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Produced by Marilynda FraserCunliffe JPW Fraser Emmyand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetSIX LITTLE BUNKERSAT COWBOY JACKSBYLAURA LEE HOPE AUTHOR OF SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT GRANDMA BELLS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT UNCLE FREDS THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES ETC_ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERSMade in the United States of AmericaBOOKSBy LAURA LEE HOPE12mo Cloth Illustrated THE SIX LITTLE BUNKERS SERIES SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT GRANDMA BELLS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT AUNT JOS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT COUSIN TOMS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT GRANDPA FORDS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT UNCLE FREDS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT CAPTAIN BENS SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT COWBOY JACKS THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES THE BOBBSEY TWINS THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SNOW LODGE THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON A HOUSEBOAT THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT HOME THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN WASHINGTON THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE GREAT WEST THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT CEDAR CAMP THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE ON GRANDPAS FARM BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT AUNT LUS CITY HOME BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CAMP RESTAWHILE BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG WOODS BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE ON AN AUTO TOUR BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE GIVING A SHOW BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CHRISTMAS TREE COVE BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE SUNNY SOUTH THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIESEleven titlesGROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright 1921 by GROSSET DUNLAP Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy JacksIllustration BLACK BEAR CAME TOWARD THE CHILDREN_Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jacks_ _Frontispiece__Page 160_CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A THUNDER STROKE 1 II VERY EXCITING NEWS 9 III

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetWOMAN AND WOMANHOODBY DR C W SALEEBYWOMAN AND WOMANHOODHEALTH STRENGTH AND HAPPINESSTHE CYCLE OF LIFEEVOLUTION THE MASTER KEYWORRY THE DISEASE OF THE AGETHE CONQUEST OF CANCER A PLAN OF CAMPAIGNPARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTUREWOMAN AND WOMANHOODA SEARCH FOR PRINCIPLESbyC W SALEEBYMD FRSE ChB FZSFellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh and formerlyResident Physician Edinburgh Maternity HospitalVicePresident Divorce Law Reform Union Member of theRoyal Institution and of Council of the Sociological SocietyMITCHELL KENNERLEYNEW YORK AND LONDONMCMXICopyright 1911 byMitchell KennerleyPress of J J Little Ives CoEast Twentyfourth StreetNew York CONTENTS PAGE I FIRST PRINCIPLES 1 II THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME 34 III THE PURPOSE OF WOMANHOOD 52 IV THE LAW OF CONSERVATION 64 V THE DETERMINATION OF SEX 72 VI MENDELISM AND WOMANHOOD 81 VII BEFORE WOMANHOOD 92 VIII THE PHYSICAL TRAINING OF GIRLS 99 IX THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN 128 X THE PRICE OF PRUDERY 132 XI EDUCATION FOR MOTHERHOOD 151 XII THE MATERNAL INSTINCT 163 XIII CHOOSING THE FATHERS OF THE FUTURE 193 XIV THE MARRIAGE AGE FOR GIRLS 197 XV THE FIRST NECESSITY 219 XVI ON CHOOSING A HUSBAND 234 XVII THE CONDITIONS OF MARRIAGE 258 XVIII THE CONDITIONS OF DIVORCE 291 XIX THE RIGHTS OF MOTHERS 296 XX WOMEN AND ECONOMICS 327 XXI THE CHIEF ENEMY OF WOMEN 348 XXII CONCLUSION 386CHAPTER IFIRST PRINCIPLESWe are often and rightly reminded that woman is half the human race Itis truer even than it appears Not only is woman half of the presentgeneration but present woman is half of all the generations of men andwomen to come The argument of this book which will be regarded asreactionary by many women called advancedpresumably as doctors saythat a case of consumption is advancedinvolves nothing other thanadequate recognition of the importance of woman in the most important ofall matters It is true that my primary concern has been to furnish forthe individual woman and for those in charge of girlhood a guide oflife based upon the known physiology of sex But it is a poor guide oflife which considers only the transient individual and poorest of allin this very caseIf it were true that woman is merely the vessel and custodian of thefuture lives of men and women entrusted to her antenatal care by theirfathers as many creeds have supposed then indeed it would be aquestion of relatively small moment how the mothers of the future werechosen Our ingenious devices for ensuring the supremacy of man lendcolour to this idea We name children after their fathers and the factthat they are also to some extent of the maternal stock is obscuredBut when we ask to what extent they are also of maternal stock we findthat there is a rigorous equality between the sexes in this matter Itis a fact which has been ignored or inadequately recognized by everyfeminist and by every eugenist from Plato until the present timeSalient qualities whether good or ill are more commonly displayed bymen than by women Great strength or physical courage or endurancegreat ability or genius together with a variety of abnormalities aremuch more commonly found in men than in women and the eugenic emphasishas therefore always been laid upon the choice of fathers rather than

Produced by Carlo Traverso Claudio Paganelli and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet EDMONDO DE AMICIS Speranze e Glorie Le tre Capitali TorinoFirenzeRoma MILANO FRATELLI TREVES EDITORI 1911 Terzo Migliaio PROPRIETÀ LETTERARIA _I diritti di riproduzione e di traduzione sono riservati per tutti i paesi compresi la Svezia la Norvegia e lOlanda_ Tip Fratelli TrevesNOTA A QUESTA NUOVA EDIZIONE1ª edizione Treves1911Edmondo De Amicis fu eccellente oratore Quale concetto avesse dellapubblica eloquenza come sentisse quella enorme fatica di tutte lepotenze vitali spiegò egli medesimo nelle _Confessioni dunconferenziere_ che servono dintroduzione al libro intitolato _Capodanno pagine parlate_ Quale fascino di persuasione e dentusiasmoegli esercitasse sugli uditori attestano tutti quelli che ebberooccasione di ascoltarlo Dal ricco e vario vibrar della voce dalgesto semplice dal balenare dellanima nella chiara onesta faccia datutta lespressione della sua figura emanava la medesima virtù disimpatia per cui ebbero e serbano tanta nobile popolarità i suoilibri La tempra del suo ingegno e il suo gran cuore erano fattiapposta per assicurargli quella immediata corrispondenza spiritualecon la moltitudine degli uditori senza la quale ogni più dottaeloquenza è invanoE fu oratore di attitudini così diverse che parrebbero opposte seppecon mirabile giustezza di modi parlare via via alle persone colte ealla plebe alle donne agli studienti ai fanciulli fu conferenziereelegante e arringatore ardente di patria e di partito sopra tuttoriuscì spontaneamente maestro delleloquenza men tentata dai letteratie più difficile quella che si rivolge alle menti inesperte al popoloprivo di cultura e agitato dalle passioni politiche ai ragazzi checominciano appena nelle scuole a sentire la forza della parola cheillumina e commuove Chi gli fu più vicino ricorda poi comegli avessefelice la vena del breve detto doccasione e del brindisi sì nellepubbliche cerimonie sì nei conviti amichevoli che gli piacevanotanto al suo tempo migliore e nei quali studiò da par suo lesignificazioni e le bizzarrie dell_Eloquenza convivale_Un senso nativo della misura e dellopportunità governava sempre lasua parola e il culto interiore della parola stessa il vigileintuito dellartista faceva sì che qualunque cosa in qualunquecircostanza dicesse non gli venisse mai meno quel decoro letterarioche non lascia perdere dignità ad alcuna delle sue scritture anchealle più umili e famigliari Dordinario non improvvisava dicevaprosa scritta ma scritta per essere parlata e però colorita e mossasecondo lintento oratorio che si proponeva E del resto parlata persuo istinto e per suo istituto era tutta la prosa del De Amicisparlata fu virtualmente tutta quanta la sua opera letteraria la qualetanto può sui lettori perchè a tutti fa leffetto di una conversazioneimmediata dello scrittore con loroEgli non diede alle stampe tutte le sue conferenze non tutti i suoidiscorsi lasciò raccogliere Pubblicò prima nel 1880 insieme conquelle di dieci altri amici la conferenza sul _Vino_ ora entrata nellenuove edizioni delle _Pagine allegre_ e lanno dopo nella _Gazzettaletteraria_ di Torino quella su _Lespressione del viso_ che avevafatto al teatro Carignano per sovvenire ai figli del morto amicoRoberto Sacchetti Delle tre conferenze che disse al teatro Colón diBuenos Aires e poi al teatro Solis di Montevideo fra laprile e ilgiugno del 1884 su Vittorio Emanuele Cavour e Garibaldiquestultima sola rifece e stampò in Italia quale si legge nelpresente volume Più volte fu ristampata laltra conferenza su _Inostri contadini in America_ tenuta il 31 gennaio 1887 alla Societàfilarmonicodrammatica di Trieste e compresa ora nel volume di _Capodanno_ la quale diede agli uditori e alloratore argomento dicommozione indicibile ricordata da lui nellultima pagina delle_Confessioni dun conferenziere_ scritte appunto lanno seguenteRimangono in volumetti separati la conferenza su _La lettera anonima_ ei famosi discorsi _Ai ragazzi_ stimati un capolavoro di letteraturainfantile che segue ed integra luniversale libro del _Cuore_ Poco siconserva e quel poco monco e disperso dei discorsi fatti dal DeAmicis in private adunanze e in comizi del partito socialista massimein occasione di elezioni politiche salvo i due grandi discorsi _Per il1º maggio_ e _Per la questione sociale_ compresi in questo volume ealcune minori cose contenute nellaltro libro che sintitola _Lottecivili_Lultima volta che il De Amicis parlò in pubblico fu il 20 marzo 1898per pronunziare la commemorazione pur essa qui stampata di FeliceCavallotti al teatro Nazionale di Torino teatro popolare riboccantequel giorno ricordo bene del popolo più misto che si potesse vederee che loratore sollevò tutto nel consenso e nellammirazioneirresistibilmenteEgli fu eletto deputato del 1º collegio di Torino il 17 luglio diquellanno Sera lasciato presentare candidato per obbedire albisogno di una protesta politica del suo partito allora insorto eperseguitato Ma rinunziò allufficio e il Parlamento non udì mai lasua parola Due giorni prima dellelezione gli era morta la madreamatissima E pochi mesi dopo gli morì il figlio primogenito Furiodolore atroce che non trovò mai più confortoFolgorato nel capo lo scrittore si ritrasse nellombra e nelsilenzio della sua casa desolata abbandonò per sempre la vitapubblica non accettò più di fare conferenze e discorsi e da allorain poi fu tutto nel quotidiano solitario lavoro col quale però il suospirito chiuso ai richiami esterni comunicava così largamente con gliinnumerevoli lettori fedeliIn questo libro _Speranze e Glorie_ edito prima dal Giannotta diCatania il De Amicis riunì i suoi più importanti discorsi dargomentocommemorativo e sociale Un altro simile volume _Lotte civili_raccoglie i suoi scritti polemici per il socialismo e per la pace deipopoli Con questi due libri si determina lazione politica delloscrittore la quale a riscontro della sua opera letteraria non deverimanere dimenticata perchè è troppo gran parte di quella generosavita intellettuale a cui non mancò mai la rispettosa e affettuosaattenzione degli italianiTorino aprile 1911DINO MANTOVANISperanze e GlorieIPer una distribuzione di premiALLE ALUNNEVi parlo non perchè io pensi che non sarebbe compiuta senza le mieparole questa cara festa dedicata a voi ma per prolungare a me diqualche momento il piacere vivissimo di vederviQuanto vi potrei dire di più opportuno e di più degno ve lo diconoogni giorno le vostre brave insegnanti e con assai maggiore autoritàche non possa esser la mia perchè esse vi esortano al lavoro e ve nedànno le prime lesempio vi raccomandano la bontà e vi dimostrano congli atti che cosa sia lesser buone vi diconoStudiate educateviper la

Produced by Claudio Paganelli Carlo Traverso and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was produced from images generously madeavailable by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Milano LARTE DI prender Marito DI PAOLO MANTEGAZZA per far seguito a _Larte di prender Moglie_ FRATELLI TREVES EDITORI 1894 LARTE DI PRENDER MARITO OPERE DI PAOLO MANTEGAZZA _Edizioni Treves_ _India_ 3ª edizione illustrata L 3 50 _Gli amori degli uomini_ 11ª edizione con numerose note ed aggiunte 2 volumi 6 _Le estasi umane_ 2 volumi 5ª edizione 7 _Testa_ libro per i giovinetti 17ª edizione 2 _Un giorno a Madera_ 15ª edizione 1 _Il secolo tartufo_ 4ª edizione 2 _Fisiologia dellodio_ 3ª edizione 5 _Igiene dellamore_ 4ª impressione della nuova edizione 1889 collaggiunta di due capitoli 4 _Epicuro_ Saggio di una fisiologia del bello 2ª edizione 3 50 _Dizionario delle cose belle_ 2ª ediz 4 _Fisiologia della donna_ 2 volumi 3ª ediz 8 _Larte di prender moglie_ 5ª edizione 4 _Larte di prender marito_ 4 PAOLO MANTEGAZZA note biografiche e critiche di Carlo Reynaudi col ritratto di Paolo Mantegazza 2 LARTE DI prender Marito DI PAOLO MANTEGAZZA per far seguito a _Larte di prender Moglie_ MILANO FRATELLI TREVES EDITORI 1894 PROPRIETÀ LETTERARIA _Riservati tutti i diritti_ Milano Tip Treves _Alle troppo impazienti Alle troppo esigenti Alle troppo positive che credono bastare alla felicità del matrimonio molti quattrini e una corona Alle troppo poetiche che credono bastare al matrimonio lamore Dedico questo nuovo libro Perchè tutte imparino che se il matrimonio può darci la massima felicità è anche la più instabile delle combinazioni chimiche il più delicato il più intricato il più fragile di tutti i meccanismi_ Decembre 1893PARTE PRIMAIL RACCONTOCAPITOLO PRIMO_La bambina diventa donna_Era un mattino di marzo e un sole impaziente sera alzatotroppo presto spargendo per laria azzurra e già calda lorodella sua luce il tepore del suo fiatoLa stazione era molto vicina alla casa di Emma e a piedi eraandata coi suoi ad augurare il buon viaggio ad un cuginoingegnere che sposo da solo un mese doveva fare per lufficiosuo un lungo viaggio e lasciar sola la sposa per qualchesettimanaCugini e cugine e zii erano arrivati un po tardi e si dovettefar economia di parole e di abbracciamenti Un furia furia perprendere i biglietti consegnare i bagagli collaccompagnamentodi un grido monotono dei conduttoriFacciano presto signori il treno parteE davanti ad un vagone di prima classe i parenti eranoaffollati guardando il cugino ingegnere che non potevaparlare perchè sentiva che le parole gli sarebbero venutefuori strozzate e singhiozzantiTutti si accontentavano di sorridere al viaggiatore con unariache voleva essere un saluto e un augurio ma era invece unamestizia mal dissimulataChi non poteva sorridere neppur dissimulando era la sposa cheera entrata in vagone per dar lultimo bacio al viaggiatoreCugini e cugine non guardavano se non per terra con gestiimpacciati mentre la voce del conduttore ripeteva per laventesima volta il suo monotonoPresto signori presto si parteLa sposa dovette scendere lo sportello fu chiuso brutalmente ein furia ma essa si arrampicò di nuovo sul predellino delvagoneAddio addio Paolo ritorna presto ricordati di scrivermiogni giornoUna testa si abbassò si incontrò collaltra e per non soquanti minuti secondi quattro labbra si strinsero si fusero inun labbro solo in un singhiozzo supremoEmma alzò gli occhi e guardò attonita curiosa con unaprurigine nuova con un fremito della persona quei due che sibaciavano a quel modo Non potè neppur pronunziare la parola_addio_E un fischio acuto uno strider di ruote distaccò quei dueinnamorati e fece partire il treno che sparì dallorizzonte inpochi minutiTutti ritornarono alle loro case ma Emma riportò con lei ilbacio dei due cugini come se lavessero stampato sulle suelabbra con un suggello di

Produced by Ted Garvin Don Perry and the Online DistributedProofreaders Europe at httpdprastkonet SHORT STORY THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG BY W CLARK RUSSELL AUTHOR OF THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR LIFE OF LORD NELSON ETC ETC GP PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 West Twentythird Street 24 Bedford Street Strand 1895 The Knickerbocker Press New Rochelle NY SHORT STORY_Contents_ PAGEThe Honour of the Flag 3Cornered 28A Midnight Visitor 41Plums from a Sailors Duff 57The Strange Adventures of a South Seaman 82The Adventures of Three Sailors 110The Strange Tragedy of the White Star 137The Ship Seen on the Ice 163THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG _The Honour of the Flag_ A THAMES TRAGEDYManifold are the historic interests of the river Thames There isscarcely a foot of its mud from London Bridge to Gravesend Reach thatis not as consecrated as that famous bit of soil which Dr SamuelJohnson and Mr Richard Savage knelt and kissed on stepping ashore atGreenwich One of the historic interests however threatens to perishout of the annals It does not indeed rise to such heroic proportionsas you find in the story of the Dutch invasion of the river or in oldHackluyts solemn narrative of the sailing of the expedition organisedby Bristols noble worthy Sebastian Cabot but it is altogether toogood and stirring to merit erasure from the Thamess history books bythe neglect or ignorance of the historianIt is absolutely true I pledge my word for that on the authority ofthe records of the Whitechapel County CourtIn the year 1851 there dwelt on the banks of the river Thames aretired tailor whom I will call John Sloper out of regard to thefeelings of his posterity if such there be This man had for manyyears carried on a flourishing trade in the east end of London Havinggot together as much money as he might suppose would supply his dailyneeds he built himself a villa near the pleasant little town ofErith His house overlooked the water in front of it sloped aconsiderable piece of garden groundMr Sloper showed good sense and good taste in building himself alittle home on the banks of the Thames All day long he was able ifhe pleased to entertain himself with the sight of as stirring andstriking a marine picture as is anywhere to be witnessed He couldhave built himself a house above bridges where there is no lack ofelegance and river beauty of many sorts but he chose to command aview of the Thames on its commercial sideIn his day there was more life in the river than there is now In ourage the great steamer thrusts past and is quickly gone the tug runsthe sailingship to the docks or to her mooring buoys and there is nolife in the fabric she drags In Slopers time steamers were few thewater of the river

Produced by William CoonTHE NOBLE LORDA Comedy In One ActByPERCIVAL WILDEThe Noble LordCHARACTERSHESHEPETERSTHE NOBLE LORD_A secluded spot in the Maine woods in the neighborhood of asummer hotel It is the middle of July The trees are coveredwith foliage a hot sun casts dancing shadows upon the mossyground and the air is full of the twittering of birds and therustle of leaves A winding path crosses from one side to theother and near the center is a little clearing the stump of afelled tree with the lichencovered trunk itself near it and apatch of grassy turf The eye cannot penetrate far through theriotously growing underbrush but as one looks upwards to theleft a thinning of foliage allowing a glimpse of the sky givesevidence of the near proximity of some small body of water__As the curtain rises the scene is empty There is only the songof birds and the whisper of a gentle breeze For a few secondsnothing else is heard Then suddenly not far away there is thesound of a splash followed by the scream of a drowning womanHelp Help Help There is a tremendous crashing through theunderbrush and another voice very masculine very Englishshouts Where are you Where are you Rather indefinitely thefirst speaker answers Here Help Help Another crashingthrough the underbrush followed by a second splash andpresently after a short pause there enters upon the stage atall much bedraggled Englishman bearing in his arms themotionless body of an extremely goodlooking girl Both of themare very wet and a trail of water marks their progress acrossthe scene Reaching the clearing the Englishman methodicallydeposits the girl on the ground backs away a foot or so andnotices that his hands are wet He reaches into a hip pocket anddraws forth a handkerchief the handkerchief is wetter than hishands With a gesture of vexation he throws it away and giveshis attention to the girl He looks at her quizzically thenrather timidly he kneels at her side and lays his ear over herheart He rises promptly with a satisfied nod carefully removeshis dripping coat folds it neatly and places it on the logAgain he kneels this time with his knees on either side of thegirls head and laboriously begins to apply the Sylvestermethod counting audibly as he does so At ten he stopswearily pauses and again applies his ear to her heart Theresult is evidently pleasing and after a few more Sylvestermovements he begins to vary the procedure by removing her shoesand alternately chafing her hands and feet Presently she sighsdeeply For the third time he pauses to listen to her heartSlowly and deliberately her left arm rises to encircle his neckin a confiding clasp He sits back on his haunches politelysurprised_SHE _Faintly_ Mother Mother dearHE EhSHE Mother dear Im so gladHE _Interrupting energetically_ Really I beg your pardonSHE _Continuing without a break_ Im so glad youve comeHE Ah yes Quite soSHE Kiss me motherHE _Trying to rise_ Eh_She does not release him_SHE Kiss me motherHE But Im not your motherSHE _Plaintively_ Wont you kiss me motherHE _Looks around furtively Then he obliges her_SHE Ah Thats so nice _She pauses Shudders_ Hold me closemother hold me close Ive had such a terrible dreamHE Good Heavens Youre not dreaming now SHE I dreamtI dreamt _He has raised her to a sittingposition She stops abruptly Looks about_ Wherewhere am IHE _Surprised_ Dont you knowSHE NoHE _In a matteroffact tone_ We are about half a mile awayfrom the Poland Springs Hotel Poland Springs MaineSHE _Vaguely_ Oh _She pauses_ And you how do you comehereHE StrollingSHE StrollingHE I reached the hotel this morning It was hotbeastly hot Iwent for a walk in the woodsSHE And thenHE I beg your pardonSHE What happened then How did we meetHE Dont _you_ knowSHE I remember nothingIm confused _She tries to get up butsits on the log with a little exclamation_ My shoeswhere aremy shoesHE _Fetching them_ Here they areSHE Thank you _She looks at them_ Those arent myshoesHE _Politely_ NoSHE Theyre wetHE _Nodding_ They would beSHE But theyre not mineHE _Shrugging his shoulders_ I found them on your feetSHE _Confused_ On my feetHE Yes _An afterthought_ One on eachSHE Oh _She tries to put them on_ I cant get them onHE NoSHE Will you help me _He assists her she feels her clothesand exclaims_ OhHE Did I hurt youSHE _Astonished_ My clothes are wetHE _Thoughtfully_ YesSHE How funny _Noticing him_ And youyoure wet alsoHE _Nodding_ SoakedSHE What a coincidence How curious How did it happen _Shepauses_ Oh if I could only think Think _He rises and waitspolitely_ Tell me you must knowHE Well I was strolling through the woods I heard a splashSHE _Interrupting_ A splash Oh dont say any more Iremember That horrible lake Horrible It was so warm at thehotel I had gone off to the woods I was sitting at the edge ofthe lakeon a rockreading I must have been sleepy I fell inHE Then you screamedSHE Yes I was drowning Drowning I called for helpHE I heard youSHE I sankI sank oh miles and miles It felt as if handswere trying to pull me down to the bottom I screamed againandthenthenI felt a strong arm around my waistI was dizzythere was a roaring in my earsI knew no moreHE _Sympathetically_ Too bad too badSHE And you_rising to her feet enthusiastically_you werethe man who jumped inHE _Apologetically_ I was passing bySHE You saved my life Oh how can I ever thank you My hero_She throws her arms about his neck_HE Thats all right SHE But its not all right I can never repay you Never NeverNot if I live to be a thousand years old _She kisses him_HE _Calmly_ Thats the second timeSHE The second timeHE _Nodding_ I kissed you beforeSHE Oh _Releasing him quickly_ You didntHE Yes I didSHE While I was unconsciousHE PreciselySHE Oh how _could_ you do such a thing How could youHE _Taking up his coat_

Produced by Chuck Greif and wwwebooksgratuitscomPaul FévalLES HABITS NOIRSLAVALEUR DE SABRESTome VI1867Table des matièresPREMIÈRE PARTIE PETITEREINEI La foire au pain dépiceII Le roi des étudiantsIII Un éclat de rireIV Café noirV Café au laitVI La ceriseVII La voleuse denfantsVIII La fouleIX Bureau de policeX Odyssée de madame SaladinXI Réveil de PetiteReineXII Vox audita in ramaXIII Le berceauXIV JustinXV Vente de LilyXVI Mémoires dÉchaloXVII Suite des mémoires dÉchaloXVIII Fin des mémoires dÉchalotLe premier roman de SaphirXIX Le marquis SaladinXX Saladin reconnaît lennemiXXI Le duc de ChavesXXII Madame la duchesse de ChavesDEUXIÈME PARTIE MADEMOISELLE SAPHIRI Médor dernier avaleurII Saladin ouvre la tranchéeIII Saladin monte à lassautIV Saladin fait un romanV Saladin voit le pied dun HabitNoirVI Saladin toise laffaireVII Le nuageVIII Le Club des Bonnets de soie noirIX La chanson de lavaleurX Le PèreàtousXI LenvieXII Triomphe de LanguedocXIII Mademoiselle Guite ronfleXIV La consultationXV Le père JustinXVI Justin séveille tout à faitXVII Le guetapensXVIII Décadence dune grande institutionXIX Aventures de nuiXX La lettre de MédorXXI Un vieux lion qui séveilleLe cycle des Habits Noirs comprend huit volumesLes Habits NoirsCoeur dAcierLa rue de JérusalemLarme invisibleMaman LéoLavaleur de sabresLes compagnons du trésorLa bande CadetPREMIÈRE PARTIE PETITEREINEILa foire au pain dépiceIl y avait quatre musiciens une clarinette qui mesurait cinq pieds huitpouces et qui pouvait être au besoin géant belge quand elle mettaitsix jeux de cartes dans chacune de ses bottes un trombone bossu untriangle en bas âge et une grosse caisse du sexe féminin large commeune tourIl y avait en outre un lancier polonais pour agiter la cloche unpaillasse habillé de toile à matelas pour crier dans le portevoix etune fillette rousse de cheveux brune de teint qui tapait à coupsredoublés sur le tamtam roi des instruments destinés à produire lamusique enragéeCela faisait un horrible fracas audevant dune baraque assez grandemais abondamment délabrée qui portait pour enseigne un tableau déchiréreprésentant la passion de NotreSeigneur JésusChrist des serpentsboas une charge de cavalerie un lion dévorant un missionnaire et leroi LouisPhilippe avec sa nombreuse famille recevant les ambassadeursde TippooSaïbLe ciel du tableau où voltigeaient des hippogriffes des ballons descomètes des trapèzes Auriol en train dexécuter le saut périlleux etun oiseau rare emportant un âne dans ses serres était coupé par unevaste banderole déroulée en fantastiques méandres qui laissait lire lalégende suivante Théâtre français et hydraulique_Prestiges savants exercices et variétés du XIXe siècle des lumières_ Dirigé par madame Canada Première physicienne des capitales de lEurope civiliséeLa clarinette venait dAllemagne comme toutes les clarinettes Cétaitun pauvre diable maigre osseux habillé en chirurgien militaire Ilportait un nez considérable qui faisait presque le cercle quand ilsuçait le bec enrhumé de son instrument Le trombone bossu était dePontoise où il avait eu des peines de coeur en justiceLe triangle venait du quartier des Invalides à Paris Il avait quatorzeans À sa figure coupante sèche sérieuse et moqueuse à la fois on luien eût donné vingt pour le moins mais son corps était dun enfantLe premier aspect ne lui était pas défavorable son visage assez jolimais vieillot et déjà usé se couronnait dune admirable chevelurenoire arrangée avec coquetterie au second regard on éprouvait unesorte de malaise à voir mieux cette vieillesse enfantine qui semblait nepoint avoir de sexe Son costume qui consistait en une veste de veloursouverte sur une chemise de laine rouge avait lair propre et presqueélégant auprès des haillons de ses camaradesLa clarinette sappelait Koehln dit Cologne le trombone avait nomPoquet dit Atlas à cause de sa bosse et le triangle se nommaitSaladin tout court ou plutôt monsieur Saladin car il occupait uneposition sociale À lâge où la plupart des adolescents sont une chargepour les familles il joignait à son talent sur le triangle lartdavaler des sabres et pouvait déjà remplacer madame Canada enrouéedans la tâche difficile de tourner le complimentTourner le compliment ou adresser le boniment cest prononcer lediscours préliminaire qui invite les populations à se précipiter enfoule dans la baraqueOutre sa capacité Saladin était fort bien doué sous le rapport de lanaissance et des protections Il avait pour père le lancier polonais quisonnait la cloche pour nourrice le paillasse habillé de toile àmatelas pour marraine la femme obèse chargée de battre la caisseCette femme nétait autre que madame veuve Canada non seulementdirectrice du Théâtre Français et Hydraulique mais encore dompteuse demonstres féroces Elle pesait 220 à la criée mais sa large face avaitune expression si riante et si débonnaire quon sétonnait toujours delui voir casser des cailloux sur le ventre avec un marteau de forgeChez elle cétait plutôt habitude que dureté 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Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online DistributedProofreading TeamCAD METTIThe Female Detective StrategistORDUDIE DUNNE AGAIN IN THE FIELDBY OLD SLEUTHAuthor of all the Famous Old Sleuth StoriesCHAPTER ITWO SKILLFUL YOUNG DETECTIVES OVERMATCH A BRACE OF VILLAINS ANDPROVE WHAT NERVE AND COURAGE CAN DOLets duck him and steal the girlA young lady and gentleman were walking on the sands at Coney Islandbeach The lady was very handsomely attired and by her side walked ayoung man a perfect type in appearance of an effeminate dude Threeroughlooking men had been following the lady and gentleman at adistance and when the latter stopped at a remote part of the beach farfrom any hotel the three men held a consultation and one of themuttered the declaration with which we open our narrativeAs usual certain very exciting incidents led up to the scene we havedepicted One week prior to the meeting on the beach a young detectiveknown as Dudie Dunne owing to the fact that he often assumed the rôleof a dude as a throwoff was seated in a hotel smokingroom when ashrewdfaced athleticlooking man approached him and saidHello Dunne Ive been on the lookout for youYouve found meI have and Im glad Ive got a great shadow for youI am all ears WiseI want you in the government service There is a chance for you to makea big hitI am ready to make a big hit WiseYou are in a position to do it You speak Italian but what is betteryou have your lady pal She is a real Italian I am told and one of thebravest and brightest women that ever entered the professionSome one told you thatYesWhoever did so knew what they were talking about Cad Metti is one ofthe brightest women that ever entered the profession she is a borndetective What is the jobThere is a gang at workthe worst ever known They are Italians butthey have a contingent of American and English rogues working with themThey are the most dangerous operators that ever organized for thecoining of base money They are located all over the United States Theyhave regular passwords Indeed their organization is perfect and withthem are a number of desperate assassins and a few beautiful women Icant go into all the details but the government has appropriated alarge sum from the secret service fund We must run down and break upthis dangerous gangYou have the case in handI am directing the hunt I have twenty of my best men on the case andI have trailed down to the fact that all the movements are directed fromNew York The chief men are located here and never in the history ofcriminal doings was such a dangerous lot at workWhat points have youThe only point I have is the fact that the leaders are located here inNew YorkIn what line are they workingThey are counterfeiting in all its branches they are bank robbing andburglarizing private houses Indeed every sort of criminal appears to bein the organization It is not even confined to the United States Theyare sending base American money to Mexico and Cuba The president of theMexican republic has sent a large sum here to aid in their capture Themerchants of Havana have also sent on a fundAnd you have no clues as to the identity of these peopleWe have captured several of the gang but that does not interrupt thework Its the leaders we want and if you can get in and trail themdown it will be the biggest feather you ever wore in your cap But letme tell you its a dangerous job Several of our men have mysteriouslyvanished Two we know were assassinated the others have been done awaywith My reputation is at stake Thus far I have been baffledAnd what do you want me to doShadow down and locate the leadersCan you give me a hint where to look for them That is can you give meany starter at allI cannot You may find them mingling in the best society in New Yorkyou may find them in the slums under cover One thing is certain theyare the shrewdest rascals that ever defied the whole detective force ofthe United States and I have great hopes that you can succeed where wehave all failed You can command me for all the money you need and nowget in and run down these roguesYou have no photographsNoYou say there are women in with the gangYesHere in New YorkYesAre the women shoving the queerIf they do they do it so well we cannot trace them but there are womenin the gangHave they a workshop hereI do not think they have I believe the workshop is in some remoteplace possibly in Mexican territory but the leaders are here and itis necessary to trail down the leaders and get the evidence againstthem If we get the leaders we can knock out the whole gang My men havelocated members of the gang and we can close in on them any time butnone of them will squeal as long as the leaders go free But once let ussecure the leaders and there will follow a wholesale squeal and we canbreak up the gangAll right I am in with you I will see Cad Metti and talk the matterover with you later onI should like to meet your female palDuring the time Wise the great special had been talking to Dunne adistrict messenger lad had been standing near munching on a crackerwhich he had taken from the free lunch table and at the proper momenthe stepped forward and handed our hero a noteThe latter glanced at the missive and saidAll right lad there is no answerThe boy stood around and finally Dunne handed him a nickel The boylaughed said thank you and walked away and Dunne saidYou have never seen Cad MettiNoAre you sureWhy certainly Id know if I had ever seen herYou wouldYesWise your memory fails youIve never been accused of loss of memoryYou never haveNoAnd yet youve seen Cad MettiNeverYou are sureCertainlyYou saw her once

