuppe zu gebrauchen istWir lachten und sie lachte herzlich mit unsDas Geschäft fuhr sie dann fort war noch von Großvaters Zeiten herund lange das einzigste am Ort gewesen im Jahre meiner Konfirmationaber wurde von einem reichen Bäcker noch ein zweites etabliert Wenn manhinten aus unserem Brauhause auf den Weg hinaustrat konnte man amNordende der

Produced by Eric Hutton Markus Brenner and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet THE STORY OF ECLIPSES _SIMPLY TOLD FOR GENERAL READERS_ WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN OF MAY 28 1900 BY GEORGE F CHAMBERS FRAS _Of the Inner Temple BarristeratLaw_ AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM THE STORY OF THE STARS A HANDBOOK OF DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY ETC LONDON GEORGE NEWNES LTD SOUTHAMPTON STREET STRAND 1899 _The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved_Illustration FIG 1THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN Sept 7 1858_Liais_ PREFACEThe present Volume is intended as a sequel to my two former volumes inthe Newnes Series of Useful Stories entitled respectively the Storyof the Solar System and the Story of the Stars It has been writtennot only as a necessary complement so to speak to those works butbecause public attention is already being directed to the forthcomingtotal eclipse of the Sun on May 28 1900 This eclipse though onlyvisible as a partial one in England will be total no further off thanPortugal and Spain Considering also that the line of totality will passacross a large tract of country forming part of the United States itmay be inferred that there will be an enormous number ofEnglishspeaking spectators of the phenomenon It is for these ingeneral that this little book has been written For the guidance ofthose who may be expected to visit Portugal or Spain a temporaryAppendix has been prepared giving a large amount of information showinghow those countries can be best reached whether by sea or overlandfrom the shores of EnglandIf anyone is inclined to doubt whether an eclipse expedition is likelyto provide nonastronomical tourists with incidents of travel pleasantprofitable and even amusing perhaps the doubt will be removed by aperusal of the accounts of Sir F Galtons trip to Spain in 1860_Vacation Tourists in 1860_ p 422 or of Professor Tyndalls trip toAlgeria in 1870 _Hours of Exercise in the Alps_ p 429 or ofProfessor Langleys Adventures on Pikes Peak in the Rocky MountainsColorado US in 1878 _Washington Observations_ 1876 Appendix IIIp 203 or of some of the many Magazine and other narratives of theNorway eclipse of 1896 and the Indian eclipse of 1898Subject to these special points no further prefatory explanation seemsneeded the general style of the contents being _mutatis mutandis_identical with the contents of the Volumes which have gone beforeI have to thank my friend Dr AMW Downing the Superintendent ofthe _Nautical Almanac_ for kindly verifying the calculations inchapters II and III GFCNORTHFIELD GRANGE EASTBOURNE 1899 CONTENTSCHAP PAGE I INTRODUCTION 9 II GENERAL IDEAS 11 III THE SAROS AND THE PERIODICITY OF ECLIPSES 18 IV MISCELLANEOUS THEORETICAL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH ECLIPSES OF THE SUN CHIEFLY

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Desert Home by Captain Mayne Reid________________________________________________________________________This was one of the first books that Mayne Reid wrote Its action takesplace in a central part of North America designated a Desert Somepeople set out to travel in this central desert when they somewhat losetheir way Luckily they eventually spot the light of a farmhousewhere they knock and receive hospitalityTheir kind host and his family then explain to them how they came tolive where they do and what a lovely place it is Reid is veryknowledgeable about animals and also plants Much of the rest of thebook is taken up with tales of encounters with various animals and withstories of the uses of many trees and shrubsIt is written in an unusual style but in fact because of the shortnessof the chapters it can hold the readers attention very wellAs with several other books by this author it had been very badlytypeset apparently using old and damaged type This made the OCRedversion of the text come out very full of misreads but it was funtidying this up Apologies if any more misreads come to light________________________________________________________________________THE DESERT HOME BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REIDCHAPTER ONETHE GREAT AMERICAN DESERTThere is a great desert in the interior of North America It is almostas large as the famous Saara of Africa It is fifteen hundred mileslong and a thousand wide Now if it were of a regular shapethat isto say a parallelogramyou could at once compute its area bymultiplying the length upon the breadth and you would obtain onemillion and a half for the resultone million and a half of squaremiles But its outlines are as yet very imperfectly known and althoughit is fully fifteen hundred miles long and in some places a thousand inbreadth its surfaceextent is probably not over one million of squaremiles or twentyfive times the size of England Fancy a deserttwentyfive times as big as all England Do you not think that it hasreceived a most appropriate name when it is called the _Great AmericanDesert_Now my young friend what do you understand by a desert I think I canguess When you read or hear of a desert you think of a vast levelplain covered with sand and without trees or grass or _any_ kind ofvegetation You think also of this sand being blown about in thickyellow clouds and no water to be met with in any direction This isyour idea of a desert is it not Well it is not altogether thecorrect one It is true that in almost every desert there are thesesandy plains yet are there other parts of its surface of a fardifferent character equally deserving the name of _desert_ Althoughthe interior of the great Saara has not been fully explored enough isknown of it to prove that it contains large tracts of mountainous andhilly country with rocks and valleys lakes rivers and springsThere are also fertile spots at wide distances from each othercovered with trees and shrubs and beautiful vegetation Some of thesespots are small while others are of large extent and inhabited byindependent tribes and even whole kingdoms of people A fertile tractof this kind is called an oasis and by looking at your map you willperceive that there are many oases in the Saara of AfricaOf a similar character is the Great American Desert but its surface isstill more varied with what may be termed geographical featuresThere are plainssome of them more than a hundred miles widewhere youcan see nothing but white sand often drifting about on the wind andhere and there thrown into long ridges such as those made by asnowstorm There are other plains equally large where no sandappears but brown barren earth utterly destitute of vegetation Thereare others again on which grows a stunted shrub with leaves of a palesilvery colour In some places it grows so thickly interlocking itstwisted and knotty branches that a horseman can hardly ride throughamong them This shrub is the _artemisia_a species of wild sage orwormwoodand the plains upon which it grows are called by the hunterswho cross them the _sage prairies_ Other plains are met with thatpresent a black aspect to the traveller These are covered with lavathat at some distant period of time has been vomited forth from volcanicmountains and now lies frozen up and broken into small fragments likethe stones upon a newmade road Still other plains present themselvesin the American Desert Some are white as if snow had fallen freshlyupon them and yet it is not snow but salt Yes pure white saltcovering the ground six inches deep and for fifty miles in everydirection Others again have a similar appearance but instead ofsalt you find the substance which covers them to be sodaa beautifulefflorescence of sodaThere are mountains tooindeed onehalf of this Desert is verymountainous and the great chain of the Rocky Mountainsof which youhave no doubt heardruns sheer through it from north to south anddivides it into two nearly equal parts But there are other mountainsbesides these mountains of every height and sometimes in their shapeand colour presenting very striking and singular appearance Some ofthem run for miles in horizontal ridges like the roofs of houses andseemingly so narrow at their tops that one might sit astride of themOthers again of a conical form stand out in the plain apart from therest and look like teacups turned upside down in the middle of a tableThen there are sharp peaks that shoot upward like needles and othersshaped like the dome of some great cathedrallike the dome of SaintPauls These mountains are of many colours Some are dark ordarkgreen or blue when seen from a distance They are of this colourwhen covered by forests of pine or cedar both of which trees are foundin great plenty among the mountains of the DesertThere are many

Produced by Greg Weeks Stephen Blundell and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Letter of the Law by Alan E NourseThe place was dark and damp and smelled like moldy leaves Meyerhofffollowed the huge bearlike Altairian guard down the slipperyflagstones of the corridor sniffing the dead musty air with distasteHe drew his carefully tailored Terranstyled jacket closer about hisshoulders shivering as his eyes avoided the black yawning cellholesthey were passing His foot slipped on the slimy flags from time totime and finally he paused to wipe the caked mud from his trouser legHow much farther is it he shouted angrilyThe guard waved a heavy paw vaguely into the blackness ahead Quitesuddenly the corridor took a sharp bend and the Altairian stoppedproducing a huge key ring from some obscure fold of his hairy hide Istill dont see any reason for all the fuss he grumbled in a woundedtone Weve treated him like a brotherOne of the huge steel doors clicked open Meyerhoff peered into theblackness catching a vaguely human outline against the back wallHarry he called sharplyThere was a startled gasp from within and a skinny gnarled little mansuddenly appeared in the guards light like a grotesque twisted ghostout of the blackness Wide blue eyes regarded Meyerhoff from beneathuneven black eyebrows and then the little mans face broke into acrafty grin Paul So they sent _you_ I knew I could count on it Heexecuted a deep awkward bow motioning Meyerhoff into the dark cubicleNot much to offer you he said slyly but its the best I can dounder the circumstancesMeyerhoff scowled and turned abruptly to the guard Well have someprivacy now if you please Interplanetary ruling And leave us thelightThe guard grumbled and started for the door Its about time youshowed up cried the little man in the cell Great day Lucky theysent you pal Why Ive been in here for yearsLook Zeckler the name is Meyerhoff and Im not your pal Meyerhoffsnapped And youve been here for two weeks three days andapproximately four hours Youre getting as bad as your gentle guardswhen it comes to bandying the truth around He peered through the dimlight at the gaunt face of the prisoner Zecklers face was dark with aweeks beard and his bloodshot eyes belied the cocky grin on his lipsHis clothes were smeared and sodden streaked with great splotches ofmud and moss Meyerhoffs face softened a little So Harry Zecklers ina jam again he said You _look_ as if theyd treated you like abrotherThe little man snorted These overgrown teddybears dont know whatbrotherhood means nor humanity either Bread and water Ive beengetting nothing more and then only if they feel like bringing itdown He sank wearily down on the rock bench along the wall I thoughtyoud never get here I sent an appeal to the Terran Consulate the firstday I was arrested What happened I mean all they had to do was get aman over here get the extradition papers signed and providetransportation off the planet for me Why so much time Ive beensitting here rotting He broke off in midsentence and stared atMeyerhoff You _brought_ the papers didnt you I mean we can leavenowMeyerhoff stared at the little man with a mixture of pity and disgustYou are a prize fool he said finally Did you know thatZecklers eyes widened What do you mean fool So I spend a couple ofweeks in this pneumonia trap The deal was worth it Ive got threemillion credits sitting in the Terran Consulate on Altair V justwaiting for me to walk in and pick them up Three million creditsdoyou hear Thats enough to set me up for lifeMeyerhoff nodded grimly _If_ you live long enough to walk in and pickthem up that isWhat do you mean ifMeyerhoff sank down beside the man his voice a tense whisper in themusty cell I mean that right now you are practically dead You may notknow it but you are You walk into a newly opened planet with yoursmart little bag of tricks walk in here with a shaky passport and nopermit with no knowledge of the natives outside of two paragraphs ofinaccuracies in the Explorers Guide and even then youre not contentto come in and sell something legitimate something the natives mightconceivably be able to use No nothing so simple for you You have topull your usual highpressure stuff And this time buddy youre payingthe piper_You mean Im not being extradited_Meyerhoff grinned unpleasantly I mean precisely that Youve committeda crime herea major crime The Altairians are sore about it And theTerran Consulate isnt willing to sell all the trading possibilitieshere down the river just to get you out of a mess Youre going to standtrialand these natives are out to get you Personally I think theyre_going_ to get youZeckler stood up shakily You cant believe anything the natives sayhe said uneasily Theyre pathological liars Why you should see whatthey tried to sell _me_ Youve never seen such a pack of liars as thesecritters He glanced up at Meyerhoff Theyll probably drop a littlefine on me and let me goA little fine of one Terran neck Meyerhoff grinned nastily Youvecommitted the most heinous crime these creatures can imagine andtheyre going to get you for it if its the last thing they do Imafraid my friend that your conman days are overZeckler fished in the other mans pocket extracted a cigarette andlighted it with trembling fingers Its bad then he said finallyIts bad all rightSome shadow of the sly elfin grin crept over the little conmans faceWell at any rate Im glad they sent you over he said weaklyNothing like a good lawyer to handle a trial_Lawyer_ Not me Oh no Sorry but no thanks Meyerhoff chuckledIm your advisor old boy Nothing else Im here to keep you frombotching things up still worse for the Trading Commission thats all Iwouldnt get tangled up in a mess with those creatures for anything Heshook his head Youre your own lawyer Mr Supersalesman Its allyour show And youd better get your head out

Produced by Marilynda FraserCunliffe Turgut Dincer andthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet This file was made using scans ofpublic domain works from the University of Michigan DigitalLibraries MYSTICS AND SAINTS OF ISLAM BY CLAUD FIELD LONDON FRANCIS GRIFFITHS 34 MAIDEN LANE STRAND WC 1910 CONTENTSCHAP PAGE I PANTHEISTIC SUFISM 1 II HASAN BASRI 18 III RABIA THE WOMAN SUFI 28 IV IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM 36 V FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ 46 VI BAYAZID BASTAMI 52 VII ZUN NUN OF EGYPT 60VIII MANSUR HALLAJ 68 IX HABIB AJAMI 79 X AVICENNA IBN SINA 86 XI AL GHAZZALI 106 XII FARIDUDDIN ATTAR 123XIII SUHRAWARDY 141 XIV JALALUDDIN RUMI 148 XV SHARANI THE EGYPTIAN 164 XVI MULLAH SHAH 174APPENDIX I MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS 192 II EXPOSITION OF SUFISM 196 III CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN MOHAMMEDAN LITERATURE 202 IV CHRIST IN MOHAMMEDAN TRADITION 208PREFACEIt is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism asmerely a late importation into Islam and an altogether alien element init But however much later Islamic mysticism may have derived fromChristian Neoplatonic and Buddhist sources there is little doubtthat the roots of mysticism are to be found in the Koran itself Thefollowing verse is an instance God is the Light of the heavens and theearth His light is like a niche in which is a lamp the lamp encased inglassthe glass as it were a glistening star From a blessed tree is itlighted the olive neither of the East nor of the West whose oil wouldwell nigh shine out even though fire touched it not It is light uponlight _Koran Sura_ 24Indeed it seems strange to accord the title of a practical mystic toCromwell and to deny it to Mohammad whose proclivity for religiousmeditation was so strong that the Arabs used to say Muhammad is in lovewith his Maker1 and whose sense of the terror of the Lord was sointense that

Produced by Suzanne Shell Stephen Blundell and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTHE STORY OF MARGARET TUDORIllustration MARGARET TUDOR MARGARET TUDOR _A Romance of Old St Augustine_ By ANNIE T COLCOCK _Illustrated by_ W B GILBERT Illustration NEW YORK FREDERICK A STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1901 BY FREDERICK A STOKES COMPANY _All rights reserved_Transcribers Note Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note The oe ligature is shown as oe That thee is sent receive in buxomnesse The wrastling of this world asketh a fall Here is no home here is but wildernesse Looke up on high and thanké God of all CHAUCERNOTEThe names of Mr John Riverskinsman and agent of Lord AshleyDrWm Scrivener and Margaret Tudor appear in the passenger list of the_Carolina_ as given in the Shaftesbury Papers Collections of the SouthCarolina Historical Society Vol V page 135 In the same page 169may be found a brief account of the capture at Santa Catalina of MrRivers Capt Baulk some seamen _a woman and a girl_ also page 175mention of the unsuccessful embassy of Mr Collins and page 204 theMemorial to the Spanish Ambassador touching the delivery of theprisoners one of whom is alluded to as _Margaret_ presumably MargaretTudorThe names of the two Spaniards Señor de Colis and Don Pedro Melinzaeach appear once in the Shaftesbury Papers pages 25 and 443 thelatter individual was evidently a person of some consequence in SanAugustin the former in the year 1663 was Governour andCaptainGeneral Cavallier and Knight of the Order of St James ANNIE T COLCOCKTHE STORY OF MARGARET TUDORCHAPTER ISan Augustin this 29th of June Anno Domini 1670It is now more than a month since our captivity began and there seemsscant likelihood that it will come to a speedy closealtho being ingood health myself and of an age when hope dies slowly I despair notof recovering both liberty and friends Yet in the event of our furtherdetention of sickness or any other evil that may befall meand thereis one threateningI write these pages of true history praying thatthey may some time reach the hand of my guardian and uncle Dr WilliamScrivener if he be still alive and dwelling in these parts Should theychance instead to meet the eyes of some friendlydisposed person ofEnglish blood and Protestant faith to whom the name of WilliamScrivener is unknown I beseech him to deliver them to any personsailing with the sloop _Three Brothers_ which did set out from theIsland of Barbadoes on the 2nd of November lastbeing in the hire ofSir Thomas Colleton and bearing freight and passengers for theseshoresIf the sloop has suffered some misadventure as I fear is notunlikelyeither at the hands of the Spaniards or else of the Indiansof these parts who do show themselves most unfriendly to allEnglishmen being set on to mischief by the Spanish friars then I praythat word may be forwarded to his Lordship the Duke of Albemarle andothers of the Lords Proprietors who did commission and furnish a fleetof three vessels to wit the _Carolina_ the _Port Royal_ and the_Albemarle_ which did weigh anchor at the Downs in August of last yearand set forth to plant an English colony at Port RoyalIn particular would I implore that word might reach Lord Ashley seeingthat his kinsman Mr John Rivers is here detained a prisoner in sorrystate laden with chains in the dungeon of the Castlefor which may Godforgive me I being in some degree to blame and yet since it hathpleased Heaven to grant me the fair face that wrought the mischief Ihold myself the less guilty and grieve the more bitterly inasmuch as Ilove him with a maids true love and would willingly give my life tospare him hurtIf it were so that I might give the true narrative of our presentplight and how it fell about without cumbering the tale with mentionof my own name it would please me best but as those who read it may bestrangers I would better tell my story from the startOf myself it is enough to say that my name is Margaret Tudor and savingmy uncle Dr Scrivener I am alone in the world and wellnighportionlessmy father having spent his all and life and liberty toboot in the service of King Charles being one of those unfortunateroyalists who plotted for His Majestys return in the year 55 For asCromwell did discover their designs ere they were fully ripe many weretaken prisoners of whom some suffered death and others banishment Ofthese last was my father who was torn from the arms of his young wifeand babe and sent in slavery to Barbadoes We could learn nothing of hisafter fate though many inquiries were made in his behalfAnd so it fell about thatmy mother having gone to her restI didtake passage with my uncle Dr William Scrivener on board the_Carolina_ with intent to stop at Barbadoes and make some search for mypoor father in

Produced by Al HainesMornings in the College Chapel SHORT ADDRESSES TO YOUNG MEN ON PERSONAL RELIGION BY FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY PLUMMER PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN MORALS IN HARVARD UNIVERSITYBOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANYThe Riverside Press CambridgeCopyright 1896By FRANCIS G PEABODY_All rights reserved_TOMY BELOVED AND REVERED COLLEAGUESTHE PREACHERS TO THE UNIVERSITYAND TO THE SACRED MEMORY OFPHILLIPS BROOKSOF THE FIRST STAFF OF PREACHERSWHO BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH AMONG USIN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OFHAPPY ASSOCIATION IN THE SERVICE OFCHRIST AND THE CHURCHv_In the conduct of morning prayers at Harvard University the Preachersto the University usually say a few plain words to interpret or enforcethe Bible lesson which has been read The entire service is butfifteen minutes long so that this little address must occupy not morethan two or three minutes and can at the best indicate only a singlewholesome thought with which a young man may begin his day It hasbeen suggested to me that some of these informal and brief addressesif printed may continue to be of interest to those who heard them ormay perhaps be of use to other young people in like conditions of lifeand I have therefore tried to recall some of these mornings in theCollege Chapel__It is now ten years since it was determined that religion in ourUniversity should be regarded no longer as a part of Collegediscipline but as a natural and rational opportunity offering itselfto the life of youth It was a momentous transition undertaken withthe profoundest sense of its seriousness and significance It was anact of faithof faith in religion and of faith in young men TheUniversity announced the belief that religion rationally presentedwill always have for healthyminded young men a commanding interestThis faith has been abundantly justified There has become familiaramong us through the devotion of successive staffs of Preachers aclearer sense of the simplicity and reality of religion which formany young men has enriched the meaning of University life No onewho has had the slightest part in administering such a work can sum upits present issues without feeling on the one hand a deep sense ofpersonal insufficiency and on the other hand a large and solemn hope__I have indicated such sources of suggestion for these addresses as Inoted at the time of their delivery but it may well be that some suchindebtedness remains against my will unacknowledged_CAMBRIDGE October 1896viiCONTENTS PAGE I THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES 1 II NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO BUT TO MINISTER 4 III THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER 7 IV LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE 9 V THE CENTURION 12 VI SPIRITUAL ATHLETICS 15 VII THE RHYTHM OF LIFE 18 VIII THAT OTHER DISCIPLE 21 IX MORAL TIMIDITY 25 X THE HEAVENLY VISION 27 XI THE BREAD AND WATER OF LIFE 30 XII THE RECOIL OF JUDGMENTS 32 XIII THE INCIDENTAL 35 XIV LEARNING AND LIFE 38 XV FILLING LIFE FULL 41 XVI TAKING ONES SHARE OF HARDSHIPS 44 XVII CHRISTIAN UNITY 47 XVIII THE PATIENCE OF FAITH 49 XIX THE BONDSERVANT AND THE SON 52 XX DYING TO LIVE 54

Produced by David Wilson Jacqueline Jeremy and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration Seated on a partly submerged post was John Brown AN AUSTRALIAN LASSIE BY LILIAN TURNER AUTHOR OF THE PERRY GIRLS ETC ILLUSTRATIONS BY A J JOHNSON WARD LOCK CO LIMITED LONDON AND MELBOURNE TO MY STEPFATHER CHARLES COPECONTENTSCHAP PAGE I WYGATE SCHOOL 9 II THE PEARL SEEKERS 20 III THE DAILY ROUNDTHE COMMON TASK 30 IV GHOSTS 41 V JOHN BROWN 59 VI MONDAY MORNING 68 VII CAREWBROWN 79 VIII THE FIGHT 86 IX DOROTHEAS FRIENDS 101 X RICHES OR RAGS 112 XI THE ARTIST BY THE WAYSIDE 123 XII BETTY IN THE LIONS DEN 134 XIII IF I WERE ONLY YOU 147 XIV JOHNS PLANS 162 XV ON THE ROAD 177 XVI THE NOTE ON THE PINCUSHION 189 XVII IN THE CITY 201 XVIII ALMAS SHILLING 214 XIX THE BENTSHOULDERED OLD GENTLEMAN 224 XX THE DAY AFTER SCHOOL 234 XXI GOODBYE GOODBYE 245CHAPTER IWYGATE SCHOOLEmily Underwood 19 Stanley Smith 20 Cyril Bruce 21 NellieUnderwood 22 Elizabeth Bruce 23bottom of the classMr Sharman took off his eyeglasses rubbed them and put them on againThen he looked very hard at the little girl at the end of the furthestform who was hanging her head and industriously biting a slate pencilStand up Elizabeth Bruce Put down your pencil and fold your handsbehind youElizabeth did as she was told instantly Her rosy face looked anxiouslyinto the masters stern oneYesterday morning the master said you were head of the class Thismorning I find your name at the end of the list How was thatElizabeth hung her head again and her dimpled chin hid itself behindthe needlework of her pinaforeA small girl a few seats higher held up her hand and waved itimpatientlyWell asked the masterPlease sir she was promptin Cyril BruceSilence thundered the master sternly Then his gaze went back to thebent head of the little culpritStand upon the form he said and tell me in a clear voice how it isyou went down twentytwo places in one afternoonThe rosiness left the little girls face She raised

Produced by David Edwards Suzan Flanagan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveTRANSCRIBERS NOTEThe original spelling and capitalization have been retainedhowever long ss have been transcribed as modern ss JACK AND JILL _AND OLD DAME GILL_ With the Dog and the Pig All dancing a Jig Illustration Read it who will Theyll laugh their fill JACK AND JILL AND OLD DAME GILL Illustration Read it who will Theyll laugh their fillLondon _Published by_ J Aldis _No 9 Pavement Moorfields_ _17 March 1806_Illustration JACK and JILL Went up the hill To fetch a pail of water Jack fell down And broke his crown And Jill came tumbling afterIllustration Then up JACK got And home did trot As fast as he could caper DAME GILL did the job To plaster his nob With Vinegar and brown paperIllustration Then JILL came in And she did grin To see JACKS paper plaster Her mother put her A fools cap on For laughing at Jacks disasterIllustration This made JILL pout And she ran out And JACK did quickly follow They rode dog Ball Jill got a fall How Jack did laugh and hollowIllustration The DAME came out To know all about Jill said Jack made her tumble Says Jack Ill tell You how she fell Then judge if she need grumbleIllustration DAME GILL did grin As she went in And Jill was plagud Jack O Will Goat came by And made Jack cry And knockd him on his back OIllustration Now JILL did laugh And JACK did cry But his tears did soon abate Then Jill did say That they should play At seasaw a cross the gateIllustration They seasawd high They seasawd low At length they both did tumble We both are down We both must own Let neither of us grumbleIllustration Then the next thing They made a swing But JILL set up a big cry For the swing gave way In the midst of the play And threw her into the PigstyeIllustration The SOW came by Says Jack Ill try If I cant ride this prancer He gave a jump On old sows rump But she led him a droll dance SirIllustration SOW ran and squald While JACK he bawld And JILL joind in the choir Dog Ball being near Bit sow by the ear And threw Jack in the mireIllustration Tho JACK was not hurt He was all over dirt I wish you had but seen him And how JILL did jump With him to the pump And pumpd on him to clean himIllustration Hearing the rout DAME GILL came out With a horsewhip from the door She laid it on Jack And poor Jills back Untill they both did roarIllustration BALL held sows ear And both in rear Ran against old DAME and hither That she did fall Over sow and Ball How Jack and Jill did twiterIllustration And now all three Went in to see To put the place to right all Which done they sup Then drink a cup And with you a good night all DAME GILL has been to ALDIS

Produced by Ted Garvin Christine P Travers and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTranscribers note Obvious printers errors have been corrected allother inconsistencies are as in the original The authors spellinghas been maintainedPage 6263 The part between obviously did not belong in that placeand has been removed From this time forward the Plantation seemed toprosper Charles granted lands to all the planters and adventurers whowould till them upon paying the annual sum of two shillings payableto the crown for each hundred acres direction appointing thegovernor and council himself and Before the death of King Jameshowever the cultivation of tobacco had become so extensive that everyother product seemed of but little value in comparison with it andthe price realized from its sale being so much greater than thatobtained for Corne the latter was neglected and its culture almostentirely abandonedPage 115 The verse And can but end with time was missing and hasbeen added TOBACCO ITS HISTORY VARIETIES CULTURE MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCE WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS VARIOUS MODES OF USE FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY UNTIL NOW BY E R BILLINGS With Illustrations by Popular Artists My Lord this sacred herbe which never offendit Is forced to crave your favor to defend it Barclay But oh what witchcraft of a stronger kind Or cause too deep for human search to find Makes earthborn weeds imperial man enslave Not little souls but een the wise and brave Arbuckle HARTFORD CONN AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1875 Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1875 by the AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington DC Is it not wondrous strange that there should be Such different tempers twixt my friend and me I burn with heat when I tobacco take But he on th other side with cold doth shake To both tis physick and like physick works The cause o th various operation lurks Not in tobacco which is still the same But in the difference of our bodies frame Whats meat to this man poison is to that And what makes this man lean makes that man fat What quenches ones thirst makes another dry And what makes this man wel makes that man dye Thomas Washbourne D D Thy quiet spirit lulls the labring brain Lures back to thought the flights of vacant mirth Consoles the mourner soothes the couch of pain And wreathes contentment round the humble hearth While savage warriors softend by thy breath Unbind the captive hate had doomed to death Rev Walter Colton Whateer I do whereer I be My social box attends on me It warms my nose in winters snow Refreshes midst midsummers glow Of hunger sharp it blunts the edge And softens grief as some alledge Thus eased of care or any stir I broach my freshest canister And freed from trouble grief or panic I pinch away in snuff balsamic For rich or poor in peace or strife It smooths the rugged path of life Rev William King HAIL Indian plant to ancient times unknown A modern truly thou and all our own Thou dear concomitant of nappy ale Thou sweet prolonger of an old mans tale Or if thourt pulverized in smart rappee And reach Sir Foplings brain if brain there be He shines in

Produced by S Drawehn and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican Libraries MAKING A ROCK GARDEN THE HOUSE GARDEN MAKING BOOKSIt is the intention of the publishers to make this series of littlevolumes of which _Making a Rock Garden_ is one a complete library ofauthoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activitiesof the homemaker and amateur gardener Text pictures and diagramswill in each respective book aim to make perfectly clear thepossibility of having and the means of having some of the moreimportant features of a modern country or suburban home Among thetitles already issued or planned for early publication are thefollowing _Making a Rose Garden_ _Making a Lawn_ _Making a TennisCourt_ _Making a Fireplace_ _Making Paths and Driveways_ _Making aPoultry House_ _Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe_ _MakingBuiltin Bookcases Shelves and Seats_ _Making a Garden to Bloom ThisYear_ _Making a Water Garden_ _Making a Garden of Perennials_ _Makingthe Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery_ _Making a Naturalized BulbGarden_ with others to be announced laterIllustration A nearly buried boulder is easily converted into abeautiful little rock garden Fill in depressions with soil and plantthere and around the edges of the boulder _Phlox subulata_ sedumarabis etc MAKING A ROCK GARDEN By H S ADAMS Decoration NEW YORK McBRIDE NAST COMPANY 1912 COPYRIGHT 1912 BY MCBRIDE NAST CO Published May 1912CONTENTS PAGE THE ROCK GARDEN 1 THE CHOICE OF A SITE 6 THE WORK OF CONSTRUCTION 13 PLANTING THE GARDEN 24 PLANTS FOR A ROCK GARDEN 32 THE WALL GARDEN 45 WATER AND BOG GARDENS 50THE ILLUSTRATIONS AN OUTCROPPING BOULDER CONVERTED _Frontispiece_ INTO A ROCK GARDEN FACING PAGE A FLIGHT OF STEPS THROUGH ROCK WORK 8 AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD ROCK GARDENING 16 A SMALL BIT OF ROCK WORK WHERE TWO PATHS DIVERGE 26 FOAM FLOWER AND ONE OF THE SMALLER FERNS 34 THE ROCK GARDEN BUILT ALONG A MAIN CURVING PATH 42 A WALL GARDEN PLANTED IN COLONIES 46 A FOUNTAIN IN A WALL GARDEN 50 MAKING A ROCK GARDENMaking a Rock GardenTHE ROCK GARDENIn Europe particularly in England the rock garden is an establishedinstitution with a distinct following The English works on the subjectalone form a considerable bibliographyOn this side of the Atlantic the rock garden is so little understoodthat it is an almost unconsidered factor in the beautifying of the homegrounds There are a few notable rock gardens in this country all onlarge estates and in more instances some excellent work has been doneon a smaller and less complicated scale either by actual creation or bytaking advantage of natural opportunities But for the most partAmerica has confined its rock garden vision principally to the socalledrockeryNow a rockery with all the good intentions lying behind it is not arock garden It is no more a rock garden than a line of cedars plantedin an exact circle would be a wood A rockery is

Produced by Jonathan Ingram Graeme Mackreth and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveCanadian LibrariesSHAKESPEARES LOST YEARS IN LONDON15861592SHAKESPEARES LOST YEARS IN LONDON15861592Giving new light on the preSonnet period showing the inception ofrelations between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton and displayingJOHN FLORIOASSIR JOHN FALSTAFFBYARTHUR ACHESONAUTHOR OF SHAKESPEARE AND THE RIVAL POETMISTRESS DAVENANT THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS ETCNEW YORKBRENTANOS1920_All rights reserved_TO MY SONSARTHUR MURRAY ACHESONANDALEXANDER G ACHESONI DEDICATE THIS VOLUMEThe purpose of playing whose end both at the first and now was andis to hold as twere the mirror up to nature to show virtue her ownfeature scorn her own image and the very age and body of the time hisform and pressure_Hamlet_ Act III Scene iiCONTENTSCHAP PAGEI INTRODUCTORY 1II THE STRATFORD DAYS 15641586 19III SHAKESPEARE THE BURBAGES AND EDWARD ALLEYN15861591 38IV SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF PEMBROKES COMPANY15911594 72V SHAKESPEARE AND THE SCHOLARS 15881592 90VI THE POLITICAL PURPOSE OF _KING JOHN_ 15911592 131VII INCEPTION OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN SHAKESPEAREAND THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON 15911594 150VIII JOHN FLORIO AS SIR JOHN FALSTAFFS ORIGINAL 181APPENDIX1 Dedication of Florios _Second Fruites_ 1591 2232 Address to the Reader from Florios _Second Fruites_1591 2293 Dedication of Florios _Worlde of Wordes_ 1598 2334 Address to the Reader from Florios _Worlde ofWordes_ 1598 2425 John Florios Will 1625 252INDEX 257SHAKESPEARES LOST YEARSIN LONDON15861592CHAPTER IINTRODUCTORYThe most interesting and important fifteen years in the records ofEnglish dramatic literature are undoubtedly those between 1588 and 1603within which limit all of Shakespeares poems and the majority of hisplays were written yet no exhaustive English history intelligentlycoordinating the social literary and political life of this periodhas ever been writtenFroude the keynote of whose historical work is contained in hisassertion that the Reformation was the root and source of the expansiveforce which has spread the AngloSaxon race over the globe recognisinga logical and dramatic climax for his argument in the defeat of theSpanish Armada in 1588 ends his history in that year while Gardinerwhose historical interest was as much absorbed by the Puritan Revolutionas was Froudes by the Reformation finds a fitting beginning for hissubject in the accession of James I in 1603 Thus an historical hiatusis left which has never been exhaustively examined To the resultinglack of a clearly defined historical background for those years on thepart

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Crystal Hunters by George Manville Fenn________________________________________________________________________A tense tale such as we expect of George Manville Fenn A group ofEnglish people are in the Swiss Alps But it is not just the beautiesof the scenery they are after but crystals which may sometimes befound in caves near the top of the glaciers They manage to find aguide who promises to be discreet about what they do But someone elseis on the mountain and he is just as interested in what they are up toand what they find as they are themselvesOf course as we expect in a Manville Fenn novel there are tensemoments when people fall down crevasses when there are avalanches andicefalls when icy rocks break off and come tumbling towards them Butwhat about the unknown person who is making off with their hardwonspecimensThere is a surprise ending It is a good readable book well worth theeffort of making an audio book and listening to it________________________________________________________________________THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENNCHAPTER ONETWO MEN AND A BOYSteady there Stop Hold hardWhats the matter Mr DaleMatter Saxe my boy Well this I undertook to take you back toyour father and mother some day sound in wind and limb but if youbegin like that the trips over and we shall have to start back forEngland in less than a weekat least I shall with my luggageincreased by a case containing broken boyThere was a loud burst of hearty laughter from the manlylooking ladaddressed as he stood with his hands clinging and his head twistedround to look back for he had spreadeagled himself against a nearlyperpendicular scarp of rock which he had begun to climb so as to reacha patch of wild rhododendronsThere was another personage present in the shape of a sturdymuscularlooking man whose swarthy face was sheltered by a widebrimmedsoft felt hat very much turned up at the sides and in whose broad bandwas stuck a tuft of the pale grey starrylooking downy plant known asthe Edelweiss His jacket was of dark exceedingly threadbare velvetbreeches of the same and he wore gaiters and heavily nailed laceupboots his whole aspect having evoked the remarks when he presentedhimself at the door of the chaletI say Mr Dale look here Where is his organ and his monkey Thischap has been asking for youfor Herr Richard Dale of LondonYes I sent for him It is the man I am anxious to engage for ourguideFor Melchior Staffeln certainly did look a good deal like one of themusicians who infest London streets with kists o whustles as theScottish gentleman dubbed themor much noisier but less penetratinginstruments on wheelsHe was now standing wearing a kind of baldric across his chest in theshape of a coil of new soft rope from which he rarely parted whateverthe journey he was about to make and leaning on what at first sightseemed to be a stout walkingstick with a crutch handle but a secondglance revealed as an iceaxe with a strong spike at one end and ahead of sharpedged and finely pointed steel which Saxe said made itlook like a young pickaxeThis individual had wrinkled his face up so much that his eyes werenearly closed and his shoulders were shaking as he leaned upon theiceaxe and indulged in a long hearty nearly silent laughAh its no laughing matter Melchior said the broadshoulderedbluff sturdylooking Englishman I dont want to begin with anaccidentNo no said the guide whose English seemed to grow clearer as theybecame more intimate No accidents It is the Swiss mountain airgetting into his young blood In another week he will bound along thematt or dash over the green alp like a goat and in a fortnight beready to climb a spitz like a chamoisYes thats all very well my man but I prefer a steady walk Lookhere SaxeIm listening Mr Dale said the ladThen just get it into your brain if you can that we are not out on aschoolboy trip but upon the borders of new almost untried ground andwe shall soon be mounting places that are either dangerous or safe asyou conduct yourselfAll right Mr Dale Ill be careful said the ladNever fear herr cried the guide I will not take you anywheredangerousonly to places where your fellowcountrymen have well markedthe wayThank you was the reply in so peculiar a tone that the guide lookedat the speaker curiouslyYes continued the latter Ill have a chat with you presentlyI am ready herr said the man rather distantly now You have seenmy book of testimonials written by many English and German voyagers wholove the mountainsYes said Richard Dale quietly and I want this boy to know what hehas to doAll right Mr Dale said the lad you may trust meThats understood then You must obey me without question instantlyjust as I shall have to obey Melchior Staffeln I have been out here adozen times before and know a great deal but he has been here all hislife and has inherited the existence of his father and grandfatherboth guides Now is this understoodYes of course Mr Dale said the boy who had been impatientlythrowing stones into the middle of the little river flowing through thevalley but you are not going to take me for a walk every day and makeus hold one anothers handsIm going to make you do exactly what Melchior thinks best said hiscompanion firmly And let me tell you young fellow there will betimes if you care to go with me when we shall be very glad to holdeach others hands up yonder for instance along that shelf where youcan see the sheepHe pointed toward where high up the side of the narrow valley a groupof whitewoolled sheep could be seen browsingWhat those said the lad Thats nothing I thought thesemountains and places would be ever so highAh I suppose so said Dale dryly

Produced by Stephen Blundell and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican Libraries FIFTY SALADS BY THOMAS J MURREY _Author of Fifty Soups Valuable Cooking Recipes Etc Formerly professional Caterer of the Continental Hotel Philadelphia and Astor House New York_ Device NEW YORK WHITE STOKES ALLEN PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1885 BY WHITE STOKES ALLENCONTENTS REMARKS ON SALADS 7 BORAGE FOR SALADS 8 PLAIN SALAD DRESSING 9 MAYONNAISE 10 ANCHOVY SALAD 10 ASPARAGUS SALAD 10 BEANS LIMA SALAD OF 11 BEEF SALAD 11 BEET LEAVES SALAD 12 BLOATER YARMOUTH SALAD OF 12 BREAKFAST SALAD 12 BRUSSELSSPROUTS SALAD 13 CARROT SALAD 13 CAULIFLOWER SALAD 13 CELERIAC SALAD 14 CELERY SALAD 14 CHERRY SALAD 15 CHICORY SALAD 15 CHICKEN SALAD 15 CODFISH SALT SALAD 17 CORN SALAD OR FETTICUS 17 CRAB SALAD 17 CRAYFISH SALAD 18 CRESS SALAD 18 CUCUMBER SALAD 19 CURRANT SALAD 19 DANDELION SALAD 19 DUMAS SALAD 20 EELS MAYONNAISE OF 20 EGG SALAD 21 ENDIVE SALAD 21 ESCAROLE SALAD 21 FROG SALAD 22 HERBS FOR SALADS 22 HERRING SALAD 23 HOP SALAD

Produced by Joe Longo Greg Bergquist and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet SLEEPYTIME TALES Trademark Registered By ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY AUTHOR OF THE TUCKMEIN TALES and SLUMBERTOWN TALESColored Wrapper and Text Illustrations Drawn by HARRY L SMITHThis series of animal stories for children from three to eight yearstells of the adventures of the fourfooted creatures of our Americanwoods and fields in an amusing way which delights small twofootedhuman beings THE TALE OF CUFFY BEAR THE TALE OF FRISKY SQUIRREL THE TALE OF TOMMY FOX THE TALE OF FATTY COON THE TALE OF BILLY WOODCHUCK THE TALE OF JIMMY RABBIT THE TALE OF PETER MINK THE TALE OF SANDY CHIPMUNK THE TALE OF BROWNIE BEAVER THE TALE OF PADDY MUSKRAT THE TALE OF FERDINAND FROG THE TALE OF DICKIE DEER MOUSE THE TALE OF TIMOTHY TURTLE THE TALE OF BENNY BADGER THE TALE OF MAJOR MONKEY THE TALE OF GRUMPY WEASEL THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLE THE TALE OF MASTER MEADOW MOUSEGROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK THE TALE OF THE MULEY COW SLUMBERTOWN TALES Trademark Registered BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY AUTHOR OF _SLEEPYTIME TALES_ Trademark Registered _TUCKMEIN TALES_ Trademark Registered THE TALE OF THE MULEY COW THE TALE OF OLD DOG SPOT THE TALE OF GRUNTY PIG THE TALE OF HENRIETTA HEN THE TALE OF TURKEY PROUDFOOT THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS THE TALE OF MISS KITTY CATIllustration I Hope You Wont Mind Said the Muley Cow_Frontispiece__Page 22_ SLUMBERTOWN TALES Trademark Registered THE TALE OF THE MULEY COW BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY Author of SLEEPYTIME TALES Trademark Registered AND TUCKMEIN TALES Trademark Registered ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY L SMITH NEW YORK GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Made in the United States of America COPYRIGHT 1921 BY GROSSET DUNLAPCONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I JOHNNIE GREENS FAVORITE 1 II WHY JOHNNIE HURRIED 6 III WORKING FOR A PRIZE 11 IV OWNING A BOY 16 V THE FRIENDLY SCARECROW 21 VI BUFFALO HUNTS 26 VII A LITTLE SURPRISE 31 VIII IT WAS A BEAR 35 IX WEARING A POKE 39 X A SLIGHT MISTAKE 45 XI THE UNRULY MULEY 50 XII THE COWBIRDS 55 XIII TRUTH WILL OUT 59 XIV THE MUSKRATS WARNING 65 XV CARRYING A MESSAGE 70 XVI CLOVER TOPS 75 XVII NO HELP FROM SPOT 80 XVIII ONE APPLE TOO MANY 84 XIX A QUESTION OF LUCK 88 XX GOOD CORN WASTED 92 XXI A BRAVE DEED 97 XXII TRYING TO BE FIERCE 101 XXIII THE VOW OF A COW 106 XXIV HUMBUGS 110ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE I HOPE YOU WONT MIND SAID THE MULEY COW _Frontispiece_ THE MULEY COW EXPLAINS WHAT A POKE IS 49 THE MULEY COW TRIES TO STOP BILL WOODCHUCK 80 THE MULEY COW UPSETS JACK OLANTERN

Produced by Suzanne Shell Victoria Woosley and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet _Princes shall come out of Egypt Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God_ THE HINDERED HAND OR THE REIGN OF THE REPRESSIONIST BY SUTTON E GRIGGS THIRD EDITIONREVISED AMS PRESS NEW YORK Reprinted from a copy in the New York Public Library Schomburg Collection From the edition of 1905 Nashville First AMS EDITION published 1969 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 77100533 AMS PRESS INC New York NY 10003 _DEDICATION_ _To a devoted father of rugged strength of character and withal preeminently a man of peace and to a loving mother ever tender and serene of soul To these twin moulders of the hearthside who have ever been anxious that their children should contribute naught but what is good to the world this volume is most affectionately dedicated by their son_ _THE AUTHOR_SOLEMNLY ATTESTEDUpon a matter of such tremendous importance to the American people as isthe subject herein treated it is perhaps due our readers to let themknow how much of fact disports itself through these pages in the garb offictionWe beg to say that in no part of the book has the author consciouslydone violence to conditions as he has been permitted to view them amidwhich conditions he has spent his whole life up to the present hour asan intensely absorbed observerIf in any of these pages the reader comes across that which puts him ina mood to chide may the author not hope that the wrath aroused be notwasted upon the inconsequential painter but directed toward thelandscape that forced the brush into his hand stretched the canvas andshouted in irresistible tones Write Very respectfully SUTTON E GRIGGSNashville Tenn May 1905ILLUSTRATIONSBY ROBERT E BELL

Produced by Joe Longo Emmy and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTHE TALE OFKIDDIE KATYDIDTUCKMEIN TALESTrademark Registered BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY AUTHOR OF SLEEPYTIME TALES Trademark Registered THE TALE OF JOLLY ROBIN THE TALE OF OLD MR CROW THE TALE OF SOLOMON OWL THE TALE OF JASPER JAY THE TALE OF RUSTY WREN THE TALE OF DADDY LONGLEGS THE TALE OF KIDDIE KATYDID THE TALE OF BUSTER BUMBLEBEE THE TALE OF FREDDIE FIREFLY THE TALE OF BETSY BUTTERFLYIllustration Kiddie Sees Benjamin Bat in Front of the Moon_Frontispiece__Page 71_ TUCKMEIN TALES Trademark RegisteredTHE TALE OF KIDDIE KATYDIDBYARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY Author of SLEEPYTIME TALES Trademark Registered ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY L SMITH NEW YORK GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Made in the United States of America Copyright 1918 by GROSSET DUNLAPCONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I A GREAT SECRET 1 II THE WARNING 6 III MR NIGHTHAWK 10 IV A WHINING CALLER 15 V SOLOMON OWLS CRY 20 VI FREDDIE FIREFLYS DISCOVERY 26 VII FREDDIE WANTS TO TELL 31 VIII SPREADING THE NEWS 36 IX MR FROG IS PLEASED 40 X A PAIR OF RASCALS 45 XI A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER 51 XII A PRESENT FOR KIDDIE 55 XIII KIDDIE KATYDID IS SHY 60 XIV KIDDIE KEEPS HIS PROMISE 65 XV BENJAMIN BATS PLAN 70 XVI A NOISY CROWD 75 XVII KITTY DID 79 XVIII THE TWO GRASSHOPPERS 85 XIX A QUARREL 89 XX THE STRANGERS MESSAGE 94 XXI LEAPER THE LOCUST IS WORRIED 99 XXII THE SHORTHORNS ARRIVE 104 XXIII THE BEST OF FRIENDS 110ILLUSTRATIONS KIDDIE SEES BENJAMIN BAT IN FRONT OF THE MOON _Frontispiece_ PAGE KIDDIES SECRET IS DISCOVERED BY FREDDIE FIREFLY 28 KIDDIE TOOK HIS NEW COAT FROM THE TWIG 59 KIDDIE FACED LEAPER THE LOCUST

Produced by Thierry Alberto Chris Curnow Julia Millerand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet This file was produced from imagesgenerously made available by The Internet ArchiveTranscribers NoteObvious typographical errors have been corrected A list of changes isfound at the end of the bookIllustration HOW GUNNAR MET HALLGERDA THE RED ROMANCE BOOK EDITED BY ANDREW LANG Illustration LONGMANS GREEN AND CO 39 PATERNOSTER ROW LONDON FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET NEW YORK 1921_PREFACE_WHAT ROMANCES ARETO CHILDREN AND OTHERSI once read a book about a poor little lonely boy in a great house witha large library This boy was pale dull and moping Nobody knew whatwas the matter with him But somebody tracked him into the library andsaw him take a huge thick black book half as tall as himself out of abookcase and sit down and read it The name of the book was_Polexander_ So he sat and sobbed over _Polexander_ because it was sovery dull and so very long There were 800 pages and he had only readsixtyseven But some very stupid grownup person had told him that hemust always begin a book at the beginning and if he once began hemust read every word of it and read nothing else till he had finishedevery word of itThe boy saw that he would die of weariness long before he reached theend of _Polexander_ but he stuck to it like the other boy who stood bythe burning deck long after it was time for him to go So _Polexander_was taken away from him and locked up and so his life was savedNow in the first place _Polexander_ was a romance but it was not likethe romances in this book for it was dreadfully long and mainly aboutthe sorrows of lovers who cannot get married That could not amuse asmall boy In the second place every boy should stop reading a book assoon as he finds that he does not like it just as you are not expectedto eat more mutton than you want to eat Lesson books are another thingyou have to read them and if you do not you will get into trouble Theyare not meant to be amusing but to teach Latin grammar or geographyor arithmetic which are not gay As to this book of Romances if you donot like one story give it up and try another If you do not like anyof them read something else that you do likeNow what are romances They are grownup peoples fairy tales orstorybooks but they are the kind of storybooks that grownup peopleread long ago when there were castles and knights and tournaments andthe chief business of gentlemen was to ride about in full armourfighting while ladies sat at home doing embroidery work or going tosee the men tilt at tournaments just as they go to see cricket matchesnow But they liked tournaments better because they understood therules of the game Anybody could see when one knight knocked anotherdown horse and all but many ladies do not understand leg beforewicket or stumpingThe stories that they read were called romances but were in proseBefore people could read they were not in prose but in poetry and wererecited by minstrels Mrs Lang who did the stories in this book saysMany hundreds of years ago when most of these stories were told in thehalls of great castles the lives of children were very different fromwhat they are now The little girls were taught by their mothersmaidens to spin and embroider or make simple medicines from the commonherbs and the boys learnt to ride and tilt and shoot with bows andarrows but their tasks done no one paid any further heed to them Theyhad very few games and in the long winter evenings the man who wentfrom house to house telling or singing the tales of brave deeds musthave been welcome indeed From him the children who early became menand women heard of the evil fate that awaited cowardice and treacheryand grew to understand that it was their duty through life to help thosethat were weaker than themselves That was long long ago when nobodybut priests and a very few gentlemen could read and write They justlistened to stories in rhyme which the minstrels sang striking theirharps at the end of each verseThe stories were really fairy tales dressed up and spun out andinstead of a boy or a king or a princess with no name the oldfairy adventures were said to have happened to people with names KingArthur or Charlemagne or Bertha Broadfoot A little real history camein but altered and mixed up with fairy tales and done into rhymeLater more and more people learned to read and now the long poems weredone into prose and written in books not printed but written booksand these were the Romances very long indeed all about fighting andlovemaking and giants and dwarfs and magicians and enchantedcastles and dragons and flying horses These romances were the novelsof the people of the Middle Ages about whom you can read in the HistoryBooks of Mrs Markham They were not much like the novels which comefrom the library for your dear mothers and aunts There is not muchfighting in them though there is any amount of lovemaking and thereare no giants and if there is a knight he is usually a grocer or adoctor quite the wrong

Produced by Joe and Isaac Longo and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTHE TALE of JIMMY RABBITIllustration He trundled the wheelbarrow home againTHE TALEofJIMMYRABBITByArthur Scott Bailey_Author of_The Cuffy Bear BooksSleepyTime Series Etc_Illustrationsby_Eleanore FaganGrosset DunlapPublishersNew YorkCopyright 1916 byGROSSET DUNLAPCONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I Jimmy Finds a New Tail 9 II Troublesome Mr Mink 14 III May Baskets 19 IV Making Somebody Happy 23 V The New Wheelbarrow 28 VI A Narrow Escape 34 VII A Fast Runner 40 VIII The Great Race 46 IX Playing LeapFrog 52 X The Tooth Puller 58 XI A Slight Dispute 63 XII The Strange Man 69 XIII Mr Crows Picture 74 XIV Boy Lost 80 XV Telling Fortunes 85 XVI Red Leggins 91 XVII The Rabbits Ball 96 XVIII A Dance Without Music 101 XIX Jimmy Grows Too Cheeky 105 XX A Queer Cure 109_The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit_Illustration 1 Jimmy Finds a New Tail1Jimmy Finds a New TailJimmy Rabbit wanted a new tail To be sure he already had a tailbutit was so short that he felt it was little better than none at allFrisky Squirrel and Billy Woodchuck had fine bushy tails and so hadall the other forestpeople except the Rabbit familyJimmy had tried his hardest to get a handsome tail for himself And oncehe had nearly succeeded For he almost cut off Frisky Squirrels bigbrush But Mrs Squirrel had appeared just in time to save her son fromso dreadful a mishapAfter that Jimmy Rabbit tried to _buy_ a tail but no one would sellhim one Then he set out to _find_ one in the hope that some day someone would forget his tail and go off and leave it lying in the woodsand not be able to remember where he left itIn fact Jimmy Rabbit often lurked behind trees and bushes watching hisneighbors as they took naps in the sunshine But when they awaked andstretched themselves and went trotting off there was not one of themthat didnt take his tail right along with himIt was disappointing Still Jimmy Rabbit continued his searchNow Jimmy had decided that if he could only get a long tail he didntcare what color it was if it was only a brownish yellow to match therest of him And at last as he was wandering through the woods one dayto his great joy he found almost exactly what he wanted Lying near aheap of chips was a beautiful tail But it was red with a black tipThat was the only drawback about itThis tail however was so handsome that Jimmy made up his mind that hewould wear it anyhow even though it did not match his coat So with abit of string which he had carried with him for weeks for that verypurpose he tied the red tail to his own short stubThere was great excitement among the forestpeople when Jimmy Rabbitappeared among them Most everyone told him how much better he lookedIn fact old Mr Crow was about the only person who didnt say somethingpleasant He only shook his head and muttered something to himselfabout handsome is as handsome does But Jimmy Rabbit paid littleattention to himWhose tail is that Mr Crow finally askedMine of course Jimmy told himWell youd better look out said Mr Crow Unless that tail isbought and paid for theres trouble ahead of you young manTo his friends Frisky Squirrel and Billy Woodchuck Jimmy said somethingabout Mr Crow in a low voice And they laughed loudly Whereupon MrCrow flew away croaking to himself about the shocking way children arebrought up nowadays You know Mr Crow was a great gossip Andeverywhere he went that day he spread the news about Jimmy Rabbitsfinding a red tail in the woodsProbably that was the pleasantest day of Jimmy Rabbits life Buttoward evening something startled him He had been over to the brook tolook at himself in a pool And he was coming back towards home when someone calledHi there young fellowJimmy Rabbit hurried along faster He knew that it was a minks voiceAnd he didnt like minksMr Mink ran after him calling Stop thief at the top of his voiceJimmy Rabbit did not stop But he glanced around And his heart sank ashe saw that Mr Mink had no tail At the same time Jimmy ran faster thanever He did not want even to speak to Mr Mink for he felt that bywaiting to talk with him he had nothing at all to gain and a great dealto loseThere was his new tail He certainly did not want to part with thatIllustration 2 Troublesome Mr Mink2Troublesome Mr MinkJimmy Rabbit arrived home somewhat out of breath But he was stillhappy for he thought that he had shaken off that troublesome Mr MinkAnd he had no idea that Mr Mink knew where he livedNow it happened that

Produced by Dagny Emma DuddingTHE PROPHET OF BERKELEY SQUAREBy Robert HichensCHAPTER IMRS MERILLIA IS CARRIED TO BEDThe great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon itslofty brassbound stand in the bow window of Number One ThousandBerkeley Square It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars whichtwinkled in the December sky over frosty London those guardian starswhich always seemed to the Prophet to watch with peculiar solicitudeover the most respectable neighbourhood in which he resided Thepolestar had its eye even now upon the mansion of an adjacentexpremier the belt of Orion was not oblivious of a belted earls cosyredbrick home just opposite and the house of a certain famous actorand actress close by had been taken by the Great Bear under its specialprotectionThe Prophets butler Mr Ferdinandthat bulky and veraciousgentlemanthrew open the latticed windows of the drawingroom andlet the cold air rush blithely in Then he made up the fire carefullyplaced a copy of Mr Malkiels _Almanac_ bound in dull pink and silverbrocade by Miss Clorinda Dolbrett of the Cromwell Road upon asmall tulipwood table near the telescope patted a sofa cushionaffectionately on the head glanced around with the meditative eye ofthe butler born not made and quitted the comfortable apartment with asalaried but soft footstepIt was a pleasant chamber this drawingroom of Number One Thousand Itspoke respectfully of the generations that were past and seemed serenelycertain of a comfortable future There was no too modern uneasinessabout it no trifling gimcrack furniture constructed to catch the eyeand the angles of any one venturing to seek repose upon it no unmeaningrubbish of ornaments or hectic flummery of secondrate pictures Abovethe high oaken mantelpiece was a little pure bust in marble of theProphet when a small boy To right and left were pretty miniatures ingolden frames of the Prophets delightfully numerous grandmothers Heremight be seen Mrs Prothero the great shipbuilders faithful wife inblue brocade and Lady Camptown who reigned at Bath in grey tabinetand diamond buckles when Miss Jane Austen was writing her firstromance Mrs Susan Burlington who knew Lord Byrona remarkablefactand Lady Sophia Green who knew her own mind a fact still moreremarkable The lastnamed lady wore black with a Roman nose and thecombination was admirably convincing Here might also be observed MrsStuefitt Mistress of the Mazurka and the Lady Jane Follington ofwhom George the Second had spoken openly in terms of approbation Sheaffected plum colour and had eyes like sloesthe fashionable hue inthe neatfootandprettyankle period The flames of the fire twinkledbrightly over this battalion of deuced fine women who were all withoutone exception the grandmothersin various degreesof the ProphetWhen speaking of them in the highest terms he never differentiatedthem by the adjectives great or greatgreat They were all kind andcondescending enough to be his grandmothers For a man of his sensitivedelicate and grateful disposition this was enough He thought them allquite perfect and took them all under the protection of his soft andbeaming eyesOf Mrs Merillia the live grandmother with whom he had the greatfelicity to dwell in Berkeley Square he seldom said anything inpublic praise The incense he offered at her shrine rose most sweetlyperfumed from his daily life The hearth of this agreeable andgrandmotherly chamber was attractive with dogs the silver cage besideit with green lovebirds Upon the floor was a heavy dullblue carpetover whichas has been intimatedeven a butler so heavy as MrFerdinand could go softly The walls were dressed with a dull blue paperthat looked like velvetHere and there upon them hung a picture a landscape of George Morlandlustily English a Cotman a Cuypcows in twilighta Reynolds fadedbut exquisitely genteel A lovely little harpsichordmeditating onScarlattistood in one angle a harp tied with most delicate ribandsof ivory satin powdered with pimpernels in another Many waxencandles shed a tender and unostentatious radiance above their carefulgreasecatchers Upon pretty tables lay neat books by Fanny BurneyBeatrice Harraden Mary Wilkins and Max Beerbohm also the poems ofLord Byron and of Lord de Tabley Near the hearth was a sofa on which anemperor might have laid an easy head that wore a crown and before everylow and seductive chair was set a low and seductive footstoolA grandmothers clock pronounced the hour of ten in a frail andelegant voice as the finelycarved oak door was opened and theProphet seriously entered this peaceful room carrying a copy of the_Meditations of Marcus Aurelius_ in his handHe was a neatlymade little man of fashionable even of modish cutspare smart and whimsical with a cleanshaved smallfeatured facelarge shining brown eyes abundant and slightlywaving brown hair thatcould only be parted with the sweetest sorrow in the centre ofhis wellshaped almost philosophical head and movements light andtemperate as those of a meditative squirrel Having just dined he wasnaturally in evening dress with a butterfly tie gleaming pumps anda buttonhole of violets He shut the door gently glanced at hisnicelooking grandmothers and walking forward very quietly anddemurely applied his eye to the telescope lowering himself slightlyby a Sandow exercise which he had practised before he became a prophetHaving remained in this position of astronomical observation for someminutes he deviated into the upright closed the window and tinkleda small silver bell that stood on the tulipwood table beside Malkiels_Almanac_Mr Ferdinand appeared looking respectfully buoyantHas Mr Malkiel sent any reply to my inquiry Mr Ferdinand asked theProphetHe has not sir replied Mr Ferdinand sympatheticallyDid the boy messenger say he delivered my noteHe said so sir on his Bible oath sirAnd do you believe himOh sir responded Mr Ferdinand in a shocked voice surely a Londonlad would not be found to tell a lieI hope not Mr Ferdinand Stilldid he look a nervous sort of ladHe was a trifle pale sir about the gillsbut a heart of gold sir Ifeel sure He wore four medals sirFour medals Nevertheless he may have been frightened to go to MrMalkiels door That will do Mr FerdinandMr Ferdinand was about to bow and retire when the Prophet after amoment of hesitation addedStay Mr Ferdinand Mrs Merillia has gone to the Gaiety Theatretonight I expect her back at halfpast

Produced by David Edwards and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from scans of public domain material produced byMicrosoft for their Live Search Books siteSTARRY FLAG SERIESOLIVER OPTICIllustration THE WRECK OF THE CARIBBEEPage 273FREAKS OF FORTUNEORHALF ROUND THE WORLDBYOLIVER OPTICAUTHOR OF YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD THE ARMY AND NAVY STORIESTHE WOODVILLE STORIES THE BOATCLUB STORIESTHE RIVERDALE STORIES ETCBOSTONLEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERSEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868 byWILLIAM T ADAMSIn the Clerks Office of the District Courtof the District of MassachusettsCOPYRIGHT 1896 BY WILLIAM T ADAMSAll rights reservedFREAKS OF FORTUNETOMY YOUNG FRIEND_THOMAS POWELL JR_This BookIS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATEDPREFACEFREAKS OF FORTUNE is the fourth of the serial stories published inOUR BOYS AND GIRLS It was written in response to a great number ofcalls for a sequel to THE STARRY FLAG The author was pleased tolearn that Levi Fairfield had made so pleasant an impression upon hisyoung friends and the gratifying reception extended to him in thepresent story as it appeared in the Magazine was quite as flatteringto the writer as to Levi himself When a good boy like the hero ofThe Starry Flag is regarded with so much kindly interest by our boysand girls it is convincing evidence that they have the capacity toappreciate noble conduct daring deeds and a true lifeThe author is not disposed to apologize for the exciting elementassome have been pleased to denominate itof this and others of hisstories If goodness and truth have been cast down if vice and sinhave been raised up in the story an explanation would not and oughtnot to atone for the crime The writer degrades no saints hecanonizes no villains He believes that his young friends admire andlove the youthful heroes of the story because they are good and truebecause they are noble and selfsacrificing and because they aregenerous and courageous and not merely because they engage in stirringadventures Exciting the youthful mind in the right direction is onething exciting it in the wrong direction is quite another thingOnce more it becomes the writers pleasant duty to acknowledge thekindness of his young friends as well as of very many parents andguardians who have so often and so freely expressed their approbationof his efforts to please his readers He has been continually cheeredby their kind letters and by their constant favor however manifestedand he cannot help wondering that one who deserves so little shouldreceive so much WILLIAM T ADAMSHARRISON SQUARE MASSJuly 27 1868CONTENTS PAGECHAPTER I THREE YEARS AFTER 11CHAPTER II FIRE 21CHAPTER III THE HOLE IN THE WALL 31CHAPTER IV THE PLANK OVER THE CHASM 42CHAPTER V AN INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT 53CHAPTER VI THE STARRY FLAG 64CHAPTER VII GRAVE CHARGES 75CHAPTER VIII CONSTABLE COOKE 86CHAPTER IX THE EXAMINATION 97CHAPTER X MR C AUGUSTUS EBÉNIER 108CHAPTER XI THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION 119CHAPTER XII HOTEL DE POISSON 130CHAPTER XIII OFT FROM APPARENT ILLS 141CHAPTER XIV LOSE HIS OWN SOUL 151CHAPTER XV ANOTHER LITTLE PLAN

Produced by Pedro Saborano produced from scanned imagesof public domain material from Google Book SearchO vinho do PortoPortoImprensa ModernaCAMILLO CASTELLO BRANCOO vinho do PortoPROCESSO DUMA BESTIALIDADE INGLEZAEXPOSIÇÃO ATHOMAZ RIBEIRO2ª EDIÇÃOPORTOLIVRARIA CHARDRONDe Lello Irmão Editores1903Propriedade absoluta dos editoresReproducção InterdictaA THOMAZ RIBEIRO Como sei que o teu amor ás perfidas trêtas e manhas da Inglaterra não é dos mais acrizolados venho offerecer ao teu sorriso um SPECIMEN de bestialidade inglezaHa trinta e cinco annos que um bretão anonymo lavrou na _WestminsterReview_ a condemnação do vinho do Porto como deleterio e empeçonhado poracetato de chumbo e outros toxicos anglicidas O homem pelas rábidasviolencias do estylo parece ter redigido a calumnia depois de jantarnuma exaltação capitosa do tannino do alvarilhão que elle confundiu comas afflicções dos venenos metallicos Relembra lamentosamente com alagrima das bebedeiras ternas o seculo dezoito em que o genuino licordo Porto era um repuxo de vida que irrigára a preciosa existencia degrandes personagens da GranBretanha Recorda Pitt e Dundas Sheridan eFox famigerados absorventes do nosso vinho Diz que Lord Eldon e LordStowel graças infinitas ao Porto reverdejaram e floriram em velhos eSir William Grant já decrepito bebia duas garrafas de _Porto_ a cadarepasto para conservar crystallinamente a limpidez das suas faculdadesmentaes e a rija musculatura de todos os seus membros já locomotores jáapprehensores e o resto Lamenta que Pitt debil de compleição com ouso immoderado deste tonico e em resultado de plethoras frequentescombatidas com ammoniaco e sulfato de magnezia vivesse dez annos menosdo que viveria se possuisse o incombustivel estomago curtido doveneravel Lord DundasSuccedeu porém ao collaborador da _Westminster Review_ acharsedyspeptico com azías relaxes intestinaes eructações cloacinas e ocraneo sempre flammejante como suja poncheira com o encephalo emcombustão de cognac e casquinha de limãoisto depois de saturaçõescopiosas dos vinhos adulterados do Porto_uma mixordia negra_ diz elleafflicto mas não sabe decidir de prompto se a degeneração está na raçasaxonia se no vinho portuguez Pelo menos e provisoriamenteconsiderase envenenado o brutoPois o veneno que lograr infiltrarse nas mucosas inglezas deve ter apotencia esphacelante da Agua Tufana dos Borgias Em Inglaterra osporcos engordam na ceva do arsenico Que fibras de raça aquella É que acarne dum bretão diverge muito da carnadura da restante Europa Oanthropologo Topinard observou que a mortandade nos hospitaes inglezesem seguimento ás operações cirurgicas era muito menor que a doshospitaes francezes O sabio Velpeau consultado pela Academia deMedicina respondeu que _la chair anglaise et la chair françaisenetaient la même_ E não dá a razão da differença por que a não sabiao grande biologo Eu na observancia do dictame do Espirito Santo pelabocca do _Ecclesiastico_não escondas a tua sabedoria illucidarei osnr Velpeau A razão a scientifica é esta emborcações de bebidasacidas e mórmente de cerveja combatem como coadjuvantes do acidophenico a gangrena ora o inglez abeberado de cerveja é refractarioá podridão dos hospitaes Como se vê desta causal tão obvia umanthropologo é capaz de espremer assumpto para volumes recheados decoisas abstrusas sobre ethnographia climatologia morphologiamezologia o diaboAlém da cerveja a fibrina do porco saturado de arsenico entretecidana fibrina do inglez seu compatriota faz delle um Mithridates para ossaes de chumbo diluidos no vinho do Porto O inglez não póde morrer poringestão alcoolica Se quer suicidarse com instrumento liquido tem deasfixiarse afogarse no tunel como o lendario Lord Elle é immortalabsorvendo e só póde morrerabsorvido Estranho animal E é senhor dasaguas e das melhores garrafeiras O destino pela tuba sonorosa deCamões disse ao inglez _Entre no reino dagua o rei do vinho_ LUS c VIQue litros de _Porto_ envenenado se calculam efficazes para degenerar umbretão até á dyspepsia e ás agonias da morte Nesta conjunctura um possuidor de legitimo _Douro_ convidou ointoxicado a beber o elixir fornecido por um commerciante britannicoestabelecido no Porto O negociante fornecedor era o Forrester quedesappareceu deste alfôbre de charlatães forasteiros de um modotragico ha vinte e trez annos Logo te contarei essa catastrophe meuamigoA sensação intima que o hospede recebeu nas suas entranhas foi umanovidade uma deleitação de refrigerio em todas as membranas desde o céoda bocca até ao cego e visinhança onde elle sentia os ardores da zonatorrida Emborrachouse como era de esperar e seria iniquidadecensurarlho mas o seu cerebro de illuminado espelhava agora asvisualidades ethereas irisadas do americano Poë Nem já o ventre lherugia como se lá tivesse uma bestafera embetesgada numa latrina nemelle nauseado recorria ás titilações na glote para golphar o acetato dechumbo O possuidor da garrafeira para o convencer de que o salvára damorte propinada pelo vinho homicida do Porto mostroulhe dois opusculosinglezes recentemente publicados Um era de J James Forrester eintitulavase _A Word of truth Port wine_ O outro por Whittaker emreforço ao de Forrester chamavase _Strictures on a Word of truth onPort wine_ _London_ 1848Forrester no seu folheto desbaratava o valor do vinho do Portoincrepando os lavradores de não differençarem no fabrico astemperaturas humida fria secca e quente que empregavam promiscuamentetoda a casta de uva adulterandoa com ingredientes adequados ao paladaringlez mas corrosivos Na operação do lagar accusa o lavrador deretardar a fermentação vasando em cada pipa de môsto entre dose e vintee quatro gallões de aguaardente Que passados dois mezes a mixordiaera córada com baga mediante uns saccos de linhagem que espremiam sobreo vinho e depois atiravam o residuo ao tunel Em seguida novo despejode aguaardente e dois mezes de descanço Esta beberagem enviada para oPorto era novamente beneficiada com o veneno alcoolico e nove mezesdepois ao sahir para Inglaterra como golpe de misericordia novainfusão De modo que o vinho entrava no estomago inconsciente doReinoUnido á razão de vinte e seis gallões de aguaardente por pipaDepois descreve o que seja geropiga e como ella entra nesteshorrendos mysterios da Brinvilliers Esta

Produced by Donald LainsonTHE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIORby Bret HarteCONTENTSPART I IN BONDSCHAPTER I A CRUSADER AND A SIGNCHAPTER II ANOTHER PORTENTCHAPTER III VIGILANCIACHAPTER IV IN THE FOGCHAPTER V TODOS SANTOSCHAPTER VI HAIL AND FAREWELLCHAPTER VII THE GENTLE CASTAWAYSCHAPTER VIIIIN SANCTUARYCHAPTER IX AN OPENAIR PRISONCHAPTER X TODOS SANTOS SOLVES THE MYSTERYCHAPTER XI THE CAPTAIN FOLLOWS HIS SHIPPART II FREEDCHAPTER I THE MOURNERS AT SAN FRANCISCOCHAPTER II THE MOURNERS AT TODOS SANTOSCHAPTER III INTERNATIONAL COURTESIESCHAPTER IV A GLEAM OF SUNSHINECHAPTER V CLOUDS AND CHANGECHAPTER VI A MORE IMPORTANT ARRIVALCHAPTER VII THE RETURN OF THE EXCELSIORCHAPTER VIIIHOSTAGECHAPTER IX LIBERATEDTHE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIORPART I IN BONDSCHAPTER IA CRUSADER AND A SIGNIt was the 4th of August 1854 off Cape Corrientes Morning wasbreaking over a heavy sea and the closelyreefed topsails of a barquethat ran before it bearing down upon the faint outline of the Mexicancoast Already the white peak of Colima showed ghostlike in the eastalready the long sweep of the Pacific was gathering strength and volumeas it swept uninterruptedly into the opening Gulf of CaliforniaAs the cold light increased it could be seen that the vessel showedevidence of a long voyage and stress of weather She had lost one ofher spars and her starboard davits rolled emptily Nevertheless herrigging was taut and shipshape and her decks scrupulously cleanIndeed in that uncertain light the only moving figure besides thetwo motionless shadows at the wheel was engaged in scrubbing thequarterdeckwhich with its grated settees and stacked campchairsseemed to indicate the presence of cabin passengers For the barqueExcelsior from New York to San Francisco had discharged the bulk ofher cargo at Callao and had extended her liberal cabin accommodation toswell the feverish Californian immigration still in its heightSuddenly there was a slight commotion on deck An order issued fromsome invisible depth of the cabin was so unexpected that it had to berepeated sternly and peremptorily A bustle forward ensued two or threeother shadows sprang up by the bulwarks then the two men bent over thewheel the Excelsior slowly swung round on her heel and with a partingsalutation to the coast bore away to the northwest and the open seaagainWhats up now growled one of the men at the wheel to his companionas they slowly eased up on the helmTaint the skippers for hes drunk as a biled owl and aint stirredout of his bunk since eight bells said the other Its the firstmates orders but I reckon its the Senors ideaThen we aint goin on to MazatlanNot this trip I reckon said the third mate joining themWhyThe third mate turned and pointed to leeward The line of coast hadalready sunk enough to permit the faint silhouette of a trail of smoketo define the horizon line of skySteamer goin in ehYes Dye seeit might be too hot in thereThen the jigs upNo Suthins to be donenorth of St Lucas HushHe made a gesture of silence although the conversation since he hadjoined them had been carried on in a continuous whisper A figureevidently a passenger had appeared on deck One or two of theforeignlooking crew who had drawn near the group with a certain undueand irregular familiarity now slunk away againThe passenger was a shrewd exact rectangularlooking man who hadevidently never entirely succumbed to the freedom of the sea either inhis appearance or habits He had not even his sea legs yet and as thebarque with the full swell of the Pacific now on her weather bow wasplunging uncomfortably he was fain to cling to the stanchions This didnot however prevent him from noticing the change in her position andcaptiously resenting itLook hereyou I say What have we turned round for Were going awayfrom the land Aint we going on to MazatlanThe two men at the wheel looked silently forward with that exasperatingunconcern of any landsmans interest peculiar to marine officials Thepassenger turned impatiently to the third mateBut this aint right you know It was understood that we were goinginto Mazatlan Ive got business thereMy orders sir said the mate curtly turning awayThe practical passenger had been observant enough of seagoing rules torecognize that this reason was final and that it was equally futile todemand an interview with the captain when that gentleman was not visiblyon duty He turned angrily to the cabin againYou look disturbed my dear Banks I trust you havent slept badlysaid a very gentle voice from the quarterrail near him or perhapsthe ships going about has upset you Its a little rougher on thistackThats just it returned Banks sharply We HAVE gone about andwere not going into Mazatlan at all Its scandalous Ill speak tothe captainIll complain to the consigneesIve got business atMazatlanI expect lettersIBusiness my dear fellow continued the voice in gentle protestYoull have time for business when you get to San Francisco And as forletterstheyll follow you there soon enough Come over here my boyand say hail and farewell to the Mexican coastto the land of Montezumaand Pizarro Come here and see the mountain range from which Balboafeasted his eyes on the broad Pacific ComeThe speaker though apparently more at his ease at sea was in dress andappearance fully as unnautical as Banks As he leaned over the railinghis white closefitting trousers and small patentleather boots gavehim a jaunty halfmilitary air which continued up to the second buttonof his black frockcoat and then so utterly changed its characterthat it was doubtful if a greater contrast could be conceived than thatoffered by the widely spread lapels of his coat his low turneddowncollar loosely knotted silk handkerchief and the round smoothshavengentle pacific face above them His straight long black hair shiningas if from recent immersion was tucked carefully behind his ears andhung in a heavy even semicircular fringe around the back of his neckwhere his tall hat usually rested as if to leave his forehead meeklyexposed to celestial criticism When he had joined

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan David Edwards and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was produced from images generously madeavailable by The Internet Archive Illustration THE A B C SCHOLARS Little Prudy Stories LITTLE PRUDY BY SOPHIE MAY Author of Little Prudy Stories Dotty Dimple Stories Flaxie Frizzle Stories Little Prudys Flyaway Series Little Prudys Children Series Pauline Wyman Joy Bells etc BOSTON LOTHROP LEE SHEPARD CO COPYRIGHT 1891 BY REBECCA S CLARKE DEDICATIONTO THE LITTLE PUBLICA Merry Christmas dear ChildrenYou who have read of Prudy Parlin in the Congregationalist andLittle Pilgrim and have learned to love her there may love herbetter in a book by herself with picturesTo you who never saw her before we will introduce her now It is easyto feel acquainted with Prudy for she is as you will find a verytalkative little ladyThere is no end of things which might be told of Susy Grace andHorace and if you wish to hear more about them you have only to waita little whileGod is sending us another year as fresh and clean as the purest paperLet us thank Him for it and try to write it over with kind thoughtsand good deeds then it will be for all of us_A HAPPY NEW YEAR_ CONTENTSCHAPI PRUDYS PATCHWORKII PRUDY GOING UP TO HEAVENIII PRUDYS KNITTINGWORKIV PRUDYS PICNICV PRUDY IN THE PINESVI PRUDY SICKVII PRUDYS PRESENTVIII PRUDY FISHINGIX THE HATCHET STORYX MORE STORIESXI PRUDYS WHITE TEAXII PRUDY TRYING TO HELPXIII THE GYPSY SUPPERXIV THE ANGELBABYXV GOING HOME LITTLE PRUDYCHAPTER IPRUDYS PATCHWORKI am going to tell you something about a little girl who was alwayssaying and doing funny things and very often getting into troubleHer name was Prudy Parlin and she and her sister Susy three yearsolder lived in Portland in the State of Maine though every summerthey went to Willowbrook to visit their grandmotherAt the very first of our story Susy was more than six years old andPrudy was between three and four Susy could sew quite well for agirl of her age and had a stint every day Prudy always thought itvery fine to do just as Susy did so she teased her mother to let_her_ have some patchwork too and Mrs Parlin gave her a few calicopieces just to keep her little fingers out of mischiefBut when the squares were basted together she broke needles prickedher fingers and made a great fuss sometimes crying and wishingthere were no such thing as patchworkOne morning she sat in her rockingchair doing what she thought was a_stint_ She kept running to her mother with every stitch sayingWill that do Her mother was very busy and said My littledaughter must not come to me So Prudy sat down near the door andbegan to sew with all her might but soon her little baby sister camealong looking so cunning that Prudy dropped her needle and went tohugging herO little sister cried she I wouldnt have a horse come and eatyou up for any thing in the worldAfter this of course her mother had to get her another needle andthen thread it for her She went to sewing again till she pricked herfinger and the sight of the wee drop of blood made her cryO dear I wish somebody would pity me But her mother was so busyfrying doughnuts that she could not stop to talk much and the nextthing she saw of Prudy she was at the farther end of the room whileher patchwork lay on the spice boxPrudy Prudy what are you up to nowUp to the table said Prudy O mother Im so sorry but Ivebroke a crack in the pitcherWhat will mamma do with you You havent finished your stintwhatmade you get out of your chairO I thought grandma might want me to get her _speckles_ I thought Iwould go and find Zip too See mamma hes so tickled to see me heshakes all overevery bit of himWheres your patchworkI dont know Youve got a double name havent you doggie Its ZipCoon but it isnt

PAULINA BUXAREU Josep Maria de SagarraPRIMERA PARTIJo vaig conèixer en Víctor Buxareu i Buxareu en un dolç poblet demuntanya on em deixo caure gairebé tots els istiusEn aquest poblet no hi tinc casa pròpia ni llogada ni unallenqueta de terra ni una tomaquera tan sols no mhi lliga capinterès material per petit que sigui Això és causa que el seurecord no faci trontollar el meu egoïsme ni em treu la son elpresseguer exposat a la golafreria pública ni el mestre de casesque no fineix mai la paret del gallinerAquest poble no és gaire lluny de Barcelona permet lanar i venircada dia cosa que el fa assolible a molta gent de despatx Peròsigui pel que sigui la concurrència hi és escassa i no pas perfalta daigua ni de verdor ni de bones vistes No vol dir totaixò que en el poblet deixi de formarshi colònia Ben alcontrari hi ha una mena de colònia reduïda ensopida daquestescolònies que encara que siguin destar per casa i dispensin detot enfarfec sumptuari tenen linconvenient gravíssim que lestrobes a cada moment i no tés possible donar un pas si no és encomunitatPerò jo confesso que es pot passar per això i molt més perquè elpoblet sho val i ho fa perdonar tot Com que és en una vallpregona i els pendents li venen a sobre per tot arreu se sent unacançó daigua que no sacaba maiLa seva gràcia no lenvileixen els pantalons de color de cremaguardadors darrogàncies abdominals ni el castellà barroerdalguna dama ni els paperots que hi ha vora les fonts entre elsblauets i les campanetes greixosos dacariciar la xocolata i lallonganissaPer damunt de la trista deixalla dels homes hi ha el meravellósencantament de totes les coses vives i jo per part meva servodaquest poble els més amables records ja sia la imatge deldessagnament solar de la fumarella de boira o de la nuca rosadavíctima del bollEn els llocs on el nombre destiuejants és reduït té unaimportància capital el saber quan encara no apreta la calor quisón els novells quina casta de gent anirà a raure a tal casa o atal altra perquè naturalment en els poblets destiueig hi hasempre els emigrants i els ocells de pas com que els que sen vanper tornar lany vinent ja es coneixen i ja sho han dit tot elsocells de pas vénen a ser en definitiva lèxit o el fracàs delistiuNo costarà gaire imaginarnos els salts que fa el cor quan esveuen venir per la carretera les tartanes que duen als nousestiuejants Entre les dues rodes plenes de pols i sota la veladecrèpita bateguen les ànimes que han de posar una mica degràcia ensopiment o lleugeresa dins daquest aire on deliren elspollancres i es belluga un bé de Déu de coses entendridoresI no hi ha dubte que és la tafaneria més justificada la deljovenet que fendint les ombres vesprals amb una mirada violentaquan encara no sha descongestionat la càrrega humana delvehicle descobreix un ample barret i una lleu ombrella i sentel cascavell dunes rialles molt fresques que delaten una jovenetade divuit anysUna noia inconeguda en aquests casos és el més torbador misterique pugui presentarse no et deixa aclucar lull en tota la nitCom es fa viva aquella calma nocturna amb els grills i lesaranyes i algun lladruc estantís si penses que no gaire lluny detu jeu una donzella que tha semblat divina a la migrada clarordels fanals de la tartana i timagines que demà a plena llumesguardaràs la seva rosada finor i sentiràs el to de la seva veuen el repòs discret duna pollancredaPerò abandonem tals consideracions i anem al gra Vull dir nooblidem el meu amic Víctor Buxareu Aquest apreciable subjecte elvaig conèixer com ja he dit en el poblet muntanyenc i ara diréque en qualitat docell de pas Efectivament la família Buxareuva venir un any i després no ha tornat sigui perquè es vanensopir molt sigui perquè no els varen provar les aigüesEra quan el juliol estava fent els darrers badalls quecomparegueren en un auto llogat en Víctor la seva dona quatrebrivalls deliciosos i una germana que si no hem de mirar gaireprim també diré que era deliciosaLarribada va ser cap al tard Com que ningú els coneixia no hihagueren xiscles ni petons ni encaixadesVaren installarse silenciosament en llur domicili estival unacaseta horrible pintada de rosa amb una mica de jardí peròsituada en un recó agradable de verdor encara que el senyor Pratsun de la colònia deia que a la nit no podrien dormir de mosquitsper estar massa prop de la RieraLes minyones dels Buxareu varen comparèixer una mica més tard ambla tartana del servei públic I deixemlos estar la primera nitatrafegats amb la cuina que no tira apaivagant la canalla icercant les claus dels bagulsÉs inútil contar la manera no gens complicada com jo vaig entraren relació amb la família Buxareu Només puc dir que al cap dunasetmana de veurens en Víctor em va invitar a fer una excursióplegats una excursió curta sense massa pujades ni baixadesperquè els nens poguessin fruir força i no perillés lestabilitatde la senyora Buxareu La senyora Buxareu no shavia deciditencara a calçar les espardenyes camperolesEn Víctor Buxareu és un home obert i franc Posseeix els dots deladmiració i lentusiasme és daquells que van amb el cor a lamà Sense ser un xerraire excessiu li agrada parlar i parlardell com totes les persones ben intencionadesDeu anar a la ratlla dels trenta quatre anys i físicament ésduna vulgaritat simpàtica ni alt ni baix ni gras ni primtirant a bru el cabell escàs afaitat sempre duna maneraimpecable es deixa un bigotet com un raspall té uns ulls atacatsde miopia i una gran boca on es marca una certa energia virilVesteix discretament no diu mai cap paraula grollera ésextraordinàriament efusiu i quan dóna la mà apreta ben fortEl rostre de la senyora Buxareu és una harmonia daurada fina igrassa on es fonen les perles i les roses i els seus ulls sóndues llenquetes de cel tremoladísÉs una dona que ompliria de glòria la intimitat dun burgèscapficat pel negoci i vessaria tràgiques ombres a