Produced by Markus Brenner Marina Lukas and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Die ungleichen Schalen Fünf einaktige Dramen von Jakob Wassermann S Fischer Verlag Berlin 1912Alle Rechte vorbehalten Den Bühnen und Vereinen gegenüberManuskript Das Recht der Aufführung ist allein durchS Fischer Verlag Berlin W Bülowstr 90 zu erwerbenCopyright 1912 S Fischer Verlag BerlinInhaltRasumowsky 9Gentz und Fanny Elßler 59Der Turm von Frommetsfelden 107Lord Hamiltons Bekehrung 171Hockenjos 237RasumowskyPersonen Graf Alexei Grigorjewitsch Rasumowsky Rodion sein Diener Michael Jefimowitsch Lassunsky Kapitänleutnant der Leibgarden Fedor Alexandrowitsch Chidrowo Rittmeister der GardeKavallerie Graf Grigorij OrlowSpielt in Petersburg im Jahre 1763Ein altertümlich ausgestatteter großer Raum im Hause desGrafen Rasumowsky An der Rückwand links ein großer Kaminin welchem ein Holzfeuer brennt Über dem Kamin das Porträtder Kaiserin Elisabeth Petrowna Rechts ein erkerartigerVorbau mit Fenstern gegen die Straße In der rechtenSeitenwand Türe in die übrigen Gemächer in der linken derAusgang zum FlurRittmeister _Fedor Chidrowo_ ein junger Mann von 23 Jahrengeht aufgeregt umher Nach kurzer Weile tritt Kapitänleutnant_Michael Lassunsky_ ein von _Rodion_ geführt einem altenKleinrussen_Lassunsky_etwa im gleichen Alter wie ChidrowoSag meinem Oheim daß ich ihn dringend sprechen muß_Rodion_Eure Erlaucht werden gebeten zu warten Seine gräflicheGnaden ist noch bei der Morgenandacht_Lassunsky_Sag dem Grafen _Rodion_Es ist der strenge Befehl Seiner gräflichen Gnaden ihnnicht bei der Morgenandacht zu stören_Lassunsky_Kerl die Wichtigkeit _Rodion_Hab strengen Befehl von Seiner gräflichen Gnaden _Lassunsky_Scher dich zum Henker Rodion wirft Scheite in den Kamindann ab Du hier Fedor Alexandrowitsch_Chidrowo_Grüß dich Michael Jefimowitsch Mußt dich gedulden warteebenfalls schon lang_Lassunsky_Orlow ist auf dem Weg hierher_Chidrowo_bestürztDas kann nicht sein_Lassunsky_Orlow ist auf dem Weg hierher_Chidrowo_Ist das eine Vermutung_Lassunsky_Eine Gewißheit wenigstens beinahe_Chidrowo_Beinahe ist keine Gewißheit Aber du bist so erregt _Lassunsky_Hab Grund dazu Der Großkanzler Woronzow ist an derKasanKathedrale überfallen worden_Chidrowo_Bei Gottes Güte was sagst du da_Lassunsky_Erwartet Alexei Grigorjewitsch nicht den Großkanzler_Chidrowo_Ja Graf Woronzow hat mich geschickt damit ich seineAnkunft melde Aber _Lassunsky_Ich und Anenkow ritten als Eskorte hinter dem Wagen desGroßkanzlers Eine Horde betrunkener Soldaten drängt sichzwischen uns und die Karosse und auf einmal sind wirabgeschnitten Wir sehen nur noch daß der Kanzler gezwungenwird auszusteigen dann haben sie ihn in ein Hausgeschleppt_Chidrowo_Und ihr habt nicht dreingehaut_Lassunsky_Zwei gegen fünfzig_Chidrowo_Das ist ja Aufruhr Michael Jefimowitsch_Lassunsky_Anenkow ist in den Palast zurückgeeilt ich hierher_Chidrowo_Und du glaubst _Lassunsky_Ich glaube daß Orlow hier sein wird eh dort die Uhrzeigergestreckt stehen_Chidrowo_Das sollte Orlow wagen_Lassunsky_Orlow wagt alles Zur Türe ruft hinaus Rodion_Rodion_kommtErlaucht befehlen_Lassunsky_Ihr seid nicht an Besuch gewöhnt Alter_Rodion_Nein Erlaucht wir leben sehr zurückgezogen_Lassunsky_Nun wohl ihr werdet binnen kurzem Besuch erhalten nochdazu sehr unwillkommenen Sperr die Tore zu_Chidrowo_Sperr die Tore zu Alter_Lassunsky_Ja sperr die beiden Tore zu das nach der Gasse und dasnach dem Garten_Rodion_Ist Gefahr für Seine gräfliche Gnaden_Chidrowo_Schwatz nicht Alter tu was man dir befiehlt Rodion ab_Lassunsky_wirft sich in einen SesselIch bin hin_Chidrowo_ungestüm auf und ab gehendWie glaubst du daß Alexei Grigorjewitsch die Nachrichtaufnehmen wird_Lassunsky_Kann mich nicht erinnern ihn je sonderlich erstaunt gesehenzu haben_Chidrowo_Das ist böse_Lassunsky_Bah wer viel staunt handelt wenig_Chidrowo_So viel sag ich dir wenn die Kaiserin den Orlow heiratetnehm ich meinen Abschied_Lassunsky_Nach Sibirien_Chidrowo_Einem Orlow huldigen Eher nach Sibirien_Lassunsky_Was können wir dagegen tun_Chidrowo_Die Fürstin Chilkow hat geweint als sie davon erfuhr_Lassunsky_Die flennt wenn man einem Huhn den Hals abdreht AlsRakitin mit ihrem Wissen ihren Mann erschlug hat sie keineTräne vergossen Man hört Waffenlärm von der StraßeHorch Beide lauschen_Chidrowo_nähert sich dem ErkerNein nichts Stellt sich vor Lassunsky ungestümMichael Jefimowitsch Wir sollten hingehen und die Kaiserinbitten es nicht zu tun Haben wir ihr nicht auf den Throngeholfen Wir alle Wir sind bereit für sie zu sterben nurdas das eine das nicht Sie kann sich unsern Gründen nichtverschließen_Lassunsky_Sie wird aus deinen Gründen einen Strick für den Henkerdrehen_Chidrowo_Herrgott Michael Jefimowitsch sie ist doch eine klugeFrau_Lassunsky_Sie ist verliebt_Chidrowo_Was ist denn an einem Orlow zu lieben_Lassunsky_Was wir an ihm hassen_Chidrowo_Sein Ehrgeiz macht ihn verrückt_Lassunsky_Er ist schön und stark wie ein Bär_Chidrowo_Er hat keine Erziehung_Lassunsky_Umso weniger ist er gehemmt_Chidrowo_leise durch die ZähneIch sage dir er wird sie ermorden so wie er den Zarenermordet hat_Lassunsky_Dummkopf Er war nur die Hand Katharina ist tausendmalschlauer als er O das ist ein Weib mein Lieber diesteckt uns alle in den Sack_Chidrowo_Wo ist da die Schlauheit Die Mariage ist projektiert Esmuß ein Mittel gefunden werden sie davon abzubringen_Lassunsky_Du bist Soldat und mußt schweigen_Chidrowo_Schweigen kostet Herzblut_Lassunsky_Ich meinerseits will nicht Politik treiben da hast dus_Chidrowo_Aber die Zähne knirschen Das ist auch eine Art von Politikund eine schlechte Wie stumpf du bist_Lassunsky_Stumpf_Chidrowo_Oder du weißt mehr als du sagen willst_Lassunsky_Wohl möglich Vielleicht wirst du heute noch alles erfahren_Chidrowo_Wie ists warum wollte der Großkanzler mit Rasumowskyverhandeln_Lassunsky_Ist dir nicht bekannt daß Alexei Grigorjewitsch heimlichvermählt war mit der verstorbenen Kaiserin ElisabethPetrowna_Chidrowo_Dies ist mir wohl bekannt allein wie hängt das zusammen_Lassunsky_sieht sich umSchweig schweig_Chidrowo_Im Hause Rasumowskys sind die Wände taub_Lassunsky_Nicht um die Wände handelt sichs Steht auf Aber er ErDieser furchtlose Mann Der furchtloseste der in Rußlandlebt Wie ich ihn verehre Fedor Alexandrowitsch Wüßtest duwie ich In wunderbarer Verschwiegenheit ist er derGeliebte einer Kaiserin gewesen Niemals hat ihn eine

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Lesley Halamek and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetCHILDHOODS FAVORITESAND FAIRY STORIESHAMILTON WRIGHT MABIEEDWARD EVERETT HALEWILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH_Editors_JENNIE ELLIS BURDICK_Assistant Editor_Volume One Illustration The Young Folks TreasuryNEW YORKTHE UNIVERSITY SOCIETYINCORPORATED1927COPYRIGHT 1919 BYTHE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INCCOPYRIGHT 1909 1917 BYTHE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INCEDITORSHAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LHD LLDEDWARD EVERETT HALE DD LLDWILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH PhD LittDASSISTANT EDITORJENNIE ELLIS BURDICK_Partial List of Authors and Editors Represented in The Young FolksTreasury by Selections from Their Writings_WOODROW WILSON Twentyeighth President of the United StatesTHEODORE ROOSEVELT Twentysixth President of the United StatesHENRY VAN DYKE poet essayist and diplomatistLYMAN ABBOTT editor of The OutlookRUDYARD KIPLING poet and storytellerGENERAL SIR R S BADENPOWELL founder of the Boy ScoutsBECKLES WILLSON author of The Romance of CanadaIDA PRENTICE WHITCOMB author of Young Peoples Story of ArtELLEN VELVIN writer of animal storiesMARY MACGREGOR author of King Arthurs Knights etcRALPH HENRY BARBOUR author of boys storiesT GILBERT PEARSON executive secretary National Association of Audubon SocietiesJOSEPH JACOBS authority upon folkloreTHEODORE WOOD writer on natural historyERNEST THOMPSON SETON writer of stories about natural history and founder of the Woodcraft LeagueAMY STEEDMAN writer on biographyEVERETT T TOMLINSON author of boys storiesRALPH D PAINE author of boys storiesA FREDERICK COLLINS author of boys booksDON C BLISS educatorBLISS CARMAN poet and essayistSIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE novelistWILLIAM CANTON storytellerHERMANN HAGEDORN poetELBRIDGE S BROOKS writer of boys storiesALFRED G GARDINER editor of The London NewsFRANKLIN K LANE United States Secretary of the InteriorJOEL CHANDLER HARRIS creator of Uncle RemusERNEST INGERSOLL naturalistWILLIAM L FINLEY State biologist OregonCHARLES G D ROBERTS writer of animal storiesE NESBIT novelist and poetARCHIBALD WILLIAMS author of How It Is Done etcIRA REMSEN former president of Johns Hopkins UniversityGIFFORD PINCHOT professor of forestry Yale UniversityGUSTAVE KOBBÉ writer of biographiesJACOB A RIIS philanthropist and authorEMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER storywriter and poetJOHN LANG writer of childrens booksJEANIE LANG writer of childrens booksJOHN H CLIFFORD editor and writerHERBERT T WADE editor and writer on physicsCHARLES R GIBSON writer on electricityLILIAN CASK writer on natural historyBLANCHE MARCHESI opera singer and teacherJOHN FINNEMORE traveler and writer of boys storiesALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL inventor of the telephoneJAMES WHITCOMB RILEY poetCHARLES H CAFFIN author of A Guide to PicturesJAMES CARDINAL GIBBONSANDREW F CURRIER MD popular medical writerHELEN KELLER the blind and deaf writerOLIVER HERFORD humorist and illustratorGENERAL INTRODUCTION Books are as much a part of the furnishing of a house as tables andchairs and in the making of a home they belong not with the luxuriesbut with the necessities A bookless house is not a home for a homeaffords food and shelter for the mind as well as for the body It isas great an offence against a child to starve his mind as to starvehis body and there is as much danger of reducing his vitality andputting him at a disadvantage in his lifework in the one as in theother form of deprivation There was a time when it was felt thatshelter clothing food and physical oversight comprised the wholeduty of a charitable institution to dependent children today nocommunity would permit such an institution to exist unless it providedschool privileges An acute sense of responsibility toward childrenis one of the prime characteristics of American society shown in thevast expenditures for public education in all forms in the increasingattention paid to light ventilation and safety in school buildingsin the opening of play grounds in large cities in physicalsupervision of children in schools and the agitation against theemployment of children in factories and in other and less obviouswaysChildren are helpless to protect themselves and secure what they needfor health of body and mind they are exceedingly impressionable andthe future is always in their hands The first and most imperativeduty of parents is to give their children the best attainablepreparation for life no matter at what sacrifice to themselves Thereare hosts of fathers and mothers who recognize this obligation but donot know how to discharge it who are eager to give their children themost wholesome conditions but do not know how to secure them who areespecially anxious that their children should start early and startright on that highway of education which is the open road to honorablesuccess There are many homes in which books would find abundant roomif the heads of the families knew what books to buy or had the meansto put into the hands of the growing child the reading matter it needsin the successive periods of its growthThis condition of eagerness to give the best and of ignorance of howor where to find the best is the justification for the publicationof this set of books The attempt has been made in a series of twelvevolumes to bring together in convenient form the fairy stories mythsand legends which have fed the children of many generations in theyears when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus andmaterial to work uponthat age of mythmaking which is a prelude tothe more scientific uses of the mind and of immense importance in anintensely practical agea group of tales of standard quality andan interest and value which have placed them among the permanentpossessions of English literature a careful selection of storiesof animal life a natural history familiar in style and thoroughlytrustworthy in fact an account of those travels and adventures whichhave opened up the earth and made its resources available and whichconstitute one of the most heroic chapters in the history of thelong struggle of men to possess the earth and make it a home forthe highest kind of civilization a record of heroism taken from theannals of the patriots and of those brave men who in all ages ranksof society and occupations have dared to face great dangers in thepath of duty and science with special attention to that everydayheroism in which the age is specially rich and of which so many goodpeople are grossly ignorant

Produced by David WidgerTHEENGLISH SPYAn Original WorkCHARACTERISTIC SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUSCOMPRISINGSCENES AND SKETCHES IN EVERY RANK OF SOCIETYBEINGPORTRAITSDRAWN FROM THE LIFEBY BERNARD BLACKMANTLETHE ILLUSTRATIONS DESIGNED BYROBERT CRUIKSHANKBy Frolic Mirth and Fancy gay Old Father Time is borne awayLONDONPUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD JONES AND COPATERNOSTERROW1825Illustration CoverIllustration FrontispieceIllustration TitlepageBERNARD BLACKMANTLE TO THE REVIEWERS But now what Quixote of the age would care To wage a war with dirt and fight with airMessieurs the CriticsAfter twelve months of agreeable toil made easy by unprecedentedsuccess the period has at length arrived when your high mightinesseswill be able to indulge your voracious appetites by feeding andfattening on the work of death Already does my prophetic spirit pictureto itself the black cloud of cormorants swelling and puffing in thefulness of their editorial pride at the huge eccentric volume whichhas thus thrust itself into extensive circulation without the usual_cringings_ and _cravings_ to the _pick fault tribe_ But I dare defy the venal crew that prates From tailor Place to fustian Herald Thwaites The woolly editor of the Breeches Makers alias the Westminster Review The thing who writes the leaden leading articles for the Morning HeraldLet me have good proof of your greediness to devour my labours and Iwill dish up such a meal for you in my next volume as shall go nigh toproduce extermination by _surfeit_ One favour alone I cravegive me_abuse_ enough let no squeamish pretences of respect for my bookselleror disguised qualms of apprehension for your own sacred persons deterthe _natural_ inclination of your hearts The slightest deviationfrom your _usual course_ to independent writersor one step towardscommendation from your _gang_ might induce the public to believe Ihad _abandoned my character_ and become one of your _honourablefraternity_the very _suspicion of which_ would to me produceirretrievable ruin _Your masters_ the _trading brotherhood_ will asusual direct you in the course you should pursue whether to approve orcondemn as their _peculiar interests_ may dictate Most _sapient_ sirsof the secret _bandit_ of the screen inquisitors of literature raiseall your _arms_ and _heels_ your _daggers masks_ and _hatchets_ torevenge the daring of an _open foe_ who thus boldly defies your _base_and _selfish views_ for basking at his ease in the sunshine of publicpatronage he feels that his heart is rendered invulnerable to your_poisoned shafts_ Read and you shall find I have not been parsimoniousof the means to grant you _food_ and _pleasure_ errors there are nodoubt and plenty of them grammatical and typographical all of whichI might have corrected by an _errata_ at the end of my volume but Idisdain the wish to rob you of your office and have therefore left themjust where I made them without a single note to mark them out for ifall the _thistles were rooted up_ what would become of the _asses_ orof those Who pin their easy faith on critics sleeve And knowing nothing evry thing believeFully satisfied that swarms of _literary blow flies_ will pounce uponthe errors with delight and buzzing with the ecstasy of infernal joyendeavour to hum their readers into a belief of the profundity of theircritic eruditionI shall nevertheless with Churchill laughinglyexclaimPerish my muse If eer her labours weaken to refine The generous roughness of a nervous lineBernard BlackmantleCONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 3 PREFACE IN IMITATION OF THE FIRST SATIRE OF PERSIUS 5 REFLECTIONS ADDRESSED TO THOSE WHO CAN THINK Reflections of an AuthorWeighty Reasons for writing Magister Artis Ingeniique Largitor VenterChoice of Subject consideredAdvice of Index the BooksellerOf the Nature of PrefacesHow to commence a new Work 7 A FEW THOUGHTS ON MYSELF 14 A SHANDEAN SCENE BETWEEN LADY MARY OLD STYLE AND HORATIO HEARTLY 17 SCHOOLBOY REMINISCENCES ON EARLY FRIEND SHIP

Produced by Tapio RiikonenALROYRomaniB DIsraeliltaParlamentinjäsenConingsbyn ja Sibylin kirjoittajaEnglannin kielestä suomentanut Waldemar ChurbergSuomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura Helsinki 1875 Missä olet maani oi Äänettömillä rannoillas Ei laulu sankareistas soi Jo katos urhot laaksoistas Mun käsissäni heikkovoimaisen Soi kanteleesi jumalallinenALKULAUSEKun oleskelin Jerusalemissa vuonna 1831 ja kävin Israelin kuninkaittentarunomaisissa hautakammioissa ajatukseni palasivat erääsenhenkilöön jonka ihmeellinen elämänjuoksu oli jo nuoruudessanikiinnittänyt huomiotani koska se oli täynnä mitä runsaimpia aiheitarunolliseen teokseen Silloin minä aloitin tätä kertomusta jonka olimäärä säilyttää _Alroyn_ muistoaKahdennellatoista vuosisadalla jolloin Alroy astui esiin oli Idänvaltiollinen asema tämmöinenKalifatia uhkasi pikaisesti lähestyvä häviö Seldshukien sultanitjoita oikeauokoisten hallitsiat olivat kutsuneet avuksensa olivatniinkuin Ranskan majordomit kohonneet valtakunnan varsinaisiksiisänniksi He olivat Profeetan jälkeläisten maista lohkoneet itselleenneljä kuningaskuntaa jotka tuottivat sultanin nimen neljälleseldshukilaiselle ruhtinaalle nimittäin Bagdadin Persian Syrian jaRumin eri Vähän Aasian sultanilleMutta ylellisyyden ja velttouden tavalliset seuraukset alkoivatilmestyä näissä sotaisissa ruhtinaissa itsessä samalla kuin heidänarmeijainsa sotakuri höltyi ja näitten käytös muuttui epäluotettavaksiHe eivät olleet enää samoja voittamattomia ja vastustamattomiasotureita kuin niihin aikoihin jolloin he Kaspian meren rannikoiltalevisivät Idän ihanimpiin maisemiin ja vaikka heidän vielä onnistuipitää voimassa järjestystä omissa maissansa he kuitenkin vaivoinpeitetyllä pelolla katselivat Karamanian kuningasten kasvavaa voimaajoitten valloitukset päivästä päivään likenivät heidän rajojansaHebrean kansan suhteen tulee tietää että Jerusalemin hävityksenjälkeen itämaan Juutalaiset vaikka he tunnustivat voittajiensapäävaltaa kuitenkin kaikenlaisia oikeuden asioita varten keskenänsäyhtyivät kotimaisen hallitsian johdolla jonkun kuuluisan Davidinjälkeisen jota he kunnioittivat Vankeuden Ruhtinaan nimellä Jossaamme uskoa tämän haaveksivaisen kansan innokkaita historioitsioitaoli semmoisia menestyksen aikakausia jolloin Vankeuden Ruhtinaatosoittivat melkein yhtä suurta komeutta ja olivat melkein yhtä mahtavatkuin entiset Judan kuninkaat Varmaa on että heidän valtansa karttuiaivan samassa määrässä kuin kalifati heikontui eikä saa epäillä ettäHebrealaisten ruhtinaat ajottain kun kalifien valta oli suurimmassahäiriössä pääsivät jommoiseenkin paikkakunnalliseen vaikka pianohitse menevään arvoon Heidän pääasuntonsa oli Bagdad jossa hepysyivät yhdenteentoista vuosisataan asti Tämä oli turmiokas aikakausiitämaitten historiassa eivätkä Vankeuden Ruhtinaatkaan välttäneetsen vaurioita Näitä ruhtinaita mainitaan vielä kahdennellatoistavuosisadalla Minä olen rohjennut sijoittaa yhden heistä Hamadaniintähän kaupunkiin jossa Hebrealaiset mielellään oleskelivat koska seoli Esterin ja Mardokain hautauspaikkaMitä tämän kertomuksen yliluonnollisiin tapauksiin koskee nenoudattavat kabbalaa ja ovat asianmukaiset Kaikkiin näihinhenkimaailman ilmiöihin hautojen aaveista Salomonin valtikkaan astilöytyy todistuksia Hebrealaisten muinaistarinoissaGrosvernor GateHeinäkuulla 1845ALROYENSIMÄINEN OSAIVaskitorvet kajahtivat viimeisen kerran kun Vankeuden Ruhtinas astuivalkoisen muulinsa selästä hänen saattokuntansa riemasteli ikäänkuinhe vielä kerta olisivat olleet itsenäinen kansa ja jollei olisi nähnytympärillä seisovien Mahomettilaisten pilkallisia syrjäsilmäyksiä olisihelposti luullut tätä päivää pikemmin voiton kuin veron päiväksiKunnia ei ole vielä kadonnut huudahti arvoisa Bostenag kun hänastui asuntonsa saliin Tämä tosin ei ole niinkuin Saban käyntiSalomonin luona eipä kuitenkaan kunnia vielä ole kadonnut Sinä oletasettanut hyvin uskollinen Kaleb Ijäkkään miehen rohkeus kävisuuremmaksi sillä jokainen askel omien seinien suojassa poisti yhäenemmän hänen mielestään hänen pelkonsa äskeiset syyt uskottomanalhaison lujaääniset kiroukset ja uhkaavat aseetTämä on oleva ilon ja kiitoksen päivä jatkoi ruhtinas ja katsouskollinen Kaleb että torvensoittajia hyvin kestitetään Tuo viimeinentoitotus toimitettiin uhkeasti Se ei ollut niinkuin pasunan ääniJerikon edustalla vaan kuitenkin se ilmoitti että sotalaumojen Herraoli meidän puolellamme Kuinka noita kirotuita Ismaeliitoja vävähtiHuomasitko Kaleb sitä pitkää viheriäisiin puettua Turkkilaista jokaseisoi vasemmalla puolella minua Jakobin valtikan kautta hän vaaleniNo tämä on oleva ilon ja kiitoksen päivä Jaa säästämättä viiniä jalihapatoja kansalle Pidä lapseni huolta tästä sillä kansa huusiuljaasti ja vahvalla äänellä Se ei ollut niinkuin tuo ankara huutoleirissä kun liitonarkki palasi vaan kuitenkin se kuului komealta jatodisti ettei kunnia vielä ollut kadonnut Jaa siis säästämättäviiniä poikaseni ja juo Ismaelin häviöksi sitä nestettä jota hän eitohdi maistaaTämä on todella ollut suuri päivä Israelille huudahti Kalebriemuiten hänkin samoin kuin hänen hallitsijansaJos tätä juhlakulkua olisi kielletty jatkoi Bostenag jos minäolisin kaikista ruhtinaista ollut ainoa jonka olisi täytynyt jalkaisinviedä perille tuo kirottu vero ilman torvitta ja vartioväettä niinhyvä Kaleb tämän valtikan kautta minä todella luulen että vaikkatämä vanha vereni nyt juoksee verkalleen suonissani minä olisin mutta nyt on tarpeeton puhua isiemme Jumala on ollut meidänturvammeAivan niin Herrani me olimme niinkuin David Ziphin korvessa muttanyt olemme niinkuin Herran voidellut Engedin linnoituksessaKunnia ei ole tosiaankaan vielä kokonansa kadonnut lisäsi ruhtinashiljennetyllä äänellä jos kuitenkin minä kerron sinulle jotakinKaleb kiitä Herraa että sinä olet nuoriEläneehän minun ruhtinaanikin hyviä aikoja vielä nähdäksensäEi lapseni sinä et ymmärrä minua oikein Sinun ruhtinaasi on elänytpahoja aikoja nähdäksensä Tulevaisuutta minä en ajatellut kun käskinsinun kiittää Herraa koska olet nuori sitä suurempi syntini oliMinä ajattelin Kaleb että jos sinun hiuksesi olisivat niinkuin minunjos sinä voisit muistaa niinkuin minä niitä aikoja jolloin emmetarvinneet mitään lahjoja osoittaaksemme että olimme ruhtinaita niitä kunniakkaita päiviä jolloin itse vankeuden vangitsimme minäajattelin kuule poikaseni mikä edullinen perintö se on kun syntyymenneitten ilojen perästäMinun isäni eli Babelissa Kaleb lausuiVoi älä mainitse sitä nimeä älä mainitse huudahti ijäkäspäällikkö Synkkä se aika oli jolloin kadotimme tämän toisen SioninMe olimme silloin myöskin Egyptiläisten orjina mutta todestansa Faraonvaltakunta oli meidän käsissämme No Kaleb Kaleb sinä joka tiedätkaikki nuot vaivaloiset päivät nuot yöt yhtä levottomat kuinrakkautta sairastavan nuorukaisen sinä joka tiedät kaikki mitäsinun ruhtinaasi on saanut kärsiä ennenkuin hän sai luvan kaunistaaveropäiväämme kymmenkunnan kurjien vartiain läsnäololla sinä jokatiedät kaikki minun vastukseni joka olet nähnyt kaikki minunhäväistykseni mitä sinä sanoisit dirhemeillä täytetystä kukkarostajota seitsemän tuhatta käyräsapelia ympäröitsiSeitsemän tuhatta käyräsapeliaEi ainoatakaan vailla minun isäni heilutti yhtäSe oli tosiaan suuri päivä IsraelilleEi se ei ole mitään Kun vanha Alroy oli ruhtinaana vanha DavidAlroy emme kolmenakymmenenä vuotena hyvä Kaleb kolmenakymmenenäpitkänä vuotena maksaneet _mitään_ veroa KalifilleEi mitään veroa ei mitään veroa kolmenakymmenenä vuotena Ihmekösiis ruhtinaani että Filistealaiset taannoin korkoja vaativatEi se ei ole mitään jatkoi ijäkäs Bostenag palveliansahuudahuksista vaaria pitämättä Kun Moktador oli kalifi lähetti hänsamalta ruhtinas Davidilta tiedustelemaan miksei dirhemejä oltukoottu ja heti David käski ratsahille ja lähti etevinten kansalaistenseuratessa palatsille ja sanoi kalifille että vero osoitti semmoistaheikkojen nöyrtymistä voimallisempien edessä jonka kautta suojelustaja apua pyydetään vaan koska hän ja hänen kansansa olivat kymmenenvuotta vartioinneet kaupunkia Seldshukeja vastaan niin kalifi hänenmielestään oli hänelle velkaaMe saamme vielä nähdä aasin astuvan tikapuita ylös huudahti Kalebkummastuneena katsoen taivasta kohdenSe on kuitenkin totta jatkoi ruhtinas minä olen usein kuullutisäni kertovan tätä Hän eli siihen aikaan lapsi ja