Produced by Diane Monico and The Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican LibrariesTHE INDUSTRIAL READERS_Book II_DIGGERS IN THEEARTHBYEVA MARCH TAPPAN PhD_Author of Englands Story American Hero StoriesOld World Hero Stories Story of the Greek PeopleStory of the Roman People etc Editor ofThe Childrens Hour_IllustrationHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYBOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGOTHE INDUSTRIAL READERSBy Eva March Tappan I THE FARMER AND HIS FRIENDS 50 cents II DIGGERS IN THE EARTH 50 centsIII MAKERS OF MANY THINGS 50 cents IV TRAVELERS AND TRAVELING 50 centsThe foregoing are list prices postpaidCOPYRIGHT 1916 BY EVA MARCH TAPPANALL RIGHTS RESERVED_First printing April 1916__Reprinted December 1916_The Riverside PressCAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTSU S APREFACEThe four books of this series have been written not merely to provideagreeable reading matter for children but to give them informationWhen a child can look at a steel pen not simply as an articlefurnished by the city for his use but rather as the result of manyinteresting processes he has made a distinct growth in intelligenceWhen he has begun to apprehend the fruitfulness of the earth bothabove ground and below and the best way in which its products may beutilized and carried to the places where they are needed he has notonly acquired a knowledge of many kinds of industrial life which mayhelp him to choose his lifework wisely from among them but he haslearned the dependence of one person upon other persons of one partof the world upon other parts and the necessity of peacefulintercourse Best of all he has learned to see Wordsworths familiarlines say of a man whose eyes had not been opened A primrose by a rivers brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was nothing moreThese books are planned to show the children that there is somethingmore to broaden their horizon to reveal to them what invention hasaccomplished and what wide room for invention still remains to teachthem that reward comes to the man who improves his output beyond thetask of the moment and that success is waiting not for him who worksbecause he must but him who works because he mayAcknowledgment is due to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Jones BrothersCompany Alpha Portland Cement Company Dwight W Woodbridge the UtahCopper Company the Aluminum Company of America the Diamond CrystalSalt Company T W Rickard and others whose advice and criticismhave been of most valuable aid in the preparation of this volume EVA MARCH TAPPANCONTENTS I IN A COAL MINE 1 II DOWN IN THE QUARRIES 11 III HOUSES OF SAND 21 IV BRICKS THEIR FAULTS AND THEIR VIRTUES 31 V AT THE GOLD DIGGINGS 39 VI THE STORY OF A SILVER MINE 48 VII IRON THE EVERYDAY METAL 57VIII OUR GOOD FRIEND COPPER 65 IX THE NEW METAL ALUMINUM 76 X THE OIL IN OUR LAMPS 84 XI LITTLE GRAINS OF SALT 95LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSA STRUCTURAL STEEL APARTMENT BUILDING viHOW A COAL MINE LOOKS ABOVEGROUND 5MINERS AND THEIR MINE 10OPENING A GRANITE QUARRY 13BUILDING A CONCRETE ROAD 27IN A NEW JERSEY BRICK MILL 33HYDRAULIC GOLD MINING

Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican LibrariesA TREATISEON THETACTICAL USE OF THE THREE ARMSINFANTRY ARTILLERY AND CAVALRYBYFRANCIS J LIPPITTEXCOLONEL SECOND INFANTRY CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERSNEW YORKD VAN NOSTRAND PUBLISHER192 BROADWAY1865Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865By D VAN NOSTRANDIn the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for theSouthern District of New YorkALVORD PRINTERTO THE MILITARY PUBLICThe Author would feel obliged for any facts or suggestions which mightenable him to render a future edition of this work more valuablePROVIDENCE RI _July 1865_TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGETactical Use of Infantry 3 I ITS ATTACK GENERALLY 4 II FORMATIONS FOR ATTACK 8 III THE ATTACK HOW MADE 19 IV BAYONET CHARGES 24 V DEFENCE AGAINST INFANTRY 27 VI DEFENCE AGAINST ARTILLERY 34 VII DEFENCE AGAINST CAVALRY 36VIII SQUARES 40 IX SKIRMISHERS 49 A THEIR USE 50 B HOW POSTED 53 C HOW HANDLED 55 D RULES FOR INDIVIDUAL SKIRMISHERS 56Tactical Use of Artillery 59 I HOW POSTED WITH RESPECT TO THE GROUND 59 II HOW POSTED WITH RESPECT TO OUR OWN TROOPS 63 III HOW POSTED WITH RESPECT TO THE ENEMY

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Three Midshipmen by WHG Kingston________________________________________________________________________The tale of the Three Midshipmen is carried on to the Three Lieutenantsthe Three Commanders and the Three Admirals The book starts with thearrival of three new boys at a boarding school for young gentlemen Oneboy is English one is Scottish and the third is Irish Under theinfluence of various bullies and other schoolboy adversities the threelads learn to stick together and to look after each other They jointhe Navy and get various postings by which from time to time they meetusually under the most difficult circumstances Of course they eachsurvive bravely though any of the boats crews that they have thehonour to command are mowed down by the enemy In other words some ofit is pretty tall stuff but it was very good fare for the nineteenthcentury and early twentieth century English schoolboy I can rememberthese books on our 1940s school librarys shelves very wellthumbed andmany times repaired by one of the masters whose hobby it was to run avoluntary bookbinding class There are three parts to the book ofwhich we originally published only the first two as we were workingwith a book that did not have the last part In this new 2006 editionyou will be able to read about the Midshipmen in China We apologisefor the delay in making good this omissionWe see no reason why you should not enjoy this book________________________________________________________________________THE THREE MIDSHIPMEN IN THE LEVANT IN AFRICA AND IN CHINA BY WHGKINGSTONCHAPTER ONEEARLY DAYSOurs was a capital school though it was not a public one It was notfar from London so that a coach could carry us down there in littlemore than an hour from the _White Horse Cellar_ Piccadilly On the topof the posts at each side of the gates were two eagles fine largebirds I thought them They looked out on a green fringed with tallelms beyond which was our cricketfield A very magnificent redbrickold house rose behind the eagles full of windows belonging to oursleepingrooms The playground was at the back of the house with agrand old tulip tree in the centre a tectum for rainy weather on oneside and the large school room on the other Beyond was a goodsizedgarden full of apple and pear trees but as we very seldom went intoit I do not remember its appearance Perhaps were I to see the placeagain I might find its dimensions somewhat altered The master was afirstrate schoolmaster What his attainments were I cannot say buthe understood managing boys admirably He kept us all in very goodorder had us fairly taught fed us with wholesome if not luxuriousfood and though he used his cane freely treated us justly We heldhim in awe and yet we liked himIt was after the summer holidays when I had just got back I heard thatthree new boys had come In the afternoon they all appeared in theplayground They were strangers to each other as well as to us buttheir similarity of fate drew them together One was a slightly madedark and somewhat delicatelooking boy another was a sturdy littlefellow with a round ruddy countenance and a jovial goodnaturedexpression in it yet he did not look as if he would stand any nonsensethe third was rather smaller than the other two a pleasantlookingfellow and though his eyes were red with crying he seemed to becutting some joke which made his companions laugh He had come all theway from Ireland we heard and his elder brother had that morning lefthim and gone back home and that made him unhappy just then He at oncegot the name of Paddy in the school He did not mind it His real namewas Terence Adair so sometimes he was called Paddy AdairI say you fellow whats your name asked a biggish boy of thestoutest of the three newcomersJack Rogers was the answer given in a quiet toneI dont believe it replied the big boy who was known as BullyPigeon its such a rum nameIll make you believe it and remember it too exclaimed thenewcomer eyeing the other from head to foot and walking firmly up tohim with his lips closed while he moved his head slowly from side toside I tell you my name is Jack RogersNowThe bully did not say a word He looked as if he would have liked tohave hit but Paddy Adair had followed his new friend and was evidentlyabout to join in the fray if it was once begun so the big boy thoughtbetter of it He would gain no credit for attacking a little fellow thefirst day of his coming There were many witnesses of the scene andJack was unanimously pronounced to be a plucky little chap Pigeondefeated in one direction turned his attention to the firstnamed boywho had scarcely moved since he entered the playground but kept lookinground with his large black eyes on the scene before him which wasevidently strange to his sightWhat are you called I should like to know he asked in a rude toneAlick Murray was the answer in a quiet gentlemanly voiceThen you come from Scotland I suppose said the bullyYes I do replied the formerOh I wonder your mamma would let you go away from her observed thebig boy with a sneerMy mamma is just dead answered Murray in a mild tone a tearspringing to his eyeShame shame shouted the voices of several boys who had come upamong them that of Jack Rogers was the loudestI didnt mean to say anything to hurt him said the bully sneakingaway Ill pay you off for this some day he muttered as he passedJackJack looked after him and laughedHell have two to fight if he tries it mind that said Adair to hisnew friendJack thanked him but said that he should soon be able to tackle

Produced by Al HainesHESPERUSANDOther Poems and LyricsBY CHARLES SANGSTERAUTHOR OF THE ST LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY AND OTHER POEMSMontrealJOHN LOVELL ST NICHOLAS STREETKingstonJOHN CREIGHTON KING STREET1860Entered according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty by CHARLES SANGSTER in the office ef the Registrar of the Province of CanadaTHESEPoems and LyricsAREDEDICATEDTOMy NieceCARRIE MILLEROFSANDWICH C WvCONTENTS PAGEDedicatory Poem 9Hesperus 11Crowned 29Mariline 30The Happy Harvesters 40Falls of the Chaudière Ottawa 53A Royal Welcome 59Malcolm 61The Comet October 1858 63Autumn 65Colin 68Margery 70Eva 76The Poets Recompense 77The Wine of Song 78The Plains of Abraham 80Death of Wolfe 83Brock 84Song for Canada 86SongId be a Fairy King 89SongLove while you may 91viThe Snows Upper Ottawa 92The Rapid 94Lost and Found 96Again 99Glimpses 100My Prayer 102Her Star 104The Mystery 107Love and Truth 109The Wren 111Grandpere 113Englands Hope and Englands Heir

Produced by Jason Isbell Christine D and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby the Library of Congress THE WONDERS OF A TOY SHOP NewYork J Q PREBLE J W ORR NEW YORK WONDERS OF A TOYSHOP Illustration TOY WAREHOUSE Pray what would you like said a Toyman one day Addressing a group of young folks I have toys in abundance and very cheap too Though not quite so cheap as my jokes Heres a famous managerie full of wild beasts See this lion with wide open jaws Enough to affright one and yet Ive no doubt You might venture to play with his claws Illustration Heres a tiger as tame as a lapdog youll find And a fox that will not steal the geese So here you must own the old adage is proved That wonders are never to cease Heres wagon well laden and here is a dray With horses and harness complete You can drive them in parlour and drawingroom too As easily as in the street Illustration Heres a whole file of soldiers quite ready for fight And each of them armed with a gun You may knock them all down with a feather and then You may pocket themevery one Heres a fine stud of horses which strange though it sounds Live neither on corn nor on hay A gentlemans carriage and tilbury too For which weve no taxes to pay Illustration A coachman so plump and a footman so tall Who cost not a penny for food For to tell you the truth all their insides are filled With a permanent dinner of wood Examine this sword with its handle and sheath And its blade made of innocent wood Twere well if all swords were as harmless as this And as equally guiltless of blood Illustration Heres a mill that will go without water or wind A wonder you cannot deny I really cant say whether it will grind corn But it will be easy to try That irongray rockinghorse close at your side With saddle and bridle complete Will go without whipping and equally strange Without making use of his feet Illustration Yet stranger than thatwhatsoever his pace Whether canter or gallop or trot Though moving at ten miles an hourhe neer Advances one inch from the spot A full set of bricks is enclosed in this box With the mortar we well may dispense But with these you may build a magnificent house Without een a farthings expense Illustration With these you may raise up a Royal Exchange In less than five minutes and then Knock it down and build up a new Parliament House In another five minutesor ten A dolls pretty kitchen stands next on the shelf With grate pans and kettle and pot With dish and tureen and all crockeryware Knives and forks

Produced by David WidgerTHE TRADERS WIFEBy Louis BeckeUnwin Brothers 1901CHAPTER IBrabants wife was sitting on the shady verandah of her house on thehills overlooking Levuka harbour and watching a large fore and aftschooner being towed in by two boats for the wind had died away earlyin the morning and left the smooth sea to swelter and steam under a skyof brassThe schooner was named the _Maritana_ and was owned and commanded byMrs Brabants husband John Brabant who at that moment was standing onthe afterdeck looking through his glasses at the house on the hill andat the whiterobed figure of his wifeCan you see Mrs Brabant sir asked the chief mate a shortdarkfaced man of about thirty years of age as he came aft and stoodbeside his captainYes I can see her quite plainly Lester he replied as he handed theglasses to his officer she is sitting on the verandah watching usThe mate took the glasses and directed them upon the house for a fewmoments Perhaps she will come off to us sirBrabant shook his head It is a terribly hot day you see Lesterand she cant stand the sun at all And then we shall be at anchor inanother hour or soJust so sir replied the mate politely He did not like Mrs Brabanthad never liked her from the very first day he saw her a year beforewhen Brabant had brought her down on board the _Maritana_ in Aucklandand introduced her as his future wife Why he did not like her he couldnot tell and did not waste time in trying to analyse his feelings Heknew that his old friend and shipmate was passionately fond of hisfair young wife and was intensely proud of her beauty and now atthe conclusion of a wearisome five months voyage among the sunbakedislands of the Equatorial Pacific was returning home more in lovewith her than ever Not that he ever talked of her effusively evento Lester tried and true comrade as he was for was naturally aselfcontained and somewhat reserved man as one could tell by hisdeepset stern grey eyes and square jaw and chinDamn her muttered Lester to himself as he stood on the topgallantfocscle watching the two boats with their toiling crews ofbrownskinned natives nearly five months since she last saw him andthere she sits calmly watching us as if we had only sailed yesterdayAfraid of the sun Shes too selfish and too frightened of spoiling herpretty pinkandwhite skinthats what it isAn hour later the boats came alongside and then as the chain rattledthrough the hawsepipes Brabant came on deck dressed in a suit ofspotless whiteShall we see you this evening Jim he asked as he stood waiting toreceive the Customs officer and doctor whose boats were approachingThank you very much sir but I would rather stay on board thisevening as Dr Bruce is sure to come into town some time today assoon as he hears the _Maritana_ is here and I should not like to misshimJust as you please Jim But why not take a run on shore with him andboth of you come up for an hour or two after dinnerThe mate nodded Yes we could do that I think but at the same timeMrs Brabant wont much care about visitors this evening Im afraidMy wife will be only too delighted Jim replied the captain in hisgrave manner you and Bruce are my oldest friendsthat is quite enoughfor herThe port doctor and Customs officer came on board and warmly greetedthe captain of the _Maritana_ for apart from his being one of thewealthiest traders in the South Seas John Brabant was essentially aman who made friendsmade them insensibly and then his beautiful youngwife was the acknowledged belle of the small European community in Fijiand his house when he returned from one of his trading voyages wasliterally an open house for every onetraders storekeepers cottonplanters naval men or merchant skippersknew there was a welcomeawaiting them in the big bungalow on the hillside at whatever time theycalled day or night Such hospitality was customary in those old Fijiandays when every cotton planter saw before him the shining portals ofthe City of Fortune inviting him to enter and be rich and every traderand trading captain made money so easily that it was hard to spend itas quickly as it was made and Mantons Hotel on Levuka beach was fillednight after night with crowds of hilarious and excited people and thepopping of the champagne corks went on from dusk till dawn of the tropicday and men talked and drank and talked and drank again and told eachother of the lucky strokes they had made and suntanned skippers fromthe wild and murderous Solomons and the feverstricken New Hebridesspoke of the cargoes of blackbirds they had sold at two hundred andfifty dollars a head and dashed down a handful of yellow sovereignson Mantons bar for a drink all round And then sometimes a longsnakylooking brigantine with the name _Atlantic_ on her stern and theStars and Stripes flying from her gaff would sail into the noisy littleport nestling under the verdured hills of Ovalau Island and a big manwith a black flowing beard and a deep but merry voice would be rowedashore by a crew of wildeyed brownskinned Polynesians and BullyHayes has come Bully Hayes has come would be cried from one end ofLevuka to the other as every one white black and brown ran to thebeach to see the famous and muchmaligned pirate land with a smileon his handsome face his pockets full of gold and he himself ready foranything or everythinga _liaison_ with some other mans wife a storyof his last cruise a fight for love with some recently discoveredpugilist of local renown a sentimental Spanish song to the strumming ofhis guitar or the reading of the burial service according to the ritesof either the Roman Catholic Church or that of the Church of Englandover the remains of some acquaintance or stranger who had succumbed tofever or a bullet or Levuka whiskey Brave halcyon days were

Produced by An Anonymous VolunteerTHE BOYS AND GIRLS PLUTARCHBEING PARTS OF THE LIVES OF PLUTARCHBy PlutarchEdited for Boys and Girls With Introductions By John S WhiteHeadMaster Berkeley SchoolTable of Contents Life of Theseus Life of Romulus Comparison of Theseus and Romulus Life of Lycurgus Life of Solon Life of Themistocles Life of Camillus Life of Pericles Life of Demosthenes Life of Cicero Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero Life of Alcibiades Life of Coriolanus Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus Life of Aristides Life of Cimon Life of Pompey The Engines of Archimedes from the Life of Marcellus Description of Cleopatra from the Life of Antony Anecdotes from the Life of Agesilaus The Brothers from the Life of Timoleon The Wound of Philopoemen A Roman Triumph from the Life of Paulus Aemilius The Noble Character of Caius Fabricius from the Life of Pyrrhus From the Life of Quintus Fabius Maximus The Cruelty of Lucius Cornelius Sylla The Luxury of Lucullus From the Life of Sertorius the Roman who endeavored to establish a separate Government for himself in Spain The Scroll from the Life of Lysander The Character of Marcus Cato The Sacred Theban Band from the Life of Pelopidas From the Life of Titus Flamininus Conqueror of Philip Life of Alexander the Great The Death of CaesarTHESEUSAs geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the worldwhich they do not know about adding notes in the margin to the effectthat beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beastsunapproachable bogs Seythian ice or frozen sea so in this great workof mine in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with oneanother after passing through those periods which probable reasoningcan reach to and real history find a footing in I might very wellsay of those that are farther off Beyond this there is nothing butprodigies and fictions the only inhabitants are the poets and inventorsof fables there is no credit or certainty any farther Yet afterpublishing an account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king Ithought I might not without reason ascend as high as to Romulus beingbrought by my history so near to his time Considering therefore withmyself Whom shall I set so great a man face to face Or whom oppose Whos equal to the placeas Aeschylus expresses it I found none so fit as he who peopled thebeautiful and farfamed city of Athens to be set in opposition withthe father of the invincible and renowned city of Rome Let us hope thatFable may in what shall follow so submit to the purifying processes ofReason as to take the character of exact history We shall beg that wemay meet with candid readers and such as will receive with indulgencethe stories of antiquityTheseus seemed to me to resemble Romulus in many particulars Both ofthem had the repute of being sprung from the godsBoth warriors that by all the worlds allowedBoth of them united with strength of body an equal vigor of mind and ofthe two most famous cities of the world the one built in Rome and theother made Athens be inhabited Neither of them could avoid domesticmisfortunes nor jealousy at home but toward the close of theirlives are both of them said to have incurred great odium with theircountrymen if that is we may take the stories least like poetry asour guide to truthTheseus was the son of Aegeus and Aethra His lineage by his fathersside ascends as high as to Erechtheus and the first inhabitants ofAttica By his mothers side he was descended of Pelops who was themost powerful of all the kings of PeloponnesusWhen Aegeus went from the home of Aethra in Troezen to Athens he lefta sword and a pair of shoes hiding them under a great stone that had ahollow in it exactly fitting them and went away making her only privyto it and commanding her that if when their son came to mans estatehe should be able to lift up the stone and take away what he had leftthere she should send him away to him with those things with allsecrecy and with injunctions to him as much as possible to conceal hisjourney from everyone for he greatly feared the Pallantidae who werecontinually mutinying against him and despised him for his want ofchildren they themselves being fifty brothers all sons of Pallas thebrother of AegeusWhen Aethras son was born some say that he was immediately namedTheseus from the tokens which his father had put under the stoneothers that he received his name afterwards at Athens when Aegeusacknowledged him for his son He was brought up under his grandfatherPittheus and had a tutor and attendant set over him named Connidas towhom the Athenians even to this time the day before the feast that isdedicated to Theseus sacrifice a ram giving this honor to his memoryupon much juster grounds than to Silanio and Parrhasius for makingpictures and statues of Theseus There being then a custom for theGrecian youth upon their first coming to a mans estate to go toDelphi and offer firstfruits of their hair to the god Theseus also wentthither and

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan Chris Curnow Joseph Cooperand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet Illustration Midnight Pool Animals Drinking HEATH SUPPLEMENTARY READERS THE WONDERS OF THE JUNGLE PRINCE SARATH GHOSH BOOK ONE D C HEATH AND COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO ATLANTA DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO LONDON COPYRIGHT 1915 BY D C HEATH CO PREFACEOne of the great thinkers of the world has said that all the sciencesare embodied in natural history Hence natural history should betaught to a child from an early agePerhaps the best method of teaching it is to set forth thecharacteristics of animals in the form of a narrative Then the childreads the narrative with pleasure and almost as a story not as atedious lessonI have followed that method in the Wonders of the Jungle The presentwork Book One is intended to be a supplementary reader for theearlier grades in grammar schools If it be found useful I shallwrite one or two more books in progressive order for the use of highergradesIn Book One I have depicted only such wild animals as appeal to theinterest of young children and even to their sympathy and love Insubsequent books I shall describe the animals that prey upon othersAs those animals are not lovable it would be better for the child toread about them a year or two later But even to those animals I shallbe just and shall depict their good qualities as well as theirpreying habits How many people know that the very worst animal thetiger is a better husband and father than many men Or that theferocity of the tigress is prompted entirely by her maternalinstinctand that in every case of unusual ferocity yet recorded itwas afterward found that there was a helpless cub somewhere nearHence in subsequent books I shall enter more fully into the causes ofanimal instincts and characteristicstheir loves and their hates andtheir fearsRegarding the scheme of Book One the animals are described in theirdaily life and the main scientific facts and principles concerningeach animal are woven into the narrative as a part of that daily lifeBut while teaching science to the child in that pleasant form a fewother purposes have also been kept in view1 To cultivate the childs imagination True imagination is theability to visualize mentally the realities of life not what isunrealfor which it is so often mistaken Hence in this book thechild is helped to visualize the animals in their actual haunts andto see each incident as it actually happens2 To cultivate the childs reasoning faculty The child is encouragedat every step to think and to reason why the animal does certainthings _eg_ why the elephant does not drink directly with itsmouth but has to squirt the water into it with the trunk3 To teach a moral from the study of animals The whole of Creationis one immense and beautiful pattern so the child may well be trainedto see the pattern in this also And as a practical benefit from thestudy of animals the child may learn thereby the value of certainqualities such as obedience discipline and good citizenship_eg_as in the remarkable case of the elephant the buffalo and theflamingo as described in the text In this regard I have kept in mindthe very useful suggestions formulated a few years ago by the MoralEducation League of Great Britain under the patronage of Queen Maryfive of whose children at that time ranged in age from seven tofifteen One of the functions of education is to present to the childthe noblest and the most elevated of ideals I have sought to do thatin almost every chapterI have to acknowledge my obligation to the New York KindergartenAssociation for its valuable cooperation in putting this book througha practical test The Kindergarten Association on more than oneoccasion provided me with a large audience of children ranging in agefrom six to nine expupils of the Association who are now in thepublic schoolsCONTENTSCHAPTERI THE MIDNIGHT POOLElephants Drink FirstBut Down StreamHow the Elephant DrinksWhy the Elephant Drinks with his TrunkII THE LAW OF THE JUNGLEHow Buffaloes Come to DrinkIn RowsBuffalo Knights Guard the Timid DeerWild PigsCarelessRed DogsBold Fearing NobodyOther Animals Come AloneThe Law of the JungleClear Water for AllIII THE ELEPHANTS BATHElephant Child Obeys Mammaor Gets SpankedHow the Elephant Child is BathedHow the Elephant Child Learns to

Produced by David Clarke Jeannie Howse and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file was produced from images generously made available by The InternetArchiveCanadian Libraries Transcribers Note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected For a complete list please see the end of this document LETTERSOFLIEUTCOLONEL GEORGE BRENTON LAURIEIllustration signed George Brenton LaurieFor Private CirculationLETTERSOFLtCol GEORGE BRENTON LAURIECommanding 1st Battn Royal Irish RiflesDated NOVEMBER 4th 1914MARCH 11th 1915EDITED BY FLORENCE VERELAURIE_Printed by_GALE POLDEN LTDWellington Works Aldershot1921TO HALIBURTON BLANCHE AND SYDNEYMY DEAR CHILDRENI dedicate this little volume to you in memory of your father who asyou know fell on March 12th 1915 in the Battle of Neuve ChapelleThese Letters which were written to me from France during the firstwinter of the World War do not in any way pretend to literaryattainment they are just the simple letters of a soldier recording asa diary the daily doings of his regiment at the frontOften were they penned under great difficulties and many a time undera rain of fire The accounts of the awful loss of life and thediscomforts experienced both by officers and men unused to suchsevere climatic conditions are sometimes heartrending and they makethe reading sadTouches however of his natural cheerfulness relieve the greyness ofthe situation and at times one can almost hear the lightheartednessof a schoolboy speakingYour father cared for his regiment as a father cares for his childand was beloved by it He obtained his commission in 1885 at 18 yearsof age and was curiously enough the last officer to enter theBritish Army with the rank of a full Lieutenant Had he lived till thefollowing September he would have been 30 years in the Royal IrishRiflesA short sketch of his life and military career is given in this bookand reference is made to the pleasure he took in being chosen to writethe History of his Regiment completed in 1914 He was also devoted toall kinds of sport as a pastime but I will not write of these thingsrather would I speak of his great wish to win fresh laurels for hisregiment and of how proud he was when after the long dreary winterin the trenches the Royal Irish Rifles were the first to enter thevillage of Neuve Chapelle But above all would I counsel you to followhis example in his faithful attention to duty fulfilling the Frenchproverb Faites ce que doit advienne que pourraHe died as a true soldier leading his men and what better deathcould be desired He now lies in the British military cemetery of Pontdu Hem midway between Neuve Chapelle and Estaires not far fromBethune in Northern France and a little wooden cross marks the spot F VERELAURIECARLTON HALL CARLTONONTRENT NOTTS _May 12th 1921_FOREWORDBY LIEUTCOLONEL SIR JOHN ROSS OF BLADENSBURG KCB KCVO_late Coldstream Guards_Colonel George Laurie came from a military family His father adistinguished General and his uncle both served in the Crimea andelsewhere and many of his near relations joined the army and werewellknown zealous soldiers of their Sovereign His elder brother fellin the Boer War in the beginning of this century and he himself sawactive service in the Sudan and in South Africa before he landed inFrance to take his share in the great World War On being promoted tothe command of his battalion he joined it at Kamptee in India andthis obliged him to leave his wife and family at home for youngchildren are not able to live in that tropical very hot and unhealthydistrict From that station with scarcely any opportunity of seeingthem again he was launched into the severities of a cold and wetwinter in a waterlogged part of Flanders His experiences aregraphically told in his letters and they will show how much ourgallant troops had to endure when engaged in the terrible conflictwhich the ambition of Prussia had provoked and with what fortitudeand courage they defended the country from the serious dangers thatthen menaced itAll who have read these interesting letters will I think perceivethat one dominant feature in Colonel Lauries character was a keen andallpervading sense of duty and an earnest determination to dischargeit in every circumstance as thoroughly and

Produced by Joe Longo S Drawehn and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet THE TALE OF GRUMPY WEASEL SLEEPYTIME TALES Trademark Registered BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY AUTHOR OF TUCKMEIN TALES Trademark Registered The Tale of Cuffy Bear The Tale of Frisky Squirrel The Tale of Tommy Fox The Tale of Fatty Coon The Tale of Billy Woodchuck The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit The Tale of Peter Mink The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk The Tale of Brownie Beaver The Tale of Paddy Muskrat The Tale of Ferdinand Frog The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse The Tale of Timothy Turtle The Tale of Major Monkey The Tale of Benny BadgerIllustration Grumpy Weasel and Jimmy Rabbit Run a Race _Frontispiece__Page 46_ SLEEPYTIME TALES Trademark Registered THE TALE OF GRUMPY WEASEL BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY Author of TUCKMEIN TALES Trademark Registered ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY L SMITH NEW YORK GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Made in the United States of America COPYRIGHT 1920 BY GROSSET DUNLAPCONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A SLIM RASCAL 1 II AT THE OLD STONE WALL 5 III MASTER ROBINS LESSON 9 IV HUNTING A HOLE 13 V SOLOMON OWL INTERRUPTS 18 VI MR MEADOW MOUSE ESCAPES 23 VII PADDY MUSKRATS BLUNDER 28 VIII THE DARE 33 IX SAVING HIS FEET 38 X HA AND HA HA 42 XI A LONG RACE 46 XII WINNING BY A TRICK 51 XIII SILLY MRS HEN 56 XIV GRUMPY VANISHES 60 XV THE GREAT MYSTERY 64 XVI GUARDING THE CORNCRIB 69 XVII GRUMPYS MISTAKE 73 XVIII POP GOES THE WEASEL 78 XIX HIDING FROM HENRY HAWK 83 XX A FREE RIDE 88 XXI A NEW SUIT 93 XXII GRUMPYS THREAT 98 XXIII A BOLD STRANGER 103 XXIV FUR AND FEATHERS 107 XXV PETER MINKS PROMISE 112 XXVI HOW GRUMPY HELPED 116THE TALE OF GRUMPY WEASELIA SLIM RASCALOld Mr Crow often remarked that if Grumpy Weasel really wanted to be ofsome use in the world he would spend his time at the sawmill fillingknot holes in boardsHes so slender Mr Crow would say that he can push himself into aknot hole no bigger round than Farmer Greens thumbNaturally it did not please old Mr Crow when Solomon Owl went out ofhis way one day to tell him that he was sadly mistaken For afterhearing some gossip repeat Mr Crows opinion Solomon Owlthe wise oldbirdhad given several long hoots and hurried off though it was broaddaylight to set Mr Crow rightThe trouble Solomon explained when he had found Mr Crow on the edgeof the woodsthe trouble with your plan to have Grumpy Weasel work inthe sawmill is that he wouldnt keep a knot hole filled longer than ajiffy Its true that he can fit a very small hole But if youd everwatched him closely youd know that hes in a hole and out the otherside so fast you can scarcely see what happens Hes

Produced by Suzanne Shell Linda Cantoni and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisebook was created from a 1970 reprint published by AugustusM Kelly Publishers New YorkTranscribers Notes This book contains documents written in 17th and18thCentury English Dutch French and other languagesInconsistencies of spelling punctuation capitalization andhyphenation have been preserved as they appear in the original Seethe last paragraph of the Preface for the editors note on thisA few obvious printer errors in the editors footnotes have beencorrectedThis book contains characters with macrons which are represented herein brackets with an equal sign eg aThe original contains various symbols to represent signature marksThese have been described in brackets eg JOHN X SMITHThe original contains a number of blank spaces to represent missingmatter These are represented here as a series of four hyphensIn the original there are a few numbers enclosed in square bracketsThey are here enclosed in curly brackets in order to avoid confusionwith the squarebracketed footnote numbers used in this etextPRIVATEERING AND PIRACYIN THECOLONIAL PERIOD ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTSEDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OFTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THECOLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICABYJOHN FRANKLIN JAMESONDIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH INTHE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTONNew YorkTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY1923TO THE HONORED MEMORY OFJOHN JAMESONOF BOSTON18281905VOYAGER TEACHER LAWYER SCHOLARWHOSE LOVE OF LEARNING AND WHOSE UNSELFISHDEVOTION MADE IT NATURAL AND POSSIBLETHAT I SHOULD LEAD THE STUDENTS LIFEPREFACEThe National Society of the Colonial Dames of America have formed thelaudable habit of illustrating the colonial period of United Stateshistory in which they are especially interested by published volumesof original historical material previously unprinted and relating tothat period Thus in the course of years they have made a largeaddition to the number of documentary sources available to the studentof that period First they published in 1906 in two handsomevolumes the _Correspondence of William Pitt when Secretary of Statewith Colonial Governors and Military and Naval Commanders in America_edited by the late Miss Gertrude Selwyn Kimball containing materialof great importance to the history of the colonies as a whole and ofthe management of the French and Indian War Next in 1911 and 1914they published the two volumes of Professor James C Ballaghsvaluable edition of the _Letters of Richard Henry Lee_ Then in 1912they brought out again in two volumes the _Correspondence ofGovernor William Shirley_ edited by Dr Charles H Lincoln andillustrating the history of several colonies particularly those ofNew England during the period of what in our colonial history iscalled King Georges War More recently in 1916 the Societypublished an entertaining volume of hitherto unprinted _Travels in theAmerican Colonies_ edited by Dr Newton D MerenessIt was resolved that the next volume after these should be devoted todocuments relating to maritime history In proportion to itsimportance that aspect of our colonial history has in generalreceived too little attention In time of peace the colonists nearlyall of whom dwelt within a hundred miles of ocean or tidewatermaintained constantly a maritime commerce that had a large importanceto their economic life and gave employment to no small part of theirpopulation In time of war their naval problems and dangers andachievements were hardly less important than those of land warfarebut have been far less exploited whether in narrative histories or involumes of documentary materials Accordingly the Societys Committeeon Publication readily acceded to the suggestion that a volume shouldbe made up of documents illustrating the history of privateering andpiracy as these stand related to the life of America during thecolonial periodfor it is agreed that few aspects of our maritimehistory in that period have greater importance and interest than thesetwo In some of our colonial wars as later in those of the Revolutionand of 1812 American privateering assumed such proportions as to makeit for brief periods one of the leading American industries Wecannot quite say the same concerning American piracy and indeed itmight be thought disrespectful to our ancestorsor predecessors forpirates mostly died young and left few descendantsbut at least itwill be conceded that piracy at times flourished in American watersthat not a few of the pirates and of those on shore who received theirgoods and otherwise aided them were Americans that their activitieshad an important influence on the development of American commerceand that documents relative to piracy make interesting readingIt is a matter for regret and on the editors part for apology thatthe book should have been so long in preparation Work on it was begunprosperously before our country was engaged in war but the sparetime which the editor can command always slight in amount was muchreduced during the period of warfare Moreover the Society veryproperly determined that so long as war continued the publicationof their volumes and the expenditures now attendant upon printingought to be postponed in favor of those patriotic undertakingsespecially for the relief of suffering which have made their namegrateful to all lovers of the Navy and in all places where the_Comfort_ and the _Mercy_ have sailedIt may be objected against the plan of this book that privateeringand piracy should not be conjoined in one volume with documentsintermingled in one chronological order lest the impression becreated that piracy and privateering were much the same It is truethat in theory and in legal definition they are widely differentthings and stand on totally different bases Legally a privateer isan armed vessel or its commander which in time of war thoughowners and officers and crew are private persons has a commissionfrom a belligerent government to commit acts of warfare on vessels ofits enemy Legally a pirate is one who commits robbery or other actsof violence on the sea or on the land through descent from the seawithout having any authority from and independently of any organizedgovernment or political society Fighting and bloodshed and murderit may be remarked by the way though natural concomitants of thepirates trade are not as is often supposed essentials of the crimeof piracy But wide as is the legal distinction between theauthorized warfare of the privateer and the unauthorized violence ofthe pirate in practice it was very difficult to keep the privateerand his crew far from the eye of authority within the bounds

Produced by David Starner Irma Spehar and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND Some of its Medical Uses WITH PRACTICAL REMARKS ON DROPSY AND OTHER DISEASES BY WILLIAM WITHERING M D Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham _ nonumque prematur in annum_ HORACE BIRMINGHAM PRINTED BY M SWINNEY FOR G G J AND J ROBINSON PATERNOSTERROW LONDON MDCCLXXXV PREFACEAfter being frequently urged to write upon this subject and as oftendeclining to do it from apprehension of my own inability I am atlength compelled to take up the pen however unqualified I may stillfeel myself for the taskThe use of the Foxglove is getting abroad and it is better the worldshould derive some instruction however imperfect from my experiencethan that the lives of men should be hazarded by its unguardedexhibition or that a medicine of so much efficacy should be condemnedand rejected as dangerous and unmanageableIt is now about ten years since I first began to use this medicineExperience and cautious attention gradually taught me how to use itFor the last two years I have not had occasion to alter the modes ofmanagement but I am still far from thinking them perfectIt would have been an easy task to have given select cases whosesuccessful treatment would have spoken strongly in favour of themedicine and perhaps been flattering to my own reputation But Truthand Science would condemn the procedure I have therefore mentionedevery case in which I have prescribed the Foxglove proper orimproper successful or otherwise Such a conduct will lay me open tothe censure of those who are disposed to censure but it will meet theapprobation of others who are the best qualified to be judgesTo the Surgeons and Apothecaries with whom I am connected inpractice both in this town and at a distance I beg leave to makethis public acknowledgment for the assistance they so readilyafforded me in perfecting some of the cases and in communicating theevents of othersThe ages of the patients are not always exact nor would the labour ofmaking them so have been repaid by any useful consequences In a fewinstances accuracy in that respect was necessary and there it hasbeen attempted but in general an approximation towards the truthwas supposed to be sufficientThe cases related from my own experience are generally written in theshortest form I could contrive in order to save time and labour Someof them are given more in detail when particular circumstances madesuch detail necessary but the cases communicated by otherpractitioners are given in their own wordsI must caution the reader who is not a practitioner in physic thatno general deductions decisive upon the failure or success of themedicine can be drawn from the cases I now present to him Thesecases must be considered as the most hopeless and deplorable thatexist for physicians are seldom consulted in chronic diseases tillthe usual remedies have failed and indeed for some years whilst Iwas less expert in the management of the Digitalis I seldomprescribed it but when the failure of every other method compelled meto do it so that upon the whole the instances I am going to adducemay truly be considered as cases lost to the common run of practiceand