Produced by David WidgerTHE INFERNAL MARRIAGEBy Benjamin Disraeli_Proserpine was the daughter of Jupiter and Ceres Pluto the godof Hell became enamoured of her His addresses were favoured by herfather but opposed by Ceres Under these circumstances he surprisedher on the plains of Enna and carried her off in his chariot_THE INFERNAL MARRIAGEPART I _A Sublime Elopement_IT WAS clearly a runaway matchnever indeed was such a sublimeelopement The four horses were coalblack with bloodred manes andtails and they were shod with rubies They were harnessed to a basalticcar by a single rein of flame Waving his doublepronged trident in theair the god struck the blue breast of Cyane and the waters instantlyparted In rushed the wild chariot the pale and insensible Proserpineclinging to the breast of her grim loverThrough the depths of the hitherto unfathomed lake the infernal steedsheld their breathless course The car jolted against its bed Save meexclaimed the future Queen of Hades and she clung with renewed energyto the bosom of the dark bridegroom The earth opened they entered thekingdom of the gnomes Here Pluto was popular The lurid populace gavehim a loud shout The chariot whirled along through shadowy cities andby dim highways swarming with a busy race of shadesYe flowery meads of Enna exclaimed the terrified Proserpine shall Inever view you again What an execrable climateHere however indoor nature is charming responded Pluto Tis agreat nation of manufacturers You are better I hope my ProserpineThe passage of the water is never very agreeable especially to ladiesAnd which is our next stage inquired ProserpineThe centre of Earth replied Pluto Travelling is so much improvedthat at this rate we shall reach Hades before nightAlas exclaimed Proserpine is not this nightYou are not unhappy my ProserpineBeloved of my heart I have given up everything for you I do notrepent but I am thinking of my motherTime will pacify the Lady Ceres What is done cannot be undone In thewinter when a residence among us is even desirable I should not besurprised were she to pay us a visitHer prejudices are so strong murmured the bride Oh my Pluto I hopeyour family will be kind to meWho could be unkind to Proserpine Ours is a very domestic circle Ican assure you that everything is so well ordered among us that I haveno recollection of a domestic broilBut marriage is such a revolution in a bachelors establishmentreplied Proserpine despondingly To tell the truth too I am halffrightened at the thought of the Furies I have heard that their tempersare so violentThey mean well their feelings are strong but their hearts are in theright place I flatter myself you will like my nieces the Parcæ Theyare accomplished and favourites among the menIndeedOh quite irresistibleMy heart misgives me I wish you had at least paid them the complimentof apprising them of our marriageCheer up For myself I have none but pleasant anticipations I longto be at home once more by my own fireside and patting my faithfulCerberusI think I shall like Cerberus I am fond of dogsI am sure you will He is the most faithful creature in the worldIs he very fierceNot if he takes a fancy to you and who can help taking a fancy toProserpineAh my Pluto you are in loveIs this Hades inquired ProserpineAn avenue of colossal bulls sculptured in basalt and breathingliving flame led to gates of brass adorned with friezes of rubiesrepresenting the wars and discomfiture of the Titans A crimson cloudconcealed the height of the immense portals and on either side hoveredoer the extending walls of the city a watchtower or a battlementoccasionally flashing forth and forcing their forms through the luridobscurityQueen of Hades welcome to your capital exclaimed PlutoThe monarch rose in his car and whirled a javelin at the gates Therewas an awful clang and then a still more terrible growlMy faithful Cerberus exclaimed the KingThe portals flew open and revealed the gigantic form of the celebratedwatchdog of Hell It completely filled their wide expanse Who butPluto could have viewed without horror that enormous body covered withshaggy spikes those frightful paws clothed with claws of steel thattail like a boa constrictor those fiery eyes that blazed like thebloodred lamps in a pharos and those three forky tongues round eachof which were entwined a vigorous family of green rattlesnakesAh Cerby Cerby exclaimed Pluto my fond and faithful CerbyProserpine screamed as the animal gambolled up to the side of thechariot and held out its paw to its master Then licking the royal palmwith its three tongues at once it renewed its station with a wag of itstail which raised such a cloud of dust that for a few minutes nothingwas perceptibleThe monster exclaimed ProserpineMy love exclaimed Pluto with astonishmentThe hideous bruteMy dear exclaimed PlutoHe shall never touch meProserpineDont touch me with that hand You never shall touch me if you allowthat disgusting animal to lick your handI beg to inform you that there are few beings of any kind for whom Ihave a greater esteem than that faithful and affectionate beastOh if you like Cerberus better than me I have no more to sayexclaimed the bride bridling up with indignationMy Proserpine is perverse replied Pluto her memory has scarcelydone me justiceI am sure you said you liked Cerberus better than anything in theworld continued the goddess with a voice trembling with passionI said no such thing replied Pluto somewhat sternlyI see how it is replied Proserpine with a sob you are tired ofmeMy belovedI never expected thisMy childWas it for this I left my motherPowers of Hades How you can say such thingsBroke her heartProserpine ProserpineGave up daylightFor the sake of Heaven then calm yourselfSacrificed everythingMy love my life my angel what is all thisAnd then to be abused for the sake of a dogBy all the shades of Hell but this is enough to provoke evenimmortals What have I done said or thought to justify suchtreatmentOh meProserpineHeighoProserpine ProserpineSo soon is the veil withdrawnDearest you must be unwell This journey has been

Produced by Ralph Janke and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This book wasproduced from scanned images of public domain materialfrom the Google Print projectTranscribers notePhrases enclosed in _ are printed in italics style in the originalPhrases enclosed in are printed in bold style in the originalPhrases that are printed in small capitals are converted into upper caseMaria J McIntoshs Works _PUBLISHED BY D APPLETON CO_I EVENINGS AT DONALDSON MANOR OR THE CHRISTMAS GUESTBY MARIA J McINTOSH_Illustrated with Ten Steel Engravings 8vo cloth gilt edges 3morocco 4_ The whole sparkle with strokes of pleasantry and lively criticism and ever and anon reveal most delightful pictures of fireside groups A hightoned morality pervades the whole We feel sure that the book will be a general favorite_Commercial Advertiser_ It is a book that parents may buy for their children brothers for their sisters or husbands for their wives with the assurance that the book will not only give pleasure but convey lessons of love and charity that can hardly fail to leave durable impressions of moral and social duty upon the mind and heart of the reader_Evening Mirror_IIWOMAN IN AMERICA HER WORK AND HER REWARDBY MARIA J McINTOSH_One Volume 12mo paper covers 50c cloth 75c_ We like this work exceedingly and our fair countrywomen will admire it still more than we do It is written in the true spirit and evinces extensive observation of society a clear insight into the evils surrounding and pressing down her sex and a glorious determination to expose and remove them Read her work She will win a willing way to the heart and home of woman and her mission will be found to be one of beneficence and love Truly woman has her work and her reward_American Spectator_ We thank Miss McIntosh for her Woman in America She has written a clever book containing much good word and truth many valuable thoughts and reflections which ought to be carefully considered by every American lady_Protestant Churchman_IIICHARMS AND COUNTERCHARMSBY MARIA J McINTOSH_One Volume 12mo cloth 1 or in Two Parts paper 75c_ This is one of those healthful _truthful_ works of fiction which improve the heart and enlighten the judgment whilst they furnish amusement to the passing hour The style is clear easy and simple and the construction of the story artistic in a high degree We commend most cordially the book_Tribune_IVTWO LIVES OR TO SEEM AND TO BEBY MARIA J McINTOSH_One Volume 12mo paper covers 50c cloth 75c_ The previous works of Miss McIntosh although issued anonymously have been popular in the best sense of the word The simple beauty of her narratives combining pure sentiment with high principle and noble views of life and its duties ought to win for them a hearing at every fireside in our land We have rarely perused a tale more interesting and instructive than the one before us and we commend it most cordially to the attention of all our readers_Protestant Churchman_VAUNT KITTYS TALESBY MARIA J McINTOSH_A new edition complete in One Vol 12mo cloth 75c paper 50c_ This volume contains the following delightfully interesting stories Blind Alice Jessie Graham Florence Arnott Grace and Clara Ellen Leslie or the Reward of Self ControlPOPULAR BOOKS FOR DOMESTIC READING PUBLISHED BY D APPLETON COMost of these volumes may be had in cloth gilt edges at 25 cts pervol extra GRACE AGUILARS WORKS 1 HOME SCENES AND HEART STUDIES 12mo cloth 75 cents paper cover 50 cents 2 THE DAYS OF BRUCE 2 vols 12mo cloth 150 3 THE WOMEN OF ISRAEL 2 vols 12mo clo 150 pap 1 4 THE MOTHERS RECOMPENSE 12mo cloth 75 cents paper 50 cents 5 THE VALE OF CEDARS or the Martyr 12mo cloth 75 cts paper 50 cts 6 WOMANS FRIENDSHIP a Domestic Story 12mo cloth 75 cts paper 50 ctsMRS ELLISS LAST WORK HEARTS AND HOMES a Story Two parts bound in 1 vol 8vo cloth 150 paper 1MISS SEWELLS WORKS 1 THE EARLS DAUGHTER a Tale 12mo cloth 75 cts paper 50 cts 2 GERTRUDE a Tale 1 vol 12mo cloth 75 cts paper 50 cts 3 AMY HERBERT 1 vol 12mo cloth 75 cts paper 50 cts 4 MARGARET PERCIVAL 2 vols 12mo cloth 150 paper 1 5 LANETON PARSONAGE 3 vols 12mo clo 225 pap 150 6 WALTER LORIMER with other Tales Illustrated 12mo cloth 75 cts paper 50 cts 7 JOURNAL OF A SUMMER TOUR 12mo cloth 1 8 EXPERIENCE OF LIFE 12mo Just ready Cloth 75 cts paper 50 ctsMISS McINTOSHS WORKS 1 EVENINGS AT DONALDSON MANOR 12mo clo 75 cts 2 TWO LIVES or To Seem and To Be

Produced by An Anonymous Project Gutenberg VolunteerMAZELLI AND OTHER POEMSBy George W SandsPREFACEUnder this head I desire to say a few words upon three subjectsmy friends my book and myselfMy friends though not legion in number have been in theirefforts in my behalf disinterested sincere and energeticMy book I lay it as my first offering at the shrine of mycountrys fame Would it were worthier While our soldiersare first in every field where they meet our enemies and whilethe wisdom of our legislators is justified before all the worldin the perfection of our beloved institutions our literaturelanguishes This should not be so for literature with itskindred arts makes the true glory of a nation We bow in spiritwhen Greece is named not alone because she was the mother ofheroes and lawgivers but because her hand rocked the cradle ofa literature as enduring as it is beautiful and brilliant andcherished in their infancy those arts which eventually repaid hernursing care in a rich harvest of immortal renownFor myself I have little to say I have not written for fame andif my life had been a happy one I should never have written at allAs it was I early came to drink of the bitter cup and sorrowwhilst it cuts us off from the outer drives us back upon the innerworldand then the unquiet demon of ceaseless thought is rousedand the brain becomes a whirling gulf of phantasy and flame andwe rave andwrite Yes write And men read and talk about geniusand God help them Often envy its unhappy possessors the fatal giftwhich lies upon heart and brain like molten lead Of all who havegained eminence among men as poets how few are there of whom it maynot be justly said They have come up through much tribulationG W SCONTENTS Mazelli Canto I Canto II Canto III The Misanthrope Reclaimed Act I Act II Act III Act IV Miscellaneous PoemsDedicationFrederick City September 7th 1849Dear SirIn humble testimony of my gratitude for your services as a friendand my admiration and respect for your character and worth as anauthor and a man permit me to dedicate to you the poem of MazelliYour obedient servantGeorge W SandsTo Samuel Tyler EsqOf the Maryland BarMAZELLICanto I I Stay traveller stay thy weary steed The sultry hour of noon is near Of rest thy wayworn limbs have need Stay then and taste its sweetness here The mountain path which thou hast sped Is steep and difficult to tread And many a farther step twill cost Ere thou wilt find another host But if thou scornst not humble fare Such as the pilgrim loves to share Not luxurys enfeebling spoil But bread secured by patient toil Then lend thine ear to my request And be the old mans welcome guest Thou seest yon aged willow tree In all its summer pomp arrayed Tis near wend thither then with me My cot is built beneath its shade And from its roots clear waters burst To cool thy lip and quench thy thirst I love it and if harm should come To it I think that I should weep Tis as a guardian of my home So faithfully it seems to keep Its watch above the spot where I Have lived so long and mean to die Come pardon me for prating thus But age you know is garrulous And in lifes dim decline we hold Thrice dear whateer we loved of old The stream upon whose banks we played The forest through whose shades we strayed The spot to which from sober truth We stole to dream the dreams of youth The single star of all Nights zone Which we have chosen as our own Each has its haunting memory Of things which never more may be II Thus spake an aged man to one Who manhoods race had just begun His form of manhoods noblest length Was strung with manhoods stoutest strength And burned within his eagle eye The blaze of tameless energy Not tameless but untamedfor life Soon breaks the spirit with its strife And they who in their souls have nursed The brightest visions are the first To learn how Disappointments blight Strips life of its illusive light How dreams the heart has dearest held Are ever first to be dispelled How hope and power

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandA Houseful of GirlsBy Mrs George de Horne Vaizey________________________________________________________________________Another book by Mrs de Horne Vaizey also known as Jessie Manserghabout the lives of five girls in one family and their friends inEdwardian times Of course every time there is a major event such asan engagement or the cancellation of one the different girls all havedifferent takes on the situation NH________________________________________________________________________A HOUSEFUL OF GIRLSBY MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEYCHAPTER ONEHALF A DOZEN DAUGHTERSThere were six of them altogethersix great big girlsand they livedin a great big house in the middle of a long high road one end ofwhich loses itself in London town while the other goes stretching awayover the county of Hertford Years ago John Gilpin had ridden hisfamous race down that very road and Christabel loved to look out of herbedroom window and imagine that she saw him flying along with his poorbald head bared to the _breeze_ and the bottles swinging on eitherside She had cut a picture of him out of a book and tacked it on herwall for as she explained to Agatha her special sister she felt it aduty to support local talent and so far as she could discoverGilpin was the only celebrity who had ever patronised the neighbourhoodChristabel was the youngest of the familya position which as everyone knows is only second in importance to that of the eldest and inthis instance Maud was so sweet and unassuming that the haughty youngperson of fourteen ruled her with a rod of ironFairhaired Lilias was a fullfledged young lady and Nan had had allher dresses let down and was supposed to have her hair up but as amatter of fact it was more often down than not for it was heavy andplentiful and Nans ten thumbs could by no chance fasten it securelyHairpins littered the schoolroom floor hairpins stood outaggressively against the white paint on the stairs hairpins nestled inthe little creases of velvet chairs there were hairpins hairpinseverywhere except just where they should have beenon Nans dressingtable and here there was such a dearth of these useful articles thaton one memorable occasion she had been compelled to effect a coiffurewith the aid of a piece of string and a broken comb The effect wasstriking for a good ten minutes and then came the inevitable collapsebut Dear me as Nan observed accidents will happen and what is theuse of making a fuss about a thing like that when the world is full ofsufferingElsie thanked her stars that she was only sixteen and need not begrownup for two long years to come but when her younger sisters grewobtrusive she suddenly remembered that she would be seventeen in threemonths time and would have them know that she was to be treated withrespect and in spite of daily discussions feuds and battles thegirls all loved each other dearly and believed that such a charming andhighly endowed family had never before existed in the annals ofChristendomAs a matter of fact the Rendell girls had claim to one greatdistinctionpromiscuous accomplishments had been discarded in theircase and each had been brought up to do some one thing well Maud wasmusical and practised scales two hours a day as a preliminary beforesettling down for another two or three hours of sonatas and fuguesElsie locked herself in her bedroom for a like period and the wails ofher violin came floating downstairs like the lament of a lost soul Nanappropriated a chilly attic carved wood and her fingers at the sametime and clanged away at copper work knocking her nails black and bluewith illdirected strokes of the hammer as she manufactured the panelswhich were fitted into her oak carving with such artistic effectLilias declared sweetly that she was too stupid to do anything butprivately reflected that at least she had mastered the art of lookingcharming and what did it matter if she _were_ useless since with herbeauty she would certainly marry a duke on the first opportunity and bespirited away to a life of luxury As for Agatha and Christabel theywere supposed to devote themselves to the study of languages and thedomestic arts but in private conclave they had already decided on theirfuture career They were to keep a select academy for young ladies inwhich they would correct all those glaring errors of governess andmother under which they themselves had groanedI can bear it better when I feel it is for a good end Our girls shallnever suffer as I am suffering said Chrissie with an air ofmartyrdom when she was ordered to bed at nine oclock andremorselessly roused from slumber at seven am If grownups weresensible they would allow a child to follow its own instinct Naturemust surely know better than mothers and my nature tells me to sit upat nights and have breakfast in bed To be sent off as if one were achild in arms is really too horribly tryingAnd when Mr Barr was there too So degrading Last night he wastalking to me about books and Im sure he thought I was quite grown upThe table was between us you know so he couldnt see my legs I wasenjoying myself so much and saying that I thought Thackeray much overrated when mother came up and said Time for bed Chickie Run awayI assure you I _blushed_ with mortificationPiteous said Christabel bringing out her pet word with emphasisThey never think of our feelings I shall make it a rule to study thecharacters of our young ladies and avoid wounding theirsusceptibilities I know how it feelsIn spite of their many sufferings however the Rendells would one andall have been ready to declare that there never had been might couldwould or should be such another father and mother as they possessedTo have a son at college and yourself carry off a prize at a tennistournament was surely a feat to be proud of on the part of a

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Teamat httpwwwpgdpnetNota del transcriptor se conserva la ortografía del originalIllustration HISTORIA DE LA CELEBRE REINA DE ESPAÑA DOÑA JUANA LLAMADA VULGARMENTE LA LOCA Madrid IMPRENTA DE D JOSÉ MARIA MARÉS Corredera Baja de San Pablo núm 27 1848 CAPITULO PRIMERO_De cuáles fueron los padres de Doña Juana la Loca y las cosas quepasaban en su palacio_IllustrationDon Fernando y doña Isabel célebres y nunca bien ponderados reyescatólicos ocupaban los tronos de Aragon y Castilla dando un ejemplo demoralidad y sabiduría á toda su córte y siendo estimados altamente nosolo por la aristocrácia de su época sino tambien por todos sussúbditos Muy agradecidos los régios esposos á las muestras de cariñoque estos continuamente les prodigaban no podian menos de espresarlessu reconocimiento de una manera mas loable porque estos monarcas no sedesdoraban de que cualquier vasallo hiciese parar su carruaje aun enlos sitios mas públicos y concurridos para prestar atencion á lo queles quisiesen manifestar No obstante de esto siempre se ha conocidosegun los historiadores el no faltar nunca entre los palaciegosaquellas comunes discordias y hablillas hijas de la envidia Ningunaprueba que caracterice mas esta verdad que la de que hallándose ya encinta la reina Isabel la Católica comenzasen á propalar variospersonajes entre los cuales se hallaba D Enrique de Villena que lasucesion que esperaban no podia menos de ser bastarda y esto lodeducian de las varias escenas que habian presenciado en palacio Massin embargo de ser D Fernando tan previsor y de inspeccionar tanto lascosas que le eran anejas parece que estas voces las tomó por vagas yno se cuidó de ellas asi es que dichos personajes atribuian laindolencia de D Fernando en este punto al miedo ó al escesivo amor queprofesaba á Doña Isabel la cual unia á los vínculos de esposa el sernieta de su hermanoMiras particulares se llevaban el de Villena y otros en difundir por elvulgo tales voces pero miras que mas tarde fueron descubiertas por losque mas le vendian amistad declarando al soberano verbalmente losproyectos concebidos por ellos y mostrándole por escrito lacorrespondencia que habian interceptado dirigida á D Juan de Portugalá la cual contestó inmediatamente D Fernando por medio de su enviado denegocios Lope de Alburquerque No habiendo querido Don Juan de Portugaldar audiencia al enviado de Castilla y habiéndolo llegado á saber muypronto D Fernando montó en cólera de tal suerte que nadie se atreviaá dirigirle una palabra Procuraban aplacarle en algunos momentos defuria pero todo era en vano amenazaba que haria entender á suscontrarios lo que merece el que agravia al monarca de Castilla y quemostraria cuán grandes eran sus fuerzas contra los que le enojabanTampoco fueron bastantes á aplacar su ira los ruegos de su hermano DPedro de Acuña conde de Buendia quien le protestaba no se irritase tanterriblemente que tal vez una fraguada noticia como podia ser fuerael motivo del ludibrio y las imprecaciones que dirigia sin distincion deparientes y amigos Solo á las amonestaciones de un personage que porrespeto se calla era á las que daba cabida el rey D Fernando Estepersonaje se supo grangear su cariño por su bella cualidad que era lade todo adulador logrando con sus palabras henchir el pecho del monarcacada dia de mayor pasion Aun la misma reina Isabel tuvo en muchasocasiones que valerse de este favorito para hablar con su real esposoEstos sucesos ocurrian en el palacio de la imperial Toledo cuando dió áluz la reina Isabel el 6 de noviembre de 1479 á la princesa Doña Juanade Castilla muy parecida á su abuela Doña Juana esposa de D Juan IIIde Aragon segun afirma el autor de _las Reinas Católicas_El nombre de Doña Juana es el de uno de los monarcas que por mas largotiempo han figurado en España al frente de los documentos y órdenesreales y no obstante se puede afirmar que en pocas ocasiones ó mejordicho en ninguna tuvo parte la aficion á los trabajos que leproporcionaba su elevada gerarquia Esta especie de hastío al destinoárduo que debia ejercer á la edad que requieren las leyes se le ibaaumentando con los años por el contrario cualquier faena á que ladedicasen de las propias de su sexo la abrazaba con el mas indeciblejúbilo asi es que todavia de corta edad era la admiracion de cuantosla oian y observaban sus entretenimientos A esto se puede añadir que sunombre no era mas que una mera forma para dar á conocer que la herederadel trono de Castilla existiaCuando pocos años despues su hijo el célebre Cárlos V tomó las riendasdel gobierno de España por la habitual imposibilidad de su madreobservó el mismo método ora porque asi lo dispusieron en variosEstamentos del reino ora porque ella era

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Suzan Flanagan and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN VOLUME XXIV OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US STORMCLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HORTUS INCLUSUS THE STORMCLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TWO LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE LONDON INSTITUTION FEBRUARY 4TH AND 11TH 1884CONTENTS PAGEPREFACE iiiLECTURE I FEBRUARY 4 1LECTURE II FEBRUARY 11 31PREFACEThe following lectures drawn up under the pressure of moreimperative and quite otherwise directed work contain many passageswhich stand in need of support and some I do not doubt more orless of correction which I always prefer to receive openly fromthe better knowledge of friends after setting down my ownimpressions of the matter in clearness as far as they reach thanto guard myself against by submitting my manuscript beforepublication to annotators whose stricture or suggestion I mightoften feel pain in refusing yet hesitation in admittingBut though thus hastily and to some extent incautiously throwninto form the statements in the text are founded on patient andin all essential particulars accurately recorded observations ofthe sky during fifty years of a life of solitude and leisure andin all they contain of what may seem to the reader questionable orastonishing are guardedly and absolutely trueIn many of the reports given by the daily press my assertion ofradical change during recent years in weather aspect was scoutedas imaginary or insane I am indeed every day of my yet sparedlife more and more grateful that my mind is capable of imaginativevision and liable to the noble dangers of delusion which separatethe speculative intellect of humanity from the dreamless instinctof brutes but I have been able during all active work to use orrefuse my power of contemplative imagination with as easy commandof it as a physicists of his telescope the times of morbid arejust as easily distinguished by me from those of healthy vision asby men of ordinary faculty dream from waking nor is there asingle fact stated in the following pages which I have notverified with a chemists analysis and a geometers precisionThe first lecture is printed with only addition here and there ofan elucidatory word or phrase precisely as it was given on the 4thFebruary In repeating it on the 11th I amplified severalpassages and substituted for the concluding one which had beenprinted with accuracy in most of the leading journals someobservations which I thought calculated to be of more generalinterest To these with the additions in the first text I havenow prefixed a few explanatory notes to which numeral referencesare given in the pages they explain and have arranged thefragments in connection clear enough to allow of their being readwith ease as a second Lecture HERNE HILL _12th March 1884_THE STORMCLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYTHE STORMCLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYLet me first assure my audience that I have no _arrière pensée_ inthe title chosen for this lecture I might indeed have meant andit would have been only too like me to mean any number of thingsby such a titlebut tonight I mean simply what I have saidand propose to bring to your notice a series of cloud phenomenawhich so far as I can weigh existing evidence are peculiar to ourown times yet which have not hitherto received any special noticeor description from meteorologistsSo far as the existing evidence I say of former literature can beinterpreted the stormcloudor more accurately plaguecloud forit is not always stormywhich I am about to describe to you neverwas seen but by now living or _lately_ living eyes It is not yettwenty years that thisI may well call it wonderful cloud hasbeen in its essence recognizable There is no description of itso far as I have read by any ancient observer Neither Homer norVirgil neither Aristophanes nor Horace acknowledge any suchclouds among

Produced by Markus Brenner Evelyn Kawrykow La Monte HPYarroll and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet Die schönsten Geschichten der Lagerlöf Ausgewählt und eingeleitet von Walter von Molo Albert Langen München Die Geschichten der Lagerlöf in diesem Bande sind von Marie Franzos übersetzt Ein Verzeichnis der Werke Selma Lagerlöfs befindet sich am Schluß dieses Buches Illustration Selma Lagerlöf_Inhalt_ SeiteFrau Lagerlöf von Walter von Molo 7Der Luftballon 13Herrn Arnes Schatz 37Reors Geschichte 110Das Mädchen vom Moorhof 116Das Schweißtuch der heiligen Veronika 177Die Legende vom Vogelnest 224Frau LagerlöfDie reine Frau hat das innigste Verhältnis zur Dichtkunst Ihreseelische Veranlagung und ihre dadurch bedingten Aufgaben erhalten siedem wahrhaft Realen dem Mysterium des Fühlens das die Wurzel derDichtkunst war und ist näher als den Mann der vor allem durch die Tatund durch die Arbeit seines Kopfes wirkt der sich im allgemeinen erstzum Zentrum des Fühlens durchkämpfen muß Wie den Mann die Bezwingungdes weiteren Weges stärkt und sichtet hält die Nähe des Zieles dieFrau die die treueste Gefolgschaft jeder Kunst ist entweder vomSelbstschaffen ab meist zum Segen der Ihren oder sie wird wenn sieselbst schafft zumeist gerade durch ihre Weiblichkeit der Kunstverdorben sie lernt nicht zu dem ihr Angeborenen zu sie bleibtseelische Molluske weil ihrem Werk nicht die Knochen des unerbittlichlogischen Denkens die innere und äußere Form in voller Kraftzuwachsen Die schöpferische Frau hat drum hauptsächlich das Gebiet dererzählenden Dichtung deren Notwendigkeiten in dieser Hinsichtverhältnismäßig gering sind Die Frau fabuliert Sie erhält den Glaubenan den unablässigen unumstößlichen Sieg des Guten sie ist in ihrerreinsten Erscheinung Märchen und Sage Alles was der Kindersinnsehnsüchtig sucht ist den Frauen vorhanden Ihr ragendstes Symbol istmir die genialste selbstschöpferische Frau die Lagerlöf Die Lagerlöfschafft der Menschheit schönsten Besitz Heimatliebe KinderliebeElternliebe Gattenliebe Liebe mit all ihren unendlichenSchattierungen und Spiegelbildern in der menschlichen Seele dichterischzu ragenden Monumenten um Ihr ist das Wunder an sich Voraussetzungalles Seins Für sie gibt es keine erkennende Wissenschaft keineunbelebte Natur Wort für Wort ist ihr die Bibel das Buch der Bücherwahr sie erhellt sie sie übersetzt die Gläubigkeit aller Konfessionengefühlsmäßig in Kunst Nach den großen Gesetzen des Welträtsels desgütigen Schicksals oder Gottes reden und handeln ihr die Menschen undTiere Die Flüsse Pflanzen und

Produced by Don KostuchTranscribers NotesConventional mathematical notation requires specialized fonts andtypesetting conventions I have adopted modern computer programmingnotation using only ASCII characters The square root of 9 is thusrendered as square_root9 and the square of 9 is square910 divided by 5 is 105 and 10 multiplied by 5 is 10 5 The DOC file and TXT files otherwise closely approximate the originaltext There are two versions of the HTML files one closelyapproximating the original and a second with images of the slide rulesettings for each exampleBy the time I finished engineering school in 1963 the slide rule was awell worn tool of my trade I did not use an electronic calculator foranother ten years Consider that my predecessors had little else tousethink Boulder Dam with all its electrical mechanical andconstruction calculationsRather than dealing with elaborate rules for positioning the decimalpoint I was taught to first scale the factors and deal with thedecimal position separately For example1230 000093 123E3 93E5123E3 means multiply 123 by 10 to the power 393E5 means multiply 93 by 01 to the power 5 or 10 to the power 5The computation is thus123 93 1E3 1E5The exponents are simply added123 93 1E2 114 1E2 114When taking roots divide the exponent by the rootThe square root of 1E6 is 1E3The cube root of 1E12 is 1E4When taking powers multiply the exponent by the powerThe cube of 1E5 is 1E15End Transcribers NotesINSTRUCTIONSfor using aSLIDERULESAVE TIMEDO THE FOLLOWING INSTANTLY WITHOUT PAPER AND PENCILMULTIPLICATIONDIVISIONRECIPROCAL VALUESSQUARES CUBESEXTRACTION OF SQUARE ROOTEXTRACTION OF CUBE ROOTDIAMETER OR AREA OF CIRCLEIllustration Two images of a slide ruleINSTRUCTIONS FOR USING A SLIDE RULEThe slide rule is a device for easily and quickly multiplying dividingand extracting square root and cube root It will also perform anycombination of these processes On this account it is found extremelyuseful by students and teachers in schools and colleges by engineersarchitects draftsmen surveyors chemists and many others Accountantsand clerks find it very helpful when approximate calculations must bemade rapidly The operation of a slide rule is extremely easy and it iswell worth while for anyone who is called upon to do much numericalcalculation to learn to use one It is the purpose of this manual toexplain the operation in such a way that a person who has never beforeused a slide rule may teach himself to do soDESCRIPTION OF SLIDE RULEThe slide rule consists of three parts see figure 1 B is the body ofthe rule and carries three scales marked A D and K S is the sliderwhich moves relative to the body and also carries three scales marked BCI and C R is the runner or indicator and is marked in the center witha hairline The scales A and B are identical and are used in problemsinvolving square root Scales C and D are also identical and are usedfor multiplication and division Scale K is for finding cube root ScaleCI or Cinverse is like scale C except that it is laid off from rightto left instead of from left to right It is useful in problemsinvolving reciprocalsMULTIPLICATIONWe will start with a very simple exampleExample 1 2 3 6To prove this on the slide rule move the slider so that the 1 at thelefthand end of the C scale is directly over the large 2 on the D scalesee figure 1 Then move the runner till the hairline is over 3 on theC scale Read the answer 6 on the D scale under the hairline Nowlet us consider a more complicated exampleExample 2 212 316 670As before set the 1 at the lefthand end of the C scale which we willcall the lefthand index of the C scale over 212 on the D scale Seefigure 2 The hairline of the runner is now placed over 316 on the Cscale and the answer 670 read on the D scaleMETHOD OF MAKING SETTINGSIn order to understand just why 212 is set where it is figure 2notice that the interval from 2 to 3 is divided into 10 large or majordivisions each of which is of course equal to onetenth 01 of theamount represented by the whole interval The major divisions are inturn divided into 5 small or minor divisions each of which is onefifthor twotenths 02 of the major division that is 002 of thewhole interval Therefore the index is set above 2 1 major division 1 minor division 2 01 002 212In the same way we find 316 on the C scale While we are on thissubject notice that in the interval from 1 to 2 the major divisions aremarked with the small figures 1 to 9 and the minor divisions are 01 ofthe major divisions In the intervals from 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 the minordivisions are 02 of the major divisions and for the rest of the D orC scale the minor divisions are 05 of the major divisionsReading the setting from a slide rule is very much like readingmeasurements from a ruler Imagine that the divisions between 2 and 3 onthe D scale figure 2 are those of a ruler divided into tenths of afoot and each tenth of a foot divided in 5 parts 002 of a foot longThen the distance from one on the lefthand end of the D scale notshown in figure 2 to one on the lefthand end of the C scale would he212 feet Of course a foot rule is divided into parts of uniformlength while those on a slide rule get smaller toward the righthandend but this example may help to give an idea of the method of makingand reading settings Now consider another exampleExample 3a 212 735 156If we set the lefthand index of the C scale over 212 as in the lastexample we find that 735 on the C scale falls out beyond the body ofthe rule In a case like this

Produced by Robert Cicconetti Mary Meehan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductionswwwcanadianaorg EARTHS ENIGMAS A VOLUME OF STORIES BY CHARLES G D ROBERTS LAMSON WOLFFE AND COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK 1896 _Copyright 1895_ University Press John Wilson and Son Cambridge USAAuthors NoteMost of the stories in this collection have already appeared in thepages of English American or Canadian periodicals For kind courtesiesin regard to the reprinting of these stories my thanks are due to theEditors of Harpers Magazine Longmans Magazine Scribners MagazineThe Cosmopolitan Lippincotts Magazine The Independent The TorontoGlobe Harpers Bazaar and The Youths CompanionC G D RFredericton N B_January 1896_ContentsDo Seek their Meat from GodThe PerduThe Young Ravens that Call upon HimWithin Sound of the SawsThe Butt of the CampIn the Accident WardThe Romance of an OxTeamA Tragedy of the TidesAt the RoughandTumble LandingAn Experience of Jabez BatterpoleThe Stone DogThe Barn on the MarshCaptain Joe and JamieStrayedThe Eye of GluskâpEarths EnigmasDo Seek their Meat from GodOne side of the ravine was in darkness The darkness was soft and richsuggesting thick foliage Along the crest of the slope treetops cameinto viewgreat pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolatedforestrevealed against the orange disk of a full moon just rising Thelow rays slanting through the moveless tops lit strangely the upperportion of the opposite steepthe western wall of the ravine barrenunlike its fellow bossed with great rocky projections and harsh withstunted junipers Out of the sluggish dark that lay along the ravine asin a trough rose the brawl of a swollen obstructed streamOut of a shadowy hollow behind a long white rock on the lower edge ofthat part of the steep which lay in the moonlight came softly a greatpanther In common daylight his coat would have shown a warm fulvoushue but in the elvish decolorizing rays of that half hidden moon heseemed to wear a sort of spectral gray He lifted his smooth round headto gaze on the increasing flame which presently he greeted with ashrill cry That terrible cry at once plaintive and menacing with anundertone like the fierce protestations of a saw beneath the file was asummons to his mate telling her that the hour had come when they shouldseek their prey From the lair behind the rock where the cubs werebeing suckled by their dam came no immediate answer Only a pair ofcrows that had their nest in a giant firtree across the gulf woke upand croaked harshly their indignation These three summers past they hadbuilt in the same spot and had been nightly awakened to vent the samerasping complaintsThe panther walked restlessly up and down half a score of paces eachway along the edge of the shadow keeping his wideopen green eyes uponthe rising light His short muscular tail twitched impatiently but hemade no sound Soon the breadth of confused brightness had spread itselffurther down the steep disclosing the foot of the white rock and thebones and antlers of a deer which had been dragged thither and devouredBy this time the cubs had made their meal and their dam was ready forsuch enterprise as must be accomplished ere her own hunger now grownsavage could hope to be assuaged She glided supplely forth into theglimmer raised her head and screamed at the moon in a voice asterrible as her mates Again the crows stirred croaking harshly andthe two beasts noiselessly mounting the steep stole into the shadowsof the forest that clothed the high plateauThe panthers were fierce with hunger These two days past their huntinghad been wellnigh fruitless What scant prey they had slain had for themost part been devoured by the female for had she not those small blindcubs at home to nourish who soon must suffer at any lack of hers Thesettlements of late had been making great inroads on the world ofancient forest driving before them the deer and smaller game Hence thesharp hunger of the panther parents and hence it came that on thisnight they hunted together They purposed to steal upon the settlementsin their sleep and take tribute of the enemies flocksThrough the dark of the thick woods here and there pierced by themoonlight they moved swiftly and silently Now and again a dry twigwould snap beneath the discreet and padded footfalls Now and again asthey rustled some low tree a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startledchirp For an hour the noiseless journeying continued and ever and anonthe two gray sinuous shapes would come for a moment into the view ofthe now wellrisen moon Suddenly there fell upon their ears far offand faint but clearly defined against the vast stillness of theNorthern forest a sound which made those stealthy hunters pause andlift their heads It was the voice of a child cryingcrying long andloud hopelessly as if there were no one by to comfort it The panthersturned aside from their former course and glided toward the sound Theywere not yet come to the outskirts of the settlement but they knew of asolitary cabin lying in the thick of the woods a mile and more from thenearest neighbor Thither they bent their way fired with fierce hopeSoon would they break their bitter fastUp to noon of the previous day the lonely cabin had been occupied Thenits owner a shiftless fellow who spent his days for the most part atthe corner tavern three miles distant had suddenly grown disgusted witha land wherein one

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at DP Europe httpdprastkonet GINKO et BILOBA Le Voluptueux Voyage ou Les Pèlerines de Venise ROMAN PARIS SOCIÉTÉ DU MERCURE DE FRANCE XXVI RUE DE CONDÉ XXVI MCMVI JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE 716Droits de traduction et de reproduction réservés pour tous pays CHAPITRE PREMIERAvertie il vous faut voyagerCeci sadressait à une grande jeune femme mince vêtue de blanc et quisemblait un long boa souple déposé dans un fauteuilVous croyez fitelle surprise et elle tendit ses bras en avant lesétira et les passa sous sa nuque lisseVraiment BienAimé vous mefaites tort je suis seulement un peu fatiguée depuis quelque tempsOui oui nous savons les domestiques la nouvelle cuisinière lestoiles daraignées sans compter vos trottes insensées sur les routessous prétexte dabattre vos nerfs mais je les aime moi vos nerfsquelquefois seulementSeulementAvertie glissa un oeil inquiet vers le beau garçon qui venait de parlerComme elle laimait Comme il répondait à tous ses goûts Elle avaittoujours peur de lui déplaire et elle sentait pourtant quil lui seraittout à fait impossible ce jourlà de simuler un état dâmeOui oui repritil il vous faut voyagerSagenouillant à ses pieds il glissa ses bras autour de son grand corpsflexible et la regarda ardemmentVos yeux sont paisibles votre bouche sans désirs Bientôt vous serezla petite chose inerte et je ne vous aimerai plusLa vanité de cette menace la fit rire franchement elle lembrassa surle frontIl était tard Avertie monta dans sa chambre et peu après vint prendreplace aux côtés du BienAimé dans le grand lit à colonnes torsesencadré de rideaux cramoisis Alors elle jeta un regard circulaire surla vaste pièce quelle avait arrangée avec tant de soins et un goût siprécis Sa pensée traîna et salanguit devant un panneau dHubert Robertreprésentant des jardins dItalie puis son oeil glissa sur deux petits_Canaletto_ où Venise en fête toute dorée offrait ses charmes et surle beau garçon quelle avait près delleElle le regarda comme elle venait de regarder ses tableaux avec la mêmecomplaisance Son eurythmie lenchanta Il lui plaisait à légal dunbeau paysage cétait lexpression absolue de son type Et pourtant ellese sentit la petite chose inerteOui BA Vous avez raison jai besoin de voyager Et jirai enItalieAh oui en Italie vous recharger damour de désirs de sensualitéspetite dynamo fatiguée par lusageSans doute mais vous maccompagnerezVous accompagner Moi vous accompagnerLItalie est dangereuse capiteuse vous le savez bien puisque vousmy envoyez exprès Or il est dit dans lÉcriture Celui qui aime ledanger périra dans le danger Celle quon envoie chercher lamourpourrait bien le rencontrer et ne plus revenirIl fit Peuh lembrassa sur les lèvres et ajouta heureux et un peufatMais non mais non nous deux cest pour toujoursEt elle rayonnanteCest pourtant vrai Ce nétait pas la première fois que le BA usait de ce stratagèmeQuand Avertie commençait à salanguir et distraite à rêver ilsinquiétait parlait de voyageLeur amour était si particulier si unique ne fallaitil pas luidonner les soins exceptionnels dus à une plante rareMais le BA restait esclave de ses aises de ses habitudes Lesdéplacements lui faisaient horreurLes hôtels les chemins de fer la vie vagabonde et à la vapeur destournées à létranger lui ôtaient le plaisir et le charme quil pouvaity goûter pourtant avec son intelligence ouverte et son sensesthétique Depuis longtemps il avait refusé daccompagner Avertiemalgré le chagrin que lui causait une séparation même très courte Caril avait besoin de sa présence comme de pain quotidien un petit painblond et chaud de gruau dont on ne se lasse jamais qui vous appèteau contraire tous les jours davantageLe BA était un sensuel sentimental il savait quAvertie adorait lesvoyages et revenait toujours plus émue aimante ingénieuse lidée dubloc entier des désirs et des ardeurs de la jeune femme le payaientassez bien du sacrifice très grand quil faisait en la laissant partirAvertie avait une amie charmante bonne molle un peu godiche maisintelligente agréable de commerce facile et quon appelait la comtesseFlocheLa comtesse Floche aimait surtout son propre corps ses aises sonbienêtre quotidien et sa bourse Ce fut à elle cependant quAvertiedemanda de laccompagnerComment chère Avertie sécria Floche pressentie vous voulezmemmener en voyage Mais vous ne savez pas quel paquet je suis Unevraie empotée et si avare avec cela Et ma malle comment lafautil En aije seulement une de convenable Et puis vous serezobligée de me faire une liste des choses à emporter Je nai jamaisvoyagé vous savezEn effet vous nen avez pas lair répondit Avertie en riantPendant que celleci roulait dans son fiacre en pensant au colissupplémentaire quen la personne de Floche elle sétaitimposévolontairementlautre dans son entresol élégant 1 rueGauthierVillars se reposait mollement étendue

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration THE DEVIL SIT IN FILONS EYES AND LAUGHLAUGHSOMETIME HE GO AWAY LIKE A MAN AT A WINDOW BUT HE COME AGAINMsiu he live there From a Painting by E Almond Withrow THE SPINNERS BOOK OF FICTION BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON MARY AUSTIN GERALDINE BONNER MARY HALLECK FOOTE ELEANOR GATES JAMES HOPPER JACK LONDON BAILEY MILLARD MIRIAM MICHELSON W C MORROW FRANK NORRIS HENRY MILNER RIDEOUT CHARLES WARREN STODDARD ISOBEL STRONG RICHARD WALTON TULLY AND HERMAN WHITAKER WITH A DEDICATORY POEM BY GEORGE STERLING COLLECTED BY THE BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE SPINNERS CLUB ILLUSTRATED BY LILLIE V ORYAN MAYNARD DIXON ALBERTINE RANDALL WHEELAN MERLE JOHNSON E ALMOND WITHROW AND GORDON ROSS INITIALS AND DECORATIONS BY SPENCER WRIGHT PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK _Published in behalf_ _of The Spinners Benefit Fund_ _Ina D Coolbrith_ _First Beneficiary_ _Copyright_ 1907 _by_ PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY TO INA D COOLBRITH WITH WILDER SIGHING IN THE PINE THE WIND WENT BY AND SO I DREAMED AND IN THAT DUSK OF SLEEP IT SEEMED A CITY BY THE SEA WAS MINE TO STATELIER SPRANG THE WALLS OF TYRE FROM SEAWARD CLIFF OR STABLE HILL AND LIGHT AND MUSIC MET TO FILL THE SPLENDID COURTS OF HER DESIRE EXTOLLING CHORDS THAT CRIED HER PRAISE AND GOLDEN REEDS WHOSE MELLOW MOAN WAS LIKE AN OCEANS UNDERTONE DYING AND LOST ON FOREST WAYS BUT SWEETER FAR THAN ANY SOUND THAT RANG OR RIPPLED IN HER HALLS WAS ONE BEYOND HER EASTERN WALLS BY SUMMER GARDENS GIRDLED ROUND TWAS FROM A NIGHTINGALE AND OH THE SONG IT SANG HATH NEVER WORD SWEETER IT SEEMED THAN LOVES FIRSTHEARD OR LUTES IN AIDENN MURMURING LOW FAINT AS WHEN DROWSY WINDS AWAKE A SISTERHOOD OF FAERY BELLS IT WON REPLY FROM HIDDEN DELLS LOYAL TO ECHO FOR ITS SAKE I DREAMT I SLEPT BUT CANNOT SAY HOW MANY DREAMLAND SEASONS FLED NOR WHAT HORIZON OF THE DEAD GAVE BACK MY DREAMS UNCERTAIN DAY BUT STILL BESIDE THE TOILING SEA I LAY AND SAWFOR WALLS OERGROWN THE CITY THAT WAS MINE HAD KNOWN TIMES SURE AND ANCIENT TREACHERY ABOVE HER RAMPARTS BROAD AS TYRES THE GRASSES MOUNTING ARMY BROKE THE SHADOW OF THE SPRAWLING OAK USURPT THE SPLENDOR OF HER FIRES BUT OER THE FALLEN MARBLES PALE I HEARD LIKE ELFIN MELODIES BLOWN OVER FROM ENCHANTED SEAS THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHTINGALE GEORGE STERLINGTHE STORIESCONCHA ARGÜELLO SISTER DOMINICA_by Gertrude Atherton_THE FORD OF CRÈVECOEUR_by Mary Austin_A CALIFORNIAN_by Geraldine Bonner_GIDEONS KNOCK_by Mary Halleck Foote_A YELLOW MAN AND A WHITE_by Eleanor Gates_THE JUDGMENT OF MAN_by James Hopper_THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN_by Jack London_DOWN THE FLUME WITH THE SNEATH PIANO_by Bailey Millard_THE CONTUMACY OF SARAH L WALKER_by Miriam Michelson_BREAKING THROUGH_by W C Morrow_A LOST STORY_by Frank Norris_HANTU_by Henry Milner Rideout_MISS JUNO_by Charles Warren Stoddard_A LITTLE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN_by Isobel Strong_LOVE AND ADVERTISING_by Richard Walton Tully_THE TEWANA_by Herman Whitaker_THE ILLUSTRATIONSThe devil sit

Produced by Garry Gill HTML version by Al HainesEight Years Wanderings in CeylonbySamuel White BakerCONTENTSCHAPTER IColomboDullness of the TownCinnamon GardenA CingaleseAppoCeylon SportJungle FeverNewera ElliaEnergy of Sir EBarnesInfluence of the GovernorProjected ImprovementsCHAPTER IIPast ScenesAttractions of CeylonEmigrationDifficulties inSettlingAccidents and CasualtiesAn EccentricGroomInsubordinationCommencement of CultivationSagacity of theElephantDisappointmentsDeath in the SettlementShockingPasturageSuccess of EmigrantsA Good Knockabout kind of a WifeCHAPTER IIITask CompletedThe MountaintopChange in the Face ofNatureOriginal Importance of Newera ElliaThe Path of a ThousandPrincesVestiges of Former PopulationMountainsThe Highlands ofOuvaAncient Methods of IrrigationRemains of AqueductsThe Vale ofRubiesAncient OphirDiscovery of GoldMineral ResourcesNativeBlacksmithsCHAPTER IVPoverty of SoilCeylon SugarFatality of ClimateSupposed Fertilityof SoilNative CultivationNeglect of Rice CultivationAbandonedReservoirsFormer ProsperityRuins of CitiesPollanaruaThe GreatDagobaArchitectural RelicsThe Rock TempleDestruction ofPopulationNeglected CapabilitiesSuggestions for IncreasingPopulationProgress of PestilenceDeserted VillagesDifficulties inthe Cultivation of RiceDivision of LaborNative AgricultureCHAPTER VReal Cost of LandWant of CommunicationCoffeeplantingComparisonbetween French and EnglishSettlersLandslipsForestclearingManuringThe CoffeeBugRatsFatted StockSuggestions for SheepfarmingAttack of aLeopardLeopards and ChetahsBoy DevouredTrapsMusk Cats and theMongooseVermin of CeylonCHAPTER VIGame Eyes for Wild SportsEnjoyments of Wild LifeCruelty ofSportsNative HuntersMoormen TradersTheir wretched GunsRiflesand SmoothboresHeavy Balls and Heavy MetalBeatties RiflesBallsand PatchesExperimentsThe DoublegroovePower of HeavyMetalCurious Shot at a Bull ElephantAfrican and CeylonElephantsStructure of SkullLack of TrophiesBoarspears andHuntingknivesBertramA Boar HuntFatal CutCHAPTER VIICurious PhenomenonPanorama of OuvaSouthwest MonsoonHuntingFollowersFort MDonaldRiverJungle PathsDangerousLocalityGreat WaterfallStart for HuntingThe FindA GallantStagBran and LuciferPhrenzys DeathBuck at BayThe CaveHuntingboxMadcaps DiveElk SoupFormer InundationBluebeardleads offHecates CourseThe Elks LeapVariety of DeerTheAxisCeylon BearsVariety of VerminTrials for HoundsHounds andtheir MastersA Sportsman shut upA Corporal and CentipedeCHAPTER VIIIObservations on Nature in the TropicsThe Dung BeetleTheMasonflySpidersLuminous InsectsEfforts of a NaturalistDogsWorried by LeechesTropical DiseasesMalariaCauses ofInfectionDisappearance of the MinaPoisonous WaterWelldiggingElephantsCHAPTER IXInstinct and ReasonTailor Birds and GrosbeaksThe White AntBlackAnts at WarWanderoo MonkeysHabits of ElephantsElephants in theLakeHerd of Elephants BathingElephantshootingThe RencontreTheChargeCaught by the TailHorse Gored by a BuffaloSagacity ofDogsBluebeardHis HuntA True HoundCHAPTER XWild FruitsIngredients for a Soupe MaigreOrchidaceousPlantsWild NutmegsNative OilsCinnamonPrimeval ForestsValuableWoodsThe Mahawelli RiverVariety of PalmsCocoanutToddyArrackCocoanut OilCocoanutplantingThe Talipot PalmTheAreca PalmBetel ChewingSago NutsVaricty of BeesWaste ofBeeswaxEdible FungiNarcotic PuffballIntoxicating DrugsPoisonedCakesThe Sack TreeNo Gum Trees of Value in CeylonCHAPTER XIIndigenous ProductionsBotanical GardensSuggested ExperimentsLackof Encouragement to GolddiggersProspects of GolddiggingWe wantNuggetsWho is to BlameGovernors SalaryFallacies of a FiveYears ReignNeglected Education of the PeopleResponsibilities ofConquestProgress of ChristianityCHAPTER XIIThe Pearl FisheryDesolation of the CoastHarbor ofTrincomaleeFatal Attack by a SharkFerocious CrocodilesSaltMonopolySalt LakesMethod of CollectionNeglect of CeylonHidesFish and FishingPrimitive TackleOysters and PenknivesANight Bivouac for a NoviceNo Dinner but a Good FireWild Yams andConsequencesThe Elephants DuelA Hunting HermitageBluebeardslast HuntThe LeopardBluebeards DeathLeopard ShotCHAPTER XIIIWild Denizens of Forest and LakeDestroyers of ReptilesThe TreeDuckThe Mysteries of Night in the ForestThe DevilBirdTheIguanodon in MiniatureOutrigger CanoesThe Last Glimpse of CeylonAGlance at Old TimesEIGHT YEARS WANDERINGSCHAPTER IColomboDullness of the TownCinnamon GardenA CingaleseAppoCeylon SportJungle FeverNewera ElliaEnergy of Sir EBarnesInfluence of the GovernorProjected ImprovementsIt was in the year 1845 that the spirit of wandering allured me towardCeylon little did I imagine at that time that I should eventuallybecome a settlerThe descriptions of its sports and the tales of hairbreadth escapesfrom elephants which I had read in various publications were sourcesof attraction against which I strove in vain and I at lengthdetermined upon the very wild idea of spending twelve months in CeylonjunglesIt is said that the delights of pleasures in anticipation exceed thepleasures themselves in this case doubtless some months of greatenjoyment passed in making plans of every description until I atlength arrived in Colombo Ceylons seaport capitalI never experienced greater disappointment in an expectation than on myfirst view of Colombo I had spent some time at Mauritius and Bourbonprevious to my arrival and I soon perceived that the farfamed Ceylonwas nearly a century behind either of those small islandsInstead of the bustling activity of the Port Louis harbor in Mauritiusthere were a few vessels rolling about in the roadstead and some fortyor fifty fishing canoes hauled up on the sandy beach There was apeculiar dullness throughout the towna sort of something which seemedto say Coffee does not pay There was a want of spirit ineverything The illconditioned guns upon the fort looked as thoughnot intended to defend it the sentinels looked parboiled the verynatives sauntered rather than walked the very bullocks crawled alongin the midday sun listlessly dragging the native carts Everythingand everybody seemed enervated except those frightfully active peoplein all countries and climates the customhouse officers thesenecessary plagues to society gave their usual amount of annoyanceWhat struck me the most forcibly in Colombo was the want of shops InPort Louis the wide and wellpaved streets were lined with excellentmagasins of every description here on the contrary it wasdifficult to find anything in the shape of a shop until I wasintroduced to a soidisant store where everything was to be purchasedfrom a needle to a crowbar and from satin to sailcloth the usefulpredominating over the ornamental in all cases It was all on a poorscale and after several inquiries respecting the best hotel I locatedmyself at that termed the Royal or Seagers Hotel This was airywhite and clean throughout but there was a barnlike appearance asthere is throughout most private dwellings in Colombo which banishedall idea of comfortA good tiffin concluded which produced a happier state of mind Iordered a carriage for a drive to the Cinnamon Gardens The generalstyle of Ceylon carriages appeared in the shape of a caricature of ahearse this goes by the name of a palanquin carriage Those usuallyhired are drawn by a single horse whose natural vicious propensitiesare restrained by a low system of dietIn this vehicle whose gaunt steed was led at a melancholy trot by anequally smallfed horsekeeper I traversed the environs of ColomboThrough the winding fort gateway across the flat Galle Face theracecourse freshened by the seabreeze as the waves break upon itswestern side through the Colpettytopes of cocoanut trees shading theroad and the houses of the better class of European residents to theright and left then turning to the lefta few minutes ofexpectationand behold the Cinnamon GardensWhat fairylike pleasuregrounds have we fondly anticipated whatperfumes of spices and all that our childish imaginations had picturedas the ornamental portions of a cinnamon gardenA vast area of scrubby low jungle composed of cinnamon bushes isseen to the right and left before and behind Above is a cloudlesssky and a broiling sun below is