Produced by Free Elf Louise Pryor Early English BooksOnline and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetTranscribers note The spelling and word divisions are inconsistent throughout the original No changes have been made but some possible typographical errors are listed at the end of the etext There are two places in the original where paragraphs start with a decorative initial capital letter instead of the usual sign These paragraphs are preceded in this etext with a row of asterisks Several contractions are used in the original Vowels with a line over them usually indicating an omitted m or n These contractions have been expanded in this etext The words the and that are often printed in the original as a y with a very small e or t over the top These contractions are represented in this etext by the and that The word with is sometimes printed in the original as a w followed by a superscript t This contraction is represented in this etext by with The word thus is once printed in the original as a y followed by a superscript s This contraction is represented in this etext by thus The prophete Ionas with an introduccion before teachinge tovnderstonde him and the right vse also of all the scripture and why itwas written and what is therin to be sought and shewenge wherewith thescripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it can not vnderstonde itthough he studie therin neuer so moch and agayne with what keyes it isso opened that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or falsedoctrine of man from the true sense and vnderstondynge therofW T vn to the Christen readerAs the envious Philistenes stopped the welles of Abraham and filledthem vpp with erth to put the memoriall out of minde to the ententthat they might chalenge the grounde even so the fleshly mindedypocrites stoppe vpp the vaynes of life which are in the scripturewith the erth of theyr tradicions false similitudes liengeallegories that of like zele to make the scripture theyr awnepossession marchaundice and so shutt vpp the kingdome of heven whichis Gods worde nether enteringe in them selues nor soferinge them thatwolde The scripture hath a body with out and within a soule sprite lifeIt hath with out a barke a shell and as it were an hard bone for thefleshly mynded to gnaw vppon And within it hath pith cornell mary all swetnesse for Gods electe which he hath chosen to geve them hisspirite to write his law the faith of his sonne in their hertes The scripture conteyneth iii thinges in it first the law to condemneall flesh secondaryly the Gospell that is to saye promises ofmercie for all that repent knowlege their sinnes at the preachingeof the law consent in their hertes that the law is good submittethem selues to be scolers to lern to kepe the lawe to lerne to beleuethe mercie that is promised them thridly the stories liues ofthose scolars both what chaunces fortuned them also by what meanestheir scolemaster taught them and made them perfecte how he tried thetrue from the false When the ypocrites come to the lawe they put gloses to and make nomoare of it then of a worldly law which is satisfied with the outwardeworke and which a turke maye also fulfill When yet Gods law neverceaseth to condemne a man vntill it be written in his herte and vntill hekepe it naturally without compulsion all other respecte saue only ofpure love to God and his neyboure as he naturally eateth when he is anhongred without compulsion all other respecte saue to slake his hongreonly And when they come to the Gospell there they mingle their leuen sayeGod now receaueth vs no moare to mercie but of mercie receaueth vs topenaunce that is to wete holy dedes that make them fatt belies vstheir captiues both in soule and body And yet they fayne theyr Idolethe Pope so mercifull that if thou make a litle money glister inhis Balams eyes there is nether penaunce ner purgatory ner any fastingeat all but to fle to heven as swefte as a thought and at thetwinkellynge of an eye And the liues stories and gestes of men which are contayned in thebible they reade as thinges no moare perteyninge vn to them then a takeof Robin hode as thinges they wott not wherto they serue saue to faynefalse discant iuglinge allegories to stablish their kingdome with allAnd one the chefest fleshliest studie they have is to magnifiethe sayntes aboue measure aboue the trueth with their poetrie tomake them greater then euer God make them And if they finde anyinfirmite or synne asscribed vn to the saintes that they excuse withall diligence diminushinge the glorie of the mercie of God robbingewretched sinners of all theyr comforte thinke therby to flater thesayntes and to obtayne their fauoure to make speciall aduocates ofthem even as a man wold obtayne the fauoure of wordely tirantes asthey also fayne the saintes moch moare cruell then ever was any heathenman moare wrekefull and vengeable then the poetes faine their godesor their furies that torment the soules in hell if theyr euens benot fasted their images visited saluted wyth a Pater noster whychprayer only oure lippes be accoynted with oure hertes vnderstondinge noneat all and worsheped with a candell the offeringe of oure deuocionin the place which thei haue chosen to heare the supplicacions mekepeticions of their clientes therin But thou reader thinke of the law of God how that it is all together spirituall so spirituall that it is

Produced by Christine D Jason Isbell Swiss NationalLibrary and Swiss Institute and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasmade using scans of public domain works in the InternationalChildrens Digital Library COLLECTION DE CENTCINQUANTE GRAVURES REPRÉSENTANT ET FORMANT UNE SUITE NON INTERROMPUEDES VOYAGES ET AVENTURES SURPRENANTES DE ROBINSON CRUSOÉDessinées et Gravées PAR F A L DUMOULIN A VEVEYImprimerie de LOERTSCHER ET FILS à VEVEYAVERTISSEMENTTout le monde connait les _aventures de Robinson Crusoé_ malgré lescharmantes imitations quon a fait de ce roman on revient toujours avecplaisir à loriginal louvrage que je publie se compose de 150 gravures àleau forte et retouchées au burin toutes tirées de cet ouvrage etformant une suite de tableaux qui me paraissent dun grand intérêtsurtout pour les jeunes gens et dont lensemble met sous les yeux desscènes de tout genreDès mon enfance ce livre et les figures qui y étaient attachées fixèrentsingulièrement mon attention je leur dois le goût de la lecture dudessin et de létude de la nature et _Robinson Crusoé_ développa chez moile désir de voyager Avec ces goûts et ces désirs jallai dabord enAngleterre dans le but de me vouer au commerce dont javais fait unapprentissage Arrivant à une époque marquée par de nombreuses faillitesmes amis ne purent me trouver de place convenable à Londres mais ils menprocurèrent une dans une maison de lisle de la Grenade Je partis desdunes le 15 Février 1773 le temps était très mauvais une tempèteaffreuse qui fit périr plus de 60 bâtiments et qui dura quatre joursnous fit courir les plus grands dangers et il ne sen fallut que de 5 à 6pieds que nous ne fussions brisés par un gros vaisseau qui chassait surses ancres ce fut seulement le 13 Avril que nous arrivames à la GrenadePendant mon séjour aux Antilles de 1773 à 1782 jai été témoin de la prisede cette isle par les Français et du combat naval qui se donna près de laville de St Georges sa capitale entre le comte dEstaing et lamiralByron de lépouvantable ouragan dOctobre 1780 qui désola les Antilleset couvrit les mers de naufrages de la grande affaire du 12e Avril 1782entre le comte de Grasse et lamiral Rodney de lincendie de plusieursnavires et de divers phénomènes qui appartiennent à ces plages lointainesMa passion pour le dessin me fit esquisser ces différents scènes un grandnombre de paysages et quelques animaux appartenant à ces climats et je mecomposai un livre _détudes_ où je peignis la mer sous ses différensaspects de calme et de tempêtes des vaisseaux avec tous leurs agrès eten général tout ce qui tient au genre de la _marine_ si bien étudié etrendu par limmortel _Vernet_ mais jai malheureusement perdu la plusgrande partie de mes croquis à la prise de la Grenade où je fus blessédans les rangs de ceux qui la défendaient et fait prisonnier cest alorsquun officier anglais qui fréquentait notre maison et qui ne sétaitnullement soucié de se battre menleva mes dessins et divers événementsfâcheux mont privé dans la suite du peu desquisses que javaisconservées mais elles étaient peintes dans ma mémoire et jen ai pureproduire quelquesunesJeus encore occasion daller visiter les isles de la Trinité et deTabago peu éloignées surtout la première des magnifiques bouches delOrénoque et de parcourir une partie de la curieuse province de Caracasce voyage me rappela vivement le roman favori de mon enfancelimagination se joignit à la mémoire et de retour dans ma Patrie jeconsacrai mes loisirs de Vevey à reproduire par le burin _RobinsonCrusoé_ dans tout le détail de ses aventuresJe ne suis entré dans le narré de ce qui me regarde personnellement quepour faire mieux sentir que mes dessins sont une copie fidèle de ce quejai vu et observé tant pour le paysage que pour la marine que jaiétudiés lun et lautre avec autant dardeur que dexactitude et cestdaprès les meilleurs auteurs qui ont décrit les costumes et paysages delInde et de lAsie septentrionale que jai travaillé pour la dernièrepartie de cet ouvrage Cest entrautres daprès le père Kircher danssa Chine illustrée et le voyage de Lord Macartney que jai puisé ledessin de la grande muraille Quant à la gravure on verra sans que je ledise que cest louvrage dun apprentif qui ne la apprise que deluimême et sans le secours daucun maîtreJe finis par exprimer le désir que mon ouvrage réussisse à amuser et mêmeà instruire car je puis ajouter quil tend à développer lindustrieindividuelle en montrant de quoi un seul homme est capable et à fairevoir quavec de ladresse et de la persévérance on peut aller assez loindans cette branche de technologie qui pourvoit à nos premiers besoinscest ainsi qualimentant une louable curiosité on ne saurait lui refuserle mérite de joindre lutile à lagréableRobinson devant son Père qui lui fait des remontrances sur son gout decourir le Monde il lui prédit les malheurs qui lui arriveroientRobinson escorté par un Marin son ami se décide à entreprendre son 1erVoye par MerLe Vaisseau sur lequel Robinson sétoit embarqué à Hull fait Naufragedans la Rade dYarmouth Robinson se sauve avec lEquipageCommerce des Esclaves à la Côte dAfrique pour les Plantations desEuropéens aux Indes OccidentalesVue du pont dun Vaisseau faisant le Commerce des Nègres pour Servir àconnoitre la manière de transporter les Esclaves de la Cote dAfrique dansles Colonies Européennes des Indes OccidentalesRobinson faisant le Voyage de la Guinée est fait prisonnier par unCorsaire Marocquin qui le mena Esclave à SaléRobinson étant Esclave chez les Maures de Salé travaille dans les jardinsde son PatronRobinson se Sauve dEsclavage dans une Chaloupe avec un jeune Maure deSaléRobinson après setre Sauvé dEsclavage fait route pour le Cap Verd tueun Lion sur la Cote du Désert de ZaraRobinson continuant sa fuite le long de la Cote dAfrique rencontre desNègres tue un LeopardLes Nègres pour recompenser Robinson du Leopard quil leur avoit donnélui fournissent de leau et des racinesRobinson à la hauteur du Cap verd est recu à bord dun Vaisseau Portugaisqui le conduit au BrésilRobinson défrichant sa Plantation au Brésil fait

Produced by Jeannie Howse Bryan Ness and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveCanadian Libraries_The Thunders of Silence_BY IRVIN S COBBFICTION THOSE TIMES AND THESE LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST FIBBLE DD BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR TRIMMWIT AND HUMOR SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBBS BILL OF FARE COBBS ANATOMYMISCELLANY THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS PATHS OF GLORYGEORGE H DORAN COMPANYNEW YORK Illustration THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE A MIGHTY PATIENT LOT_The Thundersof Silence_By_Irvin S Cobb_Author of Paths of Glory Speakingof Prussians etcILLUSTRATEDIllustrationNew YorkGeorge H Doran CompanyCOPYRIGHT 1918BY GEORGE H DORAN COMPANYCOPYRIGHT 1918 BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANYPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA_ILLUSTRATIONS_The American people are a mighty patient lot _Frontispiece_ PAGEThe lone wolf wasnt a lone wolf any longer He had a pack to rally about him 16Thats the thing he feeds onVanity 32He may or may not keep faith but you can bet he always keeps a scrapbook 48_The Thunders of Silence_Some people said Congressman Mallard had gone mad These were hisfriends striving out of the goodness of their hearts to put the bestface on what at best was a lamentable situation Some said he was atraitor to his country These were his enemies personal politicaland journalistic Some called him a patriot who put humanity abovenationality a new John the Baptist come out of the wilderness topreach a sobering doctrine of worldpeace to a world made drunk onwar And these were his followers Of the firsthis friendstherewere not many left Of the second group there were millions thatmultiplied themselves Of the third there had been at the outset but atimorous and furtive few and they mostly men and women who spokeEnglish if they spoke it at all with the halting speech and thetwisted idiom that betrayed their foreign birth being persons whofound it entirely consistent to applaud the preachment of planeticdisarmament out of one side of their mouths and out of the other sideof their mouths to pray for the success at arms of the War Lord whosehand had shoved the universe over the rim of the chasm But eachpassing day now saw them increasing in number and in audacity Takingcourage to themselves from the courage of their apostle these hisdisciples were beginning to shout from the housetops what once theyhad only dared whisper beneath the eaves Disloyalty no longersmouldered it was blazing up It crackled and threw off firebrandsOf all those who sat in judgment upon the acts and the utterances ofthe manand this classification would include every articulatecreature in the United States who was old enough to be reasonableorunreasonableonly a handful had the right diagnosis for the caseHere and there were to be found men who knew he was neither crazed norinspired and quite rightly they put no credence in the charge that hehad sold himself for pieces of silver to the enemy of his own nationThey knew what ailed the Honourable Jason Mallardthat he was avictim of a strangulated ambition of an egotistic hernia He washopelessly ruptured in his vanity All his life he had lived on loveof notoriety and by that same perverted passion he was being eatenup Once he had diligently besought the confidence and the affectionsof a majority of his fellow citizens now he seemed bent uponconsolidating their hate for him into a common flood and lavinghimself in it Well if such was his wish he was having it there wasno denying thatIn the prime of his life before he was fifty it had seemed thatalmost for the asking the presidency might have been his He had beenborn right as the saying goes and bred right to make suitablepresidential timber He came of fine clean blends of blood His fatherhad been a descendant of NormanEnglish folk who settled in Marylandbefore the Revolution the family name had originally been Maillardafterward corrupted into Mallard His mothers people wereScotchIrish immigrants of the types that carved out their homesteadswith axes on the spiny haunches of the Cumberlands In the Civil Warhis father had fought for the Union in a regiment of borderers twoof his uncles had been partisan rangers on the side of theConfederacy If he was a trifle young to be of that generation ofpublic men who were born in unchinked log cabins of the wilderness orprairiesod shanties at least he was to enjoy the subsequentpolitical advantage of having come into the world in a tworoom houseof unpainted pine slabs on the sloped withers of a mountain in EastTennessee As a child he had been taken by his parents to one of thestates which are called pivotal states There he had grown upfarmboy first teacher of a district school selftaught lawyer countyattorney state legislator governor congressman for five terms afloor leader of his partyso that by ancestry and environment by theethics of political expediency

Produced by Donald LainsonPUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACEBy Charles ReadeI will frame a work of fiction upon notorious fact so that anybodyshall think he can do the same shall labor and toil attemptingthe same and failsuch is the power of sequence and connection inwritingHORACE Art of PoetryCHAPTER IHillsborough and its outlying suburbs make bricks by the million spinand weave both wool and cotton forge in steel from the finest needle upto a ships armor and so add considerably to the kingdoms wealthBut industry so vast working by steam on a limited space has beenfatal to beauty Hillsborough though built on one of the loveliestsites in England is perhaps the most hideous town in creation All upsand down and back slums Not one of its wriggling brokenbacked streetshas handsome shops in an unbroken row Houses seem to have battled inthe air and stuck wherever they tumbled down dead out of the melee Butworst of all the city is pockmarked with publichouses and bristleswith high round chimneys These are not confined to a locality butstuck all over the place like cloves in an orange They defy the lawand belch forth massy volumes of black smoke that hang like acres ofcrape over the place and veil the sun and the blue sky even in thebrightest day But in a fogwhy the air of Hillsborough looks a thingto plow if you want a dirty jobMore than one crystal stream runs sparkling down the valleys andenters the town but they soon get defiled and creep through it heavilycharged with dyes clogged with putridity and bubbling with poisonousgases till at last they turn to mere ink stink and malaria andpeople the churchyards as they crawlThis infernal city whose water is blacking and whose air is coal liesin a basin of delight and beauty noble slopes broad valleys wateredby rivers and brooks of singular beauty and fringed by fair woods inplaces and eastward the hills rise into mountains and amongst themtowers Cairnhope striped with silver rills and violet in the settingsunCairnhope is a forked mountain with a bosom of purple heather and acraggy head Between its forks stood at the period of my story a greatcuriosity which merits description on its own account and also as thescene of curious incidents to comeIt was a deserted church The walls were pierced with arrowslitsthrough which the original worshipers had sent many a deadly shaft indefense of their women and cattle collected within the sacred edificeat the first news of marauders comingBuilt up among the heathery hills in times of war and trouble it hadoutlived its uses Its people had long ago gone down into the fruitfulvalley and raised another church in their midst and left this oldhouse of God alone and silent as the tombs of their forefathers thatlay around itIt was no ruin though on the road to decay One of the side walls wasmuch lower than the other and the roof had two great waves and washeavily clothed in natural patterns with velvet moss and sprinkledall over with bright amber lichen a few tiles had slipped off in twoplaces and showed the rafters brown with time and weather but thestructure was solid and sound the fallen tiles lay undisturbed beneaththe eaves not a brick not a beam not a gravestone had been stolennot even to build the new church of the diamond panes full halfremained the stone font was still in its place with its Gothic coverrichly carved and four brasses reposed in the chancel one of themloose in its bedWhat had caused the church to be deserted had kept it from beingdesecrated it was clean out of the way No gypsy nor vagrant everslept there and even the boys of the village kept their distanceNothing would have pleased them better than to break the sacred windowstime had spared and defile the graves of their forefathers withpitchfarthing and other arts but it was three miles off and there wasa lion in the way they must pass in sight of Squire Rabys house andwhenever they had tried it he and his groom had followed them onswift horses that could jump as well as gallop had caught them in thechurchyard and lashed them heartily and the same night notice to quithad been given to their parents who were all Mr Rabys weekly tenantsand this had led to a compromise and flagellationOnce or twice every summer a more insidious foe approached Some littleparty of tourists including a lady who sketched in water and neverfinished anything would hear of the old church and wander up to itBut Mr Rabys trusty groom was sure to be after them with ordersto keep by them under guise of friendship and tell them outrageousfigments and see that they demolished not stole not sculptured notAll this was odd enough in itself but it astonished nobody who knew MrRaby His father and predecessor had guarded the old church religiouslyin his day and was buried in it by his own orders and as for GuyRaby himself what wonder he respected it since his own mind like thatold church was out of date and a relic of the pastAn antique Tory squire nursed in expiring Jacobitism and cradled inthe pride of race educated at Oxford well read in books versed incounty business and acquainted with trade and commerce yet puffed upwith aristocratic notions and hugging the very prejudices our nobilityare getting rid of as fast as the vulgar will let themHe had a sovereign contempt for tradespeople and especially formanufacturers Any one of those numerous disputes between masters andmechanics which distinguish British industry might have been safelyreferred to him for he abhorred and despised them both with strictimpartialityThe lingering beams of a bright December day still gilded the mosscladroof of that deserted church and flamed on its broken panes when ayoung man came galloping toward it from Hillsborough on one of thosepowerful horses common in that districtHe came so swiftly and so direct that ere the sun had been down twentyminutes he and his smoking horse had reached a

Produced by David Edwards Cline St Charleskindt and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was made using scans of public domain works putonline by Harvard University Librarys Open CollectionsProgram Women Working 1800 1930GIRL SCOUTSTHEIR WORKS WAYS AND PLAYS_Be Prepared_Illustration CoverIllustration Girl Scout LogoGIRL SCOUTSIncorporatedNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS189 Lexington AvenueNew York City_Series No 5_GIRL SCOUTSMOTTO_Be Prepared_Illustration Girl Scout LogoSLOGAN_Do A Good Turn Daily_PROMISE On My Honor I Will Try To do my duty to God and to my Country To help other people at all times To obey the Scout LawsLAWS I A Girl Scouts Honor is to be trusted II A Girl Scout is loyal III A Girl Scouts Duty is to be useful and to help others IV A Girl Scout is a friend to all and a sister to every other Girl Scout V A Girl Scout is Courteous VI A Girl Scout is a friend to Animals VII A Girl Scout obeys Orders VIII A Girl Scout is Cheerful IX A Girl Scout is Thrifty X A Girl Scout is Clean in Thought Word and DeedGIRL SCOUTSTheir Works Ways and PlaysThe Girl Scouts a National organization is open to any girl whoexpresses her desire to join and voluntarily accepts the Promise andthe Laws The object of the Girl Scouts is to bring to all girls theopportunity for group experience outdoor life and to learn throughwork but more by play to serve their community Patterned after theGirl Guides of England the sister organization of the Boy Scouts theGirl Scouts has developed a method of selfgovernment and a variety ofactivities that appear to be well suited to the desires of the girlsas the 60000 registered Scouts and the 5000 new applicants eachmonth testifyActivitiesThe activities of the Girl Scouts may be grouped under five headingscorresponding to five phases of womens life today I The Homemaker II The Producer III The Consumer IV The Citizen V The Human BeingI _Womans most ancient way of servicethe homemaker the nurseand the mother_ The program provides incentives for practicingwomans worldold arts by requiring an elementary proficiency incooking housekeeping first aid and the rules of healthful livingfor any Girl Scout passing beyond the Tenderfoot stage Of the fortyodd subjects for which Proficiency Badges are given more thanonefourth are in subjects directly related to the services of womanin the home as mother nurse or homekeeper Into this work so oftendistasteful because solitary is brought the sense of comradeship Thisis effected partly by having much of the actual training done ingroups Another element is the public recognition and rewarding ofskill in this womans most elementary service to the world usuallytaken for granted and ignoredThe spirit of play infused into the simplest and most repetitious ofhousehold tasks banishes drudgery Give us oh give us saysCarlyle a man who sings at his work He will do more in the sametime he will do it better he will persevere longer Wondrous is thestrength of cheerfulness altogether past comprehension its power ofenduranceII _Woman the producer_ Handicrafts of many sorts enter into theprogram of the Girl Scouts In camping girls must know how to set uptents build leantos and construct fireplaces They must also knowhow to make knots of various sorts to use for bandages tying parcelshitching and so forth Among the productive occupations in whichProficiency Badges are awarded are beekeeping dairying and generalfarming gardening weaving and needleworkIII _Woman the consumer_ One of the features in modern economicswhich is only beginning to be recognized is the fact that women formthe consuming public There are very few purchases even for mens ownuse which women do not have a hand in selecting Practically theentire burden of household buying in all departments falls on thewoman In France this has long been recognized and the women of themiddle classes are the buying partners and bookkeepers in theirhusbands business In America the test of a good husband is that hebrings home his pay envelope unopened a tacit recognition that themother controls spending The Girl Scouts encourage thrifty habits andlearning economy of buying in all of its activities One of the tenScout Laws is that A Girl Scout is ThriftyIV _Woman the citizen_ The basic organization of the Girl Scoutsinto the selfgoverning unit of a Patrol is in itself an excellentmeans of political training Patrols and Troops conduct their ownmeetings and the Scouts learn the elements of parliamentary lawWorking together in groups they realize the necessity for democraticdecisions They also come to have community interests of an impersonalsort This is perhaps the greatest single contribution of the Scoutstoward the training of girls for citizenship Little boys playtogether and not only play together but with men and boys of allages The interest of baseball is not confined to any one age Therules of the game are the same for all and the smallest boysjudgment on the skill of the players may be as valid as that of theoldest fan Girls have had in the past no such common interests Theirgames have been either solitary or in very small groups in activitieslargely of a personal character If women are to be effective inmodern political society they must have from very earliest youthgregarious interests and occupationsV _Woman the human being_ Political economy was for a long timeknown as the dead science and was quite ineffective socially Thiswas largely because it attempted to split man the human being intotheoretical units such as the producer or the consumer In thesame way many organizations for women

Produced by David Wilson and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican LibrariesHOW TO MAKE A SHOEByJNO P HEADLEY JrWASHINGTON D CALL RIGHTS RESERVEDGIBSON BROTHERS PRINTERS1882 Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1882 by Jno P Headley Jr in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D C Shoemakers are known both far and wide As men who always cut up _side_ Horse sometimes also cow leather To meet the changes in the weather Sheep and goats are often slain Both unite to make it plain That sheep is used for lining nice When goat alone would not suffice Just so with calf as well as kid Some use these linenlined And think it quite the best for those Who feel themselves refined Refined or not we think it true Our feet need some protection To do whateer they have to do We make our own selection Select at all times the best we can Both of shoemakers as well as shoes This is much the better plan And learns us how to chooseINTRODUCTIONThe Author of the book in hand having passed through the various scenesthrough which he would accompany his readers was prompted to make thisoffering to the craft and the public in order to relieve his mind of thethoughts had upon the subject of making shoes as well as to contributesomething of a literary character which in the broad range ofpossibilities may become useful as a textbook or familybook forthose who may feel interested in making or wearing shoes and perhapslead to something better Realizing the imperfections and shortcomingsof the human family to some extent at least no claim beyond that whichyou are disposed to put upon it is held so that any communication willbe gladly received and noted This opportunity is also taken to expressthanks for some valuable suggestions from the U S Bureau of Educationand others concerning the publication of this little volume and in itspresent shape you are invited to read and make the best use of it youcan AuthorIllustration The subject seated on a chair One knee the other to rest Has his measure taken fair The foot at ease is best The Artist views the foot And straightway takes the length By measuring it from heel to toe His _size_ brings content From twelve to eighteen inches long This _stick_ has many _sizes_ Three to the inch is now our song Subject to compromises Some feet have long toes behind In the language of the _craft_ These are not so hard to find And oft to us been waft Our Artist here will best succeed If a little head he can measure For out of that comes very much To make the feet a treasureIllustration Next around the heel a strap we bring To the centre of the curve A leather or linen _strap_ is used And dont affect the nerve The marks on this an inch represents Also fractions of inch preserved When made complete it then presents An appearance well deserved Around the heel Ive already said But that is not quite so For around in part and through instead Will make it more the go Now let us here make up our minds If this trade we would study That the _craft_ is subject to many fines If the subject gets very _muddy_Illustration With strap in hand the _instep_ measure Be sure you get it right For at this place some have a treasure Which prompts them oft to fight A little _lump_ we will it now call Not knowing the exact name of it Nor let our _strap_ the least bit fall But measure just above it When weve done this and done quite well Another move will follow Which takes us nearly on the _ball_ And brings us from the _hollow_Illustration From the _hollow_ now weve just come out With strap in hand to take The measure neat near on the _ball_ So that our _fits_ wont shake If they should shake the remedy comes A false sole we do make To please our subjects at their homes The _soles_ we there do take Onward now the way we press And move along just so Until we reach the part well known To be the toe the toeIllustration This is the place of which folks do talk If there is any pressure Because they cannot easy walk The _shoey_ missed the measure Just below the _ball_ across the toes Is where we next are found For there is nothing worn like _shoes_ When used upon the ground From here we feel like soaring higher And soon get at the ankle Which must be fit to suit the buyer

Produced by Al HainesFrontispiece Adeline in her gardenPETER PIPERSPRACTICAL PRINCIPLESOFPLAIN AND PERFECTPRONUNCIATIONIllustration Title page artPHILADELPHIAWillard Johnson No 141 South Street1836PREFACEPeter Piper without Pretension to Precocity or Profoundness Puts Pento Paper to Produce these Puzzling Pages Purposely to Please thePalates of Pretty Prattling Playfellows Proudly Presuming that withProper Penetration it will Probably and Perhaps Positively Prove aPeculiarly Pleasant and Profitable Path to Proper Plain and PrecisePronunciationHe Prays Parents to Purchase this Playful Performance Partly to Payhim for his Patience and Pains Partly to Provide for the Printers andPublishers but Principally to Prevent the Pernicious Prevalence ofPerverse PronunciationA aIllustration Andrew Airpump Andrew Airpump askd his Aunt her ailment Did Andrew Airpump ask his Aunt her ailment If Andrew Airpump askd his Aunt her ailment Where was the Ailment of Andrew Airpumps AuntB bIllustration Billy Button Billy Button bought a butterd Biscuit Did Billy Button buy a butterd Biscuit If Billy Button bought a butterd Biscuit Wheres the butterd Biscuit Billy Button boughtC cIllustration Captain Crackskull Captain Crackskull crackd a Catchpolls Cockscomb Did Captain Crackskull crack a Catchpolls Cockscomb If Captain Crackskull crackd a Catchpolls Cockscomb Wheres the Catchpolls Cockscomb Captain Crackskull crackdD dIllustration Davy Dolldrum Davy Dolldrum dreamd he drove a Dragon Did Davy Dolldrum dream he drove a dragon If Davy Dolldrum dreamd he drove a dragon Wheres the dragon Davy Dolldrum dreamd he droveE eIllustration Enoch Elkrig Enoch Elkrig ate an empty Eggshell Did Enoch Elkrig eat an empty Eggshell If Enoch Elkrig ate an empty Eggshell Wheres the empty eggshell Enoch Elkrig ateF fIllustration Francis Fribble Francis Fribble figured on a Frenchmans Filly Did Francis Fribble figure on a Frenchmans Filly If Francis Fribble figured on a Frenchmans Filly Wheres the Frenchmans Filly Francis Fribble figured onG gIllustration Gaffer Gilpin Gaffer Gilpin got a Goose and Gander Did Gaffer Gilpin get a Goose and Gander If Gaffer Gilpin got a Goose and Gander Wheres the Goose and Gander Gaffer Gilpin gotH hIllustration Humphrey Hunchback Humphrey Hunchback had a hundred Hedgehogs Did Humphrey Hunchback have a hundred Hedgehogs If Humphrey Hunchback had a hundred Hedgehogs Wheres the hundred Hedgehogs Humphrey Hunchback hadI iIllustration Inigo Impey Inigo Impey itched for an Indian Image Did Inigo Impey itch for an Indian Image If Inigo Impey itched for an Indian Image Wheres the Indian Image Inigo Impey itchd forJ jIllustration Jumping Jackey Jumping Jackey jeerd a Jesting Juggler Did Jumping Jackey jeer a Jesting Juggler If Jumping Jackey jeerd a Jesting Juggler Wheres the Jesting Juggler Jumping Jackey jeerdK kIllustration Kimbo Kemble Kimbo Kemble kicked his Kinsmans Kettle Did Kimbo Kemble kick his Kinsmans Kettle If Kimbo Kemble kickd his Kinsmans Kettle Wheres the Kinsmans Kettle Kimbo Kemble kickdL lIllustration Lanky Lawrence Lanky Lawrence lost his Lass and Lobster Did Lanky Lawrence lose his Lass and Lobster If Lanky Lawrence lost his Lass and Lobster Where are the Lass and Lobster Lanky Lawrence lostM mIllustration Matthew Mendlegs Matthew Mendlegs missd a mangled Monkey Did Matthew Mendlegs miss a mangled Monkey If Matthew Mendlegs missd a mangled Monkey Wheres the mangled Monkey Matthew Mendlegs missdN nIllustration Neddy Noodle Neddy Noodle nippd his neighbours Nutmegs Did Neddy Noodle nip his neighbours Nutmegs If Neddy Noodle nippd his neighbours Nutmegs Where are the neighbours Nutmegs Neddy Noodle nippdO oIllustration Oliver Oglethorpe Oliver Oglethorpe ogled an Owl and Oyster Did Oliver Oglethorpe ogle an Owl and Oyster If Oliver Oglethorpe ogled an Owl and Oyster Where are the Owl and Oyster Oliver Oglethorpe ogledP pIllustration Peter Piper Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled Peppers Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled Peppers If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled Peppers Wheres the peck of pickled Peppers Peter Piper pickedQ qIllustration Quixote Quicksight Quixote Quicksight quizd a queerish Quidbox Did Quixote Quicksight quiz a queerish Quidbox If Quixote Quicksight quizd a queerish Quidbox Wheres the queerish Quidbox Quixote Quicksight quizdR rIllustration Rory Rumpus Rory Rumpus rode a rawbond Racehorse Did Rory Rumpus ride a rawbond Racehorse If Rory Rumpus rode a rawbond Racehorse Wheres the rawbond Racehorse Rory Rumpus rodeS sIllustration Sammy Smellie Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of Smallcoal Did Sammy Smellie smell a smelt of Smallcoal If Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of Smallcoal Wheres the smell of Smallcoal Sammy Smellie smeltT tIllustration Tiptoe Tommy Tiptoe Tommy turnd a Turk for Twopence Did Tiptoe Tommy turn a Turk for Twopence If Tiptoe Tommy turnd a Turk for Twopence Wheres the Turk for Twopence Tiptoe Tommy turndU uIllustration Uncles Usher Uncles Usher urgd an ugly Urchin Did Uncles Usher urge an ugly Urchin If Uncles Usher urgd an ugly Urchin Wheres the ugly Urchin Uncles Usher urgdV vIllustration Villiam Veedon Villiam Veedon vipd his Vig and Vaistcoat Did Villiam Veedon vipe his Vig and Vaistcoat If Villiam Veedon vipd his Vig and Vaistcoat Where are the Vig and Vaistcoat Villiam Veedon vipdW wIllustration Walter Waddle Walter Waddle won a Walking Wager Did Walter Waddle win a Walking Wager If Walter Waddle won a Walking Wager Wheres the Walking Wager Walter Waddle wonXYZ

Produced by Rénald LévesqueNOTES DU TRANSCRIPTEURCe document a été produit à partir dun fichier PDF obtenu de laBibliothèque Nationale de France Gallica La numérisation en étaitassez soignée mais limpression de lédition de 1636 quelle reproduitne peut se vanter de semblable qualitéPour éviter la confusion nous avons converti les grands S en caractèresmodernes Nous avons également changés les ij et les uv pour lesrendre conformes à la prononciationPar contre nous avons conservé tous les autres attributs archaïques du texte tels que lorthographe la ponctuation laccentuation et leserreurs de notation des chiffres romains HISTOIRE DU CANADA ET VOYAGES QUE LES FRERES Mineurs Recollects y ont faicts pour la conversion des Infidelles DIVISEZ EN QUATRE LIVRESOù est amplement traicté des choses principales arrivées dans le paysdepuis lan 1615 jusques à la prise qui en a esté faicte par lesAnglois Des biens commoditez quon en peut esperer Des moeursceremonies creance loix coustumes merveilleuses de ses habitans Dela conversion baptesme de plusieurs des moyens necessaires pour lesamener à la cognoissance de Dieu Lentretien ordinaire de nosMariniers autres particularités qui se remarquent en la suite delhistoire Fait composé par le F GABRIEL SAGARD THEODAT à Mineur Recollect de la Province de Paris A PARIS Chez Claude Sonnius rue S Jacques à lEscu de Basle au Compas dor M DC XXXVI Avec Privilege Approbation A TRESAUGUSTE ET SERENISSIME PRINCE Henry de Lorraine ARCHEVESQUE Et DUC de Rheims premier Pair de France nay Legat du S Siege Abbé des deux Monasteres S Denis S Remy cMONSEIGNEUR_Il ny a rien qui charme tant les affections des hommes qui lesattache plus puissamment aux grands Princes que la vertu bon exemplequils doivent à leurs sujets Vostre naissance de la tresanciennetres Auguste royalle maison de Lorraine vous est dun si grandadvantage que je ne mestonne point de lopinion de plusieurs que vostregrandeur sera un jour un sainct La perfection peut estre petite aucommencement mais elle sesleve comme les Cedres du Liban vatousjours croissant à mesure quelle est arrousée des benedictions duCiel que le Seigneur verse abondamment en vous dont on en voit tous lesjours des effects Lhistoire nous apprend Monseigneur quautrefois ilnestoit pas permis à aucun daller saluer les Roys de Perse que lonneust quelque chose à leur donner non pour les enrichir car ilsestoient des plus grands puissans Princes de toute la terre maisseulement pour obliger les sujets à rendre quelque tesmoignage delaffection quils portoient à leur Prince__Cest pourquoy considerant les grandes obligations bienveillancestresestroites que Vostre saincte Royalle maison a acquis sur tous lesReligieux du monde dont elle a tousjours esté le support lasyleasseuré jay pris la hardiesse de presenter aux pieds de Vostregrandeur cest ouvrage avec son Autheur qui sera sil vous plaist pourun asseuré tesmoignage de laffection que jay à vostre service unefoible recognoissance de lobligation que vous ont les Recollects devostre ville de fainct Denis moy en particulier mayant autrefoisfait

Produced by D Alexander and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveTAM O THE SCOOTSBy EDGAR WALLACEA L BURT COMPANY_PUBLISHERS_New York ChicagoPrinted in U S ACopyright 1919By SMALL MAYNARD COMPANYINCORPORATEDBOOKS BYEdgar Wallace ANGEL ESQUIRE THE ANGEL OF TERROR THE BLACK ABBOT BLUE HAND CAPTAINS OF SOULS THE CLEVER ONE THE CLUE OF THE NEW PIN THE CLUE OF THE TWISTED CANDLE THE CRIMSON CIRCLE THE DAFFODIL MURDER THE DARK EYES OF LONDON DIANA OF KARAKARA THE DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS THE FACE IN THE NIGHT THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE FROG THE FLYING SQUAD THE FOUR JUST MEN THE GIRL FROM SCOTLAND YARD THE GREEN ARCHER GREEN RUST GUNMANS BLUFF THE HAIRY ARM JACK OJUDGMENT KATE PLUS 10 A KING BY NIGHT THE MAN WHO KNEW THE MELODY OF DEATH THE MISSING MILLIONS THE MURDER BOOK OF J G REEDER THE NORTHING TRAMP THE RINGER THE SECRET HOUSE THE SINISTER MAN THE SQUEALER THE STRANGE COUNTESS TAM O THE SCOOTS THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE TERROR KEEP THE TRAITORS GATE THE THREE JUST MEN THE TWISTER THE VALLEY OF GHOSTS To QUENTIN ROOSEVELT AND ALL AIRMEN FRIEND AND FOE ALIKE WHO HAVE FALLEN IN CLEAN FIGHTING The world was a puddle of gloom and of shadowy things He sped till the red and the gold of invisible day Was burnish and flames to the undermost spread of his wings So he outlighted the stars as he poised in the grey Nearer was he to the knowledge and splendour of God Mysteries sealed from the ken of the ancient and wise Beauties forbidden to those who are one with the clod All that there was of the Truth was revealed to his eyes Flickers of fire from the void and the whistle of death Clouds that snapped blackly beneath him above and beside Watch him serene and uncaringholding your breath Fearing his peril and all that may come of his pride Now he was swooped to the world like a bird to his nest Now is the drone of his coming the roaring of hell Now with a splutter and crash are the engines at rest Alls well E W CONTENTS PAGE I THE CASE OF LASKY 1 II PUPPIES OF THE PACK 21 III THE COMING OF MÜLLER 40 IV THE STRAFING OF MÜLLER 58 V ANNIETHE GUN 76 VI THE LAWBREAKER AND FRIGHTFULNESS 100 VII THE MAN BEHIND THE CIRCUS 130 VIII A QUESTION OF RANK 157 IX A REPRISAL RAID 191 X THE LAST LOAD 220TAM O THE SCOOTSCHAPTER ITHE CASE OF LASKYLieutenant Bridgeman went out over the German line and strafed adepot He stayed a while to locate a new gun position and was caughtbetween three strong batteries of ArchiesReports said the wing commander Well Bridgeman isnt back and Tamsaid he saw him nosedive behind the German trenchesSo the report was made to Headquarters

Produced by Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier Anne Storer andthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetTranscribers Note TN in text comments added by Transcriber Color Value _By_ C R CLIFFORD _Published by_ CLIFFORD LAWTON 373 Fourth Avenue New York Copyrighted 1907 By Clifford Lawton Fourth Edition GROLIER CRAFT PRESS INC N YFUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONSLIGHT COLOR FORM PROPORTIONAND DIMENSIONSWhatever is good in interior decoration is the result of consistentrelationship between Light Color Form Proportion and Dimensions Thechoice of Color should be guided by the conditions of Light The beautyof Form and the symmetry of Proportion can exist only by a balance withDimensionsTherefore apart from any knowledge of historic or period decorationeffective or successful work must observe the technical laws governingconditionsLIGHT1 The white light of the sun is compounded of an almost innumerablenumber of color elements as shown by the phenomena of the rainbow or byexperimenting with the prism See 7 When a ray of sunshine passesthrough a glass prism it is decomposed or separated and if theprismatic colors are received upon a white screen you will find on thespectrum among the colors generated a pure blue a pure red and a pureyellow These are the primary colors and it is necessary when thinkingcolor to bear these prismatic colors in mind as standards2 Color is an internal sensation originating in the excitation of theoptic nerve by a wave action which we call light3 The theory of light the wave theory is based upon the assumptionthat throughout all space there is an infinitely thin medium calledether Scientists differ as to what this may be but its movementsconstitute light a reflection from a luminous body4 Everything which we see is visible because it either emits lightlike a flame or reflects light5 A piece of black cloth upon a white plate reflects but a smallproportion of the light The plate reflects a large proportion A pieceof black velvet reflects less light than black cloth and gives theeffect of absolute blackness or an empty and dark space6 In practical demonstrations the study of color will be confusingunless it is understood at the outstart that pure prismatic colors canseldom be found in manufactured pigments hence any demonstration of thetheory of color composition is usually unsatisfactory7 The theory which brings out of a ray of sunshine the disunitedprismatic colors carries with it the deduction that before separationthese colors constitute white light but it must be manifest to even thesuperficial reader that such colors are mere spectrum colorsvisioncolorsand any amalgamation of material or pigment colors so far fromproducing white produces almost black8 The theory that red and yellow make orange and that a red and bluemake violet is correct but if one attempts to demonstrate the theorywith pigments one is confronted not only by the lack of standardmanufactured colors but by impurities adulterations and chemicalreaction in the pigments The adulteration may not be perceptible in oneprimary color but it is manifest when that color is brought into actionwith another primary for it is seldom that a pure secondary resultsCOLOR NOMENCLATUREHARMONIES9 Color nomenclature includes primary secondary and tertiary colorsand innumerable hues shades and tints All these colors bear relationsto one another either relations of analogy or relations of contrastSee 18 and 19The Circle Diagram I shows the manner in which the various colors areformed See also Diagram III Illustration DIAGRAM IThe third circle shows how slate citrine and russet are made Forinstance slate is one part of violet and one part of green Hence atertiary color is made of equal parts of two secondariesThe outer circle buff sage and plum can be analyzed in the same wayThis Diagram I is arranged to show not only component parts of a colorbut the parts that properly harmonizeCONTRASTS10 In music it is an established fact that certain notes used inpleasing combination produce sounds we call harmonies The moment thatmore than one note is struck there is danger of discord and when tennotes resound to the touch of the player they must be the right notesor they jar upon the sensibilities In the use of color the sameimmutable law applies11 In Circle Diagram II the letters RV mean reddish violet being aviolet having more red than blue in its composition BV means bluishviolet being a violet having more blue than red in its composition BGmeans bluish green being a green having more blue than yellow in itscomposition YG means yellow green being a green having more yellowthan blue in its composition YO means yellowish orange being an orangehaving more yellow than red in its composition RO means reddish orangebeing an orange having more red than yellow in its composition Thus wemay advance from red to yellow by graduations almost imperceptible bythe addition of yellow to a reddish orange and so on gradually toorange continuing on to yellowish orange finally revealing pureyellow Illustration DIAGRAM II12 The contrasting color at any stage may be determined by proceedingin a direct line across the circle Red has for its contrasting colorgreen hence reddish orange would have for its contrasting color abluish green for the simple reason that if red contrasts with greenand orange contrasts with blue the color between the red and the orangewould contrast with the color between the green and the blue Let usdetermine the contrasting color for crimson Crimson is simply a redslightly tinged with blue If red contrasts with green a shade a littleto the left of red slightly tinged with