Produced by Robert Cicconetti Josephine Paolucci and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was produced from images generously madeavailable by the Canadian Institute for HistoricalMicroreproductions wwwcanadianaorgLORDSOF THENORTHBYA C LAUTTORONTOWILLIAM BRIGGSEntered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year onethousand nine hundred by WILLIAM BRIGGS at the Department ofAgricultureIllustration LORDS of the NORTHby A C LAUTTO THEPioneers and their DescendantsWHOSEHEROISM WON THE LANDTHIS WORKIS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATEDACKNOWLEDGMENTThe author desires to express thanks to pioneers and fur traders of theWest for information details and anecdotes bearing on the old lifewhich are herein embodied and would also acknowledge the assistance ofthe history of the NorthWest Company and manuscripts of the_Bourgeois_ compiled by Senator L R Masson and the value of suchearly works as those of Dr George Bryce Gunn Hargraves Ross andothersTHE TRAPPERS DEFIANCEThe adventurous spirits who haunted the forest and plain grew fond oftheir wild life and affected a great contempt for civilization You boxedup mewedup artificials Pent in your piles of mortar and stone Hugging your finely spun judicials Adorning externals externals alone Vaunting in prideful ostentation Of the Juggernaut car called Civilization What know ye of freedom and life and God Monkeys that follow a showmans string Know more of freedom and less of care Cage birds that flutter from perch to ring Have less of worry and surer fare Cursing the burdens yourselves have bound In a maze of wants running round and round Are ye free men or manniken slaves Costly patches adorning your walls Are all of earths beauty ye care to know But ye strut about in soulstifled halls To play mothlife by a candleglow What soul has space for upward fling What manhood room for shoulderswing Coffined and cramped from the vasts of God The Spirit of Life O atrophied soul In trappings of ease is not confined That touch from Infinite Will neath the Whole In Natures temple not mans is shrined From hovelshed come out and be strong Be ye free Be redeemed from the wrong Of soulguilt I charge you as sons of GodINTRODUCTIONI Rufus Gillespie trader and clerk for the NorthWest Company whichruled over an empire broader than Europe in the beginning of thiscentury and with Indian allies and its own riotous _BoisBrulés_carried war into the very heart of the vast territory claimed by itsrivals the Honorable Hudsons Bay Company have briefly related a fewstirring events of those boisterous days Should the account here setdown be questioned I appeal for confirmation to that missionary amongnorthern tribes the famous priest who is the son of the illfated girlstolen by the wandering Iroquois Lord Selkirks narration of lawlessconflict with the NorWesters and the verbal testimony of Red Riversettlers who are still living will also substantiate what I havestated though allowance must be made for the violent partisan leaningof witnesses and from that Ias a NorWesterdo not claim to befreeOn the charges and countercharges of cruelty bandied between white menand red I have nothing to say Remembering how white soldiers fromeastern cities took the skin of a native chief for a trophy of victoryand recalling the fiendish glee of Mandanes over a victim I can onlyconclude that neither race may blamelessly point the finger of reproachat the otherAny variations in detail from actual occurrences as seen by my own eyesare solely for the purpose of screening living descendants of thosewhose lives are here portrayed from prying curiosity but in truthmany experiences during the thrilling days of the fur companies were fartoo harrowing for recital I would fain have tempered some of theincidents herein related to suit the sentiments of a milkandwater agebut that could be done only at the cost of truthThere is no French strain in my blood so I have not that passionatedevotion to the wild daring of _lancien régime_ in which many of myrugged companions under _Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du NordOuest_gloried but he would be very sluggish indeed who could not look backwith some degree of enthusiasm to the days of gentlemen adventurers innomansland in a word to the workings of the great fur tradingcompanies Theirs were the trappers and runners the _Coureurs des Bois_and _BoisBrulés_ who traversed the immense solitudes of the pathlesswest theirs the brigades of gay _voyageurs_ chanting hilariousrefrains in unison with the rhythmic sweep of paddle blades andfollowing unknown streams until they had explored from St Lawrence toMacKenzie River and theirs the merry lads of the north blazing atrack through the wilderness and leaving from Atlantic to Pacific lonelystockaded fur postsfootprints for the pioneers guidance Thewhitewashed palisades of many little settlements on the rivers and lakesof the far north are poor relics of the fur companies ancient grandeurThat broad domain stretching from Hudson Bay to the Pacific Oceanreclaimed from savagery for civilization is the best monument to theunheralded forerunners of empireRUFUS GILLESPIEWINNIPEGONE TIME FORT GARRY FORMERLY RED RIVER SETTLEMENT_19th June 18_Transcribers note Minor typos have been correctedCONTENTS PAGECHAPTER IWHEREIN A LAD SEES MAKERS OF HISTORY 9CHAPTER IIA STRONG MAN IS BOWED

Produced by Thierry Alberto David T Jones and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet CUSTER AND OTHER POEMS BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Author ofPoems of Passion Maurine Poems of PleasureHow Salvator Won The Beautiful Land of NodAn Erring Womans Love Men Women and Emotions Etc CHICAGO W B CONKEY COMPANY Published 1896 By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Preface Let such teach others who themselves excel And censure freely who have written well POPETranscribers Note BOLD characters are denoted by enclosing them with and ITALIC characters are denoted by enclosing them with __ CONTENTS PAGEThe Worlds Need 7High Noon 8Transformation 10ThoughtMagnets 12Smiles 13The Undiscovered Country 15The Universal Route 16Earthly Pride 17Unanswered Prayers 18Thanksgiving 20A Maiden to Her Mirror 22The Kettle 23Contrasts 25Thy Ship

Produced by Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier Emmy and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThe Boy ScoutsFirst Camp FireORScouting with the Silver Fox PatrolBY HERBERT CARTER Author of The Boy Scouts In the Blue Ridge The Boy Scouts On the Trail The Boy Scouts In the Maine Woods The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber The Boy Scouts In the RockiesIllustration A L BURT COMPANYNEW YORKCopyright 1913BY A L BURT COMPANY THE BOY SCOUTS FIRST CAMP FIREIllustration The announcement of the bear by Davy Jones was succeededby a mad scramble of every boy to reach a place of safety Page 48_The Boy Scouts First Camp Fire_THE BOY SCOUTSFIRST CAMPFIRECHAPTER IA HALT BY THE ROADSIDETarataraLoud and clear sounded the notes of a bugle blown by a very stout ladclad in a new suit of khaki and who was one of a bunch of Boy Scoutstramping wearily along a dusty roadGood for you Bumpus Cant he just make that horn talk though criedoneSounds as sweet as the church bell at home fellows declared asecondSay Mr ScoutMaster does that mean a halt for grub a third calledoutSure Giraffe Brace up old fellow Youll have your jaws working rightsoon now And heres a dandy little spring right among the trees Howshady and cool it looks ThadThats why we kept on for an hour after noon remarked the boy calledThad and who seemed to be a person of some authority when all youscouts wanted to stop and rest You see Davy Allan here and myselfmade a note of that same spring the other day when we came along onhorseback spying out the lay of the landWell now remarked the boy called Davy as he threw himself down tostretch thats what our instruction book saysa true scout alwayshas his eyes and ears open to see and hear everything The more thingsyou can remember in a store window after only a minute to look thefurther up you are seeThe boy called Thad not only wore a rather seedy and faded scout khakiuniform while those of all his comrades were almost brand new but hehad several merit badges fastened on the left side of his soft shirtThese things would indicate that Thad Brewster must have been connectedwith some patrol or troop of Boy Scouts in the town where he formerlylived before his father dying left him in charge of the queer oldbachelor uncle who was known far and wide among the boys of Scranton asplain Daddy Brewsternobody ever understood why save that he justloved all manner of young peopleIn fact it was a memory of the good times which he had enjoyed in thepast that influenced Thad to start the ball rolling for a troop ofscouts in Scranton In this endeavor he had found energetic backingand the Silver Fox Patrol of the troop was now starting out upon itsfirst hike to be gone several daysSeveral of the eight boys forming this patrol were lagging more or lessalong the dusty road for the brisk walk on this summer day had tiredthem considerablyAt the cheery notes of the bugle blown by Bumpus Hawtree the strayones in uniform quickened their pace so as to close up Of course thestout youth had another name and a very good one too having beenchristened Cornelius Jasper But his chums had long ago almost forgottenit and as Bumpus he was known far and wideHe was a goodnatured chap clumsy in his way but always willing tooblige and exceedingly curious Indeed his mates in the patroldeclared Bumpus ought to have been born a girl as he always wanted topoke his nose into anything queer that happened to attract hisattention And this failing of course was going to get Bumpus into alot of trouble sooner or laterHis one best quality was a genuine love for music He could play anysort of instrument and had besides a wonderfully sweet high sopranovoice which he was always ready to use for the pleasure of his friendsThat promised many a happy night around the campfire when once theSilver Fox Patrol had become fully establishedAnd this love of music which the fat boy possessed had made theselection of a bugler for Cranford Troop the easiest thing possible Heactually had no competitorPresently the entire eight lads had thrown themselves down in suchpositions as seemed to appeal to them Some lay flat on their stomachsand drank from the overflow of the fine little spring while othersscooped up the water in the cup formed by the palms of their handsOne rather tall boy with flaxen hair and light dreamy blue eyes tookout his handkerchief carefully dusted the ground where he meant to sitthen having deposited himself in a satisfactory manner he opened thehaversack he had been carrying taking out some of the contents verycarefullyMy but theyre packed smartly all right Smithy remarked the fellowwho had responded to the name of Davy Jones you certainly take a heapof trouble to have things just so My duds were just tossed in as theycame Threatened to jump on em so as to crowd the bunch in tighterWhat are you looking for nowWhy my drinking cup to be sure replied the other lifting hiseyebrows in surprise as if he could not understand why any one would beso silly as to lie down and drinkjust like an animal when nice littlealuminum collapsible cups could be procured so cheaplyAnd having presently found what he wanted he deliberately returned eacharticle to its proper place in the carryall before he allowed himselfthe pleasure of a cooling drink But at least he had one satisfactionbeing the

MY MEMORIES OF EIGHTY YEARSBYCHAUNCEY M DEPEW TO MY WIFE MAY PALMER DEPEW THIS BOOK GREW FROM HER ENCOURAGEMENTFOREWORDFor many years my friends have insisted upon my putting inpermanent form the incidents in my life which have interestedthem It has been my good fortune to take part in historymakingmeetings and to know more or less intimately people prominentin world affairs in many countries Every one so situated hasa flood of recollections which pour out when occasion stirs thememory Often the listeners wish these transcribed for theirown useMy classmate at Yale in the class of 1856 John D Champlin a manof letters and an accomplished editor rescued from my ownscattered records and newspaper files material for eight volumesMy secretary has selected and compiled for publication two volumessince These are principally speeches addresses and contributionswhich have appeared in public Several writers without myknowledge have selected special matter from these volumesand made booksAndrew D White Senator Hoar and Senator Foraker with whomI was associated for years have published full and valuableautobiographies I do not attempt anything so elaborate orcomplete Never having kept a diary I am dependent upon a goodmemory I have discarded the stories which could not well bepublished until long after I have joined the majorityI trust and earnestly hope there is nothing in these recollectionswhich can offend anybody It has been my object so to pictureevents and narrate stories as to illumine the periods throughwhich I have passed for eightyeight years and the people whomI have known and mightily enjoyedCMDCONTENTS I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH II IN PUBLIC LIFE III ABRAHAM LINCOLN IV GENERAL GRANT V ROSCOE CONKLING VI HORACE GREELEY VII RUTHERFORD B HAYES AND WILLIAM M EVARTS VIII GENERAL GARFIELD IX CHESTER A ARTHUR X GROVER CLEVELAND XI BENJAMIN HARRISON XII JAMES G BLAINE XIII WILLIAM McKINLEY XIV THEODORE ROOSEVELT XV UNITED STATES SENATE XVI AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS XVII GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK STATE XVIII FIFTYSIX YEARS WITH THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY XIX RECOLLECTIONS FROM ABROAD XX ORATORS AND CAMPAIGN SPEAKERS XXI NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS XXII JOURNALISTS AND FINANCIERS XXIII ACTORS AND MEN OF LETTERS XXIV SOCIETIES AND PUBLIC BANQUETS INDEX not includedMY MEMORIES OF EIGHTY YEARSI CHILDHOOD AND YOUTHIt has occurred to me that some reminiscences of a long lifewould be of interest to my family and friendsMy memory goes back for more than eighty years I recalldistinctly when about five years old my mother took me to theschool of Mrs Westbrook wife of the wellknown pastor of theDutch Reformed church who had a school in her house withina few doors The lady was a highly educated woman and herhusband Doctor Westbrook a man of letters as well as a preacherHe specialized in ancient history and the interest he arousedin Roman and Greek culture and achievements has continued with meever sinceThe village of Peekskill at that time had between two and threethousand inhabitants Its people were nearly all Revolutionaryfamilies who had settled there in colonial times There had beenvery little immigration either from other States or abroadacquaintance was universal and in the activities of the churchesthere was general cooperation among the members Churchattendance was so unanimous that people young or old who failedto be in their accustomed places on Sunday felt the disapprovalof the communitySocial activities of the village were very simple but verydelightful and healthful There were no very rich nor very poorNearly every family owned its own house or was on the way toacquire one Misfortune of any kind aroused common interestand sympathy A helping hand of neighborliness was always extendedto those in trouble or distress Peekskill was a happy communityand presented conditions of life and living of common interestendeavor and sympathy not possible in these days of restlesscrowds and fierce competitionThe Peekskill Academy was the dominant educational institutionand drew students not only from the village but from a distanceIt fitted them for college and I was a student there for abouttwelve years The academy was a charactermaking institutionthough it lacked the thoroughness of the New England preparatoryschools Its graduates entering into the professions or businesshad an unusual record of success in life I do not mean that theyaccumulated great fortunes but they acquired independence and wereprominent and useful citizens in all localities where they settledI graduated from the Peekskill Academy in 1852 I find on theprogramme of the exercises of that day which some old studentpreserved that I was down for several original speeches whilethe other boys had mainly recitations Apparently my teachershad decided to develop any oratorical talent I might possessI entered Yale in 1852 and graduated in 1856 The college of thatperiod was very primitive compared with the university to whichit has grown Our class of ninetyseven was regarded as unusuallylarge The classics and mathematics Greek and Latin were thedominant features of instruction Athletics had not yet appearedthough rowing and boatracing came in during my term Theoutstanding feature of the institution was the literary societiesthe Linonia and the Brothers of Unity The debates at the weeklymeetings were kept up and maintained upon a high and efficientplane Both societies were practically deliberative bodies anddiscussed with vigor the current questions of the day Under thistraining Yale sent out an unusual number of men who becameeloquent preachers distinguished physicians and famous lawyersWhile the majority of students now on leaving college enter businessor professions like engineering which

Produced by Carlo Traverso Chuck Greif and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby the Bibliothèque nationale de France BnFGallica athttpgallicabnffrPHILOSOPHIE LIBERTAIREJules LerminaLA B CDULIBERTAIREPRIX 10 CENTIMESPUBLICATIONS PÉRIODIQUESDE LACOLONIE COMMUNISTEDAIGLEMONTARDENNESFÉVRIER 1906Illustration communisme expérimental LESSAI colonie dAiglemontArdennesAu Lecteur_Les idées libertaires sont peu connues ou faussées à dessein par ceuxcontre lesquels nous luttons et dont légoïste intérêt maintientlerreur et lignorance au prix des pires mensonges__La série de publications que nous commençons aujourdhui avec laide decamarades qui trouvent tout naturel dexprimer ce qui leur semble justeet vrai est un complément à loeuvre que nous avons commencée àAiglemont__Nous estimons que la diffusion des principes anarchistes que le libreexamen et la juste critique de ce qui est autour de nous ne peuvent quefavoriser 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premier moment préparetoi non àaccepter mes affirmations comme des dogmes contre lesquels rien neprévaut mais au contraire à les discuter à les passer au crible de tapropre raison et à ne les admettre comme vérités que lorsque tu te serasconvaincu par tes propres lumières quelles ont droit à ce titreIl nest déducation sérieuse et profonde que celle quon se donne àsoimême Chacun doit être son propre maître et la mission de ceux quicroient savoir est non pas dimposer leurs opinions mais de proposer àautrui avec arguments raisonnés les idéesgermes qui doivent fructifierdans son propre cerveauTout dabord remarque ceci toutes les fois quun homme parle debonheur universel de bienêtre général de joie mondiale et de paixterrestre un cri sélève contre lui fait de colère et de méprisDoù vient cet importun ce fou qui croit à la possibilité du bonheurÀ quel titre se permetil de réprouver la lutte féroce des hommes lesuns contre les autres Le bien est une utopie il nest de réalité quele mal et le devoir de tout être raisonnable est daggraver le mal enlivrant tous les biens terrestres à la concurrence à la bataille et enappelant à son aide la brutalité et la mortNon seulement celui qui veut lhumanité heureuse est taxé de folie maisbien vite on le qualifie de criminel dêtre essentiellement dangereuxon le poursuit on le traque et si lon peut on le tueDonc mon jeune Camarade commence par tinterroger demandetoi si tute sens prêt à subir toutes les avanies toutes les persécutions sanste décourager et sans reculerSache bien que pour vouloir le bonheur dautrui tu seras traité enennemi en paria tu seras mis au ban de toutes les civilisations tuseras chassé de frontière en frontière jusquau moment où des exaspéréstabattront comme bête puanteSi au contraire tu suis les errements ordinaires si temparant detoutes les armes matérielles et immorales que la civilisation a forgéestu te jettes résolument dans la vie dite normale si tu essaiesdécraser les autres pour te faire un piédestal de leurs corps si tuparviens à ruiner à affamer le plus dêtres humains possibles pour teconstituer de leurs dépouilles une fortune opulente si tu prends pourobjectif glorieux la guerre des hommes contre les hommes si tu rêvesvictoire gloire et domination si tu rejettes tout scrupule toutenseignement de conscience si tu pars de ce principe Chacun poursoi et que tu le développes jusquà parfaites conclusionsAlors tu deviendras richeen face de la misère des autrespuissant parlabaissement et lhumiliation de tes congénères tu jouiras de leurssouffrances et vivras de leur mort tu collectionneras les titres lesprivilèges tu te chamarreras de décorations et tes complices te ferontde splendides funéraillesSeulement tu seras un égoïste un méchant un véritable criminelJustement le contraire de ce quest et ce que doitêtre un libertaire Car le libertaire est un juste cestàdire un homme qui est audessuset en dehors de la Société qui ne se paie pas des mots mensongersdhonneur et de vertu banalités quinventèrent les civilisés pourdissimuler leurs tares et leurs vices qui renie tous les fauxenseignements des philosophes menteurs et des théoriciens hypocritesqui naccepte aucun compromis aucun marché aucune concession qui enun mot veut la justice la seule justice pour luimême et pour touscontre tous et contre luimêmeDéfietoi de toimême Camarade Voici pourquoiTu es venu sur cette terre avec les instincts de lanimalité dont tuprocèdes tu descends dêtres brutaux ignorants violents et tonatavisme est fait de brutalitéChez ceux qui se croient les meilleurs le fond est mauvais dabordparce que lhomme est un animal en voie de perfectionnement mais nonpoint parfait mais encore et surtout parce que dès ta naissance tu asrespiré lair empoisonné des civilisations que tes yeux à peine ouvertsont vu le mal que tes oreilles ont entendu linjustice et que malgrétoi et sans que jusquici on puisse te déclarer tout à faitresponsable tu es pénétré des vices sociaux jusquau fond de tesmoellesOn ne naît pas on se fait libertaireNe pas croire que soit facile ce travail de régénération personnelle Onne sélève pas à la notion de justice par une sorte dinspirationmiraculeuse par une révélation den hautCest par un effort constant par une critique perpétuelle de soimêmepar un examen toujours plus attentif des faits ambiants que peu à peu onparvient à se débarrasser de la gangue de préjugés et de mensongesformée par lalluvion des sièclesUn jour vient alors où soudain jaillit devant les yeux la lueurdirectriceRemarque bien ceci Camarade tu ne seras dans la bonne

Produced by Al HainesIllustration Cover ArtFrontispiece He came quite close and stared at the little girlmissing from bookSTORIES OF BIRDSByLenore Elizabeth Mulets_Illustrated by_Sophie Schneider _When our babe he goeth walking in his garden Around his tinkling feet the sunbeams play The posies they are good to him And bow them as they should to him As he fareth upon his kingly way The birdlings of the wood to him Make music gentle music all the day When our babe he goeth walking in his garden_ _Eugene Field_Boston L C Page and CompanyPublishersCopyright 1903By L C PAGE COMPANYIncorporatedAll rights reservedMade in USANew Edition April 1925THE COLONIAL PRESSC H SIMONDS CO BOSTON U S APREFACEWhere can you find a lad who does not treasure among his secrets thenestingplace of some pair of birds Where can you find a child whodoes not watch for the first robin of springtime Where can you findone who does not know when the wild ducks in the wedgeshaped flocksfly southwardThis little book of Bird Stories is written both for the children whoalready know our common birds and for those who may know them if theychooseFor those children who know the book is a verification of their ownfacts with an addition of stories poems and songs to make factsbeautiful for the children who do not know the book is a simple setof facts placed before them for verification and entertainmentTo all may the knowledge obtained be a pleasure and a delightLENORE ELIZABETH MULETSCONTENTSThe Chickadee In the Snow Twenty Little Chickadees The Snowbirds Song How the Birds Got Their Feathers Chilly Little Chickadees All About the ChickadeeRobin Redbreast Merry Robin Redbreast The Robins Red Breast Which Was the Wiser All About the RobinThe Swallow Under the Eaves The Swallows All About the Barn SwallowThe Hawk and the Raven From the Barnyard Fence The First Hawk Origin of the Raven and the Macaw All About the ChickenHawk All About the RavenThe Kingfisher With the Water Watchman The Halcyon Birds All About the KingfisherThe RedHeaded Woodpecker In Cap of Red A Legend of the Northland All About the WoodpeckerThe Lark In the Meadow The Song of the Merry Lark Saved by a Lark All About the Meadow LarkThe Owl A GoodNight The Owl Tennyson The Owl Girl The Owl and the Raven The Owl Shakespeare All About the Barred or Hoot OwlThe Bobolink A Summer Song Robert of Lincoln All About the Bobolink or RiceBirdThe SeaDoves and the Great Blue Heron Beside the Sea SeaPigeons The Sandpiper The Circling of Cranes All About the Great Blue Heron or Blue Crane All About the SeaDoveLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSHe came quite close and stared at the little girl see page 4 FrontispieceBy this time the robin was on the groundNo robin or chickadee could build such nests as the swallowOn a branch sat a bird He was considerably larger than a robinThe owl only blinked his great eyesShe is sitting on a nestful of light blue eggsTHE CHICKADEEOR SNOWBIRDIllustration The ChickadeeIN THE SNOWIt was a bright wintry day The frost jewels sparkled on the snowThe winds blew cutting cold from the northPhyllis in her scarlet coat and cap and long warm leggings waded inthe deepest drifts she could findOut by the garden fence was the greatest drift After flounderingthrough it Phyllis climbed up and perched on the top rail of the fenceShe sat quite still for she was almost breathless after her strugglein the snowSuddenly just over her head Phyllis heard a whistle She started sothat she almost fell from the fenceAgain came the whistle clear sweet and long drawn out Phyllislooked up and there on the branch of the elmtree sat a cheery littlebirdWith a third whistle he flew down to the fence and perched besidePhyllisHe came quite close and stared at the little girl in a gay curiousmanner as though he might be looking for a playfellowWho are you asked Phyllis looking like a great red bird as sheperched on the fenceChickadee Chickadee Chickadeedeedee twittered the littlefellow It seemed to Phyllis that he laughed because she did not knowhimOh to be sure said she How stupid of me not to remember I havemet you a hundred timesI should have remembered your black head and throat The sides ofyour head and neck are white Your breasts and sides are light yellowYour tail and wings are of a much darker shade and how daintily theyare edged with whiteThe chickadee fluttered about for a moment and noticing thefriendliness in Phylliss tones he perched a little closer to her sideI do not believe you noticed the large white feathers in myshoulders he said You may always know a chickadee by the whitemarkings thereI did not notice your white shoulders at first said Phyllis but Isaw at once what fine downy feathers you have They are beautifullysoft Do they make a warm winter dress How do you chance to be herein the wintertimeI think it is time you were in the South Mr Chickadee Did yourfamily leave you behindNo indeed replied Mr Chickadee No indeed Phyllis My entirefamily are wintering here in the North We never go South for thewinterWe are quite happy to remain here at home and to come out on sunshinydays and whistle and sing and be happyOnly half an hour ago some boys went coasting down that hill Iwhistled at them but they did not hear meSoon they came up the hill drawing their sleds behind

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration CLARA WIECK SCHUMANNWOMANS WORK IN MUSICBeing an Account of Her Influence on the Art in Ancient as well asModern Times A Summary of Her Musical Compositions in the DifferentCountries of the Civilized World and an Estimate of Their Rank inComparison with Those of MenByArthur Elson_Author of A Critical History of OperaModern Composers of Europe etc_IllustratedL C PAGE COMPANYBOSTON PUBLISHERS_Copyright 1903_By L C Page CompanyINCORPORATED_All rights reserved_Third Impression April 1908_COLONIAL PRESS__Electrotyped and Printed by C H Simonds Co__Boston U S A_TOMrs Louis C ElsonTRUE TYPE OFSELFSACRIFICING WIFE AND MOTHERIN A MUSICAL FAMILYTHIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATEDBY HER SONNOTEAcknowledgments are due to Mr Otto Fleishner of the Boston PublicLibrary for his kindness in furnishing lists of periodical articlesbearing on the subject of this book The AuthorCONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I Ancient and Mythical 11 II Mediæval 35 III Wives of the Composers 61 IV Clara and Robert Schumann 90 V Other Musical Romances 111 VI England 132 VII Germany 154 VIII France 174 IX America 195 X Other Countries 211 XI Conclusion 234LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGEClara Weick Schumann FrontispieceEleanor of Aquitaine 50Richard and Cosima Wagner 88Marie Wieck 91Marie Antoinette 114Sybil Sanderson

Produced by Pat Pflieger HTML version by Al HainesDICK HAMILTONS AIRSHIPOR A YOUNG MILLIONAIRE IN THE CLOUDSBYHoward R GarisCONTENTS I THE FALLING BIPLANE II THE COLONELS OFFER III DICKS RESOLVE IV THE ARMY AVIATORS V SUSPICIONS VI DICKS FIRST FLIGHT VII A QUEER LANDING VIII AT HAMILTON CORNERS IX UNCLE EZRAS VISIT X BUILDING THE AIRSHIP XI A SURPRISE XII LARSON SEES UNCLE EZRA XIII UNCLE EZRA ACTS QUEERLY XIV THE TRIAL FLIGHT XV IN DANGER XVI DICK IS WARNED XVII OFF FOR THE START XVIII UNCLE EZRA FLIES XIX UNCLE EZRAS ACCIDENT XX IN NEW YORK XXI OFF FOR THE PACIFIC XXII UNCLE EZRA STARTS OFF XXIII AN IMPROMPTU RACE XXIV GRITS GRIP XXV A FORCED LANDING XXVI ON LACK MICHIGAN XXVII A HOWLING GALE XXVIII ABLAZE IN THE CLOUDS XXIX THE RIVAL AIRSHIP XXX AN ATTACK XXXI THE WRECK XXXII SAVING UNCLE EZRA XXXIII WITH UNCLE EZRAS HELPCHAPTER ITHE FALLING BIPLANEShe sure is a fine boat DickAnd she can go some tooGlad you like her fellows replied Dick Hamilton to the remarks ofhis chums Paul Drew and Innis Beeby as he turned the wheel of a newmotorboat and sent the craft about in a graceful sweep toward a smalldock which connected with a little excursion resort on the KentfieldriverLike her Who could help it asked Paul looking about admiringly atthe fittings of the craft Why you could go on a regular cruise inherYou might if you kept near your base of supplies remarked DickBase of supplies laughed Innis Cant you forget for a whilethat youre at a military school old man and not give us the sort ofstuff we get in class all the whileWell what I meant explained the young millionaire owner of themotorboat was that you couldnt carry enough food aboard and haveroom to move about if you went on a very long tripThats right you couldnt agreed Paul And of late I seem to haveacquired the eating habit in its worst formI never knew the time when you didnt have it responded Dick Imgoing to give you a chance to indulge in it right now and Im going toprofit by your exampleWhats doing asked Innis as he straightened the collar of hismilitary blouse for the three were in the fatigue uniforms of theKentfield Military Academy where Dick and his chums attended Lessonsand practice were over for the day and the young millionaire hadinvited his friends out for a little trip in his new motorboatI thought wed just stop at Bruces place and get a sandwich and acup of coffee suggested Dick Then we can go on down the river andwe wont have to be back until time for guardmount Well be betterable to stand it if we get a bite to eatRight you are old chap exclaimed Paul and then he too began tosmooth the wrinkles out of his blouse and to ease his rather tighttrousers at the kneesSay whats the matter with you dudes anyhow asked Dick who afterglancing ahead to see that he was on the right course to the docklooked back to give some attention to the motorMatter I dont see anything the matter remarked Innis in casualtones while he flicked some dust from his shoes with a spare pockethandkerchiefWhy you two are fussing as though you were a couple of girls at yourfirst dance declared Dick as he adjusted the valves of the oil cupsto supply a little more lubricant to the new motor which had not yetwarmed up to its work Innis acts as though he were sorry he hadntcome out in his dress uniform and as for you Paul Im beginning tothink you are afraid you hadnt shaved Whats it all about anyhowOld man Bruce wont care whether you have on one tan shoe and one blackone or whether your hair is parted or notThen Dick having gotten the motor running to his satisfaction lookedtoward the dock which he was rapidly nearing in his boat The nextmoment he gave a whistle of surpriseAh ha No wonder he cried The girls So thats why you fellowswere fixing up and getting yourselves to look pretty And you let memonkey with the motor and get all grease and dirt while you Say Iguess well call off this eating stunt and he swung over the steeringwheelOh I say protested InnisDont be mean added Paul We havent seen the girls in some timeand theres three of emDick laughed On the dock under the shade of an awning he had caughtsight of three pretty girls from towngirls he and his chums knewquite well They were Mabel Hanford in whom Dick was more thanordinarily interested Grace Knox and Irene MartinI thought Id get a rise out of you fellows the young millionairewent on Trying to get me in bad were youThe boat swerved away from the dock The girls who had arisenevidently to come down to the float and welcome the approachingcadets seemed disappointed One of them had waved her handkerchief inresponse to a salute from PaulHere take some of this and clean your face suggested Paul handingDick some cotton waste from a seat lockerAnd heres a bit for your shoes added Innis performing

Produced by Suzanne Shell Emmy and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetLEFT END EDWARDSIllustration The Forward PassLEFT END EDWARDSBYRALPH HENRY BARBOURAUTHOR OFTHE HALFBACK ETCWITH ILLUSTRATIONS BYCHARLES M RELYEAIllustrationNEW YORKGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERSMade in the United States of America COPYRIGHT 1914 BY DODD MEAD AND COMPANYCONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I FATHERS AND SONS 3 II OFF TO SCHOOL 13 III STOP THIEF 24 IV OUT FOR BRIMFIELD 40 V NUMBER 12 BILLINGS 51 VI CLUES 62 VII THE CONFIDENCEMAN 73 VIII IN THE RUBBING ROOK 86 IX BACK IN TOGS 98 X CHEAP FOR CASH 112 XI HOLD EM THIRD 125 XII CANTERBURY ROMPS ONAND OFF 142 XIII SAWYER VOWS VENGEANCE 157 XIV A LESSON IN TACKLING 170 XV STEVE WINNOWS SOME CHAFF 182 XVI MR DALEY IS OUT 202 XVII THE BLUEBOOK 212 XVIII B PLUS AND D MINUS 225 XIX THE SECOND PUTS IT OVER 235 XX BLOWS ARE STRUCK 251 XXI FRIENDS FALL OUT 267 XXII STEVE GETS A SURPRISE 285 XXIII DURKIN SHEDS LIGHT 297 XXIV THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE 309 XXV TOM TO THE RESCUE 323 XXVI AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF 334 XXVII STEVE SMILES 346

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet This file wasproduced partly from images generously made available byThe Internet ArchiveMillion Book Project The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India By RV Russell Of the Indian Civil Service Superintendent of Ethnography Central Provinces Assisted by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal Extra Assistant Commissioner Published Under the Orders of the Central Provinces Administration In Four Volumes Vol IV Macmillan and Co Limited St Martins Street London 1916CONTENTS OF VOLUME IVArticles on Castes and Tribes of the Central Provinces in AlphabeticalOrderThe articles which are considered to be of most general interestare shown in capitals Kumhar Potter 3 Kunbi Cultivator 16 Kunjra Greengrocer 50 Kuramwar Shepherd 52 Kurmi Cultivator 55 Lakhera Worker in lac 104 Lodhi Landowner and cultivator 112 Lohar Blacksmith 120 Lorha Growers of sanhemp 126 Mahar Weaver and labourer 129 Mahli Forest tribe 146 Majhwar Forest tribe 149 Mal Forest tribe 153 Mala Cottonweaver and labourer 156 Mali Gardener and vegetablegrower 159 Mallah Boatman and fisherman 171 Mana Forest tribe cultivator 172 Manbhao Religious mendicant 176 Mang Labourer and village musician 184 MangGarori Criminal caste 189 Manihar Pedlar 193 Mannewar Forest tribe 195 Maratha Soldier cultivator and service 198 Mehtar Sweeper and scavenge 215 Meo Tribe 233 Mina or Deswali NonAryan tribe cultivator 235 Mirasi Bard and genealogist 242 Mochi Shoemaker 244 Mowar Cultivator 250 Murha Digger and navvy 252 Nagasia Forest tribe 257 Nahal Forest tribe 259 Nai Barber 262 Naoda Boatman and fisherman 283 Nat Acrobat 286 Nunia Saltrefiner digger and navvy 294 Ojha Augur and soothsayer 296 Oraon Forest tribe 299 Paik Soldier cultivator 321 Panka Labourer and village watchman 324 Panwar Rajput Landowner and cultivator 330 Pardhan Minstrel and priest 352 Pardhi Hunter and fowler 359 Parja Forest tribe 371 Pasi Toddydrawer and labourer 380 Patwa Maker of silk braid and thread 385 Pindari Freebooter 388 Prabhu Writer and clerk 399 Raghuvansi Cultivator 403 Rajjhar Agricultural labourer 405 Rajput Soldier and landowner 410 Rajput Clans Baghel Bagri Bais Baksaria Banaphar Bhadauria Bisen Bundela Chandel Chauhan Dhakar

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetPRAIRIE FOLKSBy HAMLIN GARLAND AUTHOR OFMAINTRAVELED ROADS A MEMBER OFTHE THIRD HOUSE A SPOIL OF OFFICEETC ETCF J SCHULTE COMPANYPUBLISHERS CHICAGO M DCCC XCIIICopyright 1892by HAMLIN GARLANDALL RIGHTS RESERVEDPrairie FolksPioneers They rise to mastery of wind and snow They go like soldiers grimly into strife To colonize the plain they plow and sow And fertilize the sod with their own life As did the Indian and the buffaloSettlers Above them soars a dazzling sky In winter blue and clear as steel In summer like an Arctic sea Wherein vast icebergs drift and reel And melt like sudden sorcery Beneath them plains stretch far and fair Rich with sunlight and with rain Vast harvests ripen with their care And fill with overplus of grain Their square great bins Yet still they strive I see them rise At dawnlight going forth to toil The same salt sweat has filled my eyes My feet have trod the selfsame soil Behind the snarling plowCONTENTSUNCLE ETHANS SPECULATION 11THE TEST OF ELDER PILL 33WILLIAM BACONS HIRED MAN 73SIM BURNSS WIFE 101SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE FARM 143VILLAGE CRONIES 169DRIFTING CRANE 187OLD DADDY DEERING 201THE SOCIABLE AT DUDLEYS 227PART IUNCLE ETHANS SPECULATION IN PATENT MEDICINES A certain guileless trust in human kind Too often leads them into nets Spread by some wandering trader Smooth and deft and sureUNCLE ETHAN RIPLEYUncle Ethan had a theory that a mans character could be told by the wayhe sat in a wagon seatA mean man sets right plumb in the _middle_ o the seat as much as tosay Walk gol darn yeh who cares But a man that sets in one cornero the seat much as to say Jump incheaper t ride n to walk youcan jest tie toUncle Ripley was prejudiced in favor of the stranger therefore beforehe came opposite the potato patch where the old man was bugging hisvines The stranger drove a jadedlooking pair of calico ponieshitched to a clattering democrat wagon and he sat on the extreme end ofthe seat with the lines in his right hand while his left rested on histhigh with his little finger gracefully crooked and his elbows akimboHe wore a blue shirt with gaycolored armlets just above the elbowsand his vest hung unbuttoned down his lank ribs It was plain he waswell pleased with himselfAs he pulled up and threw one leg over the end of the seat Uncle Ethanobserved that the left spring was much more worn than the other whichproved that it was not accidental but that it was the drivers habit tosit on that end of the seatGood afternoon said the stranger pleasantlyGood afternoon sirBugs purty plentyPlenty enough I gol I dont see where they all come fumEarly Rose inquired the man as if referring to the bugsNo Peachblows an Carter Reds My Early Rose is over near the houseThe old woman wants em near See the darned things he pursuedrapping savagely on the edge of the pan to rattle the bugs backHow do yeh kill emscald emMostly Sometimes IGood piece of oats yawned the stranger listlesslyThats barleySo tis Didnt noticeUncle Ethan was wondering what the man was He had some pots of blackpaint in the wagon and two or three square boxesWhat do yeh think o Clevelands chances for a second term continuedthe man as if they had been talking politics all the whileUncle Ripley scratched his head WaalI dunnobein a RepublicanIthink Thats soits a purty scaly outlook I dont believe in second termsmyself the man hastened to sayIs that your new barn acrost there pointing with his whipYes sir it is replied the old man proudly After years of planningand hard work he had managed to erect a little wooden barn costingpossibly three hundred dollars It was plain to be seen he took achildish pride in the fact of

Produced by Ginirover and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetBIBLIOTHÈQUE DU HÉRISSONOEUVRES NOUVELLESTRISTAN KLINGSORHUMORESQUESIllustrationAMIENSLIBRAIRIE EDGAR MALFÈRE7 RUE DELAMBRE 7_Dépôt à Paris 1 rue Vavin 6e arr_1921JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGEIl a été tiré15 exemplaires sur Japon numérotés 1 à 1550 exemplaires sur Hollande numérotés de 16 à 65100 exemplaires sur Arches numérotés de 66 à 1652000 exemplaires ordinairesLa présente édition est lédition ordinaire de cet ouvrageIllustration1921AUTRES OUVRAGESDETRISTAN LECLÈRE KLINGSOR_Le Livre dEsquisses_ proses _Mercure de France_ 1 vol_Schéhérazade poèmes_ _Mercure de France_ 1 vol_Le Valet de coeur_ poèmes _Mercure de France_ 1 vol_Poèmes de Bohême_ _Mercure de France_ 1 vol_La Duègne apprivoisée_ un acte Sansot 1 vol_Chroniques du Chaperon_ poèmes Sansot 1 vol_LEscarbille dOr_ poèmes SansotChiberre 1 vol_Hubert Robert_ H Laurens 1 vol_Les femmes de théâtre au XVIIIe siècle_ Piazza 1 vol_Petits métiers des rues 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charmants messieursDe Paris de Rouen ou de PontoiseSuisje de ceuxQui vous égaient un peuPitre endurciAu menton bleuCouleur dardoiseTon nez estil aussiRouge que la framboiseEt pour vous jolies dames de FranceEstil fol ou mélancolique à votre guiseCe tendre coeurEn tout honneur dailleursCar quelle belle penseA barbe griseJe connais qui me haitEt je connais qui maimeMais suisje trop fantasque et trop gaiOu trop pensif à votre gréPar ma foi je le sais peu moimêmeCroyez donc ce que vous voudrezLA PIE AU NIDQui trouve à son retour le buffet dégarniLa soupe à moitié froide et le chat sur la tableEnvoie sa digne épouse au diableEt laisse pie au nidQui trouve en son logis visage renfrognéVa courtiser servante et pot à bièreOyez belles trop fièresOyez ce qui vous pend au nezMais toi chère Marion tu es toute ambroisieEt miel et friandise de haut prixEt femme assurément à point choisiePour ton mauvais mariAU LUXEMBOURGPasse qui voudra par la rue SaintJacquesJe préfère le LuxembourgAvec ses marbres 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Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration DADDY DEERINGOTHER MAINTRAVELLED ROADSHAMLIN GARLANDSUNSET EDITIONHARPER BROTHERSNEW YORK AND LONDONCOPYRIGHT 1892 1899 1910 BY HAMLIN GARLANDPRAIRIE FOLKSPIONEERS They rise to mastery of wind and snow They go like soldiers grimly into strife To colonize the plain they plough and sow And fertilize the sod with their own life As did the Indian and the buffaloSETTLERS Above them soars a dazzling sky In winter blue and clear as steel In summer like an arctic sea Wherein vast icebergs drift and reel And melt like sudden sorcery Beneath them plains stretch far and fair Rich with sunlight and with rain Vast harvests ripen with their care And fill with overplus of grain Their square great bins Yet still they strive I see them rise At dawnlight going forth to toil The same salt sweat has filled my eyes My feet have trod the selfsame soil Behind the snarling ploughPREFACENearly all the stories in this volume were written at the same time andunder the same impulse as those which compose its companion volume_MainTravelled Roads_and the entire series was the result of asummervacation visit to my old home in Iowa to my fathers farm inDakota and last of all to my birthplace in Wisconsin This happenedin 1887 I was living at the time in Boston and had not seen the Westfor several years and my return to the scenes of my boyhood started meupon a series of stories delineative of farm and village life as I knewit and had lived it I wrote busily during the two years that followedand in this revised definitive edition of _MainTravelled Roads_ and itscompanion volume _Other MainTravelled Roads_ compiled from othervolumes which now go out of print the reader will find all of theshort stories which came from my pen between 1887 and 1889It remains to say that though conditions have changed somewhat sincethat time yet for the hired man and the renter farm life in the West isstill a stern round of drudgery My pages present itnot as the summerboarder or the young lady novelist sees itbut as the working farmerendures itNot all the scenes of _Other MainTravelled Roads_ are of farm lifethough rural subjects predominate and the village life touched uponwill be found less forbidding in color In this I am persuaded my viewis sound for no matter how hard the villager works he is not lonelyHe suffers in company with his fellows So much may be called a gainThen too I admit youth and love are able to transform a bleak prairietown into a poem and to make of a barbedwire lane a highway ofromance HAMLIN GARLANDContents PAGEIntroductory Verse vPreface viiWilliam Bacons Man 3Elder Pill Preacher 29A Day of Grace 65Lucretia Burns 81Daddy Deering 119A StopOver at Tyre 143A Division in the Coolly 203A Fair Exile

Produced by Ted Garvin Keith Edkins and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTheCarminaofCaius Valerius CatullusNow first completely Englished into Verseand Prose the Metrical Part by CaptSir Richard F Burton RCMGFRGS etc etc etc and theProse Portion Introductionand Notes Explanatoryand Illustrative byLeonard CSmithersIllustration_LONDON MDCCCXCIIII PRINTED FOR THE TRANSLATORSIN ONE VOLUME FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY_Illustration DEAR MR SMITHERSBy every right I ought to choose you to edit and bring out Sir RichardBurtons translation of Catullus because you collaborated with him on thiswork by a correspondence of many months before he died If I have hesitatedso long as to its production it was because his notes which are mostlylike pencilled cobwebs strewn all over his Latin edition were headedNEVER SHEW HALFFINISHED WORK TO WOMEN OR FOOLS The reason of thisremark was that in all his writings his first copy his first thoughtwas always the best and the most powerful Like many a painter who will goon improving and touching up his picture till he has destroyed thelikeness and the startling realistic nature of his subject so would SirRichard go on weakening his first copy by improvements and then appeal tome to say which was the best I was almost invariably obliged inconscience to induce him to stick to the first thought which had graspedthe whole meaning like a flash These notes were made in a most curiousway He used to bring his Latin Catullus down to _table dhôte_ with himand he used to come and sit by me but the moment he got a person on theother side who did not interest him he used to whisper to me Talk thatI may do my Catullus and between the courses he wrote what I now giveyou The public schoolboy is taught that the Atys was unique in subjectand metre that it was the greatest and most remarkable poem in Latinliterature famous for the fiery vehemence of the Greek dithyramb that itwas the only specimen in Latin of the Galliambic measure so calledbecause sung by the Gallæand I suspect that the schoolboy now learnsthat there are half a dozen others which you can doubtless name To _my_mind the gems of the whole translation are the Epithalamium or Epos of themarriage of Vinia and Manlius and the Parcae in that of Peleus and ThetisSir Richard laid great stress on the following in his notes headedCompare with Catullus the sweet and tender little Villanelle by MrEdmund Gosse for the Viol and Flutethe XIX cent with the Ist Little mistress mine goodbye I have been your sparrow true Dig my grave for I must die Waste no tear and heave no sigh Life should still be blithe for you Little mistress mine goodbye In your garden let me lie Underneath the pointed yew Dig my grave for I must die We have loved the quiet sky With its tender arch of blue Little mistress mine goodbye That I still may feel you nigh In your virgin bosom too Dig my grave for I must die Let our garden friends that fly Be the mourners fit and few Little mistress mine goodbye Dig my grave for I must dieSir Richard seriously began his Catullus on Feb 18th 1890 at HammanRirha in North Africa He had finished the first rough copy on March31st 1890 at Trieste He made a second copy beginning May 23rd 1890 atTrieste which was finished July 21st 1890 at Zurich He then writes amargin Work incomplete but as soon as I receive Mr Smithers prose Iwill fill in the words I now leave in stars in order that we may not usethe same expressions and I will then make a third fair and completecopy But alas then he was surprised by DeathI am afraid that Sir Richards readers may be disappointed to find thatunlike Mr Grant Allen there is no excursus on the origin of Treeworshipand therefore that perhaps through ignorance I have omitted somethingSir Richard did write in the sixties and seventies on Treealphabets theOgham Runes and El Mushajjar the Arabic Treealphabetand had theoriesand opinions as to its origin but he did not I know connect them in anyway however remote with Catullus I therefore venture to think you willquite agree with me that they have no business here but should appear inconnection with my future work Labours and Wisdom of Sir Richard BurtonAll these three and a half years I have hesitated what to do but afterseeing other mens translations his _incomplete_ work is in my humbleestimation too good to be consigned to oblivion so that I will no longerdefer to send you a typewritten copy and to ask you to bring it throughthe press supplying the Latin text and adding thereto your own prosewhich we never sawYours trulyISABEL BURTON_July 11th 1894_ FOREWORDA scholar lively remembered to me that _Catullus_ translated word forword is an anachronism and that a literal English rendering in thenineteenth century could be true to the poets letter but false to hisspirit I was compelled to admit that something of this is true but it isnot the whole truth Consulting modern taste means really a mereimitation a recast of the ancient past in modern material It ispresenting the togad citizen rough haughty and careless of anyapprobation not his own in the costume of todayboiled shirtdovetailed coat blackcloth clothes white pockethandkerchief anddiamond ring Moreover of these transmogrifications we have already enoughand to spare But we have not as far as

Produced by Suzanne Shell Sam W and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet MARY S PEAKE The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe BY REV LEWIS C LOCKWOODFIRST MISSIONARY TO THE FREEDMEN AT FORTRESS MONROE 1862 WITH AN APPENDIX PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY 28 CORNHILL BOSTONIllustration Mary S PeakeCONTENTSCHAPTER I PAGEBirth and ParentageEducationReligiousConvictionsPrayers in the TombUnion withthe ChurchLabors for the PoorMarriage 5CHAPTER IICommencement of the Mission at Fortress MonroeFlightof the Rebels from HamptonBurning of theTownThe Place reoccupied by Freedmen 16CHAPTER IIIOpening of Religious Services and SchoolsMrs Peakea TeacherSinging in the SchoolsChristmas Festival 30CHAPTER IVFailure of HealthReligious JoyFarewellMessagesDeathFuneralConclusion 39APPENDIX 53MARY S PEAKECHAPTER I Birth and ParentageEducationReligious ConvictionsPrayers in the TombUnion with the ChurchLabors for the PoorMarriageThe subject of this narrative was born in Norfolk Virginia in 1823Her maiden name was Mary Smith Kelsey Her mother was a free coloredwoman very light and her father a white manan Englishman of rankand culture She was a very lovely child in person and manners and asshe grew up developed traits of character which made her a universalfavoriteWhen she was six years old her mother sent her to Alexandria forthe purpose of attending school She remained there in school aboutten years residing with her aunt Mary Paine Mrs Paine occupied ahouse belonging to Mr Rollins Fowle and near his residence Thisgentleman and his family were distinguished for their kindness tocolored people He frequently bought slaves who were in danger ofbeing sold into bad hands gave them their freedom and set them up inbusiness John Paine Marys uncle was one whom he freed in this wayMary was a great pet in Mr Fowles family and was treated almostlike a daughterA schoolmate of hers now residing in Providence Rhode Island saysMary was a very amiable girl and a good student They for a timeattended a select colored school taught by a colored woman Afterwardthey attended a colored school taught by white teachers The lastteacher was Mr Nuthall an Englishman He taught till a law ofCongress enacted that the law of Virginia in relation to free coloredpeople should prevail in the District of Columbia This was severalyears before Alexandria was retroceded to Virginia This law closedall colored schools in the city Mary was compelled to leave theschool in consequence of being informed of as having come fromVirginiaWhile at school Mary acquired a good English education and inaddition to this a knowledge of various kinds of needlework and alsodressmaking Her aunt was a devoted Christian and no doubt had avery happy influence on Mary Her mother also was converted when Marywas two or three years old Under these influences she was early thesubject of serious impressions Though fond of general reading andstudy there was no book she loved so well as the Bible This was hercompanion and text book and she committed large portions of it tomemoryWhen sixteen years old having finished her education she returned toher mother at Norfolk Soon afterward those religious elements whichhad existed from early childhoodgrown with her growth andstrengthened with her strengthbecame dominant by the grace of Godand asserted their power over herNear her residence was a garden connected with a large old mansionbetween Fenchurch and Church Streets In this garden was a dilapidatedfamily tomb It was impressed on her mind that she must go into thistomb to pray At the dead hour of night she sought this gloomy abodeof moldering coffins and scattered bones As she entered and knelt inthe death cell she trembled with a fear which her prayers could notdissipate Quickly and stealthily she retraced her steps and hurriedback to her home Yet the next night this girl of sixteen had thecourage to seek the dismal place again and the next night yet againwith similar results But at length light broke upon the darkness ofthe tomb and it became a place of delightful communion with her Lordwhence it was afterward called Marys parlor At the midnight hourshe left the tomb and broke the silence of the night with a jubilantsong fearless of the patrol The song was this strain of Watts inwhich many a saint has poured forth his soul Stand up my soul shake off thy fears

Produced by Steven Gibbs Linda Cantoni and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile is gratefully uploaded to the PG collection in honorof Distributed Proofreaders having posted over 10000ebooksThe Shanty BookPart ISailor ShantiesCurwen Edition 6308Collected and Edited with Pianoforte Accompaniment by RICHARDRUNCIMAN TERRY with a Foreword by SIR WALTER RUNCIMAN BartLONDONJ Curwen Sons Ltd 24 Berners Street W 1Copyright 1921 by J Curwen Sons LtdFOREWORDBy SIR WALTER RUNCIMANIt is sometimes difficult for old sailors like myself to realize thatthese fine shanty tunesso fascinating to the musician and which nosailor can hear without emotiondied out with the sailing vessel andnow belong to a chapter of maritime history that is definitely closedThey will never more be heard on the face of the waters but it iswell that they should be preserved with reverent care as befits alegacy from the generation of seamen that came to an end with thestately vessels they manned with such skill and resourceIn speech the oldtime shellback was notoriously reticentalmostinarticulate but in song he found selfexpression and all theromance and poetry of the sea are breathed into his shanties wheresimple childlike sentimentality alternates with the Rabelaisian humourof the grown man Whatever landsmen may think about shanty wordswiththeir cheerful inconsequence or lighthearted coarsenessthere canbe no two opinions about the tunes which as folkmusic are anational assetI know of course that several shanty collections are in the marketbut as a sailor I am bound to say that only oneCapt WB WhallsSea Songs Ships and Shantiescan be regarded as authoritativeOnly a portion of Capt Whalls delightful book is devoted toshanties of which he prints the melodies only withoutaccompaniment and of these he does not profess to give more thanthose he himself learnt at sea I am glad therefore to welcomeMessrs Curwens project of a wide and representative collection DrTerrys qualifications as editor are exceptional since he was rearedin an environment of nineteenthcentury seamen and is the onlylandsman I have met who is able to render shanties as the old seamendid I am not musician enough to criticize his pianoforteaccompaniments but I can vouch for the authenticity of the _melodies_as he presents them untampered with in any wayWALTER RUNCIMAN_Shoreston Hall_ _Chathill_ 1921CONTENTS PAGEFOREWORD by Sir Walter Runciman iiiINTRODUCTION vNOTES ON THE SHANTIES xiiiWINDLASS CAPSTAN SHANTIES 1 Billy Boy 2 2 Bound for the Rio Grande 4 3 Goodbye fare ye well 6 4 Johnny come down to Hilo 8 5 Clear the track let the Bullgine run 10 6 Lowlands away 12 7 Sally Brown 16 8 Santy Anna 18 9 Shenandoah 2010 Stormalong John 2211 The Hogseye Man 2412 The Wild Goose Shanty 2613 Were all bound to go 2814 What shall we do with the drunken sailor 30HALLIARD SHANTIES15 Blow my bully boys 3216 Blow the man down