Produced by D Alexander and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive HIDDEN GOLD BY WILDER ANTHONY FRONTISPIECE BY G W GAGE NEW YORK THE MACAULAY COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1922 BY THE MACAULAY COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Illustration At the sharp crack of the rifle Moran stopped short CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I THE COMING OF THE SHEEP 11 II A MEETING AND A PARTING 23 III JEALOUSY 35 IV THE GATHERING STORM 44 V TREACHERY 57 VI MURDER 73 VII THE OLD TRAIL 84 VIII HIGHER THAN STATUTE LAW 93 IX THE BATTLE AT THE RANCH 106 X THE SENATOR GETS BUSY 114 XI TANGLED THREADS 129 XII DESPERATE MEASURES 144 XIII INTO THE DEPTHS 156 XIV A DASTARDS BLOW 171 XV THE FIRST CLEW 181 XVI TRAPPED 200 XVII A WAR OF WITS 212 XVIII A RESCUE AND A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE 234 XIX BAFFLED BUT STILL DANGEROUS 250 XX THE STORM BURSTS 262 XXI WITH BARE HANDS AT LAST

Produced by Stephen Hope Fox in the Stars Lisa Reigeland the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetTranscribers Notes Some typographical errors have been corrected Acomplete list follows the text Words in Greek in the original aretransliterated and placed between plus signs Words italicized in theoriginal are surrounded by _underscores_THEAPPROACH TO PHILOSOPHYBY PROF RALPH BARTON PERRY THE FREE MAN AND THE SOLDIER THE MORAL ECONOMY THE APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHYCHARLES SCRIBNERS SONSTHE APPROACH TOPHILOSOPHYBYRALPH BARTON PERRY PHD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITYCHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTONCOPYRIGHT 1905 BYCHARLES SCRIBNERS SONSPrinted in the United States of AmericaFTHIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TOMY FATHERAS A TOKEN OF MY LOVE AND ESTEEMPREFACEIn an essay on The Problem of Philosophy at the Present TimeProfessor Edward Caird says that philosophy is not a first venture intoa new field of thought but the rethinking of a secular and religiousconsciousness which has been developed in the main independently ofphilosophyviiA If there be any inspiration and originality in thisbook they are due to my great desire that philosophy should appear inits vital relations to more familiar experiences If philosophy is asis commonly assumed appropriate to a phase in the development of everyindividual it should _grow out_ of interests to which he is alreadyalive And if the great philosophers are indeed never dead this factshould manifest itself in their classic or historical representation ofa perennial outlook upon the world I am not seeking to attach tophilosophy a fictitious liveliness wherewith to insinuate it into thegood graces of the student I hope rather to be true to the meaning ofphilosophy For there is that in its standpoint and its problem whichmakes it universally significant entirely apart from dialectic anderudition These are derived interests indispensable to the scholarbut quite separable from that modicum of philosophy which helps to makethe man The present book is written for the sake of elucidating theinevitable philosophy It seeks to make the reader more solicitouslyaware of the philosophy that is in him or to provoke him to philosophyin his own interests To this end I have sacrificed all else to the taskof mediating between the tradition and technicalities of the academicdiscipline and the more common terms of lifeThe purpose of the book will in part account for those shortcomings thatimmediately reveal themselves to the eye of the scholar In Part Ivarious great human interests have been selected as points of departureI have sought to introduce the general standpoint and problem ofphilosophy through its implication in practical life poetry religionand science But in so doing it has been necessary for me to dealshortly with topics of great independent importance and so risk thedisfavor of those better skilled in these several matters This isevidently true of the chapter which deals with natural science But theproblem which I there faced differed radically from those of theforegoing chapters and the method of treatment is correspondinglydifferent In the case of natural science one has to deal with a body ofknowledge which is frequently regarded as the only knowledge To write achapter about science from a philosophical standpoint is in thepresent state of opinion to undertake a polemic against exclusivenaturalism an attitude which is itself philosophical and as such iswell known in the history of philosophy as _positivism_ or_agnosticism_ I have avoided the polemical spirit and method so far aspossible but have nevertheless here taken sides against a definitephilosophical position This chapter together with the Conclusion istherefore an exception to the purely introductory and expositoryrepresentation which I have on the whole sought to give Therelatively great space accorded to the discussion of religion is in myown belief fair to the general interest in this topic and to theintrinsic significance of its relation to philosophyI have in Part II undertaken to furnish the reader with a map of thecountry to which he has been led To this end I have attempted a briefsurvey of the entire programme of philosophy An accurate and fullaccount of philosophical terms can be found in such books as KülpesIntroduction to Philosophy and Baldwins Dictionary of Philosophyand an attempt to emulate their thoroughness would be superfluous evenif it were conformable to the general spirit of this book The scope ofPart II is due in part to a desire for brevity but chiefly to the hopeof furnishing an epitome that shall follow the course of the _naturaland historical differentiation_ of the general philosophical problemFinally I have in Part III sought to present the tradition ofphilosophy in the form of general types My purpose in undertaking sodifficult a task is to acquaint the reader with philosophy in theconcrete to show how certain underlying principles may determine thewhole circle of philosophical ideas and give them unity and distinctiveflavor Part II offers a general classification of philosophicalproblems and conceptions independently of any special point of view ButI have in Part III sought to emphasize the point of view or theinternal consistency that makes a _system of philosophy_ out of certainanswers to the special problems of philosophy In such a division intotypes lines are of necessity drawn too sharply There will be manyhistorical philosophies that refuse to fit and many possibilitiesunprovided for I must leave it to the individual reader to overcomethis abstractness through his own reflection upon the intermediate andvariant standpointsAlthough the order is on the whole that of progressive complexity Ihave sought to treat each chapter with independence enough to make itpossible for it to be read separately and I have provided a carefullyselected bibliography in the hope that this book may serve as a stimulusand guide to the reading of other booksThe earlier chapters have already appeared as articles Chapter I in the_International Journal of Ethics_ Vol XIII No 4 Chapter II in the_Philosophical Review_ Vol XI No 6 Chapter III in the _Monist_Vol XIV No 5 Chapter IV in the _International Journal of Ethics_Vol XV No 1 and some paragraphs of Chapter V in the _Journal ofPhilosophy Psychology and Scientific Methods_ Vol I No 7 I amindebted to the editors of these periodicals for permission

Produced by Bryan Ness Chris Logan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetFROM SAIL TO STEAMRECOLLECTIONS OF NAVAL LIFEBYCAPT A T MAHANUSN RETIREDAUTHOR OFTHE INFLUENCE OF SEAPOWER UPON HISTORY ETCHARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERSNEW YORK AND LONDONMCMVIICopyright 1906 1907 by HARPER BROTHERS_All rights reserved_Published October 1907CONTENTS CHAP PAGE PREFACE v INTRODUCING MYSELF ix I NAVAL CONDITIONS BEFORE THE WAR OF SECESSIONTHE OFFICERS AND SEAMEN 3 II NAVAL CONDITIONS BEFORE THE WAR OF SECESSIONTHE VESSELS 25 III THE NAVAL ACADEMY IN ITS RELATION TO THE NAVY AT LARGE 45 IV THE NAVAL ACADEMY IN ITS INTERIOR WORKINGSPRACTICE CRUISES 70 V MY FIRST CRUISE AFTER GRADUATIONNAUTICAL CHARACTERS 103 VI MY FIRST CRUISE AFTER GRADUATIONNAUTICAL SCENES AND SCENERYTHE APPROACH OF DISUNION 127 VII INCIDENTS OF WAR AND BLOCKADE SERVICE 156 VIII INCIDENTS OF WAR AND BLOCKADE SERVICECONTINUED 179 IX A ROUNDABOUT ROAD TO CHINA 196 X CHINA AND JAPAN 229 XI THE TURNING OF A LONG LANEHISTORICAL NAVAL AND PERSONAL 266 XII EXPERIENCES OF AUTHORSHIP 302PREFACEWhen I was a boy some years before I obtained my appointment in thenavy I spent many of those happy hours that only childhood knowsporing over the back numbers of a British service periodical whichbegan its career in 1828 with the title _Colburns United ServiceMagazine_ under which name save and except the Colburn it stillsurvives Besides weightier matters its early issues abounded inreminiscences by naval officers then yet in the prime of life whohad served through the great Napoleonic wars More delightful stillit had numerous nautical stories based probably on facts serialsunder such entrancing titles as Leaves from my Log Book by FlexibleGrommet Passed Midshipman a penname the nautical felicity of whichwill be best appreciated by one who has had the misfortune to handle agrommet1 which was not flexible Then there was The Order Book byJonathan Oldjunk an epithet so suggestive of the wasteheap even toa landsmans ears that one marvels a man ever took it unto himselfespecially in that decline of life when we are more sensitive on

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Tiger Hunter by Captain Mayne Reid________________________________________________________________________Strictly speaking this book is a free translation by Reid 18181883 ofan earlier 1851 book by the Frenchman Luis de Bellemare pseudonym ofGabriel Ferry 18091852 Costal lIndien The subject is the18111812 Mexican War of Independence from Spain Reid having foughtin the MexicanAmerican War of the 1850s and having written books aboutthe subject would have wanted to make this excellent book available toan Englishspeaking readership and his translation was published in1861 with the title A Hero In Spite Of Himself The edition used waspublished by Routledge in 1890 some years after the authors deathwith the title The Tiger Hunter which is what Costal was though thetigers referred to were actually jaguarsThe typesetting in this book was not very good and it seems likelythat Routledge used the type from an earlier edition To make mattersworse practically every page of the copy used had been defaced by arubber stamp of a previous owner which made a days work for thetranscriber to clean up Nevertheless the result is excellent the bookis very readable and it makes a good audiobook________________________________________________________________________THE TIGER HUNTER BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REIDPROLOGUEDuring one of many journeyings through the remote provinces of theMexican republic it was my fortune to encounter an old revolutionaryofficer in the person of Captain Castanos From time to time as wetravelled together he was good enough to give me an account of some ofthe more noted actions of the prolonged and sanguinary war of theIndependence and among other narratives one which especiallyinterested me was the famed battle of the _Puente de Calderon_ wherethe Captain himself had fought during the whole length of a summersdayOf all the leaders of the Mexican revolution there was none in whosehistory I felt so much interest as in the _priestsoldier_ Morelosoras he is familiarly styled in Mexican annals the illustriousMorelosand yet there was none of whose private life I could obtain sofew details His public career having become historic was of courseknown to every one who chose to read of him But what I desired was amore personal and intimate knowledge of this remarkable man who frombeing the humble curate of an obscure village in Oajaca became in a fewshort months the victorious leader of a wellappointed army and masterof all the southern provinces of New SpainCan you give me any information regarding Morelos I asked of CaptainCastanos as we were journeying along the route between Tepic andGuadalaxaraAh Morelos he was a great soldier replied the excaptain ofguerilleros In the single year of 1811 he fought no less thantwentysix battles with the Spaniards Of these he won twentytwo andthough he lost the other four each time he retreated with honourHum I know all that already said I interrupting myfellowtraveller You are narrating history to me while I want onlychronicles In other words I want to hear those more private andparticular details of Morelos life which the historians have notgivenAh I understand you said the captain and I am sorry that I cannotsatisfy your desires since during the war I was mostly engaged in thenorthern provinces and had no opportunity of knowing much of Morelospersonally But if my good friend Don Cornelio Lantejas is stillliving at Tepic when we arrive there I shall put you in communicationwith him He can tell you more about Morelos than any other living mansince he was _aidedecamp_ to the General through all his campaignsand served him faithfully up to the hour of his deathOur conversation here ended for we had arrived at the inn where weintended to pass the nightthe _Venta de la Sierra Madre_Early on the following morning before any one had yet arisen I left mychamberin a corner of which rolled in his ample _manga_ CaptainCastanos was still soundly asleep Without making any noise to disturbhim I converted my coverlet into a cloakthat is I folded my serapearound my shoulders and walked forth from the inn Other travellersalong with the people of the hostelry inside with the domestics andmuleteers out of doors were still slumbering profoundly and animposing silence reigned over the mountain platform on which the ventastoodNothing appeared awake around me save the voices of the _sierras_ thatnever sleepwith the sound of distant waterfalls as they rushedthrough vast ravines keeping up as it were an eternal dialoguebetween the highest summits of the mountains and the deepest gulfs thatyawned around their basesI walked forward to the edge of the tablelike platform on which theventa was built and halting there stood listening to these mysteriousconversations of nature And at once it appeared to me that othersounds were mingling with themsounds that suggested the presence ofhuman beings At first they appeared like the intonations of a huntershornbut of so harsh and hoarse a character that I could scarcelybelieve them to be produced by such an instrument As a profoundsilence succeeded I began to think my senses had been deceiving me butonce more the same rude melody broke upon my ears in a tone that takenin connexion with the place where I listened to it impressed me with anidea of the supernatural It had something of the character of thosehorns used by the shepherds of the Swiss valleys and it seemed toascend out of the bottom of a deep ravine that yawned far beneath myfeetI stepped forward to the extreme edge of the rock and looked downwardsAgain the hoarse cornet resounded in my ears and this time so nearthat I no longer doubted as to its proceeding from some human agencyIn fact the moment after a mans form appeared ascending from belowalong the narrow pathway that zigzagged up the face of the cliffI had scarce time to make this observation when the man suddenlyturning the angle of the rock stood close by my side where he haltedapparently to recover his breathHis costume at once revealed to me that he was an Indian though

Produced by David Clarke Carolyn Bottomley and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveCanadian LibrariesTranscribers Note Italicized text is indicated with _underscores_Upright text used within italicized passages for emphasis is indicatedwith tildes Inconsistencies in Shakspeare spellings have beenretained but obvious errors have been corrected and are listed at theend of this documentIllustration Frontispiece _UNACCUSTOMED TO DARKCOMPLEXIONEDGENTLEMEN_BABOO JABBERJEE BAF AnsteyTHE WAYFARERS LIBRARYJ M DENT SONS Ltd LONDONCONTENTS PAGEI_Mr Jabberjee apologises for the unambitious scope of his work sundry confidences criticisms and complaints_ 1II_Some account of Mr Jabberjees experiences at the Westminster Play_ 9III_Mr Jabberjee gives his views concerning the Laureateship_ 18IV_Containing Mr Jabberjees Impressions at The Old Masters_ 24V_In which Mr Jabberjee expresses his Opinions on Bicycling as a Pastime_ 33VI_Dealing with his Adventures at Olympia_ 42VII_How Mr Jabberjee risked a Sprat to capture something very like a Whale_ 50VIII_How Mr Jabberjee delivered an Oration at a Ladies Debating Club_ 60IX_How he saw the practice of the University Crews and what he thought of it_ 69X_Mr Jabberjee is taken to see a GloveFight_ 75XI_Mr Jabberjee finds himself in a position of extreme delicacy_ 80XII_Mr Jabberjee is taken by surprise_ 88XIII_Drawbacks and advantages of being engaged Some Meditations in a Musichall together with notes of certain things that Mr Jabberjee failed to understand_ 96XIV_Mr Jabberjees fellowstudent Whats in a Title An invitation to a Wedding Mr J as a wedding guest with what he thought of the ceremony and how he distinguished himself on the occasion_ 105XV_Mr Jabberjee is asked out to dinner Unreasonable behaviour of his betrothed His doubts concerning the social advantages of a Boarding Establishment with some scathing remarks upon ambitious pretenders He goes out to dinner and meets a person of some importance_ 114XVI_Mr Jabberjee makes a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Shakespeare_ 125XVII_Containing some intimate confidences from Mr Jabberjee with the explanation of such apparent indiscretion_ 135XVIII_Mr Jabberjee is a little overingenious in his excuses_ 138XIX_Mr Jabberjee tries a fresh tack His visit to the India Office and sympathetic reception_

Produced by Alev AkmanTHE HUNGRY STONES AND OTHER STORIESBy Rabindranath TagoreContents The Hungry Stones The Victory Once There Was A King The Homecoming My Lord The Baby The Kingdom Of Cards The Devotee Vision The Babus Of Nayanjore Living Or Dead We Crown Thee King The Renunciation The Cabuliwallah The Fruitseller from CabulPrefaceThe stories contained in this volume were translated by several handsThe version of The Victory is the authors own work The seven storieswhich follow were translated by Mr C F Andrews with the help ofthe authors help Assistance has also been given by the Rev EJ Thompson Panna Lal Basu Prabhat Kumar Mukerjii and the SisterNiveditaTHE HUNGRY STONESMy kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip whenwe met the man in a train From his dress and bearing we took him atfirst for an upcountry Mahomedan but we were puzzled as we heard himtalk He discoursed upon all subjects so confidently that you mightthink the Disposer of All Things consulted him at all times in all thatHe did Hitherto we had been perfectly happy as we did not knowthat secret and unheardof forces were at work that the Russians hadadvanced close to us that the English had deep and secret policiesthat confusion among the native chiefs had come to a head But ournewlyacquired friend said with a sly smile There happen more thingsin heaven and earth Horatio than are reported in your newspapers Aswe had never stirred out of our homes before the demeanour of the manstruck us dumb with wonder Be the topic ever so trivial he would quotescience or comment on the Vedas or repeat quatrains from some Persianpoet and as we had no pretence to a knowledge of science or the Vedasor Persian our admiration for him went on increasing and my kinsmana theosophist was firmly convinced that our fellowpassenger musthave been supernaturally inspired by some strange magnetism or occultpower by an astral body or something of that kind He listenedto the tritest saying that fell from the lips of our extraordinarycompanion with devotional rapture and secretly took down notes of hisconversation I fancy that the extraordinary man saw this and was alittle pleased with itWhen the train reached the junction we assembled in the waiting roomfor the connection It was then 10 PM and as the train we heard waslikely to be very late owing to something wrong in the lines I spreadmy bed on the table and was about to lie down for a comfortable dozewhen the extraordinary person deliberately set about spinning thefollowing yarn Of course I could get no sleep that nightWhen owing to a disagreement about some questions of administrativepolicy I threw up my post at Junagarh and entered the service ofthe Nizam of Hydria they appointed me at once as a strong young mancollector of cotton duties at BarichBarich is a lovely place The Susta chatters over stony ways andbabbles on the pebbles tripping like a skilful dancing girl inthrough the woods below the lonely hills A flight of 150 steps risesfrom the river and above that flight on the rivers brim and at thefoot of the hills there stands a solitary marble palace Around itthere is no habitation of manthe village and the cotton mart of Barichbeing far offAbout 250 years ago the Emperor Mahmud Shah II had built this lonelypalace for his pleasure and luxury In his days jets of rosewaterspurted from its fountains and on the cold marble floors of itsspraycooled rooms young Persian damsels would sit their hairdishevelled before bathing and splashing their soft naked feet in theclear water of the reservoirs would sing to the tune of the guitarthe ghazals of their vineyardsThe fountains play no longer the songs have ceased no longer dosnowwhite feet step gracefully on the snowy marble It is but the vastand solitary quarters of cesscollectors like us men oppressed withsolitude and deprived of the society of women Now Karim Khan the oldclerk of my office warned me repeatedly not to take up my abode therePass the day there if you like said he but never stay the nightI passed it off with a light laugh The servants said that they wouldwork till dark and go away at night I gave my ready assent The househad such a bad name that even thieves would not venture near it afterdarkAt first the solitude of the deserted palace weighed upon me like anightmare I would stay out and work hard as long as possible thenreturn home at night jaded and tired go to bed and fall asleepBefore a week had passed the place began to exert a weird fascinationupon me It is difficult to describe or to induce people to believebut I felt as if the whole house was like a living organism slowly andimperceptibly digesting me by the action of some stupefying gastricjuicePerhaps the process had begun as soon as I set my foot in the house butI distinctly remember the day on which I first was conscious of itIt was the beginning of summer and the market being dull I had no workto do A little before sunset I was sitting in an armchair near thewaters edge below the steps The Susta had shrunk and sunk low a broadpatch of sand on the other side glowed with the hues of evening onthis side the pebbles at the bottom of the clear shallow waters wereglistening There was not a breath of wind anywhere and the still airwas laden with an oppressive scent from the spicy shrubs growing on thehills close byAs the sun sank behind the hilltops a long dark curtain fell upon thestage of day and the intervening hills cut short the time in whichlight

Produced by Julia Miller Chuck Greif and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveAmerican LibrariesNota del transcriptor la ortografía del original está conservada no hasido corregida ni actualizadaDEL SEÑORÍO DE LOS INCAS_ES PROPIEDAD__Tomo V de la Biblioteca HispanoUltramarina__BIBLIOTECA HISPANOULTRAMARINA_SEGUNDA PARTEDE LACRÓNICA DEL PERÚQUE TRATA DEL SEÑORÍODE LOS INCAS YUPANQUIS Y DE SUS GRANDES HECHOSY GOBERNACIONESCRITA PORPEDRO DE CIEZA DE LEONLA PUBLICA_MÁRCOS JIMÉNEZ DE LA ESPADA__MADRID_IMPRENTA DE MANUEL GINÉS HERNANDEZ_Libertad 16 duplicado bajo_1880Al dar á luz en el tomo segundo de la BIBLIOTECA HISPANOULTRAMARINA elTERCERO LIBRO DE LAS GUERRAS CIVILES DEL PERÚ _el cual se llama_ LAGUERRA DE QUITO _hecho por Pedro de Cieza de Leon_ uno de los quecomponen la _Cuarta parte_ de su gran CRÓNICA DEL PERÚ expuse en largoprólogo cuanto sabia de este insigne historiador y se me alcanzaba desus obras pero además dediqué por completo el apéndice 6º de miedicion á la _Segunda parte_ de aquélla que hoy publico con el títuloque Cieza anunciaba en el Proemio de la _Primera_ al declarar que en la_Segunda_ trataria Del señorío de los ingas yupangues reyes antiguosque fueron del Perú y de sus grandes hechos y gobernacion qué númerodellos hubo y los nombres que tuvieron los templos tan soberbios ysuntuosos que edificaron caminos de extraña grandeza que hicieron yotras cosas grandes que en este reino se hallan Tambien en este librose da relacion de lo que cuentan estos indios del Diluvio y de cómo losingas engrandecen su orígen Remitir simplemente á mis lectores alindicado apéndice seria poco ménos que obligar al que no lo tuviera áque se procurase el tomo segundo de nuestra BIBLIOTECA y como uno delos propósitos de los que la publicamos es que las obras de surepertorio puedan adquirirse y leerse separadamente aunque me exponga árepetir textos ya en ella insertos voy á copiar á la letra lo que allídecia y puede servir ahora de preliminares con añadir tan solamente dosrectificaciones indispensablesHace ya algunos años habiéndome llamado la atencion la especiedivulgada por Prescott en su _Conquista del Perú_ de que el Ilmo SrDon Juan de Sarmiento Presidente del Consejo de las Indiasel cualjamás estuvo en ellas y presidió este cuerpo si acaso veintemeses1hubiese escrito la exacta y minuciosa _Relacion de lasucesion y gobierno de los incas señores naturales que fueron del Perúetc_ en este reino y recorriendo sus provincias con aquel caráctertraté de consultar una copia de ese documento conservada en laBiblioteca de la Academia de la Historia y ya en el título ví que dichaRelacion se habia compuesto no _por_ sino _para_ aquel distinguidopersonaje Y procurando averiguar por su lectura el nombre del verdaderoautor por cierto que no tardé en descubrirlo en multitud de referenciasy alusiones que en ella se hacen á la Primera parte de la Crónica delPerú de Pedro de Cieza de Leon tan claras que parece imposible queaquel historiador no cayese en la cuenta Pero no solamente no cayósino que hubo de emitir acerca de Sarmiento y el Tratado de los Incas yde Cieza y su Crónica tales juicios que por ellos resultan dospersonalidades perfectamente definidas y dos autores completamentediversos2 No es ahora del caso citar uno por uno los pasajes donde sehallan dichas alusiones basta el siguiente que hace inútiles todos losdemás En el capítulo que trata la riqueza del templo de Curicancha yde la veneracion que los incas le tenian se dice textualmente yá una obra que ví en Toledo cuando fuí á presentar la Primera parte demi corónica al príncipe don Felipe lo cual es poco ménos que la firmadel autor porque sólo hay una Primera parte de crónica relativa áIndias dedicada á ese príncipe la de Cieza y en acudiendo á ella conla guía de ese indicio se encuentran tantas referencias á la Relacionde los Incas como en esta á la Primera parte de la crónicaFaltábanme por el tiempo en que tuve la fácil fortuna de descubrir enla obra dedicada á Sarmiento la Segunda parte de la crónica del Perú deldesgraciado Cieza de Leon medios de darla á la estampa Quedó el asuntoen tal estado Y más tarde á poco de circular el prospecto de laBIBLIOTECA HISPANOULTRAMARINA supe por el señor don Pascual deGayangos que un distinguido peruano el señor la Rosa se ocupaba enpublicarla restituyéndola en su verdadero título y á quien lepertenece A estas horas lleva ya más de un año de impresa y hé aquí elmotivo de que no aparezca ántes de la _Guerra de Quito_ conforme á loque en dicho prospecto se anunciaba Mas como el señor la Rosa destinala edicion si mis informes son exactos única y exclusivamente á supatria creo que no holgarán en esta nota las noticias del manuscritoprimero atribuido á don Juan de Sarmiento despues anónimo y últimamenteá quien le correspondeGuárdase en la Biblioteca del Escorial códice L j 5 donde ocupa desdeel fólio 1º que es la cubierta y portada de la Relacion hasta el 130inclusive Es una copia detestable por todo extremo de mediados ófines del siglo XVI de dos ó tres letras grandes y claras bienconservada fáltale la primera hoja por lo cual el manuscrito comienzaen el segundo de sus fóliosque están paginados al mismo tiempo que lacopia se hizoy con estas palabras _dellos mas de lo que yocuento va á un lugar deleitoso_ etc Los capítulos carecen denumeracion y no es fácil restablecerla porque si bien la falta de sóloun fólio induce á suponer que la del manuscrito afecta nada más que áuna parte del primero de sus capítulos hay que tener presente que Ciezade Leon la única vez que cita en la Primera parte de su Crónicacapítulo determinado de la Segunda dice Muchos de estos indioscuentan que oyeron á sus antiguos que hubo en los tiempos pasados undiluvio grande y de la manera que yo lo escribo en el tercero capítulode la Segunda parte3 Y de tal acontecimiento no se habla poco nimucho en ninguno de los que comprende el manuscrito del EscorialEn la cubierta y primer fólio del códice encima del título se

Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet BIBLIOTECA POPOLARE DI PROPAGANDA DEMOCRATICA N 2 ROMOLO MURRI DEPUTATO AL PARLAMENTO Il cristianesimo e la religione di domani Primo migliaio ROMA COMITATO DI AZIONE LAICA EDITORE Piazza Trasimeno 2INDICE Al lettore Pag 5 Introduzione 11 La libertà religiosa 31 Interiorità ed immanenza 37 La pratica della libertà 43 Lunità religiosa 48 Le chiese e il loro ufficio 52 Lavvenire del cristianesimo 59 La chiesa di Roma 65 Roma e lItalia 73AL LETTORE_Nel giudicare delle religioni e del fatto religioso due atteggiamenticaratteristici ha lo spirito italiano uno di quelli per i quali lareligione è la Chiesa cattolica apostolica romana e essere religiosisignifica accettareattraverso a molteplici e inevitabili adattamentiindividualiquella religione come una società esteriore storicaecclesiastica papale laltro di quelli che persuasi della moltamenzogna che quella religione racchiude o giunti con moltaspensierata disinvoltura a conclusioni materialistiche e scettichescrollano le spalle e si disinteressano insieme della Chiesa romana edi ogni religiosità e religione__Nessuno di questi due atteggiamenti è sincero poichè lunoe laltro egualmente vengono da ripugnanza allo sforzo di esame didiscernimento di giudizio religioso sono anzi questa stessaripugnanza tradotta in pratica di vita__Nessuno di essi egualmente può ispirar fiducia per lavvenireperchè essendo insinceri essi sono insieme immorali ed hanno pereffetto una crescente diminuzione dei valori delle energie delleattività morali un impoverimento di vita se vita è innanzi tuttoattività spirituale crescente consapevolezza e dominio di sè e dellecose__Luno e laltro anche segnano un arresto nella rinascita dellacoscienza italiana Poichè le generazioni rivoluzionarie del secoloscorso furono profondamente ed intensamente religiose I cattolici daParini a Manzoni a Rosmini a Gioberti a Tommaseo a Mamiani avevanoincominciato a rifarsi un loro cattolicismo _liberale_ o_romantico_ in contrasto sotto molti aspetti con quello dellaChiesa di Roma e frutto immediato e felice di questo cattolicismo fula lotta contro di quella per labolizione dei suoi privilegimedioevali e per la soppressione del potere temporale Gli altriebasti nominarne uno Mazziniper lo stesso loro idealismo intensoardente operoso per lampiezza della loro visione che mirava a tuttoun rinnovamento umano per lagitare che fecero elementi e motivi etradizioni religiose attinte dal classicismo e dal Medio Evocercarono egualmente di spronare ed elevare gli animi ad unareligiosità e religione nuove__Questa doppia corrente si è interrotta dopo il 1870 od ha avuto solomanifestazioni parziali e fugaci E non avemmo nemmeno salvo poche efiacche eccezioni ricerche di filosofia della religione e di storia ecritica delle religioni così fiorenti in questultimo periodo inFrancia in Germania in Inghilterra__Le pagine che seguono saggio limitato e modesto vogliono essere unareazione a questa stasi dello spirito religioso italiano Non hannouno scopo dottrinale ma pratico vogliono innanzi tutto esserlesempio di un atteggiamento dinanzi ai problemi e ai fattireligiosi diverso da quei due che ho indicato__Esso si riassume in questo criterio fondamentale le religioni sonola storia della religiosità umana la quale è perenne come lo stessospirito umano e come lo stesso spirito umano in un lavoro assiduo dicreazione solo dove è creazione è vita e dove è stabilità è mortefa e disfà e rifà la sua storia il suo linguaggio le sue istituzioni__Quindi noi dobbiamo giudicare la nostra storia religiosa e inparticolare la religione cattolica degli italiani con questo senso disuperiorità dello spirito che riconosce lopera sua ma insieme nonvuol essere vincolato ed incarcerato da essa__Accettando il cattolicismo come esso ci è presentato dal papa e daisuoi ministri noi ci rendiamo schiavi di ciò che noi stessio inostri avi per noiabbiamo fatto sacrifichiamo la nostra attivitàpresente alle forme storiche istituzionali della nostra attivitàpassata ci lasciamo come

Produced by Al HainesA DOMINIE IN DOUBTBYA S NEILL MABY THE SAME AUTHOR A DOMINIES LOG A DOMINIE DISMISSED THE BOOMING OF BUNKIEHERBERT JENKINS LIMITED3 YORK STREET ST JAMESSLONDON SW1MCMXXIDEDICATIONTo Homer Lane whose first lecture convinced me that I knew nothingabout education I owe much to him but I hasten to warn educationiststhat they must not hold him responsible for the views given in thesepages I never understood him fully enough to expound his wonderfuleducational theoriesA S NFORFAR AUGUST 12 1920A DOMINIE IN DOUBTIJust give me your candid opinion of _A Dominies_ Log Id like tohear itMacdonald looked up from digging into the bowl of his pipe with adilapidated penknife He is now headmaster of Tarbonny Public Schoola school I know well for I taught in it for two years as an expupilteacherSix days ago he wrote asking me to come and spend a holiday with himso I hastily packed my bag and made for EustonThis evening had been a sort of complimentary dinner in my honour theguests being neighbouring dominies and their wives none of whom Iknew We had talked of the war of rising prices and a thousand otherthings Suddenly someone mentioned education and of course myunfortunate _Log_ had come under discussionI had been anxious to continue my discussion with a Mrs Brown on thesubject of the relative laying values of Minorcas and Buff Orpingtonsbut I had been dragged to the miserable business in spite of myselfNow they were all gone and Macdonald had returned to the chargeIts hardly a fair question said Mrs Macdonald to ask an authorwhat he thinks of his own book No man can judge his own work anymore than a mother can judge her own childThats true I said A man cant judge his own behaviour andwriting a book is an element of behaviour Besides there is a betterreason why a writer cannot judge his own work I addedBecause he never reads it queried Macdonald with a grinI shook my headAn author has no further interest in his book after it is publishedMacdonald looked across at me It was clear that he doubted myseriousnessSurely you dont mean to say that you have no interest in _A DominiesLog_None whatever I saidYou mean it persisted MacdonaldMy dear Mac I said an author dare not read his own bookDare not WhyBecause its out of date five minutes after its writtenFor fully a minute we smoked in silence Macdonald appeared to bedigesting my remarkYou see I continued presently when I read a book on education Iwant to learn and I certainly dont expect to learn anything from theman I was five years agoI think I understand said Macdonald You have come to realise thatwhat you wrote five years ago was wrong That itTrue for you Mac Youve just hit itYou neednt have waited five years to find that out he said with agoodnatured grin I could have told you the day the book waspublishedI bought one of the first copiesStill he continued I dont see why a book should be outofdate infive years That is if it deals with the truth Truth is eternalWhat is truth I asked wearily We all thought we knew the truthabout gravitation Then Einstein came along with his relativitytheory and told us we were wrongDid he inquired Macdonald with a faint smileI am quoting from the newspapers I added hastily I havent theremotest idea what relativity means Perhaps its Epstein I meannohes a sculptorYoure hedging said MacdonaldCan you blame me I asked Youre trying to get me to say whattruth is I am not a professor of philosophy Im a dominie All Ican say is that the _Log_ was the truth for me five yearsago but it isnt the truth for me nowThen what exactly is your honest opinion of the _Log_ as a work oneducationAs a work on education I said deliberately the _Log_ isnt worth adamnNot a bad criticism either said Macdonald drylyI say that I continued because when I wrote it I knew nothingabout the most important factor in educationthe psychology ofchildrenBut said Mrs Macdonald in surprisehitherto she had been aninterested listenerI thought that the bits about the bairns were thebest part of the bookPossibly I answered but I was looking at children from a grownuppoint of view I thought of them as they affected me instead of asthey affected themselves Ill give you an instance I think I saidsomething about wanting to chuck woodwork and cookery out of the schoolcurriculum I was wrong hopelessly wrongIm glad to hear you admit it said Macdonald I have alwaysthought that every boy ought to be taught to mend a henhouse and everygirl to cook a dinnerThen I was right after all I said quicklyMacdonald stared at me whilst his wife looked up interrogatively fromher embroideryIf your aim is to make boys joiners and girls cooks I explainedthen I still hold that cookery and woodwork ought to be chucked out ofthe schoolsBut man what are schools for I saw a combative light inMacdonalds eyeCreation selfexpression the only thing that matters ineducation I dont care what a child is doing in the way of creationwhether he is making tables or porridge or sketches ororSnowballs prompted MacdonaldOr snowballs I said There is more true education in making asnowball than in listening to an hours lecture on grammarMrs Macdonald dropped her embroidery into her lap with a little gaspat the heresy of my remarkYoure talking pure balderdash said Macdonald leaning forward toknock the ashes from his pipe on the bars of the grateVery well I said cheerfully Lets discuss it You make a classsit in front of you for an hour and you threaten to whack the firstchild that doesnt pay attention to your lesson on nouns

Produced by David Edwards and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican LibrariesIllustration JOHNNYS REVENGE Page 163Illustration Title Page _DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES_ DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOME BY SOPHIE MAYAUTHOR OF LITTLE PRUDY STORIES Illustrated BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD 1870 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868 by LEE AND SHEPARD In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY NO 19 SPRING LANE _TO__FLORENCE BICKNELL_ DOTTY DIMPLE STORIESTo be completed in six vols Handsomely IllustratedEach vol 75 cts 1 _DOTTY DIMPLE AT HER GRANDMOTHERS_ 2 _DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOME_ 3 _DOTTY DIMPLE OUT WEST_ 4 _DOTTY DIMPLE AT PLAY_ 5 _DOTTY DIMPLE AT SCHOOL_ 6 _DOTTY DIMPLES FLYAWAY_ BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR LITTLE PRUDY STORIESNow complete Six vols 24mo Handsomely IllustratedIn a neat box Per vol 75 cts Comprising _LITTLE PRUDY_ _LITTLE PRUDYS SISTER SUSIE_ _LITTLE PRUDYS CAPTAIN HORACE_ _LITTLE PRUDYS COUSIN GRACE_ _LITTLE PRUDYS STORY BOOK_ _LITTLE PRUDYS DOTTY DIMPLE_CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I THE LION AND THE LAMB 7 II A SAD STORY 25 III FIRE 40 IV PLAYING HINDOO 54 V RUNNING WILD 68 VI HOW IT ENDED 82 VII TELLING OF IT 98VIII MAMMA AND LITTLE ME 112 IX THE NEW HOME 125 X A SURPRISE 140 XI JOHNNYS REVENGE 155DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOMECHAPTER ITHE LION AND THE LAMBDotty Dimple after a night of pleasant sleep greeted herself in themorning with a groan It was as if she had saidO dear _you_ here again Dotty Why didnt you sleep longerPrudy noticed the cloud on her sisters face in a moment she saw shehad waked up wrongNow I have never told you how peculiarly trying it was to live withDotty Dimple She seemed to have at the same time the nature of a lionand a lamb When the lion raged then her eyes blazed and she lookedas if she belonged in a menagerie but when nothing occurred to rouseher wild temper she was as gentle and tender as a little lamb friskingby its mothers side on a summers dayIndeed if I were to describe the loveliness of her manners and thesweetness of her face I ought to dip my pen in liquid sunshinewhereas the blackest of ink would not be at all too dark to draw herpicture when she was out of temperIn her earliest childhood it had been worse than it was now Then shehad not tried in the least to control herself and the lion had had hisown way After one of her wild outbursts she would follow her motherabout the house saying in a soft pleading voiceSay mamma is I your little comfortBefore answering Dotty the poor mother had to call to mind all the goodthings the child had ever said or done and fancy how dreadful it wouldbe to lose her Then she would replyYes Dotty you are mammas dear little girl but mamma doesnt likeyour naughty naughty waysThis failed to satisfy Miss Dimple She would cry out again inheartbroken tonesIs I your little comfort mamma _Is_ ISo sooner or later Mrs Parlin was obliged for the sake of peace tokiss the child and answer Yes Then perhaps for twentyfour hoursthe lion would be curled up asleep and out of sight in his den andthe lamb would be playfully frisking about the house a pet foreverybodyBut often and often when Susy and Prudy came in from school or playthey found their baby sister in disgrace perched upon the woodbox inthe kitchen with feet and hands firmly tied There she would sitthrowing out the loudest noise possible from her little throat It wasthe young lion again roaring in his cagePrudy though her heart swelled with pity dared not sayDont scream so little sister Please dont pound so with your feetFor when the lion fits were on it was always safest to let the unhappychild alone Prudy who had no more temper than a hummingbird andSusy who was only moderately fretful once in a while were made veryunhappy by Dottys dreadful behavior At such times as I describe theyeven looked guilty and cast down their eyes for they could not helpfeeling their sisters conduct as a family disgrace They never spoke toany one about it and bore all her freaks with wonderful patience Whenthe little one plucked at their hair or ears they said pitifullyIts worse for her than it is for us It makes her throat _so_ sore toscream soThey were especially careful never to provoke her