Produced by Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier Sigal Alon andthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetTranscribers Note1 Italicized text is rendered as _text_ bold text is rendered astext2 Superscripted characters are preceeded by carat3 Subscripted characters are surrounded by curly braces andpreceeded by _ underline characterTYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICESPART VI NO 33PUNCTUATIONA PRIMER _of_ INFORMATION ABOUTTHE MARKS OF PUNCTUATION ANDTHEIR USE BOTH GRAMMATICALLYAND TYPOGRAPHICALLYBYFREDERICK W HAMILTON LLDEDUCATIONAL DIRECTORUNITED TYPOTHETÆ OF AMERICAPUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONUNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA1920COPYRIGHT 1920UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICACHICAGO ILLPREFACEThis book like the others in this Part makes no pretense atoriginality The author has studied and compared a considerable numberof works by the best authorities on the subject and has endeavored toadapt the best of their contents to the use of printers apprenticesEvery author has his own set of rules At first sight each set appearsinconsistent with those given by other writers This inconsistencyhowever is generally more apparent than real It arises fromdifferences in point of view method of approach and system ofclassificationAn attempt has been made to compile from these sources a set of ruleswhich would bring before the pupil a correct and comprehensive view ofthe best current usage well illustrated by examples and accompanied bypractical typographical hints The fact has been kept steadily in mindthat this book is intended for a certain definite class of pupils and nopains have been spared to fit it to their needsAny treatise consisting as this one necessarily does mainly of rulesis practically useful only as a basis for constant and persistent drillIt is of course valuable for reference but the emergencies of thedays work leave no time for consultation These rules must be learnedand not only learned but assimilated so that their correct applicationbecomes instinctive and instantaneous This result can be secured onlyby practice Hence the emphasis laid on the exercises indicated in theparagraphs introductory to the review questionsCONTENTS PAGEINTRODUCTION 1THE COMMA 7THE SEMICOLON 14THE COLON 16THE PERIOD 18THE DASH 20THE PARENTHESIS 23THE BRACKET 25THE INTERROGATION 26THE EXCLAMATION 27THE APOSTROPHE 28THE HYPHEN 30QUOTATION MARKS 31GENERAL REMARKS 34SUMMARY 35SUPPLEMENTARY READING 36REVIEW QUESTIONS 37GLOSSARY OF TERMS 40PUNCTUATIONINTRODUCTIONPunctuation is a device by which we aid words to tell their story Wordshave done this at times without such aid and may now do so but atconstant risk of serious misunderstanding This can be easily seen byreading the following lines printed as they would have been written inan ancient manuscript WETHEPEOPLEOFTHEUNITEDSTATES INORDERTOFORMAMOREPERFECT UNIONESTABLISHJUSTICEINSUREDO MESTICTRANQUILITYPROVIDEFOR THECOMMONDEFENCEPROMOTETHE GENERALWELFAREANDSECURETHE BLESSINGSOFLIBERTYTOOURSELVES ANDOURPOSTERITYDOORDAINAND ESTABLISHTHISCONSTITUTIONFOR THEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICAProbably this particular passage could be read without danger of seriousmisunderstanding The two wellknown passages which follow however arecases where either a simple statement may become a ridiculous travestyor a serious arraignment may become a eulogy by punctuationPunctuate the following so as to express two very different meanings Lord Palmerston then entered on his head a white hat upon his feet large but well polished boots upon his brow a dark cloud in his hand a faithful walking stick in his eye a menacing glare saying nothingPunctuate the following in two ways one to represent a very bad manand the other a very good man He is an old man and experienced in vice and wickedness he is never found in opposing the works of iniquity he takes delight in the downfall of his neighbors he never rejoices in the prosperity of his fellowcreatures he is always ready to assist in destroying the peace of society he takes no pleasure in serving the Lord he is uncommonly diligent in sowing discord among his friends and acquaintances he takes

Produced by Al HainesFrontispiece Photograph of David Lloyd GeorgeLLOYD GEORGETHE MAN AND HIS STORYBYFRANK DILNOTAUTHOR OFTHE OLD ORDER CHANGETHHARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERSNEW YORK AND LONDONLLOYD GEORGE THE MAN AND HIS STORYCopyright 1917 by Harper BrothersPrinted in the United States of AmericaPublished March 1917CONTENTSFOREWORD I THE VILLAGE COBBLER WHO HELPED THE BRITISH EMPIRE II HOW LLOYD GEORGE BECAME FAMOUS AT TWENTYFIVE III FIGHTING THE LONE HAND IV THE DAREDEVIL STATESMAN V THE FIRST GREAT TASK VI HOW LLOYD GEORGE BROKE THE HOUSE OF LORDS VII AT HOME AND IN DOWNING STREET VIII A CHAMPION OF WAR IX THE ALLIANCE WITH NORTHCLIFFE X AT HIGH PRESSURE XI HIS INCONSISTENCIES XII HOW HE BECAME PRIME MINISTER XIII THE FUTURE OF LLOYD GEORGEAPPENDIXMR LLOYD GEORGE ON AMERICA AND THE EUROPEAN WARFOREWORDMr Lloyd George gets a grip on those who read about him but hispersonality is far more powerful and fascinating to those who haveknown the man himself known him during the time his genius has beenforcing him to eminence He does not fill the eye as a sanctified heroshould he is too vitally human too affectionate too bitter and hehas moreover springs of humor which bubble up continually Youcannot imagine an archangel with a sense of humor But it is thisvery mixture in the man that holds the character student Lloyd Georgeis quite unpretentious loves children will join heartily in thechorus of a popular song and yet there is concealed behind thesesofter traits a stark and desperate courage which leads him always tothe policy of make or break He is flamingly sincere and yet nosubtler statesman ever walked the boards at Westminster That is theman I have seen at close quarters for years Is it to be wondered atthat he alternately bewilders attracts and dominates highbrowedintellectuals Strangely enough it is the common people whounderstand Lloyd George better than the clever ones Explain that howyou willI have seen David Lloyd George present Prime Minister of England asthe young political freelance fighting furiously for unpopular causesfighting sometimes from sheer love of battle I have seen him in thatsame period in moods of persuasion and appeal pleading the cause of theinarticulate masses of the poor with an intensity which has thrilled aplacid British audience to the verge of tears Since then I have seenhim under the venomous attacks of aristocrats and plutocrats inParliament when his eyes have sparkled as he has turned on them andhissed out to their faces words which burned and seared them and causedthem to shake with passion And in the midst of this orgy of hatewhich encircled him I have seen him in his home with histwelveyearold blueeyed daughter Megan curled up in his lap his facebrimming with merriment as with her arm around his neck she assertedher will in regard to school and holidays over a happy and indulgentfather That is the kind of man who now rules England rules her withan absoluteness granted to no man king or statesman since the Britishbecame a nation A reserved people like the British conservative byinstinct with centuries of caste feeling behind them haveunreservedly and with acclamation placed their fate in the hands of onewho began life as a village boy It was but recently I was talkingwith a blacksmith hammering out horseshoes at Llanystumdwy in Wales whowas a schoolmate of Lloyd George in those days not so very long agoThe Prime Minister still has his home down there and talks to theblacksmith and to others of his school companions for he and they arestill one people together with ties which it is impossible forstatecraft to breakor to forge I have met Lloyd George in privatehave seen him among his own people at his Welsh home and for fiveyears as a journalist I had the opportunity of observing him from thegallery of the British Houses of Parliament five years during which heintroduced his famous Budget forced a fight with the House of Lordsand broke their power I purpose to tell in plain words the drama ofthe man as I have seen itA year before the war broke out while he was still bitterly hated bythe Conservatives I was visiting him at his Welsh home nearLlanystumdwy and he asked me what I thought of the district I said itwas all very beautiful as indeed it was I emphasized my appreciationby saying that the visitors at the big hotel at Criccieth near by wereone and all enchanted They were nearly all Conservatives I pointedout and there was just one fly in their ointment I know it saidLloyd George vivaciously with a quick twinkle in his eye Heres abay like the Bay of Naples Gods great mountains behind beautifulwoods and green meadows and trickling streamseverything the heartof man can desire and in the midst of it all HE lives He paused anddeepened his voice Satan in the Garden of Eden he said It wasjust his twist of humor but it told a story Now for the companionpicture The last time I saw Lloyd George was one dark evening in theDecember which has just gone by It had been a day of big politicalhappenings the Asquith Government had resigned Bonar Law theConservative leader had been asked by the King to form a Ministry andhad said he could not do so Lloyd Georges name was being bandiedabout In those few fateful hours Britain was without a GovernmentAt seven oclock I was at the entrance of the War Office at WhitehallThrough the dark street an automobile dashed up The door was openedand a silkhatted man stepped out and passed rapidly into the WarOffice and then the little group of bystanders noticed that thefootman at

Produced by Steven Gibbs Keith Edkins and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetON THE GENESIS OF SPECIESIllustrationON THEGENESIS OF SPECIESBYST GEORGE MIVART FRSLondonMACMILLAN AND CO1871_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved_LONDONR CLAY SONS AND TAYLOR PRINTERSBREAD STREET HILL TOSIR HENRY HOLLAND BART MDFRS DCL ETC ETCMY DEAR SIR HENRYIn giving myself the pleasure to dedicate as I now do this work to youit is not my intention to identify you with any views of my own advocatedin itI simply avail myself of an opportunity of paying a tribute of esteem andregard to my earliest scientific friendthe first to encourage me inpursuing the study of nature I remain MY DEAR SIR HENRY Ever faithfully yours ST GEORGE MIVART 7 NORTH BANK REGENTS PARK _December 8 1870_ vii CONTENTSCHAPTER I_INTRODUCTORY_The problem of the genesis of species statedNature of its probablesolutionImportance of the questionPosition here defendedStatementof the DARWINIAN THEORYIts applicability to details of geographicaldistribution to rudimentary structures to homology to mimicrycConsequent utility of the theoryIts wide acceptanceReasons forthis other than and in addition to its scientific value ItssimplicityIts bearing on religious questions_Odium theologicum_ and_odium antitheologicum_The antagonism supposed by many to exist betweenit and theology neither necessary nor universalChristian authorities infavour of evolutionMr Darwins Animals and Plants underDomesticationDifficulties of the Darwinian theory enumerated _Page_1CHAPTER II_THE INCOMPETENCY OF NATURAL SELECTION TO ACCOUNT FOR THE INCIPIENTSTAGES OF USEFUL STRUCTURES_Mr Darwin supposes that NaturalSelection acts by slightvariationsThese must be useful at onceDifficulties as to the giraffeas to mimicry as to the heads of flatfishes as to the origin andconstancy of the vertebrate limbs as to whalebone as to the youngkangaroo as to seaurchins as to certain processes of viiimetamorphosis as to the mammary gland as to certain ape characters as tothe rattlesnake and cobra as to the process of formation of the eye andear as to the fully developed condition of the eye and ear as to thevoice as to shellfish as to orchids as to antsThe necessity for thesimultaneous modification of many individualsSummary and conclusion _Page_ 23CHAPTER III_THE COEXISTENCE OF CLOSELY SIMILAR STRUCTURES OF DIVERSE ORIGIN_Chances against concordant variationsExamples of discordantonesConcordant variations not unlikely on a nonDarwinian evolutionaryhypothesisPlacental and implacental mammalsBirds andreptilesIndependent origins of similar sense organsThe earTheeyeOther coincidencesCauses besides Natural Selection produceconcordant variations in certain geographical regionsCauses besidesNatural Selection produce concordant variations in certain zoological andbotanical groupsThere are homologous parts not geneticallyrelatedHarmony in respect of the organic and inorganic worldsSummaryand conclusion _Page_ 63CHAPTER IV_MINUTE AND GRADUAL MODIFICATIONS_There are difficulties as to minute modifications even if notfortuitousExamples of sudden and considerable modifications of differentkindsProfessor Owens viewMr WallaceProfessor HuxleyObjectionsto sudden changesLabyrinthodontPottoCetaceaAs to origin ofbirds wingTendrils of climbing plantsAnimals once supposed to beconnecting linksEarly specialization ofstructureMacraucheniaGlyptodonSabretoothed tigerConclusion _Page_ 97 ixCHAPTER V_AS TO SPECIFIC STABILITY_What is meant by the phrase specific stability such stability to beexpected _a priori_ or else considerable changes at onceRapidlyincreasing difficulty of intensifying race characters alleged causes ofthis phenomenon probably an internal cause cooperatesA certaindefiniteness in variationsMr Darwin admits the principle of specificstability in certain cases of unequal variabilityThe gooseThepeacockThe guinea fowlExceptional causes of variation underdomesticationAlleged tendency to reversionInstancesSterility ofhybridsPrepotency of pollen of same species but of differentraceMortality in young gallinaceous hybridsA bar to intermixtureexists somewhereGuineapigsSummary and conclusion _Page_ 113CHAPTER VI_SPECIES AND TIME_Two relations of species to timeNo evidence of past existence ofminutely intermediate forms when such might be expected _a priori_BatsPterodactyles Dinosauria and BirdsIchthyosauria Chelonia andAnouraHorse ancestryLabyrinthodonts and TrilobitesTwo subdivisionsof the second relation of species to timeSir William ThomsonsviewsProbable period required for ultimate specific evolution fromprimitive ancestral formsGeometrical increase of time required forrapidly multiplying increase of structural differencesProboscismonkeyTime required for deposition of strata necessary for DarwinianevolutionHigh organization of Silurian forms of lifeAbsence offossils in oldest rocksSummary and conclusion _Page_ 128CHAPTER VII_SPECIES AND SPACE_The geographical distribution of animals presents difficultiesThese notinsurmountable in themselves harmonize with otherdifficultiesFreshwater fishesForms common to Africa and India toAfrica and South America to China and Australia to North America and xChina to New Zealand and South America to South America and Tasmania toSouth America and AustraliaPleurodont lizardsInsectivorousmammalsSimilarity of European and South American frogsAnalogy betweenEuropean salmon and fishes of New Zealand cAn ancient Antarcticcontinent probableOther modes of accounting for facts ofdistributionIndependent origin of closely similar formsConclusion _Page_ 144CHAPTER VIII_HOMOLOGIES_Animals made up of parts mutually related in various waysWhat homologyisIts various kindsSerial homologyLateral homologyVerticalhomologyMr Herbert Spencers explanationsAn internal powernecessary as shown by facts of comparative anatomyOf teratologyMSt HilaireProfessor Burt WilderFootwingsFacts of pathologyMrJames PagetDr William BuddThe existence of

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration Keep still and you wont be hurt commanded the manCamp Fire Girls Series Volume VTHE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE MARCHorBESSIE KINGS TEST OF FRIENDSHIPbyJANE L STEWARTThe Saalfield Publishing CompanyChicago AKRON OHIO New YorkMADE IN U S ACopyright 1914ByThe Saalfield Publishing CoTHE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE MARCHCHAPTER IAN UNEXPECTED VISITOROh what a glorious day cried Bessie King the first of the membersof the Manasquan Camp Fire Girls of America to emerge from the sleepinghouse of Camp Sunset on Lake Dean and to see the sun sparkling on thewater of the lake She was not long alone in her enjoyment of the scenehoweverOh its lovely said Dolly Ransom as rubbing her eyes sleepilysince it was only a little after six she joined her friend on theporch This is really the first time weve had a chance to see what thelake looks like Its been covered with that dense smoke ever sinceweve been hereWell the smoke has nearly all gone Dolly The change in the wind notonly helped to put out the fire but its driving the smoke away fromusThe smoke isnt all gone though Bessie Look over there Its stillrising from the other end of the woods on the other side of the lakebut it isnt bothering us over here any moreWhat a pity it is that weve got to go away just as the weather givesus a chance to enjoy it here But then I guess well have a good timewhen we do go away anyhow We thought we werent going to enjoy ithere but it hasnt been so bad after all has itNo because it ended well Bessie But if those girls in the camp nextdoor had had their way we wouldnt have had a single pleasant thing toremember about staying here would weTheyve had their lesson I think Dolly Perhaps they wont be soready to look down on the Camp Fire Girls after thisand Im sure theywould be nice and friendly if we stayedI wouldnt want any of their friendliness All Id ask would be forthem to let us alone Thats all I ever did want them to do anyhow Ifthey had just minded their own affairs there wouldnt have been anytroubleWell I feel sort of sorry for them Dolly When they finally got intoreal trouble they had to come to us for help and if they are the sortof girls they seem to be they couldnt have liked doing that verywellYou bet they didnt Bessie It was just the hardest thing they couldhave done You see the reason they were so mean to us is that they areawfully proud and they think theyre better than any other peopleThen whats the use of still being angry at them I thought you werentlast nightnot at Gladys Cooper at leastWhy I thought then that she was in danger because of what Id doneand that made me feel bad But you and I helped to get her back to theircamp safely so I feel as if we were square I suppose I ought to bewilling to forgive them for the way they acted but I just cant seem todo it BessieWell as long as were going away from here today anyhow it doesntmake much difference Were not likely to see them again are weI dont know why notthose who live in the same town anyhow MarciaBates and Gladys Cooperthe two who were lost on the mountain lastnight you knowlive very close to me at homeYou were always good friends with Gladys until you met her up herewerent youOh yes good friends enough I dont think we either of us caredparticularly about the other Each of us had a lot of friends we likedbetter but we got along well enoughWell dont you think she just made a mistake and then was afraid toadmit it and try to make up for it I think lots of people are likethat They do something wrong and then just because it frightens thema little and they think it would be hard to set matters right theymake a bad thing much worseOh you cant make me feel charitable about them and theres no usetrying Bessie Lets try not to talk about them for it makes me angryevery time I think of the way they behaved They were just plain snobsthats allI thought Gladys Cooper was pretty mean after all the trouble we hadtaken last night to help her and her chum but I do think the rest weresorry and felt that theyd been all wrong They really said so if yourememberWell they ought to have been certainly What a lot of lazy girls theymust be Do look Bessie There isnt a sign of life over at their campI bet not one of them is up yetYoure a fine one to criticise anyone else for being lazy DollyRansom How long did it take me to wake you up this morning And howmany times have you nearly missed breakfast by going back to bed afteryoud pretended to get upOh well said Dolly defiantly its just because Im lazy myselfand know what a fault it is that Im the proper one to call other peopledown for it Its always the one who knows all about some sin who canpreach the best sermon against it you knowTurning preacher Dolly asked Eleanor Mercer Both the girls spunaround and rushed toward her as soon as they heard her voice andrealized that she had stepped noiselessly out on the porch Theyembraced her happily She was Guardian of the Camp Fire and no morepopular Guardian could have been found in the whole StateDollys got something more against the girls from Halsted Campexplained Bessie with a peal of laughter She says theyre lazybecause theyre not up yet and I said she was a fine one to sayanything about that Dont you think so too Miss EleanorWell shes up early enough this morning Bessie But well Im afraidyoure right Dollys got a lot of good

Produced by Greg Weeks Janet Blenkinship and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetSOMETHING WAS WRONGIt began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City No doubtit was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached outamong the starsfor far out in space a signal was registered_Something has gone wrong_And something had gone wrong for the doctors discovered their accidentpatient had _two_ hearts It was the beginning of the discovery that theEarth had been invaded by 10 such creatures from Outer SpaceEvery effort was made to learn their purpose An orbital flight waslaunched to spot alien bodiesonly to be destroyed in space One of thealien men was capturedbut no threat of pain or death could unlock thesecret in his brainSomething had gone wrong And somehow some way had to be found to makeit rightbefore the threat of danger overwhelmed all mankindAUTHORS PROFILEIvar Jorgensen is the pen name of a former topflight magazine editor whois now devoting his full time to freelance writingHe was born in St Louis and spent most of his early years in theMidwest Before getting into the publishing field he held a number ofjobs including those of elevator operator and theater usherMr Jorgensen has written numerous sciencefiction short stories as wellas several contemporary and suspense novels TEN FROM INFINITY is hisfirst fulllength sciencefiction novel _A ScienceFiction Novel_TEN FROM INFINITYIvar JorgensenCover Painting by Ralph BrillhartA Monarch Books ScienceFiction NovelPublished in January 1963Copyright 1963 by Ivar JorgensenMonarch Books are published by MONARCH BOOKS INC Capital BuildingDerby Connecticut and represent the works of outstanding novelists andwriters of nonfiction especially chosen for their literary merit andreading entertainmentPrinted in the United States of AmericaAll Rights Reserved 1It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab at the corner of 59th Streetand Park Avenue Manhattan New York City USA No doubt it was thefirst motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among thestarsThe pedestrian was walking south on Park Avenue toward Grand CentralStation He was looking at the upper skeleton of the vast new Pan AmBuilding which blocked out the sky in that direction But he should havebeen watching traffic because a yellow cab tagged him neatly and knockedhim across the walk into a clump of pigeons that scattered upward in alldirectionsThe cab driver swore Citizenry gathered An alert freelance newsphotographer who happened to be passing took the most important shot ofhis career After a while the ambulance came and the dazed pedestrianwas pointed toward the nearest emergency ward which happened to be inthe Park Hill HospitalThe pigeons settled back The curious went their different waysAnd far out in space among the yellow pinpoints we call stars a signalwas registered The signal was of grave import to those who received itThe signal said _Something has gone wrong_ From the springboard of this incident there emerged several occurrencesof note The first in sequence took place in the Park Hill Hospital Thetime of that particular ambulances arrival was 1115 PM Atthat hour the harvest of violence in Manhattan was being delivered toits logical granaries in the form of broken heads slashed bodies anddazed shockstrained eyes The examining rooms at Park Hill were fulland some cases of lesser import were waiting on stretchers and benchesin the corridorsThat was where the pedestrian waited Unlike others he was verypatient He seemed to understand that this sort of thing took time orperhaps he didnt At any rate he lay staring up at the ceilingunmoving seemingly uncaring until an intern named Frank Corson stoppedbeside his stretcher and looked down at him in moodyeyed wearinessThen Corson managed a smileSorry about the service mister Full house tonightThats quite allrightCorson touched the broken leg I can give you a shot if the painshitting too hardIt does notpainStout fellow Frank Corson probed with fingers that were growing moreexpert day by day Good clean break Not swelling either He touchedthe patients wrist then put a stethoscope to his chestActually he was thinking of a different chest and different legs at thetimethe ones belonging to a copperhaired girl named Rhoda KaneRhodas legs were far more alluring Her chest had added equipment thatwas a haven of rest under trying circumstances and Corson yearned formidnight when he would quit this charnel house and climb into Rhodasconvertible andperhaps laterdo a little chest analysis withoutbenefit of stethoscopeNow he sighed commandeered a passing orderly and went to workTwenty minutes later he saw his patient deposited in a tenbed ward Hetranscribed his data onto the clipboard at the foot of the bed andlooked guiltily into the hall to see how things were going He feltguilty because he was tempted to dog it And he did He headed for thelocker room where he punched a cup of coffee out of the machine andthought some more about Rhodas legsFifteen minutes later Corson climbed into the convertible and leanedover and kissed Rhoda Kane Hi baby You smell wonderfulYou smell of disinfectant darling She wore a yellow print dress thatexposed a lot of healthily tanned skin Did you have a rough dayHe leaned back against the seat and pushed his legs as far under thedashboard as possible He sighed and closed his eyes But then he openedthem again and his face went blankShe waited a few more moments and then said HoneyIm here LittleRhoda Remember meThe vague thoughtful look vanished as he jerked his head around Ohsuresure baby He grinned A rough one

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_ANTHERO DE QUENTAL_RAIOS DE EXTINCTA LUZPOESIAS INEDITAS18591863COM OUTRAS PELA PRIMEIRA VEZ COLLIGIDASPUBLICADAS E PRECEDIDAS DE UM ESCORSO BIOGRAPHICOPORTHEOPHILO BRAGALISBOAM GOMES LivreiroEditor70 _Rua Garrett_ 721892RAIOS DE EXTINCTA LUZ_TIRAGEM ESPECIAL__Desta edição tiraremse_4 Exemplares em papel das manufacturas imperiaes do Japão numerados de1 a 416 Exemplares em papel Whatman numerados de 5 a 20ANTHERO DE QUENTALRAIOS DE EXTINCTA LUZPOESIAS INEDITAS18591863com outras pela primeira vez colligidasPUBLICADAS E PRECEDIDAS DE UM ESCORSO BIOGRAPHICOPORTHEOPHILO BRAGALISBOAM GOMES LivreiroEditor70 _Rua Garrett 72_1892AWilhelm Storck Oliveira MartinsEça de Queiroz Alberto Sampaio Jayme Batalha ReisLuiz de Magalhães Joaquim de AraujoJoão de DeusD Carolina Michaelis de VasconcellosSantos Valente Alberto TellesAntonio de Azevedo Castello Branco José Ben SaudeF Machado de Faria e MaiaJosé Falcão Manuel de ArriagaAnselmo de Andrade Manuel Duarte de Almeidaetc etc_a todos os que amaram e admiraram Anthero__C_EXPLICAÇÃO PRÉVIAA publicação deste livro é um phenomeno litterario de alta importanciaCompõese de uma collecção de _Poesias ineditas_ de Anthero de Quentalna primeira phase artistica de 1859 a 1863 quando o seu ideal eraainda religioso romantico e espiritualista Phase ignorada do publicoachase descripta pelo poeta na sua Autobiographia quando allude áeducação catholica e tradicional de um espirito naturalmente religiosonascido para crêr placidamente e obedecer sem esforço a uma regraconhecidaAo dar á publicidade o livro revolucionario as _Odes modernas_ em 1865accentuada poesia de combate Anthero rasgou todas as composiçõesanteriores para que não ficassem vestigios desse periodocontemplativo Dera então o maximo relêvo á revolução moral eintellectual como o facto mais importante da sua vida segundoconfessa na Autobiographia Truncando as suas origens artisticasapagava uma pagina psychologica tão cheia de verdade e naturalidadeque a critica nunca poderia reconstruirPor uma casualidade feliz um companheiro de Anthero de Quental que poresse tempo frequentava a faculdade de medicina copiára todas as poesiasromanticas chamavase Eduardo Xavier de Oliveira Barros Leitefallecido prematuramente em 1872 Por um enlace de familia obtive poroccasião da sua morte o caderno das poesias que copiára e que o proprioauctor que lhe sobreviveu vinte annos mal suspeitava terem sidoconservadas Guardeias pois como um valioso documento onde estavam osprimeiros germens do talento poetico de Anthero de Quentalpublicandoas depois da sua morte desgraçada restituimoslhe á vidasubjectiva uma pagina luminosa e sympathica que faltava á sua obra e álitteratura portuguezaO titulo do livro _Raios de extincta Luz_ tem a significação do seuapparecimento posthumo e o valor de exprimir um presentimento do poetaao começar com este hemistychio a invocação escripta em 1860 para umacolleccionação projectadaPara completar este monumento fizemos pesquizas por albunsparticulares onde ainda encontrámos primorosos ineditos Ao dr JoséBernardino agradecemos a contribuição valiosa com que enriqueceu estelivro e a Joaquim de Araujo os excerptos ineditos da traducção do_Fausto_ e outras composições dispersas que Anthero reservava paraincluir em uma futura edição das _Odes modernas_ e das _Primaverasromanticas_ Manda o dever moral que se reconheça a cooperação do activoe intelligente livreiroeditor Manuel Gomes que ligou a sua iniciativaá publicação das poesias ignoradas do excelso poeta Incorporandoasneste volume aqui ficam reunidas a primeira e a ultima maneiraartistica de Anthero de Quental podendo agora ser julgada de um mododefinitivo a sua obra poetica completaANTHERO DE QUENTALESCORSO BIOGRAPHICOBem conhecida é esta alta individualidade que se manifestou entre amoderna geração com um extraordinario temperamento de luctador e que derepente caíu em uma apathia invencivel em um desalento moralprogressivo em uma decadencia physica precoce e por ultimo nodesespero que em 11 de setembro de 1891 determinou o suicidio Quandoem tão breve espaço vemos essas bellas organisações litterarias comoCamillo Castello Branco Julio Cesar Machado e Anthero de Quentaltruncarem a sua carreira pelo suicidio não pode deixar de explicarseessa fatalidade pela nevrose que nelles era o estimulo do seu talento eo motor das suas desgraças E essa mesma nevrose que se manifestavabrilhantemente pela invenção imaginosa pela graça delicada ou pelainspiração poetica nunca lhes deixára adquirir uma disciplina mentalque os levasse á analyse de si mesmos nem uma subordinação moral que osfortificasse contra o seu espontaneo pessimismo A critica da acçãolitteraria de Anthero de Quental está implicita nesta caracteristica doseu organismoAnthero de Quental nasceu na Ilha de S Miguel em 1842 em uma familiade morgados naquella pequena ilha a falta de cruzamentos nas familiasaristocraticas tem determinado uma terrivel degenerescencia que semanifesta pela idiotia e pela loucura Na familia de Anthero de Quentalexistem casos desta terrivel _tare hereditaire_ A frequencia naUniversidade de Coimbra desorientadora para as mais fortesorganisações não deixou de actuar profundamente no espirito de Antherode Quental lançandoo em uma dissolvente anarchia mental pelos habitosdas arruaças escolares e pelas leituras radicalistas que o levavam a umagrande sobreexcitação Foi nesta crise da adolescencia que em Antherode Quental desabrochou o talento poetico e a paixão revolucionaria quedeu origem a uma liga de espiritos emancipados de todo osupernaturalismo e de toda a auctoridade temporal que se denominou a_Sociedade do Raio_ Este titulo provinha das imprecações que lançavamao espaço em occasião de trovoadas provocando o raio para que osfulminasse como expressão de uma vontade individual no universo Asperseguições contra a Polonia e as luctas pela libertação e unificaçãoda Italia tambem acordaram o interesse de Anthero para as questõespoliticas As suas leituras favoritas eram os livros de Proudhon deFeuerbach de Quinet e Michelet e isso rapidamente vivendo em umaatmosphera de discussão permanente de uma dialectica de sophismasaggravada por uma irregularidade de vida que veiu mais tarde adeterminar a doença que o embaraçou na sua actividade Anthero deQuental vivia entre um grupo de estudantes que o divinisáraconsiderandoo como um apostolo um iniciador da humanidade E elleproprio chegou a acreditar naquella missão e passados annos em umacarta autobiographica definiase como o portaestandarte das idéasmodernas em PortugalNeste periodo da vida de Anthero era elle dominado por um condiscipulonatural de Penafiel chamado Germano Vieira de Meyrelles a quem dedicoua primeira edição das _Odes modernas_ Este Germano Meyrelles era umtypo rachytico e aleijado dotado de um sarcasmo maligno resultado dasua imperfeição physica exerceu no espirito de Anthero uma acçãocorrosiva privandoo de todos os enthusiasmos e levandoo quasi áapathia mental Quando Germano Meyrelles morreu miseravelmente deixandoduas