Produced by Jana Srna David T Jones Alexander Bauer the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpcanadanet This file was produced fromimages generously made available by The Internet ArchiveTHERiverside Library Looking Backward20001887ByEDWARD BELLAMYBOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYThe Riverside Press CambridgeCOPYRIGHT 1887 BY TICKNOR AND COMPANYCOPYRIGHT 1889 BY EDWARD BELLAMYCOPYRIGHT 1898 1915 AND 1917 BY EMMA S BELLAMYALL RIGHTS RESERVEDINTRODUCTIONBY HEYWOOD BROUNA good many of my radical friends express a certain kindlycondescension when they speak of Edward Bellamys Looking BackwardOf course you know they say that it really isnt firstrateeconomicsAnd yet in further conversation I have known a very large number ofthese same somewhat scornful Socialists to admit You know the firstthing that got me started to thinking about Socialism was BellamysLooking BackwardFrom the beginning it has been a highly provocative book It is nowMany of the questions both of mood and technique are even morepertinent in the year 1931 than they were in 1887 A critic of the_Boston Transcript_ said when the novel first appeared that the newState imagined by Bellamy was all very well but that the author lostmuch of his effectiveness by putting his Utopia a scant fifty yearsahead and that he might much better have made it seventyfivecenturiesIt is true that the fifty years assigned for changing the worldutterly are almost gone by now Not everything which was predicted inLooking Backward has come to pass But the laugh is not againstBellamy but against his critic Some of the things which must haveseemed most improbable of all to the _Transcript_ man of 1887 are nowactually in beingIn one respect Edward Bellamy set down a picture of modern Americanlife which is almost a hundred per cent realized It startled me toread the passage in which Edith shows the musical schedule to JulianWest and tells him to choose which selection he wishes to havebrought through the air into the music room It is true that Bellamyimagined this broadcasting to be done over telephone wires as isindeed the case today in some phases of national hookups Butconsider this quotationHe Dr Leete showed how by turning a screw the volume of themusic could be made to fill the room or die away to an echo so faintand far that one could scarcely be sure whether he heard or imagineditThat might almost have been lifted bodily from an article in somenewspaper radio columnBut Bellamy did see with clear vision things and factors much moreimportant than the possibility of hearing a sermon without going tochurch Much which is now established in Soviet Russia bears at leasta likeness to the industrial army visioned in this prophetic bookHowever Communism can scarcely claim Bellamy as its own for heemphasizes repeatedly the nonviolent features of the revolution whichhe imagined Indeed at one point he argues that the leftwingers ofhis own day impeded change by the very excesses of their technicalphilosophyThere is in his book no acceptance of a transitional stage of classdictatorship He sees the change coming through a general recognitionof the failings of the capitalist system Indeed he sees a point ineconomic development where capitalism may not even be good enough forthe capitalistTo the strict Marxian Socialist this is profound and ridiculousheresy To me it does not seem fantastic And things have happened inthe world already which were not dreamt of in Karl Marxs philosophyThe point I wish to stress is the prevalent notion that all radicalmovements in America stem from the writings of foreign authors NowBellamy of course was familiar with the pioneer work of Marx Andthat part of it which he liked he took over Nevertheless hedeveloped a contribution which was entirely his own It is irrelevantto say that after all the two men differed largely in their view ofthe technique by which the new world was to be accomplished Adifference in technique as Trotzky knows to his sorrow may be asprofound as a difference in principleBellamy was essentially a NewEnglander His background was that ofBoston and its remote suburbs And when he preaches the necessity ofthe coöperative commonwealth he does it with a Yankee twang In facthe is as essentially native American as Norman Thomas the presentleader of the Socialist Party in this countryI cannot confess any vast interest in the love story which serves as athread for Bellamys vision of a reconstructed society But it can besaid that it is so palpably a thread of sugar crystal that it need notget in the way of any readerI am among those who first became interested in Socialism throughreading Looking Backward when I was a freshman in college It camein the first halfyear of a course which was designed to prove thatall radical panaceas were fundamentally unsound in their conceptionThe professor played fair He gave us the arguments for the radicalcause in the fall and winter and proceeded to demolish them in springand early summerBut what one learns in the winter sticks more than words uttered inthe warmth of drowsy May and June Possibly I took more cuts towardthe end of the lecture course All I can remember is the arguments infavor of the radical plans Their fallacies I have forgottenI differ from Bellamys condescending converts because I feel that heis close to an entirely practical and possible scheme of life Sincemuch of the fantastic quality of his vision has been rubbed down intoreality within half a century I think there is at least a fair chancethat another fifty years will confirm Edward Bellamys position as oneof the most authentic prophets of our ageTHE AUTHOR OF LOOKING BACKWARD We ask To put forth just our strength our human strength All starting fairly all equipped alike But when full roused each giant limb awake Each sinew strung the great heart pulsing

Produced by Juliet Sutherland William Flis Ted Garvinand the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamFIVE LITTLE FRIENDSBYSHERRED WILLCOX ADAMS_ILLUSTRATED BY_MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAMCONTENTSTHE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS AT SCHOOLTHE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS IN VACATIONTHE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS AT SCHOOLBob and Betty Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friendsThey go to the same school Many other children go to the school toobut these five little friends are the ones this story is aboutBob is the tall boy in the brown suit Betty is the girl in the checkeddress Paul is the boy with the white blouse Peggy is the girl withcurls Little Dot is the tiny child with bobbed hairBob and Betty Paul and Peggy and little Dot have a very fine teacherShe is called Miss West Many other children are in Miss Wests roomtoo But the five little friends are the ones this story is aboutOne morning when the children came to school Miss West had a surprisefor them On her desk was something large and round It was all coveredwith paperGuess what this is children said Miss WestIt is a balloon said BobI think it is a football said PaulNo no you are both wrong said Miss West She took the paper offWhat do you think it wasIt was a big glass bowl In it were six goldfish They were swimmingabout in the waterLittle folks said Miss West these are our school pets We must feedthem and give them fresh water Then they will live a long time and wecan have fun watching themThe children stood around the bowl They watched the fish swim andfloat They laughed when one fish chased another round and round thebowl He looked very funny with his big mouth wide openSoon Miss West showed the children how to feed the fish After that theytook turns in caring for them Paul and Peggy had the first turn NextBob and Betty had their turn After that little Dot took care of thefish all by herself The other children had turns too But this story isabout the five little children whose names you knowOne day Miss West said to the children How many of you little girlsand boys have pets of your ownA great many hands were raisedI have said BobI have said PaulI have I have I have said Betty and Peggy and little DotI have thought of a fine plan said Miss West Each day one child maytell the other children about his petWhat fun said Betty and all the other children thought What funthat will beWho will have the first turn asked BobWe will play a game to see said Miss WestSo Miss West wrote the names of all the children on slips of paper Thenshe put all the slips in Pauls cap Next she blindfolded Peggy Peggyput her hand in the cap and drew out a slip What name do you think wason this slip The name was _Dot_So the next day little Dot told about her pet This is what she saidMy pet is a white cat Her name is Snowball She is as white as snowWhen she curls up in front of the fire she is round like a ballOne day my daddy could not find his hat He looked and looked andlooked for it At last he found it in a dark corner under the stairsThere was something in the hat First Daddy saw two bright eyes Thenhe saw Snowball all curled up in the hat By her side were two littlebaby kittens They were just like their mother We named them Fluff andMuff Now we have a happy cat familyDaddy never got his hat back At first the kittens slept in it NowFluff and Muff are so big they sleep in a box But they like Daddys hatto play with Fluff gets on one side and Muff on the other Then theypull and pull Daddys hat is almost worn out nowThe children liked little Dots story very much They laughed when theythought of Fluff on one side and Muff on the other and Daddys hat inthe middleThe next day Betty was blindfolded She put her hand in the cap and drewa slip This time _Paul_ was written on the slip So it was Pauls turnto tell about his pet This is what he saidMy pet is a big collie dog His name is Hero When my mother goes tomarket she takes Hero with her He trots by her side and carries abasket in his mouthSometimes my mother sends Hero home with the meat and bread for dinnerHe goes right along He does not stop or look around When he comesto our house he sets the basket down Then he watches it until Mothercomes If anyone calls Here Hero he pricks up his ears but he willnot move from his placeOne day I tried to coax him away with a big bone I know the bonelooked and smelled good to Hero He sniffed the air and looked at thebone with hungry brown eyes but he never moved from the basketLast summer we went to the seashore We took Hero with us One day Iwas on the beach playing in the sand Hero was lying asleep in the sunI was making a sand fort and my back was toward the seaSuddenly a big wave dashed in and knocked me down Then another bigwave came and carried me out into the water As I did not know how toswim I was very much frightened I tried to call out but my mouth wasfull of sea water I could make only a little frightened sound but Heroheard me What do you think he did He jumped into the water and swamout to me I was too nearly drowned to catch hold of him So he took myclothes in his mouth and began to swim with me to the shoreI was heavy and Hero was almost worn out before he got there But henever once let go He kept right on until he dropped

Produced by Anna Tuinman Eline Visser Jeroen Hellingmanand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet Nieuwe Romans Cyriel BuysseDe Roman van den Schaatsenrijder Maatschappij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur te Amsterdam1918DE ROMAN VAN DEN SCHAATSENRIJDEREERSTE DEELIHet kleine plekje bij den LusthofIk wil u een en ander vertellen uit het leven van een schaatsenrijderDie schaatsenrijder ben ikIk heb zóóveel in verschillende landen op schaatsen gereden dat hetschaatsenrijden in mijn leven een stuk leven op zichzelf geworden isIk herinner mij nog die jonge sterke jaren mijner jeugd met dielange saaie winters buiten waar het ijs dan eensklaps als onderde macht eener tooverroede kleur en fleur en beweging in brachtHet was er ineens na eindelooze dagen van grijze eentonigheid ineensop een frisschen prikkelenden morgen velden en boomen witberijptde harde grond klinkend onder de voetstappen de neusgaten der paardendampend en de zon die neveligoranje aan den blauwwazigen einderoprees met korte gouden stralen die alom miljoenen en miljoenendiamanten deden fonkelenEven buiten t dorp op korten afstand van ons huis lag deLusthof Die Lusthof heette te zijn het zomerverblijf van dendorpsnotaris n Zonderlinge fantaisie Een villaachtig gebouwtjein roode steen met châletdak zoo iets als men ziet afgebeeld opgoedkoope chromos en prentbriefkaarten Het lag aan den voorkantlangs den trekweg van t kanaal en aan de achterzijde grensde het aaneen stuk weiland dat gedeeltelijk tot lusttuintje was ingericht Erstonden banken er waren priëeltjes er lag een vijvertje met roodevischjes en een fonteintje dat tusschen rotsblokken van sintelsopspoot en op een grasveldje prijkte een groote glazen bol waarinde gansche omgeving zich wanstaltig en gedrochtelijk weerkaatsteDe dorpsnotaris die in het dorp zelf op nog geen tien minutenafstands een prachtig oud huis met een heerlijken uitgestrektentuin bewoonde kwam s zomers op den Lusthof af en toe enkele urendoorbrengen Een onzinnig idee een dorpsprotserige aberratie om tekunnen zeggen dat hij een binnen en een buiten had Hij deed erniets er was ook niets te doen hij liep een paar keer rondom zijnonnoozel tuintje keek naar de schaarsche bloemen en deed even hetfonteintje spuiten en ten slotte ging hij zitten op een bank tegenden achtergevel van het huis waar hij dan nurksch bleef vóór zichuit staren tot hij er eindelijk genoeg van had en met trage strammeschreden door de velden naar het dorp terugkeerde De villa zelvevoor zoover ik weet is nooit ook maar één enkelen dag bewoond geweestWat voor mij en een paar andere jongens van mijn leeftijd deaantrekkelijkheid van den Lusthof uitmaakte was het kleine stukjeweiland dat achter het tuintje lag en geregeld s winters onderwater liep Dat kwam zoo omdat de gekke notaris de eene helft vanhet stuk weiland dat hij in lusttuin had herschapen eenigszinshad laten ophoogen en daardoor al het water naar het laagliggendgedeelte had gedreven Het vormde daar een soort plasje van nietmeer dan een paar honderd vierkante meters oppervlakte en zóó ondiepdat het dadelijk bevroor en zonder eenig gevaar kon bereden wordenterwijl er op de grootere wateren nog in de verste verte maar geensprake was van schaatsenrijdenDaar op dat plekje heb ik als jonge jongen mijn eersteschaatsenschreden gewaagd O dat _eerste_ komen op het maagdelijkijs het donker ijs donker als water met het gras dat er nog groendoorheen schijnt als door een schoonen breeden spiegel Zal hetreeds dragen na die slechts een of twee nachten vorst of zal hetkraken en breken met modderigopspattend water over den mooiengladden spiegel Een voet gewaagd en eens gedrukt Het kraakt erkomen sterren in maar het schijnt toch te kunnen dragen Jawel hetdraagt het draagt het kraakt al minder een eind verder ik schuifer glijdend overheen ik voel mijn hart popelen en mijn oogen stralenik keer terug naar den kant en bind met hijgende haast mijn schaatsenaan Ik ben alweer de eerste de éérste ik geef het mooie voorbeelddat straks met uitgelaten vreugde door de verraste schooljongensnagevolgd zal worden Ik sta op mijn schaatsen op het maagdelijkdonker ijs ik rijd er overheen ik voel mij zweven als een vogeleen dolle blijheid zweept mij op er bestaat niets meer voor mij opde wereld behalve het verrukkelijk genot van t schaatsenrijdenDe zachte zon rijst hooger aan den einder en glinstert overde wonderschoone tooverwereld van zilveren rijp en fonkelendediamanten Daar ligt het dorpje stil te baden in die heerlijkheidmet de cijfers en de wijzers van de uurplaat op den kerktoren dietintelen als goud daar staat de oude houten molen droomerig op zijnberm als een sterke kalme reus die met gekruiste armen in starendebespiegeling van al zijn vroegere vermoeienis schijnt uit te rustendaar komen in de verte reeds de schooljongens die nog niets vermoedendie mij nog niet zien en als een troepje uitgelaten vogels klepperen ensnateren de kragen opgetrokken de schouders huiverend de verkleumdehandjes in hun dikke wollen wanten Maar eensklaps hebben zij mijontdekt en zij komen gevlogen en in een oogwenk is het ijsveldje volvan hun drukte en zij rennen glijden struikelen buitelen en vallenterwijl het alom luid opdreunt van hun dolle wilde uitbundige pretMaar daar komt meteen over het veld een strenge stramme donkeregestalte aan meneer de dorpsnotaris bezitter van den Lusthof en vant verdronken stukje weiland dat er bij behoortDe pret verstomt de jongens dringen stil en schuchter op eenhoekje bij elkaar Ik voel een groote gróóte droefheid als t wareverstijvend over mij neerkomen en rijd nog slechts met lusteloozeslagen door Wat zal hij zeggen Zal hij onze vreugd verstoren onsmet ruw gebaar tyranisch van het heerlijk ijsveldje wegjagen Daaris hij Met stramme beenen komt hij uit den hollen landweg schrijdtdwars over het weiland langs den rand van het ijs heen blijft daareven onbewegelijk staan kijkenHij zegt niets maakt geen gebaar schreeuwt geen bedreiginguit Ik rijd maar door en doe mijn uiterste best om kalm en mooite rijden Wie weet misschien interesseert het hem misschien kandàt hem nog vermurwen Dat duurt zoo enkele minuten in knellendeonzekerheid Steeds roerloos staan de jongens op een hoopje alsversteend door mijn durf zonder zelven nog iets te durven Dan gaathij eindelijk langzaam heen Wij verademen verádemen Maar nog evenstaat hij en dadelijk weer prangt de griezeling Zal hij nu toch opt laatste oogenblik toen

Produced by Donald LainsonTHANKFULS INHERITANCEBy Joseph C LincolnCHAPTER IThe road from Wellmouth Centre to East Wellmouth is not a good one evenin dry weather and daylight it is not that For the first two miles itwinds and twists its sandy way over bare hills with cranberryswamps and marshy ponds in the hollows between Then it enters upon athreemile stretch bordered with scrubby pines and bayberry thicketsclimbing at last a final hill to emerge upon the bluff with the oceanat its foot And fringing that bluff and clustering thickest in thelowlands just beyond is the village of East Wellmouth which must onno account be confused with South Wellmouth or North Wellmouth or WestWellmouth or even Wellmouth PortOn a bright sunny summer day the East Wellmouth road is a hard one totravel At nine oclock of an evening in March with a howling galeblowing and rain pouring in torrents traveling it is an experienceWinnie S who drives the East Wellmouth depotwagon had undergone theexperience several times in the course of his professional career buteach time he vowed vehemently that he would not repeat it he wouldheave up his job firstHe was vowing it now Perched on the edge of the depot wagons frontseat the reins leading from his clenched fists through the slit in theboot to the rings on the collar of General Jackson the aged horse heexpressed his opinion of the road the night and the jobBy Judas priest declared Winnie Shis name was Winfield ScottHancock Holt but no resident of East Wellmouth called him anything butWinnie Sby Judas priest If this aint enough to make a feller giveup tryin to earn a livin then I dont know Tell him he cant shipaboard a schooner cause goin to seas a dogs life and then put himon a job like this Dogs life Judas priest What kind of a lifesTHIS I want to knowFrom the curtain depths of the depotwagon behind him a voice answereda womans voiceJudgin by the amount of dampness in it I should think you might callit a ducks life it suggestedWinnie S accepted this pleasantry with a grunt I most wish I wasa duck he declared savagely Then I could set in three inches oficewater and like it maybe Now whats the matter with you This lasta roar to the horse whose splashy progress along the gullied road hadsuddenly ceased Whats the matter with you now repeated WinnieWhat have you done come to anchor Git dapBut General Jackson refused to git dap Jerks at the reins only causedhim to stamp and evince an inclination to turn around Go ahead he wouldnotJudas priest exclaimed the driver I do believe the crittersdrowndin Somethins wrong Ive got to get out and see I spose Setright where you be ladies Ill be back in a minute adding as hetook a lighted lantern from beneath the seat and pulled aside the heavyboot preparatory to alighting unless I get in over my head whichaint so dummed unlikely as it soundsLantern in hand he clambered clumsily from beneath the boot anddisappeared Inside the vehicle was blackness dense damp and profoundAuntie said a second feminine voice Auntie what DO you suppose hashappenedI dont know Emily Im prepared for most anything by this timeMaybe weve landed on Mount Ararat I feel as if Id been afloat forforty days and nights Land sakes alive as another gust shot and beatits accompanying cloudburst through and between the carriage curtainsright in my face and eyes I dont wonder that boy wished he was aduck Id like to be a fishor a mermaid I couldnt be much wetter ifI was either one and Id have gills so I could breathe under water ISUPPOSE mermaids have gills I dont knowEmily laughed Aunt Thankful she declared I believe you would findsomething funny in a case of smallpoxMaybe I should I never tried Twouldnt be much harder than to befunny withwith rainwater on the brain Im so disgusted with myselfI dont know what to do The idea of me daughter and granddaughter ofseafarin folks that studied the weather all their lives not knowinenough to stay to home when it looked as much like a storm as it didthis mornin And draggin you into it too We could have come tomorrowor next day just as well but no nothin to do but I must start todaycause Id planned to This comes of figgerin to profit by what folksleave to you in wills Talk about dead mens shoes Live mens rubberboots would be worth more to you and me this minute SUCH a cruise asthis has beenIt had been a hard trip certainly and the amount of water throughwhich they had traveled the latter part of it almost justified its beingcalled a cruise Old Captain Abner Barnes skipper for the twentyyears before his death of the coasting schooner T I Smalley hadduring his lifelong seafaring never made a much rougher voyage allthings considered than that upon which his last will and testament hadsent his niece and her young companionCaptain Abner a widower had when he died left his house and land atEast Wellmouth to his niece by marriage Mrs Thankful Barnes Thankfulwhose husband Eben Barnes was lost at sea the year after theirmarriage had been living with and acting as housekeeper for an elderlywoman named Pearson at South Middleboro She Thankful had nevervisited her East Wellmouth inheritance For four years after sheinherited it she received the small rent paid her by the tenant oneLaban Eldredge His name was all she knew concerning him Then he diedand for the next eight months the house stood empty And then came onemore death that of old Mrs Pearson the lady for whom Thankful hadkept houseLeft alone and without present employment the Widow Barnes consideredwhat she should do next And thus considering the desire to visit andinspect her East Wellmouth property grew and strengthened She thoughtmore and more concerning it It was hers she could do what she pleasedwith it and she began to formulate vague ideas as to what

Produced by Mark C Orton Linda McKeown and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetOLD JUNKBYH M TOMLINSONFOREWORD BY S K RATCLIFFENEW YORK ALFRED A KNOPF 1920COPYRIGHT 1920 BYALFRED A KNOPF INC_Second Printing August 1920_PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA_ToC H G HWho saw with me so much of what is in this book__Killed in action in Artois August 27th 1918_These stories of travel and chance have been selected from writingspublished in various periodicals between January 1907 and April 1918and are arranged in order of timeForeword_The author of_ OLD JUNK _has been called a legend A colleague whoduring the later stages of the war visited the western front assured methat this was the right word by which to describe the memory left amongofficers and men not so much by his work as a war correspondent as byhis original and fascinating character A legend too he appears to bein the newspaper world of London but there in a different sense byreason of the singular contradiction between the human creature belovedof all his fellows and the remarkable productions of his pen__The first thing to say about H M Tomlinson the thing of which youbecome acutely aware on making his acquaintance is that he is aLondoner Nearly a pureblooded London Saxon is his characterizationof himself And so it is He could have sprung from no other stock Inperson and speech in the indefinable quality of the man in the humourwhich continually tempers his tremendous seriousness he belongs toLondon Among the men of our time who have done creative writing I canthink of no other about whom this can be so precisely stated__It was in the opening years of the century that I first began tonotice his work His name was appearing in the columns of a Londonmorning newspaper since absorbed by the_ Daily News _over articleswhich if my memory is not at fault were mainly concerned with thelife of Thames side They were written with extraordinary care The manwho did them had clearly no competitor in Fleet Street And hefurnishes a striking illustration of the chances and misfits of thejournalistic life When after some years of absence in the Far East Iwas able to fit a person to the writing which had so long attracted meI found H M Tomlinson on the regular reporting staff of a greatLondon newspaper A man born for the creation of beauty in words wasdoing daily turn along with the humble chronicler of metropolitantrivialities__A year or two before the war the quality of his mind and of his stylewas revealed in_ THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE_a narrative of the voyage ofthe tramp steamer_ Capella _from Swansea to Para in the Brazils andthence two thousand miles along the forests of the Amazon and MadeiraRivers to the San Antonio Falls returning by Barbados Jamaica andTampa Its author called it merely an honest book of travel It isthat no doubt but in a degree so eminent one is tempted to say thatan honest book of travel when so conceived and executed must surelycount among the noblest works of the literary artist__The great war provided almost unlimited work for men of letters andnot seldom work that was almost as far from their ordinary business asfighting itself It carried Tomlinson into the guild of warcorrespondents In the early months he represented the paper to whichfor some years he had been attached the London_ Daily News _Laterunder the cooperative scheme which emerged from the restrictive policyadopted by all the belligerent governments his dispatches came to beshared among a partnership which included the London_ Times_as odd anarrangement for a man like Tomlinson as could well be imagined Itwould be foolish to attempt an estimate of his correspondence fromFrance It was beautiful copy but it was not war reporting To thoseof us who knew him it remained a marvel how he could do it at all Butthere was no marvel in the fact attested by a notable variety ofwitnesses of Tomlinson as an influence and a memory persisting untilthe dispersal of the armies as of one who was the friend of all asweet and fine spirit moving untouched amid the ruin and terrorexpressing itself everywhere with perfect simplicity and at times witha shattering candor__From France he returned midway in the war to join the men who underthe Command of H W Massingham make the editorial staff of theLondon_ Nation _the most brilliant company of journalists in the worldHis hand may be traced week by week in many columns and especially inalternate issues on the page given up to the literary_ causerie_To the readers of books Tomlinson is known at present by_ THE SEAAND THE JUNGLE _alone The war it may be did something to retardits fame But the time is coming when none will dispute its right toa place of exceptional honour among records of travelalongside thevery few which during the two or three decades preceding the generaloverturn had been added to the books of the great wayfaringcompanions It is remarkably unlike all others in its union ofaccurate chronicle with intimate selfrevelation and although it isthe sustained expression of a mood it is extremely quotable I chooseas a single example this scene from the description of the_ Capellas_first day on the Para River_ _There was seldom a sign of life but the infrequent snowy herons and those curious brown fowl the ciganas The sun was flaming on the majestic assembly of the storm The warm air broken by our steamer coiled over us in a lazy flux Sometimes we passed single habitations on the water side Ephemeral huts of palmleaves were forced down by the forest which overhung them to wade on frail stilts A canoe would be tied to a toy jetty and on the jetty a sad woman and several naked children would stand with no show of emotion to watch us go by

Produced by Alexander Bauer Jana Srna Irma Spehar MarkusBrenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet This file was produced from imagesgenerously made available by The Internet ArchiveAmericanLibraries Gerlachs Jugendbücherei Die Nymphe des Brunnens Nach J K A Musäus Bilder von Ignaz Taschner Text bearbeitet von Hans Fraungruber Verlag von Martin Gerlach Co Wien und Leipzig Druck von Christoph Reißers Söhne Wien V Ausstattung gesetzlich geschütztIllustrationDrei Meilen hinter Dinkelsbühl im Schwabenlande lag vorzeiten ein altesRaubschloß das einem mannfesten Ritter zugehörte Wackermann Uhlfingergenannt die Blume der faust und kolbengerechten Ritterschaft derSchrecken der schwäbischen Bundesstädte auch aller Reisenden undFrachtführer die keinen Geleitsbrief von ihm gelöst hatten WennWackermann seinen Küraß und Helm angelegt seine Lenden mit dem Schwertumgürtet hatte und die goldenen Sporen an seinen Fersen klirrten war ernach der Sitte seiner Zeitgenossen ein roher hartherziger Mann derRauben und Plündern für ein Vorrecht des Adels hielt den Schwächernbefehdete und weil er selbst mannhaft und rüstig war kein ander Gesetzerkannte als das Recht des Stärkern Wenns hieß Uhlfinger ist imAnzuge Wackermann kommt fiel Schrecken auf ganz Schwabenland dasVolk flüchtete in die festen Städte und die Wächter auf den Zinnen derWarten stießen ins Horn und verkündeten die nahe GefahrDieser gefürchtete Mann war aber daheim wenn er seine Rüstung abgelegthatte fromm wie ein Lamm gastfrei wie ein Araber ein gutmütigerHausvater und ein zärtlicher Gatte Seine Hausfrau war ein sanftesliebevolles Weib sittig und tugendsam und stund ihrem Hauswesen garfleißig vor Zudem war sie Mutter von zwei Töchtern die sie mit großerSorgfalt tugendsam und häuslich auferzog In dieser klösterlichenEingezogenheit störte nichts ihre Zufriedenheit als die Freibeutereiihres Gemahls der sich mit ungerechtem Gut bereicherte Sie mißbilligtediese Räubereien in ihrem Herzen und es machte ihr keine Freude wenn erihr gleich die herrlichsten Stoffe mit Gold und Silber durchwirkt zureichen Kleidern schenkte Was soll mir der Plunder sprach sie oft zusich selbst daran Seufzer und Tränen hangen Sie warf mit geheimemWiderwillen diese Geschenke in ihre Truhe und würdigte sie weiter keinesAnblicks bemitleidete die Unglücklichen die in Wackermanns Haftfielen setzte sie oft durch ihre Fürbitte in Freiheit und begabte siemit einem ZehrpfennigAm Fuße des Schloßberges verbarg sich tief im Gebüsch eine ergiebigeFelsenquelle welche in einer natürlichen Grotte entsprang die nacheiner alten Volkssage von einer Brunnennymphe bewohnt sein solltewelche man die Nixe nannte und die Rede ging daß sie sich beisonderbaren Ereignissen im Schlosse zuweilen sehen ließ Zu diesemBrunnen lustwandelte die edle Frau oftmals ganz einsam wenn sie währendder Abwesenheit ihres Gemahls außerhalb der düstern Burgmauern frischeLuft schöpfen oder ohne Geräusch Werke der Wohltätigkeit im Verborgenenausüben wollteEinstmals war Wackermann mit seinen Reisigen ausgezogen den Kaufleutenaufzulauern die vom Augsburger Markte kamen und verweilte länger alssein Verlaß war Das bekümmerte die zarte Frau sie wähnte ihrem Herrnsei ein Unglück begegnet er sei erschlagen oder in Feindes Gewalt Eswar ihr so weh ums Herz daß sie nicht ruhen noch rasten konnte Schonmehrere Tage hatte sie sich zwischen Furcht und Hoffnung abgeängstetund oft rief sie dem Zwerge zu der auf dem Turm Wacht hieltKleinhänsel schau aus Was rauscht durch den Wald Was trappelt imTal Wo wirbelt der Staub Trabt Wackermann an Aber Kleinhänselantwortete gar trübselig Nichts regt sich im Wald nichts reitet imTal es wirbelt kein Staub kein Federbusch weht Das trieb sie so bisin die Nacht da der Abendstern heraufzog und der leuchtende Vollmondüber die östlichen Gebirge blickte Da konnte sies nicht aushaltenzwischen den vier Wänden ihres Gemachs sie warf ihr Regentuch überstahl sich durchs Pförtchen in den Buchenhain und wandelte zu ihremLieblingsplätzchen dem Kristallbrunnen um desto ungestörter ihrenkummervollen Gedanken nachzuhängen Ihr Auge floß von Zähren und ihrsanfter Mund öffnete sich zu melodischen Wehklagen die sich mit demGeräusch des Baches mischten der vom Brunnen her durchs Gras lispelteIllustrationIndem sie sich der Grotte nahte wars ihr als ob ein leichter Schattenum den Eingang schwebe aber weils in ihrem Herzen so arbeiteteachtete sie wenig darauf und der erste Anblick schob ihr den flüchtigenGedanken vor daß das einfallende Mondenlicht ihr eine Truggestaltvorlüge Da sie näher kam schien sich die weiße Gestalt zu regen undihr mit der Hand zu winken Darüber kam ihr ein Grausen an doch wichsie nicht zurück sie stund um recht zu sehen was es wäre Das Gerüchtvon dem Nixenbrunnen das in der Gegend umlief war ihr nicht unbewußtSie erkannte die weiße Frau nun für die Nymphe des Brunnens und dieseErscheinung schien ihr eine wichtige Familienbegebenheit anzudeutenWelcher Gedanke konnte ihr jetzt näher liegen als der von ihrem GemahlSie zerraufte ihr schwarzgelocktes Haar und erhob eine laute Klage Achdes unglücklichen Tages Wackermann Wackermann Du bist gefallen bistkalt und tot Hast mich zur Wittib gemacht und deine Kinder zu WaisenDa sie so klagte und die Hände rang vernahm sie eine sanfte Stimme ausder Grotte Mathilde sei ohne Furcht ich verkünde dir kein Unglücknahe dich getrost ich bin deine Freundin und mich verlangt mit dir zukosen Die edle Frau fand so wenig Abschreckendes in der Gestalt undRede der Nixe daß sie den Mut hatte die Einladung anzunehmen sie gingin die Grotte die Bewohnerin bot ihr freundlich die Hand

Produced by Rita Farinha and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by NationalLibrary of Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Nota de editor Devido à quantidade de erros tipográficos existentes neste texto foram tomadas várias decisões quanto à versão final Em caso de dúvida a grafia foi mantida de acordo com o original No final deste livro encontrará a lista de erros corrigidos Rita Farinha Maio 2008PAISAGENS DA CHINA E DO JAPÃOWENCESLAU DE MORAESPaisagensdaChina e do JapãoLISBOALIVRARIA EDITORAVIUVA TAVARES CARDOSO_5 Largo de Camões 6_1906LISBOATyp de Francisco Luiz Gonçalves80 Rua do Alecrim 821906A Camillo Pessanha e João Vasco _Nos baldões da vida bohemia na confusa successão dos dias e das scenas acontece que os factos as coisas os individuos invocados pela pobre memoria exhausta vão perdendo pouco a pouco as suas qualidades intensivas as suas côres os seus contornos a sua feição propria emancipandose do real como uma pagina de aguarella desmerece solta e perdida no espaço e voando com as brisas diluindose por fim numa emoção generica vaga indifinivela saudadeA essas duas grandes saudades Camillo Pessanha e João Vasco dedico hoje este livro_ _Kobe 10 de Abril de 1901_ Wenceslau de MoraesAS BORBOLETAS A J Moreira de SáA lenda das borboletasSão tão lindas as borboletas Quem as vê que não lhes queira ahivagabundando pelo azul dos campos razando as corollas frescasamandose beijandose libertas da larva abjecta como almas de amantesdespidas da miseria terreal a viajarem no infinito São tão lindasas borboletasMas na China são talvez mais lindas do que todas É um deslumbramentosurprehendelas na quietação dos bosques voejando aos pares que setocam que se abraçam e enfiando pelas sombras mysteriosas dosbambuaes com as suas longas azas palpitantes lancioladas em matizesmaravilhosos de negros avelludados de azues meigos de amarellosquentes como se as loucas vestissem cabaias de setim de sedas de altopreçoChocInToi a deliciosa ChocInToi habitava ha longos seculos umapacifica aldeia do Yangtszekiang não longe do logar que hoje se dizShanghae Como fosse muito dada a estudos litterarios e as escolas doseu sexo não lhe satisfizessem a ambição conseguiu que seus paes lhepermittissem o disfarçarse em homem e assim abalou a ir frequentar amais famosa universidade do imperio Volveu ao lar apóz tres annosvolveu tão pura como fôra da sua innocencia ha provas irrecusaveisPara não divagar muito nestas paginas basta dizer a quem me queiraouvir que um lenço de seda branca que ella enterrara na lama empresença duma sua cunhada predisposta a vaticinarlhe rudes lances foidepois tirado sem uma só mancha e sem um só farpão branco puro como aalma da donzella e basta saber que as flôres da sua preferencia queella deixára no jardim rogando aos deuses que as conservassem frescascomo ella assim se conservaram durante a longa ausencia embora comoconsta a cunhada as fosse regando com agua quente tirada da chaleiraDurante os tres annos de seu estudo um companheiro por nomeLeunSanPac intimamente se lhe afeiçoou Era o seu camaradainseparavel o seu irmão dormindo juntos conversando juntos estudandojuntos divagando sonhando e o lorpa do mocinho nunca se apercebeu quetinha a seu lado uma mulherFiguraQuando soou a hora das despedidas cortava o coração vêr o rapazlamentando o futuro isolamento a perda dum amigo como aquelle A moçaconsolavao A moça poisavalhe nos hombros as suas mãos gentis eexhortavao a que se enchesse de coragem a que se entregasse ao amor doestudo té alcançar um alto grau de sapienciaE depois dizialheella entre soluços e depois se com saudade te recordares ainda de mimabala vem vêr me á minha aldeiaE davalhe indicações precisas dologar Despediramse entre chorosA donzella esperou esperou esperouquem poderá descrever essetormento guardando da familia o seu segredo e o moço não appareciaSegundo os usos do paiz os paes destinaramlhe um marido e ella adesolada escrava da obediencia filial obediencia cega indiscutivelque é a base da vida inteira moral do povo china inclinouse acceitousem que uma só queixa proferisseTres dias decorridos depois do contracto nupcial eis que chega á aldeiao pobre LeunSanPac pobre porque a desventura se lhe acerca mas ricode erudição de uma alma culta e occupando um logar proeminenteEncontra o seu amigo encontra o seu irmão mas agora sem disfarces nagraça plena dos seus enlevos femininos na gentil elegancia das vestesque lhe são proprias e com grinaldas de flores na trança negra Decomeço este enigma pouco a pouco explicado confundeo desnorteaomas tudo se aclara da amisade ao amor o salto é rapido Oh elle amaaagora elle amaa de todas as forças do seu ser e no olhar de fogotransluzem mil mysterios de adorações e de desejos É tarde Apalavra dada ao feliz noivo não se quebra Os velhos paes prezam mais doque tudo a propria honraElle parte elle parte para um logar visinho louco com a alma embebidano fel dos desesperos É ainda ella a doce pomba obediente que tentaconsolalo Ella escrevelhe ella dizlhe que a vida não é eterna quea piedade filial arrastaa a um consorcio que só lhe vaticina dores eprantos mas que as almas são livres emigram duns corpos para outrosencarnamse noutros seres que elle socegue aguarde outra existenciapara a qual ella lhe jura

Produced by David WidgerRECOLLECTIONS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTIBy T Hall CaineRoberts Brothers 1883PREFACEOne day towards the close of 1881 Rossetti who was then very ill saidto meHow well I remember the beginning of our correspondence and how littledid I think it would lead to such relations between us as have ensued Iwas at the time very solitary and depressed from various causes andthe letters of so young and ardent a wellwisher though unknown to mepersonally brought solaceYours I said were very valuable to meMine to you were among the largest bodies of literary letters I everwrote others being often letters of personal interestAnd so admirable in themselves I added and so free from thediscussion of any but literary subjects that many of them would bear tobe printed exactly as you penned themThat he said will be for you some day to decideThis was the first hint of any intention upon my part of publishing theletters he had written to me indeed this was the first moment at whichI had conceived the idea of doing so Nothing further on the subject wassaid down to the morning of the Thursday preceding the Sunday on whichhe died when we talked together for the last time on subjects ofgeneral interestsubsequent interviews being concerned wholly withsolicitous inquiries upon my part in common with other anxious friendsas to the nature of his sufferings and the briefest answers from himHow long have we been friends he saidI replied between three and four years from my first corresponding withhimAnd how long did we correspondThree years nearlyWhat numbers of my letters you must possess They may perhaps even yetbe useful to youFrom this moment I regarded the publication of his letters as in somesort a trust and though I must have withheld them for some years if Ihad consulted my own wishes simply I yielded to the necessity that theyshould be published at once rather than run any risk of their not beenpublished at allWhat I have just said will account for the circumstance that I theyoungest and latest of Rossettis friends should be the first to seemto stand towards him in the relation of a biographer I say _seem_ tostand for this is not a biography It was always known to be Rossettiswish that if at any moment after his death it should appear that thestory of his life required to be written the one friend who during manyof his later years knew him most intimately and to whom he unlocked themost sacred secrets of his heart Mr Theodore Watts should write itunless indeed it were undertaken by his brother William But thoughI know that whenever Mr Watts sets pen to paper in pursuance ofsuch purpose and in fulfilment of such charge he will afford us arecognisable portrait of the man vivified by picturesque illustrationthe like of which few other writers could compass I also know fromwhat Rossetti often told me of his friends immersion in all kinds andvarieties of life that years perhaps many years may elapse beforesuch a biography is given to the world My own book is I trust exactlywhat it purports to be a volume of Recollections interwoven withletters and criticism and preceded by such a summary of the leadingfacts in Rossettis life as seems necessary for the elucidation ofsubsequent records I have drawn Rossetti precisely as I found him ineach stage of our friendship exhibiting his many contradictions ofcharacter extenuating nothing and I need hardly add setting downnaught in malice Up to this moment I have never inquired of myselfwhether to those who have known little or nothing of Rossettihitherto mine will seem to be on the whole favourable or unfavourableportraiture but I have trusted my admiration of the poet and affectionfor the friend to penetrate with kindly and appreciative feeling everycomment I have had to offer I was attracted to Rossetti in the firstcase by ardent love of his genius and retained to him ultimately bylove of the man As I have said in the course of these Recollectionsit was largely his unhappiness that held me with others as by a spelland only too sadly in this particular did he in his last year realisehis own picture of Dante at Verona Yet of the twofold life he led In chainless thought and fettered will Some glimpses reach ussomewhat still Of the steep stairs and bitter bread Of the souls quest whose stern avow For years had made him haggard nowI am sensible of the difficulty and delicacy of the task I haveundertaken involving as it does many interests and issues and inevery reference to surviving relatives as well as to other persons nowliving with whom Rossetti was in any way allied I have exercised inall friendliness the best judgment at my commandClements Inn October 1882

Produced by Donald LainsonTHE THREE PARTNERSBy Bret HartePROLOGUEThe sun was going down on the Black Spur Range The red light it hadkindled there was still eating its way along the serried crest showingthrough gaps in the ranks of pines etching out the interstices ofbroken boughs fading away and then flashing suddenly out again likesparks in burntup paper Then the night wind swept down the wholemountain side and began its usual struggle with the shadows upclimbingfrom the valley only to lose itself in the end and be absorbed in theallconquering darkness Yet for some time the pines on the long slopeof Heavy Tree Hill murmured and protested with swaying arms but as theshadows stole upwards and cabin after cabin and tunnel after tunnelwere swallowed up a complete silence followed Only the sky remainedvisiblea vast concave mirror of dull steel in which the stars did notseem to be set but only reflectedA single cabin door on the crest of Heavy Tree Hill had remained open tothe wind and darkness Then it was slowly shut by an invisible figureafterwards revealed by the embers of the fire it was stirring At firstonly this figure brooding over the hearth was shown but as the flamesleaped up two other figures could be seen sitting motionless before itWhen the door was shut they acknowledged that interruption by slightlychanging their position the one who had risen to shut the door sankback into an invisible seat but the attitude of each man was one ofprofound reflection or reserve and apparently upon some common subjectwhich made them respect each others silence However this was at lastbroken by a laugh It was a boyish laugh and came from the youngest ofthe party The two others turned their profiles and glanced inquiringlytowards him but did not speakI was thinking he began in apologetic explanation how mighty queerit was that while we were working like niggers on grub wages withoutthe ghost of a chance of making a strike how we used to sit here nightafter night and flapdoodle and speculate about what wed do if we everDID make one and now Great Scott that we HAVE made it and are justwallowing in gold here we are sitting as glum and silent as if wedhad a washout Why Lord I remember one nightnot so long agoeitherthat you two quarreled over the swell hotel you were going tostop at in Frisco and whether you wouldnt strike straight out forLondon and Rome and Paris or go away to Japan and China and round byIndia and the Red SeaNo we didnt QUARREL over it said one of the figures gently therewas only a little discussionYes but you did though returned the young fellow mischievouslyand you told Stacy there that wed better learn something of theworld before we tried to buy it or even hire it and that it was justas well to get the hayseed out of our hair and the slumgullion off ourboots before we mixed in polite societyWell I dont see whats the matter with that sentiment now returnedthe second speaker goodhumoredly only he added gravely we didntquarrelGod forbidThere was something in the speakers tone which seemed to touch a commonchord in their natures and this was voiced by Barker with sudden andalmost pathetic earnestness I tell you what boys we ought to swearhere tonight to always stand by each otherin luck and out of it Weought to hold ourselves always at each others call We ought to havea kind of password or signal you know by which we could summon eachother at any time from any quarter of the globeCome off the roof Barker murmured Stacy without lifting his eyesfrom the fire But Demorest smiled and glanced tolerantly at the youngermanYes but look here Stacy continued Barker comrades like us inthe old days used to do that in times of trouble and adventures Whyshouldnt we do it in our luckTheres a good deal in that Barker boy said Demorest though asa general thing passwords butter no parsnips and the ordinaryeveryday single yelp from a wolf brings the whole pack together forbusiness about as quick as a password But you cling to that sentimentand put it away with your golddust in your beltWhat I like about Barker is his commodiousness said Stacy Here heis the only man among us that has his future fixed and his preemptionlines laid out and registered Hes already got a girl that hes goingto marry and settle down with on the strength of his luck And Id liketo know what Kitty Carter when shes Mrs Barker would say to herhusband being signaled for from Asia or Africa I dont seem to see hertumbling to any password And when he and she go into a new partnershipI reckon shell let the old one slideThats just where youre wrong said Barker with quickly risingcolor Shes the sweetest girl in the world and shed be sure tounderstand our feelings Why she thinks everything of you two she wasjust eager for you to get this claim which has put us where we arewhen I held back and if it hadnt been for her by Jove we wouldnthave had itThat was only because she cared for YOU returned Stacy with ahalfyawn and now that youve got YOUR share she isnt going to takea breathless interest in US And by the way Id rather YOUD remind usthat we owe our luck to her than that SHE should ever remind YOU of itWhat do you mean said Barker quickly But Demorest here rose lazilyand throwing a gigantic shadow on the wall stood between the two withhis back to the fire He means he said slowly that youre talkingrot and so is he However as yours comes from the heart and his fromthe head I prefer yours But youre both making me tired Lets have afresh dealNobody ever dreamed of contradicting Demorest Nevertheless Barkerpersisted eagerly But isnt it better for us to look at thischeerfully and happily all round Theres nothing criminal in our havingmade a strike It

Produced by Al Haines This work is licenced under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNo Derivative Works 30 Licence httpcreativecommonsorglicensesbyncnd30 Imperial Empire ConcordancebyAnn WilsonCopyright C 1992 by Ann Wilson AA Imperial English The neutralanimate pronoun Emperor Changdisliked the fact that there was no good Standard English pronoun thatreferred to a single individual of unknown sex or where sex wasimmaterial so he made use of the Celtic a often written with anaccent mark á by those who use Standard to distinguish it from theindefinite article is sometimes used when the printingwritingdevice cannot show accent marks In Imperial English orthography theCyrillic ya reversed R is usedPreparers note The symbol has been used throughout these storiesin the manner described aboveACADEMY The Imperial Military Academy or Imperial AdministrativeAcademy Both are headquartered in and have their most prestigiousfacilities in the Antarctica Palace Complex branch Academies arelocated throughout the EmpireAHTO Subsector 12C No systems 89 Sector Eridanus with 3 inhabited planets 2 Ruled by with 2 inhabited planets 11 with 1 inhabited planet 21AEGIR Subsector 17D No systems 72 Sector Indus with 3 inhabited planets 3 Ruled by with 2 inhabited planets 8 with 1 inhabited planet 24AGNI Subsector 11B No systems 153 Sector Gemini with 3 inhabited planets 4 Ruled by with 2 inhabited planets 12 with 1 inhabited planet 24ALANNA Clan First of the Sandeman clans Famous for its outstandingedged weaponsALANNA Dana Dru Originally Dana Manfredi A Terran woman who sworepersonal fealty to Richard Jason When Jason repudiated her aftertrying to kill her Dana asked the Alanna clanchiefs help in makingatonement for allowing him to accept an unworthy thakurna Afterseeing the evidence the Alanna instead asked Clan Miklos to convene aplanetwide conference and asked Clan Vader to rule on both Danas andJasons actions The decision was that Dana had acted properly andJason had not the Alanna then offered her his clans countenanceessentially adoption and when she accepted claimed Chiefs Right onher behalf The conference agreed with that banning Jason from anybusiness in Subsector Sandeman declaring his property forfeit andgiving him a day to get offworld or be killed by the first warrior whosaw him It also named Dana to the warrior caste and gave her theright to wear honorblack ThakurNaALDRAS Sector 16 Virgo Year Subsector C Ishtar Day System Elder Gravity Settledestablished Axial tilt By Oxygen Satellites Water Ident code prefix ALS Continents Ruled by Fayette family Barbara TennisonALPH Subsector 17A No systems 95 Sector Indus with 3 inhabited planets 3 Ruled by with 2 inhabited planets 9 with 1 inhabited planet 20ALTERNATE UNIVERSES Until the first ship from

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration Randerson watches the newcomers Page 2 THE RANGE BOSS BY CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER AUTHOR OF THE BOSS OF THE LAZY Y ETC ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK E SCHOONOVER NEW YORK GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Copyright A C McClurg Co 1916 Published September 1916 Copyrighted in Great Britain CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I At Calamity Crossing 1 II The Sympathetic Rescuer 12 III At the Flying W 33 IV A Memory of the Rider 42 V Love vs Business 56 VI A Man and His Job 65 VII How an Insult Was Avenged 78 VIII What Uncle Jepson Heard 97 IX Somethins Gone Out of Them 104 X The Law of the Primitive 111

Produced by Marilynda FraserCunliffe Sam W and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was made using scans of public domain worksfrom the University of Michigan Digital LibrariesTranscribers NoteGreek has been transliterated in this version of the etext and issurrounded by symbols like this THE SYMPATHY OF RELIGIONS AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT HORTICULTURAL HALL BOSTON February 6 1870 BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON BOSTON _REPRINTED FROM THE RADICAL_ OFFICE 25 BROMFIELD STREET 1871THE SYMPATHY OF RELIGIONSBY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSONOur true religious life begins when we discover that there is an InnerLight not infallible but invaluable which lighteth every man thatcometh into the world Then we have something to steer by and it ischiefly this and not an anchor that we need The human soul likeany other noble vessel was not built to be anchored but to sail Ananchorage may indeed be at times a temporary need in order to makesome special repairs or to take fresh cargo in yet the naturaldestiny of both ship and soul is not the harbor but the ocean to cutwith even keel the vast and beautiful expanse to pass from island onto island of more than Indian balm or to continents fairer thanColumbus won or best of all steering close to the wind to extractmotive power from the greatest obstacles Men must forget the eternitythrough which they have yet to sail when they talk of anchoring hereupon this bank and shoal of time It would be a tragedy to see theshipping of the world whitening the seas no more and idly riding atanchor in Atlantic ports but it would be more tragic to see a worldof souls fascinated into a fatal repose and renouncing their destinyof motionAnd as with individuals so with communities The great historicreligions of the world are not so many stranded hulks left to perishThe best of them are all in motion All over the world the divineinfluence moves men There is a sympathy in religions and thissympathy is shown alike in their origin their records and theirprogress Men are ceasing to disbelieve and learning to believe moreI have worshiped in an Evangelical church when thousands rose to theirfeet at the motion of one hand I have worshiped in a Roman Catholicchurch when the lifting of one finger broke the motionless multitudeinto twinkling motion till the magic sign was made and all was stillonce more But I never for an instant have supposed that thisconcentrated moment of devotion was more holy or more beautiful thanwhen one cry from a minaret hushes a Mohammedan city to prayer orwhen at sunset the low invocation Oh the gem in the lotusohthe gem in the lotus goes murmuring like the cooing of many dovesacross the vast surface of Thibet True the gem in the lotus meansnothing to us but it means as much to the angels as the Lamb ofGod for it is a symbol of aspirationEvery year brings new knowledge of the religions of the world andevery step in knowledge brings out the sympathy between them They allshow the same aim the same symbols the same forms the sameweaknesses the same aspirations Looking at these points of unity wemight say there is but one religion under many forms whose essentialcreed is the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Mandisguisedby corruptions symbolized by mythologies ennobled by virtuesdegraded by vices but still the same Or if passing to a closeranalysis we observe the shades of difference we shall find in thesevarying faiths the several instruments which perform what Cudworthcalls the Symphony of Religions And though some may stir likedrums and others soothe like flutes and others like violins commandthe whole range of softness and of strength yet they are all alikeinstruments and nothing in any one of them is so wondrous as thegreat laws of sound which equally control them allAmid so much war and contest and variety of opinion said MaximusTyrius you will find one consenting conviction in every land thatthere is one God the King and Father of all God being one saidAristotle only receives various names from the variousmanifestations we perceive Sovereign God said Cleanthes in thatsublime prayer which Paul quoted whom men invoke under many namesand who rulest alone it is to thee that all nations shouldaddress themselves for we all are thy children So Origen theChristian Father frankly says that no man can be blamed for callingGods name in Egyptian nor in Scythian nor in such other language ashe best knowsATo say that different races worship different Gods is like sayingthat they are warmed by different suns The names differ but the sunis the same and so is God As there is but one source of light andwarmth so there is but one source of religion To this all nationstestify alike We have yet but a part of our Holy Bible The time willcome when as in the middle ages all pious books will be calledsacred scriptures _Scripturæ Sacræ_ From the most remote portions ofthe earth from the Vedas and the Sagas from Plato and ZoroasterConfucius and Mohammed from the Emperor Marcus Antoninus and theslave Epictetus from the learned Alexandrians and the ignorant Gallanegroes there will be gathered hymns and prayers and maxims in

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe First Mate by Harry Collingwood________________________________________________________________________The hero of this story is Walter Leigh who takes a job as second mateaboard a gasolinepowered yacht owned by a Mrs Vansittart whosehusband is an American industrialist Julius Vansittart is a rathernasty 12yearold who despite his life being saved by Leigh when hehad fallen overboard hates the English and never misses an opportunityof being as unpleasant as possible even to the point of stupidityThere are numerous disasters in this story with the First Mates deathoccurring soon after the start of the book and Leighs promotion to theposition After that there are an attack by pirates a shipwreck anattack by hostile natives all of which Leigh does his best to copewith Eventually even the dreadful Julius becomes a bit more civilisedand apologises for his bad behaviour hithertoThey drop a large number of floating messages asking for help into thesea and eventually they are rescued This is not a very long booktaking only 85 hours to read as an audiobook________________________________________________________________________THE FIRST MATE BY HARRY COLLINGWOODCHAPTER ONETHE STELLA MARIS AND MRS VANSITTARTWell young man what do you think of herThe question was addressed to me in a very pleasantly modulated femalevoice carrying just the slightest suspicion of an American accent Forthe fraction of a second I was a wee bit startled I had not had theghost of a suspicion that anyone was nearer me than the gang oflabourers who were busily engaged in unloading a big delivery wagon andtransferring the contents in the shape of numerous packing cases tothe deck of the vessel which I was scrutinising It was afternoon of agrey day in the latter part of October three years ago and the scenewas one of the wharves of the east basin of the London Docks roundwhich I had been prowling in search of a ship I had been thus engagedever since nine oclock that morning interviewing skippers and matesso far unsuccessfully when I was brought up all standing by findingmyself in close proximity to a whitehulled shiprigged craft of Iestimated some two thousand five hundred tons measurementShe was steelbuilt with steel lower masts bowsprit and lower andtopsail yards and even if she had not been sporting the ensign of theNew York Yacht Club at her ensign staff and its burgee at her mainroyalmasthead I should still have known her for a yacht from theperfection of her lines the dainty and exquisite beauty of her shapethe whiteness of her decks notwithstanding their somewhat litteredcondition the beautiful modelling of her boats her polished teakrails and generally the high finish and perfect cleanliness of her deckfittings She was as heavily rigged as a frigate moreover although noguns were visible I observed that her maindeck bulwarks were piercedwith six ports of a side in the wake of which steel racers were boltedto the deck also she sported hammock rails which I had never seenbefore except in pictures of oldfashioned wooden menowar A giltcable moulding ornamented her sheer strake a beautifully carved andgilded fulllength figure of a woman wearing a star of cutglass facetson her forehead formed her figurehead and her quarters were adornedwith a considerable amount of gilded scrollwork Her elliptical sternbore in large gilded block letters the words Stella Maris New YorkAs the enquiry with which I have opened this story reached my ears Iwheeled round and found myself face to face with a little lady She wasvery richly dressed in silk and furs quite colourless as to complexionbut with a fine pair of deep violet eyes and a quantity of dark chestnuthair loosely coiled under an immense hat rigged with black ostrichplumes I put her down in my own mind as being something overthirtysix years of age and I subsequently learned that I was not veryfar outHer eyes were dancing with amusement as I wheeled sharply round uponher and as my hand went up to my cap she laughed a low musical laughGuess I startled you some didnt I she remarked in that pleasantvoice of hers You were so completely absorbed by the charms of_Stella Maris_ that you had neither eyes nor ears for anybody elseWell what do you think of herI was bareheaded by this time but still a trifle confused at thesuddenness and unconventionality of my companions address yet Iquickly recovered my equanimityShe is the most lovely craft I ever set eyes on bar none I answeredwith enthusiasmYes she is a real daisy agreed my companion Do you know what sheisI know what she ought to be I said and that is flagship of theClub But I see by her burgee that she is merely the property of one ofits membersThat is so returned the lady but I guess its good enough Saywould you like to go aboard and have a look at her from insideIndeed I should if her owner would notI hesitatedWell come along then cut in my companion Im the owner and Ipromise you that I wontSo saying my strange acquaintance led the way to a narrow gang plankstretching from the wharf to the ships poop Laughingly declining myproffered assistance she tripped lightly along it and as lightlysprang down upon the deck of narrow planking paid with whiteleadinstead of the more usual pitchAllowing me a few moments to look round my companion presently led meforward to the break of the poop where standing at the head of one ofthe ladders leading down to the maindeck I obtained a view of thewhole length of the ship The first thing to attract my attention wasthe wheelhouse a teak structure raised upon massive steel standardslofty enough to allow the helmsman a clear view ahead and asternSome ten feet ahead of it was the after hatchway the coamings of whichstood about eighteen inches high and like those aboard a manowarwere protected by rails and stanchions The hatchway was open andthere was a ladder leading down through it

Produced by Svend RomTHE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE VOLUME 6THE MODERN REGIME VOLUME 2by Hippolyte A TaineContentsBOOK FIFTH The Church Chapter I Moral Institutions Chapter Ii Chapter IiiBook Sixth Public Instruction Chapter I Chapter Ii Chapter Iii Evolution Between 1814 And 1890

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Teamat httpwwwpgdpnetTHE BRANDING IRONTHE BRANDING IRONBYKATHARINE NEWLIN BURTGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERS NEW YORKBY ARRANGEMENT WITH HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYCOPYRIGHT 1919 BY THE RIDGWAY COMPANYCOPYRIGHT 1919 BY KATHARINE N BURTALL RIGHTS RESERVEDCLPRINTED IN THE U S ACONTENTSBook OneTHE TWOBAR BRAND I Joan Reads by Firelight 3 II Pierre Lays his Hand on a Heart 12 III Two Pictures in the Fire 21 IV The SinBuster 25 V Pierre Becomes Alarmed about his Property 32 VI Pierre Takes Steps to Preserve his Property 42 VII The Judgment of God 51VIII Delirium 56 IX Dried RoseLeaves 61 X Prosper Comes to a Decision 72 XI The Whole Duty of Woman 80 XII A Matter of Taste 91XIII The Training of a Leopardess 100 XIV Joan Runs Away 105 XV Nerves and Intuition 116 XVI The Tall Child 124XVII Concerning Marriage 133Book TwoTHE ESTRAY I A Wild Cat 151 II Morenas Wife 161 III Jane 170 IV Flight 182 V Lucks Play 191 VI Joan and Prosper 205 VII Aftermath 215VIII Against the Bars 227 IX Gray Envelopes 236 X The Spider 255 XI The Clean Wild Thing 266 XII The Leopardess

Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This book wasproduced from scanned images of public domain materialfrom the Google Print projectThe Spirit Proper to the TimesA SERMONPREACHED IN KINGS CHAPEL BOSTONSUNDAY MAY 12 1861BYJAMES WALKER DDPRINTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE WARDENS OF THE SOCIETYBOSTONPRESS OF GEO C RAND AVERYNO 3 CORNHILL1861SERMON With such sacrifices God is well pleased_Hebrews_ xiii 16I am to speak of public spirit as manifested in a willingness to makesacrifices for the public goodThe necessity for making sacrifices would seem to be founded in thisas we cannot have every thing we must be willing to sacrifice somethings in order to obtain or secure others Wicked men recognize andact upon this principle Can you not recall more than one person inyour own circle of acquaintances who is sacrificing his health hisgood name his domestic comfort to vicious indulgences Worldlypeople recognize and act upon this principle Look at that miser heis hoarding up his thousands and his tens of thousands but in orderto do so is he not sacrificing every thing which makes life worthhaving It is a mistake to suppose that religion or morality or thepublic necessities ever call upon us to make greater sacrifices thanthose which men are continually making to sin and the world tofashion and fame to the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes andthe pride of lifeIn times of ease and abundance and tranquillity the public takescare of itself There are few sacrifices on the part of individualsfor the public good because there are few occasions for suchsacrifices They are not made because not called for because notneeded Moreover private benevolence is apt at such times to becomeless active and for the same reason that is to say because lessof it is requiredThis state of things is seized upon by those who are eager to put theworst possible construction on human nature and human conduct asevidence of extreme degeneracy How often are we to be told that ourpresent troubles are sent upon us in order to lift the whole communityout of the mire of moneygetting propensities where every thing likepublic spirit was in danger of being swallowed up and lost I protestagainst this wholesale abuse of what has beenat best a grossexaggeration The whole truth in this matter is told in a few wordsBy constitution by habit by circumstances our people are intenselyactive and this activity for want of other objects has been turnedinto the channels of material prosperity If therefore you merelyaffirm their excessive eagerness in acquisition I grant it but ifnot content with this you go on to charge them with being niggards inexpending what they have acquired I deny it emphatically utterlyRead the history of what has been done in this commonwealth in thiscity during the last twentyfive years for humanity for educationfor science and the arts for every form of public use or human needand then say if you can that public spirit has been dying out Ourpeople have never been otherwise than public spirited and hence thepromptness and unanimity of their response to this new call to publicduty Hence also our confidence in itnot as an excitement merelywhich a day has made and a day may unmake but as an expression ofcharacterLet us however be just to the excitement itself considered as thesudden and spontaneous uprising of a whole community to sustain thegovernment We need demonstrations of this kind from time to timeto reassure us that all men have souls It is worth a great dealmerely as an experiment on a large scale to prove that the moral andsocial instincts are as much a part of human nature as the selfishinstincts But he must be a superficial observer who can see nothingin this vast movement but the play of instincts It is a great moralforceNot a little of what passes for loyalty or patriotism in othercountries is blind impulse growing out of mere attachment to thesoil or the power of custom or a helpless feeling of dependence onthings as they are If my father in his grave could hear of thiswar said a Spanish peasant his bones would not rest Yet whatearthly interest what intelligible concern had Spanish peasants inthe rivalships and struggles of princes who thought of nothing buttheir own or their family aggrandizement Of such loyalty of suchpatriotism there never has been much in this country and there neverwill be The loyal and patriotic States have risen up as one man tomaintain the government because the government represents the greatideas of order and liberty It is not an excitement of irritationmerely or of wounded vanity or of a selfish and discomfitedambition It is as I have said a great moral force a reverence fororder and liberty an excitement if you will have it so but anexcitement resting on solid and intelligible principle and onetherefore which trial and sacrifice will be likely to convert intoearnest and solemn purposeI suppose some are full of concern as to the effect which trial andsacrifice will really have on this new outbreak of public spirit Theyfear that suffering for our principles will abate our confidence inthem or at least our interest in them and so the ardor will dieaway So doubtless it will in some cases for every community hasits representatives of the seed that was sown on stony ground butit will be the exception and not the rule Human nature if it hasfair play will never lead a single individual to think less of aprivilege or blessing merely because it has cost more When hasreligion interested men the most and the most generally Precisely atthose times when men were religious at the greatest sacrificesIndeed it is on this principle that we explain the decay of a properlove of country among us for the last twenty or thirty years it isbecause we have had so little to do for our country A foreign wareven a famine or a pestilence if it had been sufficiently severewould have saved us from our

Produced by D Alexander and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive The Prodigal Father BY J STORER CLOUSTON AUTHOR THE LUNATIC AT LARGE A COUNTY FAMILY ETC New York The Century Co 1909 Copyright 1909 by J STORER CLOUSTON _Published September 1909_ J F TAPLEY CO NEW YORK WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO AN UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT WHO ONCE MADE A CERTAIN SUGGESTION IF HE READS THIS STORY HE PERHAPS WILL REMEMBER J S CTHE PRODIGAL FATHERINTRODUCTORYIn one of the cable tramway cars which at a reverential paceperambulate the city of Edinburgh two citizens conversed The windswithout blew gustily and filled the air with sounds like a stream inflood the traffic clattered noisily over the causeway the car itselfthrummed and rattled but the voices of the two were hushed Said theoneIts the most extraordinary thing ever I heard ofIts all that said the other in fact its pairfectlyincomprehensibleMr Walkingshaw of all peopleOf Walkingshaw and Gilliflowerthats the thing that fair takes mybreath away added the other as though the firm was an even surerguarantee of respectability than the honored name of the senior partnerThey shook their heads ominously It was clear this was no ordinaryportent they were discussingDo you think has he taken toThe first citizen finished his question by a crooking of his upturnedlittle finger one of those many delicate symbols by which the northBriton indicates a failing not uncommon in his climateIts a curious thing replied his friend that I havent heard thatgiven as an explanation Of course hes not a teetotalerOh none ever insinuated that put in the other with the air of onewho desired to do justice even to the most erringOn the other hand hes ay had the name of being one of the mostrespectable men in the town just an example theyve always told meI knew him fine myself in a business way and thats just theexpression Id have usedan ExampleRespected by allAn elder and what notA fine business he hasHis daughter married a Ramornie of PettigrewThey shook their heads again if possible more gravely than beforeHe must be going off his headHe must be gone Id sayYon speech he made was an outrage to common sense and decencyAnd about his sons marriageThats Andrew Walkingshawhis partnerAyeOh youve heard the story then I wonder is it trueI had it on the best authorityThey pursed their lips solemnlyThe mans madBut think of letting him loose to make a public exhibition of himselfIts an awfu end to a respected careerin fact its positivelydiscouragingYoure right youre right If as respectable a liver as him ends thatwaywell wellIn this strain and with such comments exceedingly natural under thecircumstances did his fellowcitizens discuss the remarkable thing thatbefell Mr Walkingshaw And yet they could see only the outward symptomsor manifestations of this thing Now that the full circumstances aremade public it will be generally conceded that few wellauthenticatedoccurrences have ever at first sight seemed less probable This hasactually been advanced as an argument for their suppression but sinceenough has already leaked out to whet the public curiosity and indeedto lead to damaging misconceptions in a city so unused to phenomenaother than meteorological it is considered wisest that the unvarnishedfacts should be placed in the hands of a scrupulous editor and allowedto speak for themselvesPART ITHE PRODIGAL FATHERCHAPTER IAt a certain windy corner in the famous city of Edinburgh a number ofbrass plates were affixed to the framework of a door On the largest andbrightest of them appeared the legend Walkingshaw Gilliflower WSand on no other sheet of brass in Scotland were more respectable namesinscribed For the benefit of the Sassenach and other foreigners it maybe explained that WS is a condensation of Writers to the Signetaspecies of beatified solicitor holding a position so esteemed soenviable and so intensely reputable that the only scandal previouslywhispered in connection with a member of this class proved innocentlyexplicable upon the discovery that he was affianced to the ladys auntThe building in which the firm had their office formed one end of anaustere range of dark stone houses overlooking a street paved with cubesof granite and confronted by a precisely similar line of houses on thefarther side The whole sloped somewhat steeply down a hill up whichand down which a stimulating breeze careered and eddied during threehundred days of the year Had you thrust your head out of the officewindows and looked down the street you could have seen generallybeneath a gray sky and through a haze of smoke an inspiring glimpse ofdistant sea with yet more distant hills beyond But Mr Walkingshaw hadno time for looking gratis out of his window to see unprofitable viewsThe gray street had been the background to nearly fifty years ofdignified labor on behalf of the most respectable clientsHis full name was James Heriot Walkingshaw but it had been earlyrecognized that James was too brief a designation and Jimmie tootrivial for one of his parts and presence and so he was universallyknown as Heriot Walkingshaw His antecedents were as respectable as hisclients One of his eight greatgreatgrandfathers owned a landed estatein the county of Peebles one of his maternal uncles was a theologicalprofessor in the University of Aberdeen and his father before him hadbeen a WS Young Heriot himself was brought up on porridge the tawsethe Shorter Catechism and an allowance of five shillings a week Hisparents were both prudent and pious Throughout such portions of theSabbath as they did not spend with their offspring in their pew theykept them indoors behind drawn blinds His mother kissed young Heriotseldom and severely with a cold smack like a hailstone and neverpermitted him

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Canada Team at httpwwwpgdpcanadanetPRESCOTT OF SASKATCHEWANIllustration IT SEEMED PRUDENT TO PLACE AS LONG A DISTANCE AS POSSIBLEBETWEEN THEM AND THE SETTLEMENTPage 158PRESCOTT OF SASKATCHEWANBYHAROLD BINDLOSSAUTHOR OFTHE LONG PORTAGERANCHING FOR SYLVIAWINSTON OF THE PRAIRIE ETCWITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR BYW HERBERT DUNTONGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERS NEW YORKALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATIONINTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIANCOPYRIGHT 1913 BY FREDERICK A STOKES COMPANYPUBLISHED IN ENGLAND UNDER THE TITLE THE WASTRELAugust 1913CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I JERNYNGHAMS HAPPY THOUGHT 1 II MURIEL SEES THE WEST 12 III JERNYNGHAM MAKES A DECISION 23 IV MURIEL FEELS REGRET 35 V THE MYSTERY OF THE MUSKEG 45 VI A DEAL IN LAND 57 VII THE SEARCH 67 VIII A DAY ON THE PRAIRIE 79 IX PRESCOTT MAKES A PROMISE 92 X A NEW CLUE 102 XI A REVELATION 113 XII PRESCOTTS FLIGHT 123 XIII THE CONSTRUCTION CAMP 131 XIV ON THE TRAIL 141 XV MISS FOSTERS ESCORT 153 XVI THE MISSIONARYS ALLY 168 XVII THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS 183 XVIII DEFEAT 195 XIX PRESCOTTS RETURN 206 XX MURIEL RELIEVES HER MIND 216 XXI WANDLE TAKES PRECAUTIONS 227 XXII JERNYNGHAM MAKES A DISCOVERY 237 XXIII A NIGHT RIDE 249 XXIV MURIEL PROVES OBDURATE 261 XXV A WOMANS INFLUENCE 272 XXVI PRESCOTT MAKES INQUIRIES 284 XXVII STARTLING NEWS 296XXVIII THE END OF THE PURSUIT 306 XXIX JERNYNGHAM BREAKS DOWN 318 XXX PRESCOTTS VINDICATION 332PRESCOTT OF SASKATCHEWANCHAPTER IJERNYNGHAMS HAPPY THOUGHTThe air was cooling down toward evening at Sebastian where anunpicturesque collection of wooden houses stand upon a branch line on theCanadian prairie The place is not attractive during the earlier portionof the short northern summer when for the greater part of every week itlies sweltering in heat in spite of the strong west winds that drivedustclouds through its rutted streets As a rule during the remainingday or two the temperature sharply falls thunder crashes betweendownpours of heavy rain and the wet plank sidewalks provide abadlyneeded refuge from the cementlike gumbo mireThe day however had been cloudless and unusually hot Prescott haddriven in from his wheat farm at some distance from the settlement andhe now walked toward the hotel He was twentyeight years old of averageheight and rather spare figure his face which had been deeply bronzedby frost and sun was what is called open his gray eyes were clear andsteady the set of his lips and mould of chin firm He looked honest andgoodnatured but one who could when necessary sturdily hold his ownHis attire was simple a wide gray hat a saffroncolored shirt withflannel collar and a light tweed suit something the worse for wearAs he passed along the sidewalk he looked about The small frame houseswere destitute of paint and any pretense of beauty a number of them hadraised square fronts which hid the shingled roofs but beyond the end ofthe street there was the prairie stretching back to the horizon In theforeground it was a sweep of fading green and pale ocher farther off itwas tinged with gray and purple and where it cut the glow of green andpink on the skyline a long birch bluff ran in a cold blue smear To theleft of the opening rose three grain elevators huge wooden towers withtheir tops narrowed in and devices of stars and flourbags painted onthem At their feet ran

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetFor the reader The notation oe is used in this text to indicate thepresence of the oeligature in the original text Further transcribersnotes to be found at the end of the textIllustration THE CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME AT RHEIMSWORLDS WAR EVENTS RECORDED BY STATESMEN COMMANDERS HISTORIANS AND BY MEN WHO FOUGHT OR SAW THE GREAT CAMPAIGNSCOMPILED AND EDITED BYFRANCIS J REYNOLDSFORMER REFERENCE LIBRARIAN LIBRARY OF CONGRESSANDALLEN L CHURCHILL ASSOCIATE EDITOR THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR ASSOCIATE EDITOR THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIAVOLUME IIllustration P F COLLIER SON COMPANY NEW YORKCopyright 1919BY P F COLLIER SON COMPANYWORLDS WAR EVENTSVOLUME I BEGINNING WITH THE CAUSES OF THE WAR AND THE INVASION OF BELGIUM IN 1914 AND CARRYING THE HISTORY OF THE WAR TO THE CLOSE OF 1915CONTENTS ARTICLE PAGE I WHAT CAUSED THE WAR 7 _Baron Beyens_ II THE DEFENSE OF LIÈGE 41 _Charles Bronne_ III THE GREAT RETREAT 62 _Sir John French_ IV THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE 73 _Sir John French_ V HOW THE FRENCH FOUGHT 83 _French Official Account_ VI THE RACE FOR THE CHANNEL 96 _French Official Account_ VII THE LAST DITCH IN BELGIUM 108 _Arno Dosch_ VIII WHY TURKEY ENTERED THE WAR 125 _Roland G Usher_ IX THE FALKLAND SEA FIGHT 142 _A N Hilditch_ X CRUISE OF THE EMDEN 176 _Captain Mücke_ XI CAPTURE OF TSINGTAO 198 _A N Hilditch_ XII GALLIPOLI 221 _A John Gallishaw_ XIII GAS SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES 240 _Colonel E D Swinton_ XIV THE CANADIANS AT YPRES 248 _By the Canadian Record Officer_ XV SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA 277 _Judicial Decision by Judge J M Mayer_ XVI MOUNTAIN WARFARE 313 _Howard C Felton_ XVII THE GREAT CHAMPAGNE OFFENSIVE OF 1915 322 _Official Account of the French Headquarters Staff_ XVIII THE TRAGEDY OF EDITH CAVELL

Produced by Andrew Sly Dave Morgan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetFINNA BIBLIOTEKO ESPERANTA No 1JOHANNES LINNANKOSKIBATALO PRI LA DOMO HEIKKILÄ PERMESITE TRADUKIS VILHO SETÄLÄELDONA AKCIA SOCIETO OTAVAHELSINGFORSO FINNLANDO PRESEJO DE K F PUROMIES A S HELSINGFORSO 1919Johannes Linnankoskiestas pseuxdonimo de _Juho Vihtori Peltonen_ 18691913 konatakiel unu el la plej eminentaj modernaj verkistoj en FinnlandoLi studis en instruista seminario en Jyväskylä kaj sin dedicxisal praktikaj okupadoj kiel redaktoro sekretario de terkulturasocieto k t p cxie montrante eksterordinaran energion kajpraktikan senton Sed en la jaro 1899 li subite forlasis cxiujnaliajn okupojn kaj komencis literaturan verkadon Unue aperistradukoj kaj praktikaj verkoj Verkistamatoro Elokvento Librode elpensajxoj poste kelkaj noveletoj La verkistan nomon li farisal si per sia unua ampleksa verko la dramo Eterna batalo kiukaptas la biblian temon pri Abelo kaj Kaino kaj pliprofundigas laantagonismon inter ili al eterna batalo tra la tuta homa historiobatalado inter la sciema regema homa menso kaj la religia sindonemoal la Eternulo Ankoraux pli populara igxis la sekvinta verko romanoKanto pri la fajrorugxa floro 1905 kies heroo estasfinna tipo DonJuana flotisto kiu post multe da facilanimaj sedcxarme kaj majstre pentritaj amaj aventuroj solidigxas kaj edzigxinteevoluas gxis firma morala persono verko tradukita en multajnEuxropajn lingvojn Gravan lokon en lia produkto okupas du rakontojBatalo pri la domo Heikkilä1 1905 kaj La fugantoj 1908ambaux priskriboj de kampara vivo la laste nomita estas konsideratakiel kulminacio je beletristika vidpunkto Aliaj menciindaj verkojestas Simsono kaj Delilo kaj La filino de Jefto ambaux en 1911aperintaj dramaj poezioj Piednoto 1 Prononcu cx _hejkila_ kun akcento sur la unua silabo Aliaj nomoj en cxi tiu libro estas prononcataj Paavola_pavola_ Väliportti_valiporti_ kun akcento sur la unua silabo La sono _ä_ estas inter _a_ kaj _e_Linnankoski estis energia agema karaktero Li celis altigi sin memkaj aliajn morale kaj kulture De tio devenas la forta volemo ecxtendencemo de lia tuta vivlaboro gxia potenca patoso deviganta alagoj celanta al altaj naciaj kaj homaj celoj Linnankoski estisardanta kaj ardiganta idealisto kiu subigis sian arton al homindajceladoj Sed samfoje li estis poeto kun io delikata kaj sentema purakaj feina kio mirinde kontrastas kun liaj fortaj ideoj kaj sentigasstrangan virinecon en la vireca viro kaj donas cxarman songxemon alla plej multaj el liaj verkoj Cxi tiu antagonismo en lia karaktero ebleklarigas lian dramistan talentonCxio tio rebrilas klare el la verko cxi tie prezentata al lainternacia publiko Gxi estas unu el la plej reprezentaj el laprodukto de Linnankoski kaj samfoje unu el la plej brilaj perloj definna literaturoBATALO PRI LA DOMO HEIKKILÄIGxi estis kiel fermita horlogxola domoNe lauxsxajne cxar gxiaj pordegoj estis malfermitaj por cxiuj porcxiu vizitanto trovigxis amika vorto kaj cxiu mizerulo sciis ke cxela mastrino de Heikkilä li ricevos la plej abundan dononkaj tiun elvarma manoSed esence gxi estis kiel sxrankhorlogxo kiu certe montras siajncifertabulon kaj montrilojn kaj batas la horon auxdate de cxiu sedzorge kasxas sian internan konstruonEkzistas homoj kiuj ne malkasxas al la proksimulo ecx antauxcxambrananguleton el sia interna estajxo Sed ecx el la movoj de la internajradoj de tiaj sxajne komplete fermitaj horlogxoj elsxteligxas cxiamiu sono gxis la oreloj de flankulojEl Heikkilä dum jaroj estis auxdata neniu klara ekkrako de radonur iaspeca susuro kiu iel ondetadis cxirkaux la tuta domokaj kasxiris kiel mistera resono funde cxe cxiuj agoj tie sed kiesvera esenco restis neklara por cxiujLa fokuso de la enigmo estis la mastrinoSxi estis longa virino kun energiaj trajtoj kaj sxia tuta estajxoprezentis ion sincere bonan kaj nekasxitan antaux cxiu Sed nur gxisdifinita limokiu gxin transpasxis pentisKelkiuj tion provisKelkaj sxiaj kunuloj el infaneco ne povis dum la unuaj tempoj de sxiaedzineco sin deteni de scivolaj demandoj konfidenciaj cxu sxi estisfelicxa kaj tian ceteron Sed tiam la antauxe tiom milda kaj amikaAnjo de Heikkilä rigidigxis kiel sxtono kaj jxetis nenion dirantetian rigardon al la demandinto ke cxi tiu sentis sin parolintanedece kaj kvazaux petante pardonon komencis paroli pri alioFadenkolportistoj kaj similaj vizitantoj ankaux provis siansxanconnerekte nature Sed apenaux ili pintigis la busxon kiamili vidis la mastrinon antaux si tiel malvarme trapenetranta ke ilinesciis per kiaj langoturnoj sin elsxovi tra la pordoPlej mirinde estis ke ecx la servistoj nenion sciis kvazaux ecxili transirinte la sojlon de Heikkilä jxuris cxiaman silenton Cxuili estis malpermesataj paroli Neili lauxdire nur nenion sciisLa mastro estas tia kia li estas kiel cxiu vidas kaj egalulon alla mastrino oni vane sercxus en sep komunumoj kiel cxiu vidas Jencxio Cxu ili sentis la samon kiel aliaj la silentan pretendemon dela malvarme diskreta digneco de la mastrino alliganta la langajntendenojn Aux kio gxi estis kiu envolvis cxion pri la domo kunnepenetrebla krepuskoKlare estis tamen ke sur la fundo fluis profunda akvo ke intergxiaj muroj batalis fortegojpri tio oni vidis kelkajn estunemultajn sxauxmelsxprucojn kiuj siatempe kauxzis suficxe dapridiskutoLa mastrino estis la solfilino en la domo kaj edzinigxis tre junaTiam tuj post la festo okazis en sxi unua sxangxigxo okulvideblapor cxiula gaja sincera knabino igxis subite serioza kaj kasxemaTio estis des pli stranga cxar la gajeco kaj malkasxemo estisfamiliaj ecoj la virinoj de Heikkilä estis de antikvaj tempojankoraux kun sesdek kaj sepdek jaroj egale gajaj kiel la plej multajcxe dekses jarojLa aero estis plena je supozoj Cxu sxiaj gepatroj devigis sxin alkontrauxvola edzinigxo Pri tio neniu havis scieton kaj gxi estisecx nekomprenebla cxar ankaux la juna mastro estis el familiodistingita kaj konsiderata kiel ricxa kvankam kun iom malsimilakaraktero ol la Heikkiläa Cxu sxi eble havis junamiton kiuankoraux ne forigxis el la menso Ankaux tio estis neebla cxar tiajaferoj ne restas sekretaj Cxu la interrilatoj de la juna paro estismalbonaj Pri tio ekzistis neniaj pruvojla solajxo pri kiu onisciis estis la stranga sxangxigxo en la mastrino kiu kvazauxenvualis en griza nubo cxion cxe sxiUnu fojon tamen ekbrilis lumeto de gxojocxe naskigxo de infano Gxiestis knabo kaj gxi kvazaux dissxutis varman sunlumon en la vivon dela mastrino Sed tio dauxris nur mallongan antauxtagmezonposte cxiorefalis en la grizajxonPoste okazis sxangxetoj en la domo La maljuna mastro mortis kajkelkajn semajnojn poste ankaux lia edzinotio lauxdire ankaux estisfamilia eco neniu el la virinoj de Heikkilä iam longe vivis post siaedzoKaj nun oni vidis la mirindajxon ke cxe la

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan Thierry Alberto and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet INDIAN POETRY CONTAINING _THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS FROM THE SANSKRIT OF THE GÎTA GOVINDA OF JAYADEVA TWO BOOKS FROM THE ILIAD OF INDIA MAHÁBHÁRATA PROVERBIAL WISDOM FROM THE SHLOKAS OF THE HITOPADESA AND OTHER ORIENTAL POEMS_ BY SIR EDWIN ARNOLD MA KCIE CSI _Author of The Light of Asia_ OFFICER OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT OF SIAM THIRD CLASS OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC AND ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETÉ DE GEOGRAPHIE MARSEILLES ETC ETC FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE DECCAN COLLEGE POONA AND FELLOW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY EIGHTH IMPRESSION LONDON KEGAN PAUL TRENCH TRUBNER CO LTD DRYDEN HOUSE GERRARD STREET W 1904 CONTENTS PAGETHE INDIAN SONG OF SONGSIntroduction 1Hymn to Vishnu 3Sarga the FirstThe Sports of Krishna 9Sarga the SecondThe Penitence of Krishna 22Sarga the ThirdKrishna troubled 31Sarga the FourthKrishna cheered 37Sarga the FifthThe Longings of Krishna 44Sarga the SixthKrishna made bolder 54Sarga the SeventhKrishna supposed false 59Sarga the EighthThe Rebuking of Krishna 75Sarga the NinthThe End of Krishnas Trial 79Sarga the TenthKrishna in Paradise 83Sarga the EleventhThe Union of Radha and Krishna 88MISCELLANEOUS ORIENTAL POEMSThe Rajpoot Wife 101King Saladin 113The Caliphs Draught

Produced by K Nordquist Daniel Watkins and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveAmerican Libraries Sonnets of Shakespeares Ghost The Words procured by GREGORY THORNTON The Ornaments made by WILLEM BLAEU Never before Imprinted At Sydney By _Angus Robertson_ and are to be solde by all booksellers 1920 TO THE ONLIE BEGETTER OF THESE INSUING SONNETS FM ALL HAPPINESSE The Spirit of William Shakespeare sore vexed of them who say that in his Sonnets he writ not from the truth of his heart but from the toyings of his brain and that he devised but a feigned object to fit a feigned affection herein maketh answer renewing as best a shadow may that rhyme wherein he was more excellent in the living body I The wise world saith I not unlockd my heart When I of thee and thy dear love did write And would each word of mine to false convert Doing my simple sense a double spite It saith thou wert but shadow born of nought But vain creation of an apish rhyme While Fashions fool my straind invention sought To better them who best did please the time But wherefore say they so and do dear wrong To thee whose worth was my sole argument To me whose verse twas truth alone made strong By that the breast must feel not brain invent They who this doubt never such beauty knew Nor what to poet love alone can do II They say a man neer bore such love to man Or if he did twere but a cause for shame But speaking so they their own measure scan And blot their censure with selfblaming blame For thou being Beautys best the best of me Worshippd but Beautys self and Beautys worth My fire and air my spirit adorèd thee Unmixd with gross compounding of my earth And thou wert best of Truth the first in grace Of all rich gems in Virtues carcanet Then should I not love thee and give thee place Above all love of sense on woman set In love of Beauty whateer shape tis in Theres nought of Truth if it must think of sin III Look when the rose to deep vermilion hue Adds that sweet odour gracious Nature gives When his proud glory gladdens every view And no base worm within his beauties lives We nothing question of what sex it be Nor ask more of it than that it should lend His lovely gaze for ravishd eye to see And on the blessed air his fragrance spend We ask not that the star which lights the heaven Should be or male or female to our sense Sufficd in this that it empearls the even And happies all our under reverence Then mightst not thou who wert both rose and star Be pure to me as these to others are IV Some hold it strange that love like thine and mine Twixt two in state so sunderd should be bred That he who did all worths in him combine Birth beauty wit wealth me thus honourèd Me the poor motley maimd by Fortunes spite Seard and oerworn with tyranny of time Whose wit was but the wit to learn to write When thou my Muse inspirdst my pupil rhyme Thou wert the wide worlds pride but I his scorn His pattern thou I his poor toy and tool Whence therefore should that tender love be born Twixt Fortunes minion thee and me her fool O know they not that all such outward things Hold lowest count in the souls reckonings V Hadst thou been such as boasting of their birth Pass by the humblerborn with proud disdain Making selfmerit of the antique worth Whereby some sire that state for them did gain Had riches dross so reignd in thy respect That riches lack were deemd by thee disgrace Of thy rare parts had t been the rude effect That cruel pride held gentle pitys place Then wouldst thou neer have lookd on lowly me To find what merit

Produced by David Wilson Sam W and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet ArchiveAmerican LibrariesTranscribers NoteBold text in the advertising material is marked like this THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY MURDER AND PIRACY A WEIRD SERIES OF Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME WITH ACCOUNTS OF Providential Escapes AND HEARTRENDING FATALITIES NEW YORK HURST CO PUBLISHERS 122 NASSAU STIllustrationPREFACEShipwreck may be ranked among the greatest evils which man canexperience It is never void of danger frequently of fatal issue andinvariably productive of regret It is one against which there is theleast resource where patience fortitude and ingenuity are in mostcases unavailing except to protract a struggle with destiny whichat length proves irresistibleBut amidst the myriads unceasingly swallowed up by the deep it is notby the numbers that we are to judge of the miseries endured Hundredsmay at once meet an instantaneous fate hardly conscious of itsapproach while a few individuals may linger out existence daily inhope of succor and at length be compelled to the horrible alternativeof preying on each other for the support of life Neither is it by theNarratives about to be given that we are to calculate on the frequencyof shipwreck It is an event that has been of constant occurrencesince a period long anterior to what the earliest records can reachIn England it is calculated that about 5000 natives of the BritishIsles yearly perish at seaThis perpetual exposure to peril however materially contributes tothe formation of character and hence are sailors preeminentlydistinguished by courage endurance and ready invention Habituatedto the instability of the ocean they make little account of dangerand are invariably the first in matters of the most daringenterprise Incessantly subjected to toil they labor long andpatiently without murmur and the prompt and vigorous measures whichare indispensable to their security teach them the immediateapplication of whatever means are within their powerA natural desire to know the fate of their fellow creatures seemsimplanted in the breast of mankind and the most powerful sympathiesare excited by listening to the misfortunes of the innocent To recordsome impressive examples of calamity or unlooked for deliverance isthe object of these pages and it will be seen of what astonishingadvantage are the virtues of decision temperance perseverance andunwavering hope in moments of extreme peril and despairCONTENTS Page Adventures of Capt Woodward and Five Seamen in the island of Celebes 7 An Occurrence at sea 14 Loss of H B M ship Phoenix off Cuba 16 An account of the Whale Fishery with anecdotes of the dangers attending it 30 Loss of the Brig Tyrrel 49 Loss of the Peggy 58 Loss of H B M ship Litchfield

Produced by Audrey Longhurst ronnie sahlberg and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis book was produced from scanned images of publicdomain material from the Google Print projectIllustration THE PRAIRIE MOTHERIllustration Swing twenty paces out from one another and circle thisshack THE PRAIRIE MOTHER _By_ ARTHUR STRINGER AUTHOR OF THE PRAIRIE WIFE THE HOUSE OF INTRIGUE THE MAN WHO COULDNT SLEEP ETC ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR E BECHER INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBSMERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1920 The Pictorial Review Company Copyright 1920 The BobbsMerrill Company _Printed in the United States of America_ PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH CO BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN N Y THE PRAIRIE MOTHER The Prairie Mother _Sunday the Fifteenth_I opened my eyes and saw a peagreen world all around me Then I heardthe doctor say Give er another whiff or two His voice soundedfaraway as though he were speaking through the Simplon Tunnel andnot merely through his teeth within twelve inches of my noseI took my whiff or two I gulped at that chloroform like a thirstyBedouin at a wadispring I went down into the peagreen emptinessagain and forgot about the Kelly pad and the recurring waves of painthat came bigger and bigger and tried to sweep through my racked oldbody like breakers through the ribs of a stranded schooner I forgotabout the hateful metallic clink of steel things against aninstrumenttray and about the loganberry pimple on the nose of theredheaded surgical nurse whod been sent into the labor room to helpI went wafting off into a featherpillowy pit of infinitude I evenforgot to preach to myself as Id been doing for the last month ortwo I knew that my time was upon me as the Good Book says There area lot of things in this life I remembered which woman is able tosquirm out of But here Mistress Tabbie was one you couldnt escapeHere was a situation that _had_ to be faced Here was a time I had toknuckle down had to grin and bear it had to go through with it tothe bitter end For other folks whatever they may be able to do foryou arent able to have your babies for youThen I ebbed up out of the peagreen depths again and

Produced by Pedro Saborano and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This book wasproduced from scanned images of public domain materialfrom the Google Print projectROMANCES NACIONAESROMANCES NACIONAESO REGICIDARomance HistoricoporCAMILLO CASTELLO BRANCOLISBOALivraria Editora de Mattos Moreira E Compª68Praça de D Pedro681874_A propriedade deste livro pertence a Henrique de Araujo GodinhoTavares subdito brazileiro_AFrancisco Martins de Gouvêa Moraes SarmentoOFFERECEo seu amigo mais devedor e agradecido _Camillo Castello Branco_ADVERTENCIAA urdidura deste romance que afoitamente denominamos _historico_deunola um manuscripto que pertenceu á livraria do secretario deestado Fernando Luiz Pereira de Sousa BarradasO collector destes apontamentos que a historia impressa respeitandoas conveniencias omittiu foi contemporaneo dos successos que archivoupois escrevia em 1648De lavra nossa neste romance ha apenas os episodios que me sahiramajustados e congruentes com os traços essenciaes da narrativaO REGICIDAIAntonio Leite casado com Maria Pereira e morador na villa deGuimarães em 1634 era o cuteleiro de maior voga em PortugalNaquelle anno tinham um filho de nome Domingos com dezesete annos deedadeQuizera o pai ensinarlhe a arte que lhe dera fama e dinheiro A mãedesejava que o rapaz fosse frade consoante á vontade de seu irmão frGaspar de Sancta Thereza leitor apostolico de moral no convento de SFrancisco de LisboaOra o rapaz não queria ser frade nem cuteleiro aspirava ardentemente umofficio mais prestadio ao genero humano infermiço queria ser boticarioEra esperto o moço não só porque appetecia ser boticario mas porquerealmente era agudo de intendimento ladino sedento de saber tudo epropenso a correr mundo tendencia na verdade incompativel com aquietação da almejada boticaAos quinze annos Domingos sabia latim cursava philosophia deAristoteles com um insigne mestre da ordem franciscana e lia oscartapacios pharmaceuticos do frade boticario do mesmo conventoParticipou Maria a seu irmão fr Gaspar a inclinação do filho Respondeuo prudentissimo tio que lhe não torcessem a vocação por quanto em todosos misteres podia um bom christão servir o proximo e ganhar o ceo E emprova do seu applauso mandou ir o sobrinho para Lisboa afim de lhearranjar mestre que o exercitasse e approvasseFoi Domingos Leite para a capital e entrou como praticante na botica doHospital Real sob direcção de Estevão de Lima o primeiro mestre depharmacia entre os quarenta e trez boticarios de LisboaAo cabo do primeiro anno o professor não tinha que lhe ensinarDomingos intendia e aviava as receitas com rara destreza A estatisticamortuaria se não tinha diminuido tambem não tinha augmentado Todaviao habil praticante mostravase descontente daquelle genero de vida ede si comsigo resolvera encarreirarse para outro destino mais adquado aumas vaidades do mundo que lhe estonteavam a cabeça de mistura com ocheiro nauseativo das drogas moídas no gralFrequentava a famosa botica Luiz das Povoas provedor da alfandega quese comprazia de conversar com Domingos Leite em coisas de lettrasmormente poetas latinos O rapaz revelou ao provedor o seu desgosto dabotica e rogoulhe que o empregasse na alfandega Vêse que já em 1636os bons talentos portuguezes as aguias do genio pairavam sobre asprêas alfandegueiras como hoje em dia succede com tanto litterato queprefere á gloria de rimar ao ar livre a athmosphera aziumada dosarmazens e o fartum engulhoso da matullagemDe feito Luiz das Povoas accedeu á petição de Domingos Leitenomeandoo escrivão das Fructas com 40000 reis annuaes de ordenadoVolvido um anno o escrivão das fructas confessou ao provedor que a suavocação definida não era bem a alfandega que semelhante vida lhedesagradava por monotona que o seu espirito precisava de repasto maispoetico em fim que se sentia alli embrutecer com trabalhos em que aintelligencia andava grávida de cifras e cifrões coisas indigestas paraquem scismava em trechos de Virgilio ou estancias de Camões quando apenna alinhavava a um tendeiro da rua de QuebraCostas a conta dosdireitos da alfarroba ou do cacáoQue queres tu ser então Domingos Leiteperguntoulhe o bom amigoEstou gostando arrebatadamente da muzica desde que vossa mercê melevou ás festas da capella real Se eu podesse arranjar o emprego demôço da capellaAchas isso bom Poucas ambições tens rapazO que mais me encanta é o viver com os meus poetas e ter alli á mãoas delicias da musica O ordenado é pequeno mas setenta cruzados chegame sobram Lá ao diante se eu grangear cabedal de saber para dar a lumealgumas ideias que me cá refervem nos miólos então darei gloria ao meunome Quanto a bens de fortuna lá está meu pai na officina a ganharmeo patrimonio Sou filho unico e com pouco heide ir onde vão os grandesOlha tu que os grandes não começaram por môços da capella realBem sei mas eu quando desprender as azas voarei do zimborio dacapella e irei poisar nas grimpas dos palaciosVê lá se te aguentas no vôo meu Icaroredarguiu o provedorCuidadocomtigo que não tenhas de voltar á botica a manipular aquella hervabicha e o pastel de carne de gato com que me curaste das almorreimasNão tenha medo sr Luiz das Povoas Os homens da minha tempera temfados esquisitos Eu ás vezes sinto uns deslumbramentos que me cegamSe eu não fosse filho de meu pai cuteleiro e pudesse desconfiar dahonestidade de minha mãe havia de crer que o meu sangue girou já nasveias dos duques de GuimarãesSerás tu filho do real Encoberto D Sebastião que se espera Tomatento Domingos que não te fermente no miôlo a parvoice do rei daEriceira ou do rei de Penamacor ou do pasteleiro do Escurialvolveucasquinando o provedor da alfandegaVê lá se contendes com o sr DJoão duque de Bragança a ver qual dos dois é o Encoberto das profeciasdo Preto ou do Caldeirão astrologo de Cascaes Emfim rapaz dos meuspeccados eu fallarei ao sr Miguel de Vasconcellos e tu serás nomeadomôço da capella real com setenta cruzados e depois quando te sentirescom voadoiros de servir álate do zimborio da capella mas guardate deavoares com azas de páo dadas por algum cioso dos que seguem as damas daprinceza Margarida a ouvir as antigas cançonetas do Guerreiro osmotetes do duque de Bragança e os tonadilhos de Diogo de Alvarado_Nota 1ª_ Ora queira Deus És bem apessoado tensme uns requebrosde poeta

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan Chris Curnow Lindy Walshand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet Illustration HE PICKED UP HORACE AND CARRIED HIM DOWN _Page 106_ THAT SCHOLARSHIP BOY By EMMA LESLIE _Author of Arthur Ranyards Training Dearer than Life etc_ THIRD IMPRESSION LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 4 Bouverie Street and 65 St Pauls Churchyard EC CONTENTS PAGECHAPTER IBROTHER AND SISTER 5CHAPTER IISENDING HIM TO COVENTRY 8CHAPTER IIITHE COCK OF THE WALK 32CHAPTER IVDR MORRISON 46CHAPTER VTHE CHAMPION 59CHAPTER VIFOR THE HONOUR OF THE SCHOOL 74CHAPTER VIINEWS FOR MRS MORRISON 89CHAPTER VIIIRIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION 109 CHAPTER IBROTHER AND SISTERI say weve got a new boy at Torringtons Havent had one for agesand ages so its made quite a stir among usYou can make stir enough when you are coming out of school said hissister lifting her eyes from her lessons and looking across thetableWho is the new boy she askedNobody knowsthats the fun said Leonard with a short whistleDont you even know his nameThats just like a girl Duffy youre worse than usual said herbrother setting his elbows on the table and nibbling the end of thepenholder in a meditative fashion Of course he was properlyintroduced to the class as Mr Horace HowardHoward is a nice name commented Duffy whose real name wasFlorence It was Aunt Lucys name before she was married you knowNo I dont know I may have heard it but the names nothing Idont suppose his father was hanged said her brotherPerhaps he is some distant relative of the Duke of Norfolk thoughauntie says she has nothing to do with those HowardsA mocking laugh greeted this suggestion Go on Duffy let us havesome more of your wisdomI dont see what there is to laugh at Len and I am sure I dontwant to hear about the new boy said his sister indignantly and sheturned to her lessons once moreThis brought a fusillade of paper pellets from the student sittingopposite She bore it patiently for a minute or two and then angrilydemanded why he did not get on with his lessons and let her do thesame and threatened to ring the bellDont be a bigger duffer than you are Flo You cant help being agirl I know but Im willing to help you all I can out of a girlsfoolishness Only a girl would talk of ringing the bell and making arow because she cant have all her own way Come now I want to talkto you about the new boy and we can finish the lesson afterwardsBut you say you dont know anything about him and so theres nothingto talk about said his sisterYes thats just it Why shouldnt the fellow tell us who his peopleare where he comes from and what hes going to do with himselfbyandbyIt was his sisters turn to laugh now What queer notions boys haveshe exclaimed I suppose you expect a new scholar to come and sayMy father is a doctor or a lawyer and we have three servants at ourhouse as soon as the master has introduced him to the classA ball of paper was levelled at Duffys head for this remark Whosaid he was to do it the first day or the second day But when afellow has been there nearly a fortnight you expect to hear somethingabout who he isBut suppose he dont choose to tell you what thenYes thats it How are we going to make him What would you doDuffy Thats

Produced by Steven Giacomelli Barbara Kosker JeannieHowse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet This file was produced from imagesproduced by Core Historical Literature in AgricultureCHLA Cornell University PEAT AND ITS USES AS FERTILIZER AND FUEL BY SAMUEL W JOHNSON A M PROFESSOR OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY YALE COLLEGE FULLY ILLUSTRATED NEWYORK ORANGE JUDD COMPANY 245 BROADWAY Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by ORANGE JUDD CO At the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of NewYork LOVEJOY SON ELECTROTYPERS AND STEREOTYPERS 15 Vandewater street N Y TO MY FATHER MY EARLIEST AND BEST INSTRUCTOR IN RURAL AFFAIRS THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED S W J CONTENTS Introduction vii PART IORIGIN VARIETIES AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERS OF PEAT PAGE 1 What is Peat 9 2 Conditions of its Formation 9 3 Different Kinds of Peat 14 Swamp Muck 17 Salt Mud 18 4 Chemical Characters and Composition of Peat 18 a Organic or combustible part 19 Ulmic and Humic Acids 19 Ulmin and HuminCrenic and Apocrenic Acids 20 Ulmates and Humates 21 Crenates and Apocrenates 22 Gein and Geic AcidElementary Composition of Peat 23 Ultimate Composition of the Constituents of Peat 25 b Mineral PartAshes 25 5 Chemical Changes that occur in the Formation of Peat 26 PART IION THE AGRICULTURAL USES OF PEAT AND SWAMP MUCK 1 Characters that adapt Peat for Agricultural Use

Produced by Suzanne Shell Mary Meehan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet In Our Town BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE The Court of Boyville The Real Issue Stratagems and Spoils Illustrations by F R Gruger and W Glackens NEW YORK McCLURE PHILLIPS CO MCMVI Copyright 1906 by McCLURE PHILLIPS CO Published April 1906 Copyright 1904 by The Century Co Copyright 19051906 by The Curtis Publishing CoIllustration He wore his collars so high that he had to order themfrom a drummerContents I SCRIBES AND PHARISEES II THE YOUNG PRINCE III THE SOCIETY EDITOR IV AS A BREATH INTO THE WIND V THE COMING OF THE LEISURE CLASS VI THE BOLTON GIRLS POSITION VII BY THE ROD OF HIS WRATH VIII A BUNDLE OF MYRRH IX OUR LOATHED BUT ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARY X A QUESTION OF CLIMATE XI THE CASTING OUT OF JIMMY MYERS XII A BABBLED OF GREEN FIELDS XIII A PILGRIM IN THE WILDERNESS XIV THE PASSING OF PRISCILLA WINTHROP XV AND YET A FOOL XVI A KANSAS CHILDE ROLAND XVII THE TREMOLO STOP XVIII SOWN IN OUR WEAKNESS XIX THIRTYLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSHe Wore his Collars so High that He Had to Order Them from a DrummerSuppressing Nothing On Account of the Respectability of the PartiesConcernedAs an Office Joke the Boys Used to Leave a StepLadder by Her Desk sothat She Could Climb Up and See How Her TopKnot Really LookedAnd Brought with Him a Large Leisure and a Taste for SocietySometimes He Thought It was a Report of a Fire and at Other Times ItSeemed Like a DressGoods CatalogueAs the Dinner Hour Grew Near She RagedSo the Servants saidWheneverthe Telephone RangJim Purdy Taken the Day He Left for the ArmyHe Advertised the Fact that He was a Good Hater by Showing Callers atHis Office His BarrelHe Likes to Sit in the Old Swayback SwivelChair and Tell Us His Theoryof the Increase in the RainfallAnd Camped in the Office for Two Days Looking for JimmyReverend Milligan Came in with a Church NoticeA Desert Scorpion Outcast by Society and Proud of itHe Made a Lot of Money and Blew it inWent About Town with His Cigar Pointing Toward his HatBrimThe Traveling Men on the Veranda Craned Their Necks to Watch Her Out ofSightCounting the Liars and Scoundrels and DoubleDealers and Villains WhoPassIN OUR TOWNIScribes and PhariseesOurs is a little town in that part of the country called the West bythose who live east of the Alleghanies and referred to lovingly asback East by those who dwell west of the Rockies It is a country townwhere as the song goes you know everybody and they all know you andthe country newspaper office is the social clearinghouseWhen a man has published a paper in a country community for many yearshe knows his town and its people their strength and their weaknesstheir joys and their sorrows their failings and their prosperityor ifhe does not know these things he is on the road to failure for thisknowledge must be the spirit of his paper The country editor and hisreporters sooner or later pass upon everything that interests theirtownIn our little newspaper office we are all reporters and we know manyintimate things about our people that we do not print We know forinstance which wives will not let their husbands endorse other mensnotes at the banks We know about the row the Baptists are having to getrid of the bass singer in their choir who has sung at funerals forthirty years until it has reached a point where all good Baptists dreaddeath on account of his lugubrious profundo Perhaps we should take thistragedy to heart but we know that the Methodists are having the sametrouble with their soprano who flatsand has flatted for ten yearsand is too proud to quit the choir under fire as she calls it and weremember what a time the Congregationalists had getting rid of theirtenor So that choir troubles are to us only a part of the grist thatkeeps the mill goingAs the merest incident of the daily grind it came to the office thatthe bank cashier whose retirement we announced with half a column ofregret was caught 3500 short after twenty years of faithful serviceand that his wife sold the homestead to make his shortage good We knowthe week that the widower sets out and we hear with remarkable accuracyjust when he has been refused by this particular widow or that andwhen he begins on a schoolteacher the whole office has candy and cigarand mince pie bets on the result with the odds on the widower five toone We know the woman who is always sent for when a baby comes to townand who has laid more good people of the community in their shrouds thanall the undertakers We know the politician who gets five dollars a dayfor his services at the polls the man who takes three dollars and theman who will work for the good of the cause

Produced by David Garcia Martin Pettit and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTHE LOYALIST_A Story of the American Revolution_BYJAMES FRANCIS BARRETTIllustration Publishers logoP J KENEDY SONSNEW YORKCOPYRIGHT 1920 BYP J KENEDY SONS NEW YORK_Printed in U S A_TO MY SISTERAS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF LOVE AND ESTEEMFOREWORDHistorical facts constitute the background of this story Its hero andits heroine are of course fictitious but the deportment of GeneralArnold the Shippen family the several military and civic personagesthroughout the story is described for the most part accurately and inconformity with the sober truths of history Pains have been taken todepict the various historical episodes which enter into the storysuchas the attempted formation of the Regiment of Roman Catholic Volunteersthe courtmartial of Major General Arnold the Military Mass on theoccasion of the anniversary of American Independencewith as muchfidelity to truth as possible The antiCatholic sentences employed inthe reprimand of Captain Meagher are anachronisms they are identicalhowever with utterances made in the later life of Benedict Arnold Theinfluence of Peggy Shippen upon her husband is vouched for by eminentauthorityDue appreciation and sincere gratitude must be expressed to thoseauthors from whom much information has been takento John GilmaryShea in his History of the Catholic Church in the United States toMartin I J Griffins Catholics and the American Revolution to F JStimsons excellent work Memoirs of Benedict Arnold to John FiskesAmerican Revolution and to the many other works which have freelybeen made use of in the course of this writing Cordial thanks are alsodue to those who have generously assisted by suggestions and criticismsand especially to those who have devoted their valuable moments to therevision of the proof sheets J F BTHE LOYALISTPART ONECHAPTER IPlease continue Peggy You were telling me who were there and whatthey wore Oh dear I am so sorry mother would not give me leave to goWas it all too gayIt was wonderful was the deliberate reply We might have danced tillnow had not Washington planned that sudden attack We had to leavethenthat was early this morningand I spent the day abedIt was now well into the evening and the two girls had been seated forthe longest time it seemed on the small sofa which flanked the eastwall of the parlor The dusk which had begun to grow thick and fastwhen Marjorie had come to visit Peggy was now quite absorbed intodarkness still the girls had not lighted the candles choosing toremain in the dark until the story of the wonderful experience of thepreceding day had been entirely relatedThe grand pageant and mock tournament the celebrated Mischienzaarranged in honor of General Howe who had resigned his office asCommanderinchief of His Majestys forces in America to return toEngland there to defend himself against his enemies in person asGeneral Burgoyne was now doing from his seat in Parliament was an eventlong to be remembered not alone from the extravagance of its displaybut from the peculiar prominence it afforded the foremost families ofthe city particularly that of the ShippensEdward Shippen was a gentleman of rank of character of fortune amember of one of the oldest and most respected families in the city ofPhiladelphia whose ancestor of the same name had been Mayor of thecity nigh an hundred years before He belonged to the Society ofFriends or Quakers and while he took no active interest on either sideduring the years of the war still he was generally regarded as one ofthe sympathizers of the Crown Because of the social eminence which thefamily enjoyed and the brilliance and genial hospitality whichdistinguished their affairs the Shippens were considered the undisputedleaders of the social set of Philadelphia The three lovely MissesShippen were the belles of the more aristocratic class They weretoasted frequently by the gay English officers during the days of theBritish occupation for their fathers house was often the rendezvous ofthe titled celebrities of the dayAnd was your Captain there too continued Marjorie referring ofcourse to Captain Monstresor the engineer of the undertaking anerstwhile admirer of Mistress PeggyYou must know my dear that he arranged the spectacle I saw little ofhim until the dance In truth he seemed more popular than General HowehimselfMarjorie sat upTell me Did the tournament begin the programNo replied Peggy The military procession of boats and barges withLords Howe and Rawdon General Howe and General Clinton opened theevent in the late morning sailing up the river to the Wharton Housethe scene of the tournamentMarjorie noddedThe noise of the guns was deafening When the flotilla arrived atWalnut Grove which was lined with troops and bedecked brilliantly withflags and bunting the pageant openedWhere were you in the meantime asked Marjorie careful to lose nodetailWe were seated in the pavilionsseven ladies in eachclothed inTurkish garments each wearing in her turban the favor to be bestowed onher victorious knightAnd who was your knightThe Honorable Captain Cathcart quickly replied Peggy her eyesbeaming with a smile of evident satisfaction and proud joyLord Cathcart whom I met hereThe same answered Peggy He was the leader of the Knights of theBlended RoseWhat an odd name she exclaimedI know it They were named after their device They were dressed inwhite and red silk mounted on gray horses and attended by esquiresThey were preceded by a herald who bore their device two rosesintertwined above the motto We droop when separated My knight rodeat the head attended by two British Officers and his two esquires theone bearing his lance the other his shield emblazoned with hisdeviceCupid astride a lionover the motto Surrounded by loveYou little Tory interrupted Marjorie I shall tell GeneralWashington that you are disloyal and have lent your sympathy to aBritish OfficerI care little The Yankees are without refinementDont you dare say that

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration Indeed there were all kinds of goodies in those boxesSee Page 207SUNNY BOY IN THE COUNTRYByRAMY ALLISON WHITEIllustrated ByCHARLES L WRENNBARSE HOPKINSPublishersNew York NYNewark NJCopyright 1920ByBarse HopkinsSunny Boy in the CountryPrinted in the United States of AmericaCONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I The Mended Drum 9 II Spreading The News 22 III Packing The Trunk 35 IV Off For Brookside 49 V On The Train 61 VI Brookside 73 VII Adventures Begin 86 VIII A Letter From Daddy 98 IX Sunny Boy Forgets 110 X Going Fishing 124 XI The Hay Slide 136 XII Apple Pies 152 XIII More Mischief 169 XIV Another Hunt 185 XV Sunnys Good Luck 201ILLUSTRATIONS PAGEIndeed there were all kinds of goodies in those boxes FrontispieceAnd tucked the clock away down deep in one of the cornerholes Aunt Bessie had left in the trunk 45He lifted one of the baby rabbits and placed it inSunnys hands 109With a crash a frightened little boy fell into theflour barrel 163SUNNY BOYIN THE COUNTRYCHAPTER ITHE MENDED DRUMRubadub dub Bang RubadubdubBang Bang Sunny Boy thumped hisdrum vigorouslyUsually when he made such a racket some one would come out and ask himwhat in the world was he making a noise like that for but this morningevery one seemed to be very busy For several minutes now Sunny Boy hadbeen trying to attract Harriets attention She was doing something tothe front doorI spect she needs me said Sunny Boy to himselfThere were any number of interesting things going on around the frontdoor this morning but he was chiefly interested in Harriet because as arule he had to help her Saturday mornings by going with her to thegrocery store at the corner He liked to stand in her clean comfortablekitchen and drum for her until she was ready to startThis particular morning Harriets mind seemed to be far away from musicShe was rubbing briskly as Sunny Boy watched her polishingthat was itshe was shining the brass numbers on the door266 Sunny Boy knew themand how careful Harriet was to keep them always brightJust think she would say as they might be coming up the stepssuppose the postman had a letter for 266 Glenn Avenue and the numberswere so dull and streaked he couldnt read them Think how wed feel ifthat should happen to usSunny Boy was sure such a thing could never happen not with Harrietrubbing away at the numbers morning after morningFrom his post at the head of the stairs he could see a man on astepladder working and whistling He was hammering in nails over thedoor Dimly Sunny Boy made out another pair of doors standing in thehallGoodness Sunny Boy I nearly fell over you Aunt Bessie kissed him onthe back of his neck before he could turn round That was a trick AuntBessie had and Sunny Boy was used to it Are you watching them put upthe screens and awningsAre they asked Sunny interestedly Could I hold the awning Maybe theman would like my toolchestits all there but the hammer I lost thatin the park Can I help AuntieAunt Bessie was going downtown and she was in a hurry If you dont getin the way I daresay theyll be glad to have you she said kindly andbrushed by him on down the stairs She stopped to speak to some one inthe parlor and then Sunny Boy saw her go out and down the stepsSunny Boy sat down on the top stair and took his drum in his lapPresently he would go down and help the awning man but it was verypleasant

Produced by Daniel Fromont HTML version by Al Haines COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION VOL 1809 VIXEN BY M E BRADDON IN THREE VOLUMES VOL I TAUCHNITZ EDITIONVIXENA NOVELBYM E BRADDONAUTHOR OF LADY AUDLEYS SECRET ETC ETC_COPYRIGHT EDITION_IN THREE VOLUMESVOL IBy the same Author LADY AUDLEYS SECRET 2 vols AURORA FLOYD 2 vols ELEANORS VICTORY 2 vols JOHN MARCHMONTS LEGACY 2 vols HENRY DUNBAR 2 vols THE DOCTORS WIFE 2 vols ONLY A CLOD 2 vols SIR JASPERS TENANT 2 vols THE LADYS MILE 2 vols RUPERT GODWIN 2 vols DEADSEA FRUIT 2 vols RUN TO EARTH 2 vols FENTONS QUEST 2 vols THE LOVELS OF ARDEN 2 vols STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS 2 vols LUCIUS DAVOREN 3 vols TAKEN AT THE FLOOD 3 vols LOST FOR LOVE 2 vols A STRANGE WORLD 2 vols HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE 2 vols DEAD MENS SHOES 2 vols JOSHUA HAGGARDS DAUGHTER 2 vols WEAVERS AND WEFT 1 vol IN GREAT WATERS OTHER TALES 1 vol AN OPEN VERDICT 3 volsLEIPZIGBERNHARD TAUCHNITZ1879_The Right of Translation is reserved_CONTENTS OF VOLUME ICHAPTER I A Pretty HorsebreakerCHAPTER II Lady Jane VawdreyCHAPTER III I Want a Little Serious Talk with YouCHAPTER IV Rorie comes of AgeCHAPTER V Rorie makes a SpeechCHAPTER VI How She took the NewsCHAPTER VII Rorie has Plans of his ownCHAPTER VIII Glas ist der Erde Stolz und GlückCHAPTER IX A House of MourningCHAPTER X Captain WinstanleyCHAPTER XI It shall be Measure for MeasureCHAPTER XII I have no Wrong where I can claim no RightCHAPTER XIII He belongs to the TameCat SpeciesCHAPTER XIV He was worthy to be loved a LifetimeCHAPTER XV Lady Southminsters BallCHAPTER XVI Rorie asks a QuestionCHAPTER XVII Where the Red King was slainVIXENCHAPTER IA Pretty HorsebreakerThe moon had newly risen a late October moon a pale almostimperceptible crescent above the dark pine spires in the thicketthrough which Roderick Vawdrey came gun in hand after a long daysrabbitshooting It was not his nearest way home but he liked thebroad clearing in the pine wood which had a ghostly look at dusk andwas so still and lonely that the dart of a squirrel through the fallenleaves was a startling event Here and there a sturdy young oak thathad been newly stripped of its bark lay among the fern like the nakedcorpse of a giant Here and there a tree had been cut down and slungacross the track ready for barking The ground was soft and spongyslippery with damp dead leaves and inclined in a general way tobogginess but it was ground that Roderick Vawdrey had known all hislife and it seemed more natural to him than any other spot upon motherearthOn the edge of this thicket there was a broad ditch with more mud anddead fern in it than water a ditch strongly suspected of snakes andbeyond the ditch the fence that enclosed Squire Tempests domainanold manor house in the heart of the New Forest It had been an abbeybefore the Reformation and was still best known as the Abbey HouseI wonder whether Im too late to catch her speculated Roderickshifting his bag from one shoulder to the other shes no end of funIn front of the clearing there was a broad fivebarred gate andbeside the gate a keepers cottage The flame of a newlylighted candleflashed out suddenly upon the autumn dusk while Roderick stoodlooking at the gateIll ask at the lodge he said I should like to say goodbye to thelittle thing before I go back to OxfordHe walked quickly on to the gate The keepers children were playing atnothing particular just inside itHas Miss Tempest gone for her ride this afternoon he askedYaase drawled the eldest shockheaded youngsterAnd not come back yetNoa If she doant take care herll be boggedRoderick hitched his bag on to the top of the gate and stood at easewaiting It was late for the little lady of Tempest Manor to be out onher pony but then it was an understood thing within a radius of tenmiles or so that she was a selfwilled young person and even atfifteen years of age she had a knack of following her own inclinationwith that noble disregard of consequences which characterises theheavenborn rulerMr Vawdrey had not waited more than ten minutes when there came thethud of hoofs upon the soft track a flash of gray in the distancesomething flying over those forky branches sprawling across the waythen a halfsweet halfshrill call like a birds at which thekeepers children scattered themselves like a brood of scared chickensand now a rush and a gray pony shooting suddenly into the air andcoming down on the other side of the gate as if he were a new kind ofskyrocketWhat do you think of that Rorie cried the shrill sweet voice of thegray ponys riderIm ashamed of you Vixen said Roderick youll come to a bad endsome of these daysI dont care if I do as long as I get my fling first replied Vixentossing her tawny maneShe was a slim young thing in a short Lincolngreen habit She had asmall pale face brown eyes that sparkled with life and mischief and arippling mass of reddishauburn hair falling down her back under acoquettish little felt hatHasnt your mamma forbidden jumping Vixen remonstrated Roderickopening the gate and coming inYes that she has sir said the old groom riding up at a jogtroton his thickset brown cob Its quite against Mrs Tempests ordersand its a great responsibility to go out with Miss Violet

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration THE RANGERCAVANAGHFOREST RANGERA RomanceOf The Mountain WestByHAMLIN GARLANDAuthor OfThe Captain of the GrayHorse TroopMainTravelled Roads EtcHARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERSNew York and LondonMCMXBooks byHAMLIN GARLANDCavanaghForest Ranger Post 8vo 150The Captain of the GrayHorse Troop Post 8vo 150Hesper Post 8vo 150Money Magic Illd Post 8vo 150The Light of the Star Illd Post 8vo 150The Tyranny of the Dark Illd Post 8vo 150The Shadow World Post 8vo 135MainTravelled Roads Post 8vo 150Prairie Folks Post 8vo 150Rose of Dutchers Coolly Post 8vo 150The Moccasin Ranch Illd Post 8vo 100Trail of the GoldSeekers Post 8vo 150The Long Trail Illd Post 8vo 125Boy Life on the Prairie Illd Post 8vo 150 In Boys and Girls Library 75HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS N YCopyright 1910 by Hamlin GarlandAll rights reservedPublished March 1910Printed in the United States of AmericaTO THE FOREST RANGERWHOSE LONELY VIGIL ONTHE HEIGHTS SAFEGUARDSTHE PUBLIC HERITAGECONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I The Desert Chariot 1 II The Forest Ranger 20 III Lee Virginia Wages War 35 IV Virginia Takes Another Motor Ride 57 V Two On the Veranda 80 VI The Voice from the Heights 97 VII The Poachers 115 VIII The Second Attack 132 IX The Old SheepHerder 149 X The Smoke of the Burning 173 XI Shadows on the Mist 187 XII Cavanaghs Last Vigil Begins 217 XIII Cavanagh Asks for Help 230 XIV The PestHouse 247 XV Wetherford Passes On 265 Conclusion 295INTRODUCTIONMy Dear Mr GarlandYou have been kind enough to let me see the proofsof _Cavanagh Forest Ranger_ I have read it with mingled feelingswithkeen appreciation of your sympathetic understanding of the problems whichconfronted the Forest Service before the Western people understood it andwith deep regret that I am no longer officially associated with its workalthough I am as deeply interested and almost as closely in touch aseverThe Western frontier to the lasting sorrow of all old hunters likeyourself has now practically disappeared Its people faced life with amanly dependence on their own courage and capacity which did them andstill does them high honor Some of them were naturally slow to see theadvantages of the new order But now that they have seen it there isnowhere more intelligent convinced and effective support of theConservation policies than in the West The establishment of the new orderin some places was not childs play But there is a strain of fairnessamong the Western people which you can always count on in such a

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration Elizabeth raised her cup to the toastELIZABETH HOBART AT EXETER HALLBYJEAN K BAIRDAuthor OfDanny Cash Three The Honor Girl Etc EtcILLUSTRATED BY R G VOSBURGHTHE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANYNew YorkAkron OhioChicagoCOPYRIGHT 1907By THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANYCONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I Preparations for School 7 II The Journey 25 III The Dinner Episode 55 IV The Reception 81 V A Box From Home 113 VI How Smiles Was Scalped 143 VII Defying the Powers 167 VIII Midnight Confidences 199 IX Joes Message 227 X Clouds and Gathering Storms 249 XI The Proud Humbled 273 XII The Seniors Outwitted 299 XIII Imprisonment 323 XIV Retaliation 339 XV Victory 361ELIZABETH HOBART ATEXETER HALLCHAPTER IPREPARATIONS FOR SCHOOLBitumen was what its name suggested There was soft coal and smokeeverywhere Each day the clothes on the line were flecked with black Thebuildings had the dull dingy look which soot alone can give The housessagged on either side of narrow unpaved streets where during a rainyperiod ducks clattered about with their broods and a few portly pigs ledtheir shoats for a mud bathDuring a summer shower barefooted urchins waded kneedeep in the gutterstheir trousers rolled to their thighs IrishAmericans shot mud balls atblackeyed Italians Polanders and Slavs together tried the depths of thesame puddles while the little boys of the Russian Fatherland played in agroup by themselves at one end of the squareThe houses were not so much homes as places of shelter Walls painted redwere the popular fancy Although there was room enough gardens wereunknown while blooming plants were rare enough to cause comment Eachdooryard had its heap of empty cans and pile of ashes Illkempt womenstood idly about the doorways or sat upon unscrubbed steps with dirtybabies in their armsBitumen was not a place of poverty There was plenty of work for the menand good wages if they chose to earn them They lacked nothing to eat orwear Money so long as it lasted was spent with a prodigal hand TheCompany store kept nothing too good for their palates Expensive fruitsand early vegetables were in demand The cheap finery bought for the youngfolk lasted but a few weeks and was tossed aside by the next pay dayThere was one saloon in the place It did a thriving business in spite ofsome unseen influence working against it Its proprietor was one DennisODay who held the politics of the little town in his palm He was alittle brighter a little keener and much more unscrupulous than the othermen of the place but he felt at times the force of some one greater thanhimself and it was always directed against his business He perceived itwhen he received orders that in fulfillment of the law he must removethe blinds before his windows and keep his place open to the public viewHe felt it again when he received a legal notice about free lunchesclosing hours and selling to minors Never once had he stepped beyond themost rigid observance of the law but he was called to account for it Heknew some keen eye was upon him and some one ready to fight him and hisbusiness at every turnThe great blow came when the Club House was established An emptystoreroom had been fitted up with chairs and tables and a supply of booksand magazines Here the boys had the liberty of coming to smoke and talktogether while Joe Ratowsky served coffee and sandwiches cheaper thanODay could sell beerIt was not Ratowskys doings There was some one else behind the sceneswho provided the brains and money to keep the business moving DennisODay meant to find out who that person was and square accounts with himBut for three years he had been no nearer the truth than now To learnanything from Ratowsky was impossible for the man had a tied tongue whenhe choseIn the midst of all the dirt and squalor there was one touch of daintyhominess and comfort This was found near Mountain Glen where thesuperintendent of the mines lived The house was an unpretentious woodenbuilding with great porches and big airy rooms but the windows shone inthe sunlight the curtains were white as snow and the worn floors of theporches were always scrubbedIn front and at the sides of the house was a lawn mowed until it lookedlike a stretch of moss Masses of scarlet sage and cannas