Produced by Sue Asscher HTML version by Al HainesON THE RECEPTION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIESbyPROFESSOR THOMAS HENRY HUXLEYFROM THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWINEDITED BY FRANCIS DARWINON THE RECEPTION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIESTo the present generation that is to say the people a few years onthe hither and thither side of thirty the name of Charles Darwinstands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday andlike them calls up the grand ideal of a searcher after truth andinterpreter of Nature They think of him who bore it as a rarecombination of genius industry and unswerving veracity who earnedhis place among the most famous men of the age by sheer native powerin the teeth of a gale of popular prejudice and uncheered by a sign offavour or appreciation from the official fountains of honour as onewho in spite of an acute sensitiveness to praise and blame andnotwithstanding provocations which might have excused any outbreakkept himself clear of all envy hatred and malice nor dealt otherwisethan fairly and justly with the unfairness and injustice which wasshowered upon him while to the end of his days he was ready tolisten with patience and respect to the most insignificant ofreasonable objectorsAnd with respect to that theory of the origin of the forms of lifepeopling our globe with which Darwins name is bound up as closely asthat of Newton with the theory of gravitation nothing seems to befurther from the mind of the present generation than any attempt tosmother it with ridicule or to crush it by vehemence of denunciationThe struggle for existence and Natural selection have becomehousehold words and everyday conceptions The reality and theimportance of the natural processes on which Darwin founds hisdeductions are no more doubted than those of growth and multiplicationand whether the full potency attributed to them is admitted or not noone doubts their vast and farreaching significance Wherever thebiological sciences are studied the Origin of Species lights thepaths of the investigator wherever they are taught it permeates thecourse of instruction Nor has the influence of Darwinian ideas beenless profound beyond the realms of Biology The oldest of allphilosophies that of Evolution was bound hand and foot and cast intoutter darkness during the millennium of theological scholasticism ButDarwin poured new lifeblood into the ancient frame the bonds burstand the revivified thought of ancient Greece has proved itself to be amore adequate expression of the universal order of things than any ofthe schemes which have been accepted by the credulity and welcomed bythe superstition of seventy later generations of menTo any one who studies the signs of the times the emergence of thephilosophy of Evolution in the attitude of claimant to the throne ofthe world of thought from the limbo of hated and as many hopedforgotten things is the most portentous event of the nineteenthcentury But the most effective weapons of the modern champions ofEvolution were fabricated by Darwin and the Origin of Species hasenlisted a formidable body of combatants trained in the severe schoolof Physical Science whose ears might have long remained deaf to thespeculations of a priori philosophersI do not think any candid or instructed person will deny the truth ofthat which has just been asserted He may hate the very name ofEvolution and may deny its pretensions as vehemently as a Jacobitedenied those of George the Second But there it isnot only assolidly seated as the Hanoverian dynasty but happily independent ofParliamentary sanctionand the dullest antagonists have come to seethat they have to deal with an adversary whose bones are to be brokenby no amount of bad wordsEven the theologians have almost ceased to pit the plain meaning ofGenesis against the no less plain meaning of Nature Their morecandid or more cautious representatives have given up dealing withEvolution as if it were a damnable heresy and have taken refuge in oneof two courses Either they deny that Genesis was meant to teachscientific truth and thus save the veracity of the record at theexpense of its authority or they expend their energies in devising thecruel ingenuities of the reconciler and torture texts in the vain hopeof making them confess the creed of Science But when the peine forteet dure is over the antique sincerity of the venerable sufferer alwaysreasserts itself Genesis is honest to the core and professes to beno more than it is a repository of venerable traditions of unknownorigin claiming no scientific authority and possessing noneAs my pen finishes these passages I can but be amused to think what aterrible hubbub would have been made in truth was made about anysimilar expressions of opinion a quarter of a century ago In factthe contrast between the present condition of public opinion upon theDarwinian question between the estimation in which Darwins views arenow held in the scientific world between the acquiescence or at leastquiescence of the theologians of the selfrespecting order at thepresent day and the outburst of antagonism on all sides in 18589 whenthe new theory respecting the origin of species first became known tothe older generation to which I belong is so startling that exceptfor documentary evidence I should be sometimes inclined to think mymemories dreams I have a great respect for the younger generationmyself they can write our lives and ravel out all our follies ifthey choose to take the trouble by and by and I should be glad to beassured that the feeling is reciprocal but I am afraid that the storyof our dealings with Darwin may prove a great hindrance to thatveneration for our wisdom which I should like them to display We havenot even the excuse that thirty years ago Mr Darwin was an obscurenovice who had no claims on our attention On the contrary hisremarkable zoological and geological investigations had long given himan assured position among the most eminent and original investigatorsof the day while his charming Voyage of a Naturalist had justlyearned him a widespread reputation among the general public

Produced by Thierry Alberto Juliet Sutherland MartinPettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnetLITTLE NOVELS OF ITALYBYMAURICE HEWLETTAUTHOR OF THE FOREST LOVERS PAN AND THE YOUNGSHEPHERD EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY ETCNew YorkTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYLONDON MACMILLAN CO LTD1899_All rights reserved_COPYRIGHT 1899By MAURICE HEWLETTNorwood PressJ S Cushing CoBerwick SmithNorwood Mass USATOHIS FRIENDANDITALYSMAJORGENERAL JOSEPH BONUS RETHE AUTHOR DEDICATES HIS BOOKCONTENTS PAGEMADONNA OF THE PEACHTREE 1IPPOLITA IN THE HILLS 67THE DUCHESS OF NONA 137MESSER CINO AND THE LIVE COAL 225THE JUDGMENT OF BORSO 254LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALYMADONNA OF THE PEACHTREEIVANNA IS BID FORNot easily would you have found a girl more winning in a tender sortthan Giovanna Scarpa of Verona at one and twenty fairhaired andflushed delicately shaped tall and pliant as she then was She had tosuffer her hours of ill report but passes for near a saint now inconsequence of certain miracles and theophanies done on her accountwhich it is my business to declare before those she was considered ifat all as a girl who would certainly have been married three years agoif dowries had not been of moment in the matter In a city of maids aspretty as they are modestwhich no one will deny Verona to betheremay have been some whose charms in either kind were equal to hers whiletheir estate was better in accord but the speculation is idleGiovanna flower in the face as she was fit to be nosegay on anyhearth posy for any mans breast sprang in a very lowly soil Like ablossoming reed she shot up to her inches by Adige and one forgot themuddy bed wondering at the slim grace of the shaft with its crown ofyellow atop Her hair waved about her like a flag she should have beenplanted in a castle instead Giovanna the stately calm with herbillowing line staid lips and candid grey eyes was to be seen on herknees by the green water most days of the week Barearmed splashed tothe neck bareheaded outatheels she rinsed and pommelled wrung anddipped again laughed chattered flung her hair to the wind her sweatto the water in line with a dozen other women below the Ponte Navi andif no one thought any the worse of her none unhappily thought any thebetterat least in the way of marriage It is probable that no onethought of her at all Giovanna was a beauty and a very good girl butshe was a washerwoman for all that whose toil fed seven mouthsHer father was Don Urbano curate of Santa Toscana across the waterThis may very easily sound worse than it is In Don Urbanos day thougha priest might not marry he might have a wifea faithful diligentcompanion that isto seethe his polenta air his linen and rear hischildren The Church winked at her and so continued until the Jesuitscame to teach that winking was unbecoming But when Can Grande IIlorded in Verona the Jesuits did not and Don Urbano good easy mancared not who winked at his wife She gave him six children before shedied of the seventh of whom the eldest was Giovanna and the others inan orderly chain diminishing punctually by a year ran down toFerrantino a tattered shockheaded rascal of more inches than graceLast of all the good drudge who had borne these and many other burdensfor her master died also Don Urbano was never tired of saying howprovidential it was that she had held off her demise until Giovanna wasold enough to take her place The curate was fat and lazy very muchinterested in himself his stipend barely paid his shot at the Fioredel Marinajo under whose green bush he was mostly to be seen Vannahad to roll up her sleeves bend her straight young back and knee theboard by the Ponte Navi I have no doubt it did her good the work ishealthy the air the sun the waterspray kissed her beauty ripe butshe got no husband because she could save no dowry Everything went tostay the seven crying mouthsThen on a day when half her twentyfirst year had run after the othersold Baldassare Dardicozzo stayed on the bridge to rest from the burdenof his packon a breezy March morning when the dust filled his eyes andthe wind emptied him of breath Baldassare had little enough to spare asit was So he dropped his load in the angle of the bridge with asmothered Accidente or some such and leaned to watch the swollenwater buffeted crosswise by the gusts or how the little millsamidstream dipped as they swam breasting the waves In so doing hebecame aware in quite a peculiar way of Vanna ScarpaBaldassare was old redeyed stiff in the back Possibly he wasrheumatic certainly he was grumpy He had a long slit mouth whichplayed him a cruel trick for by nature it smiled when by nature he wasmost melancholy Smile it would and did however cutthroat he felt ifyou wanted to see him grin from ear to ear you would wait till he hadhad an ill days market Then while sighs curses invocations of thesaints or open hints to the devil came roaring from him that hilariousmouth of his invited you to share delights You had needs laugh withhim and he cursing high and low beamed all over his face To makeBaldassare laugh became a stock periphrasis for the supreme degree oftragedy among his neighbours About this traitor mouth of his he had adew of scrubby beard silvered black he had bushy eyebrows hands andarms covered with a black

Produced by Miranda van de Heijning Chuck Greif and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was produced from images generously madeavailable by the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceBnFGallica at httpgallicabnffrENCICLOPEDIA DE LAS ESCUELASCOSMOGRAFÍApor AMADEO GUILLEMINHACHETTE Y CiaIllustraciónPARÍS LIBRERÍA DE HACHETTE Y Cia 79 BOULEVARD SAINTGERMAIN 791889ÍNDICEMOVIMIENTO DIURNO DEL CIELOLA TIERRA La Tierra es redonda La Tierra gira sobre si misma Dimensiones De la Tierra Movimiento de translación de la Tierra alrededor del Sol Órbita de la Tierra Los días y las noches Las estacionesLA LUNA Fases de la Luna etc Eclipses de Sol y de LunaEL SOLLOS PLANETASLOS COMETASLAS ESTRELLAS CoulommiersImp P Brodart et Gallois COSMOGRAFÍAMOVIMIENTO DIURNO DEL CIELO1 Objeto de la CosmografíaCuando durante el día está el cielo librede nubes y de brumas parece una bóveda transparente de color azuladobrillante ese azulado especial llamado _celeste_ sobre la cual semueve desde su orto hasta su ocaso el disco del _Sol_ Así que esteastro desaparece debajo del horizonte el cielo se oscurece poco á pocotoma tono azul más profundo y empiezan á distinguirse acá y aculláunos puntos luminosos cuyo número va aumentando á medida que la noche sehace más completaEsos puntos luminosos cuyo brillo no es idéntico son las _estrellas_La _Luna_ se deja ver también en el cielo ya bajo la forma de un sectoresférico que vulgarmente se llama _media luna_ ya bajo la de un pedazode círculo más ó menos recortado ya bajo la de un círculo completoEl Sol la Luna y las estrellas son _astros_ ó _cuerpos celestes_ Peropronto se verá que la Tierra que habitamos es también un astro y que semueve en los espacios lo mismo que los restantes cuerpos análogosLa Cosmografía tiene por objeto el estudio de todos esos cuerpos de susformas y dimensiones de su aspecto y movimientos2 Salida y ocaso de los astrosTodo el mundo ha visto salir el Solpor las mañanas de debajo del horizonte elevarse poco á poco en elcielo durante la primera mitad del día y luego descender acabando porocultarse en un punto del horizonte opuesto al de su ortoExaminando con cuidado las estrellas en el curso de la noche se observaque están animadas de un movimiento análogo al del Sol Véselas salirsucesivamente por la misma parte que aquél subir por la bóveda celestey luego descender para ocultarse por el opuestoCada estrella describe una línea curva un arco de círculo más ó menosgrande y todas juntas parecen moverse como si la bóveda del cielogirara toda entera de _oriente_ parte del orto al _occidente_ partepor donde se efectúa el ocasoDe ahí resulta que las estrellas ocupan siempre las mismas posicionesrelativas Las figuras que estos cuerpos forman en el cielo y que sonfáciles de reconocer examinando los más brillantes de ellos permanecensiendo siempre las mismas no sólo durante cada noche sino durantetodas las noches del añoPor eso se las denomina _estrellas fijas_ porque parece que estánsujetas _clavadas_ sobre la bóveda celeste pero ya se verá que esafijeza no es más que aparente y proviene de la enorme distancia á quenosotros nos encontramos de las estrellasAlgunas estrellas cuyo número es relativamente muy escaso no sólosalen y se ponen como las otras sino que se mueven respecto de ellasatravesando el cielo Ese movimiento ha hecho que se les dé el nombre de_planetas_ voz derivada de otras de origen griego que significan_cuerposerrantes_ La Tierra es un planeta porque como estos últimosastros se mueve también en el cielo3 Movimiento diurnoSe da ese nombre al movimiento de conjunto quearrastra á todo el cielo de oriente a occidente en el intervalo de undía próximamenteCada estrella describe desde su orto hasta su ocaso una circunferenciaentera una parte de esta circunferencia es trazada sobre el horizonte yla otra debajoTodas estas circunferencias son paralelas entre si y tienen dos centroscomunes ó polos que son puntos invariables de la bóveda celeste Uno deesos polos está situado sobre el horizonte del lugar donde se leobserva el otro que está situado por debajo no puede enconsecuencia ser visto El polo visible en los lugares situados en elhemisferio norte de la Tierra se denomina por tal razón _polo norte_ ó_polo boreal_ El segundo visible en el hemisferio sur se llama _polosur_ ó _austral_Mirando desde el ecuador terrestre los dos polos celestes se encuentransobre el horizonte en dos puntos diametralmente opuestos4 Eje del mundoSe da este nombre á la línea recta que une los dospolos celestes y á cuyo alrededor se efectúa el movimiento diurnoEn el ecuador el eje del mundo aparece recostado sobre el horizonte Enlos puntos situados sea al norte sea al sur del ecuador este eje seencuentra inclinado sobre el horizonte hacia el norte en el hemisferionorte hacia el sur en el hemisferio sur y la inclinación vadisminuyendo á medida que la latitud aumenta En ambos polos de laTierra el eje es perpendicular al horizonteLA TIERRALA TIERRA ES REDONDA5 Forma de la TierraEn los países llanos ó bien en la superficiedel mar parece que la forma de la Tierra es plana en las regionesmontañosas ó accidentadas aquella forma se nos antoja completamenteirregular Pero esto no es más que una apariencia dependiente de que lavista no puede abarcar en cada punto más que una pequeñísima parte dela superficie terrestreEn realidad la Tierra es redonda Su figura es la de una bola ó de unglobo casi esférico Podéis daros cuenta de ese hecho de la manerasiguiente6 Horizontes terrestres circularesPrimeramente cuando se está enmedio de una extensa llanura el horizonte tiene la forma de un círculocuyo centro se halla ocupado por el observador Si se cambia deposición persiste la forma circular del horizonte por más que varíansus límites Otro tanto ocurre en alta mar donde la línea que separa elcielo de las aguas es siempre una circunferencia claramente marcadaPodría creerse que esta forma circular del horizonte procede de ladebilidad de nuestra vista limitada

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 SONNENSCHEIN 1In den höchsten Zweigen des Ahornbaums der an der Gartenseite des Hausesstand trieben die Stare ihr Wesen Sonst war es still denn es warSommernachmittag zwischen eins und zweiAus der Gartentür trat ein junger Reiteroffizier in weißer festtäglicherUniform den kleinen dreieckigen Federhut schief auf den Kopf gedrücktund sah nach allen Seiten in die Gänge des Gartens hinab dann seinenRohrstock zierlich zwischen den Fingern schwingend horchte er nach einemoffenstehenden Fenster im oberen Stockwerke hinauf aus dem sich inkleinen Pausen das Klirren holländischer Kaffeeschälchen und die Stimmenzweier alten Herren deutlich vernehmen ließen Der junge Mann lächelte wiejemand dem was Liebes widerfahren soll indem er langsam die kleineGartentreppe hinunterstieg Die Muscheln mit denen der breite Steigbestreut war knirschten an seinen breiten Sporen bald aber trat erbehutsam auf als wolle er nicht bemerkt sein Gleichwohl schien es ihnnicht zu stören als ihm aus einem Seitengange ein junger Mann inbürgerlicher Kleidung mit sauber gepuderter Frisur entgegenkam EinAusdruck brüderlichen fast zärtlichen Vertrauens zeigte sich in beiderAntlitz als sie sich schweigend die Hände reichten Der Syndikus istdroben die alten Herren sitzen am Tokadilletisch sagte der jungeBürger indem er eine starke goldene Uhr hervorzog Ihr habt zwei volleStunden Geh nur du kannst rechnen helfen Er zeigte bei diesen Wortenden Steig entlang nach einem hölzernen Lusthäuschen das auf Pfählen überden unterhalb des Gartens vorüberströmenden Fluß hinausgebaut warIch danke dir Fritz Du kommst doch zu unsDer Angeredete schüttelte den Kopf Wir haben Posttag sagte er und gingdem Hause zu Der junge Offizier hatte den Hut in die Hand genommen undließ während er den Steig hinabging die Sonne frei auf seine hohe Stirnund seine schwarzen ungepuderten Haare scheinen So hatte er bald denSchatten des kleinen Pavillons der gegen Morgen lag erreichtDie eine Flügeltür stand offen er trat vorsichtig auf die Schwelle Aberdie Jalousien schienen von allen Seiten geschlossen es war so dämmerigdrinnen daß seine noch eben des vollen Sonnenlichts gewöhnten Augen erstnach einer ganzen Weile die jugendliche Gestalt eines Mädchens aufzufassenvermochten die inmitten des Zimmers an einem Marmortischchen sitzendZahl um Zahl mit sicherer Hand in einen vor ihr liegenden Folianteneintrug Der junge Offizier blickte verhaltenen Atems auf das gepuderteKöpfchen das über den Blättern schwebend wie von dem Zuge der Federharmonisch hin und wieder bewegt wurde Dann als einige Zeitvorübergegangen zog er seinen Degen eine Hand breit aus der Scheide undließ ihn mit einem Stoß zurückfallen daß es einen leichten Klang gab EinLächeln trat um den Mund des Mädchens und die dunkeln Augenwimpern hobensich ein Weniges von den Wangen empor dann aber als hätte sie sichbesonnen streifte sie nur den Ärmel der amarantfarbenen Kontusche zurückund tauchte aufs neue die Feder einDer Offizier da sie immer nicht aufblickte tat einen Schritt ins Zimmerund zog ihr schweigend die Feder durch die Finger daß die Tinte auf denNägeln bliebHerr Kapitän rief sie und streckte ihm die Hand entgegen Sie hatte denKopf zurückgeworfen ein Paar tiefgraue Augen waren mit dem Ausdruck nichtallzu ernsthaften Zürnens auf ihn gerichtetEr pflückte ein Rebenblatt draußen vom Spalier und wischte ihr sorgfältigdie Tinte von den

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration MISS ELLISON GREETED TOM WITH A MYSTERIOUS SMILEFrontispiecePage 27TOM SLADE WITH THE COLORSBYPERCY K FITZHUGHAuthor ofTOM SLADE BOY SCOUTTOM SLADE AT TEMPLE CAMPTOM SLADE ON THE RIVERIllustrated byTHOMAS CLARITYPublished With the Approval ofTHE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERS NEW YORKCopyright 1918 byGROSSET DUNLAPTABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Tom Makes a Promise 1 II Bull Head and Butter Fingers 13 III Roscoe Bent 21 IV The Cup of Joy 27 V The Main Trail 40 VI Tom and the Gold Cross 49 VII The Trail Runs Through a Pestilent Place 56 VIII An Accident 60 IX Roscoe Joins the Colors 66 X Tom and Roscoe Come to Know Each Other 70 XI Tom Meets a Stranger 79 XII Tom Hears of the Blond Beast 85 XIII As Others Saw Him 93 XIV Tom Gets a Job 101 XV The Excited Passenger 109 XVI Tom Makes a Discovery 116 XVII One of the Blond Beasts Weapons 124 XVIII Sherlock Nobody Holmes 129 XIX The Time of Day 137 XX A New Job 145 XXI Into the Danger Zone 152 XXII S O S 160 XXIII Roy Blakeley Keeps StillFor a Wonder 172 XXIV A Soldiers Honor 181 XXV The Face

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandKilgormanA Story of Ireland in 1798By Talbot Baines Reed________________________________________________________________________This was Reeds last book written even as he lay dying presumably fromcancer It is a very wellwritten book and is very interesting eventhough as in the works of Kingston and Collingwood there are a lot ofswimming episodesThe time of the story is in the 1790s during the French Revolutionwhich we see at close quarters during our heros time in France Wealso visit Rotterdam in Holland But most of the action at least thatwhich takes place on dry land takes place in Donegal that long wildpart of Ireland that lies to its extreme northwestThere are several lines of the story One of these is the great lovethat exists between the hero and his twin brother Another is thequestion Are they brothers For only one person actually knows andshe is far away the hint that there is a problem is given in a dyingnote by the woman that passed as the boys mother The third theme isas always with Ireland plotting for an uprising against English ruleIn this department nothing changesYes it is a brilliant book complemented by an In Memoriam articleabout the life of the author________________________________________________________________________KILGORMANA STORY OF IRELAND IN 1798BY TALBOT BAINES REEDPreface by John SimeIN MEMORIAMBy the death of Talbot B Reed the boys of the Englishspeaking worldhave lost one of their best friends For fourteen years he hascontributed to their pleasure and in the little library of boys bookswhich left his pen he has done as much as any writer of our day to raisethe standard of boys literature His books are alike removed from theoldfashioned and familiar class of boys stories which meaning wellgenerally baffled their own purpose by attempting to administer moralityand doctrine on what Reed called the powderinjam principleaprocess apt to spoil the jam yet make the powder no less nauseousor on the other hand the class of book that dealt in thrillingadventure of the bloodcurdling and penny dreadful order Withneither of these types have Talbot Reeds boys books any kinship Hisboys are of flesh and blood such as fill our public schools such asbrighten or make hay of the peace of our homes He had the rare artof hitting off boynature with just that spice of wickedness in itwithout which a boy is not a boy His heroes have always the charm ofbounding youthful energy and youths invincible hopefulness and theconstant flow of good spirits which have made the boys of all timeperennially interestingThe secret of Reeds success in this direction was that all throughlife as every one who had the privilege of knowing him can testify hepossessed in himself the healthy freshness of heart of boyhood Hesympathised with the troubles and joys he understood the temptationsand fathomed the motives that sway and mould boycharacter he had thepower of depicting that side of life with infinite humour and pathospossible only to one who could place himself sympathetically at theboys standpoint in life Hence the wholesomeness of tone and thebreezy freshness of his work His boyheroes are neither prigs normilksops but in their strength and weakness they are the stuff whichultimately makes our best citizens and fathers they are the boys wholater in life with healthy minds in healthy bodies have made theBritish Empire what it isA special and pathetic interest attaches to this story of Kilgormanthe last that left Talbot Reeds pen It was undertaken while he wasyet in the prime of his strength and vigour The illness whichultimately alas ended fatally had already laid hold on him ere he hadwell begun the book In intervals of ease during his last illness heworked at it sometimes in bed sometimes in his armchair it ispleasant to think that he so enjoyed the work that its production easedand soothed many a weary hour for him and certainly never was otherthan a recreation to himThe pen dropped from his hand ere he had quite completed the work yetas the book stands here it is much as he meant to leave it Thefigures of Barry Gallagher and Tim and the charming Kit will taketheir places in the delightful gallery of his young people and theiradventures by land and by sea will be followed with an increasedinterest that they are the last that can come from his brilliant penTalbot Reed came of a right good English stock both on his fathers andhis mothers side His grandfather Dr Andrew Reed a Nonconformistminister of note in his day left his mark in some of the soundestphilanthropic undertakings of the century His thoughtfulness and selfsacrificing energy have lightened the sufferings and soothed the old ageof many thousands He was one of the founders of the London Reedhamand Infant Orphan Asylums the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and theRoyal Hospital for Incurables His son Sir Charles Reed andgrandsons have done yeoman service in carrying on to the present daythe noble work begun by himTalbot was the third son of the late Sir Charles Reed Member ofParliament for Hackney and latterly for Saint Ives Cornwall Hismother Lady Reed was the youngest daughter of Mr Edward BainesMember of Parliament for Leeds She was a lady of saintly life ofinfinite gentleness and sweetness of heart with extraordinary strengthand refinement of mind reverenced and loved by her sons and daughtersand by none more than by Talbot Reed who bore a strong resemblance toher alike in disposition and in physical appearanceThe service that Sir Charles Reed did for his generation both inParliament and as Chairman of the London School Board and in connectionwith many of the religious and philanthropic movements of his time aretoo well known to be recapitulated hereTalbot B Reed was born on the 3rd of April 1852 at Hackney Hisfirst schoolmaster was Mr Anderton of Priory House School UpperClapton under whose care he remained until he was thirteen years ofage He

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandA Dog with a Bad NameBy Talbot Baines Reed________________________________________________________________________The story opens in a rather rundown school There is an unfortunateincident in which a boy is almost killed and a boy of the name ofJeffreys not a very popular chap is held to have been responsibleThus the dog acquires a bad name Throughout the next few years ofJeffreys life this incident is brought up against him He is broughtlower and lower till eventually he finds somewhere to live in theutmost poverty amongst the very poor Here by a twist of fortune heends up looking after some abandoned children There is a fire and herescues somebody but it is only when he gets that person back to hisroom that he realises it is the very person whom he had almost killedall those years beforeThis book is very well written I have been wondering whether it is abook for teenagers or a book for adults and have come to theconclusion that its for teenagers but only the really bright ones asthere is so much food for thought in it NH________________________________________________________________________A DOG WITH A BAD NAMEBY TALBOT BAINES REEDCHAPTER ONEDRYROTBolsover College was in a bad temper It often was for as a rule ithad little else to do and what it had was usually a less congenialoccupationBolsover in fact was a school which sadly needed two trifling reformsbefore it could be expected to do much good in the world One was thatall its masters should be dismissed the other was that all its boysshould be expelled When these little changes had been effected therewas every chance of turning the place into a creditable school but notmuch chance otherwiseFor Bolsover College was afflicted with dryrot The mischief had begunnot last term or the term before Years ago it had begun to eat intothe place and every year it grew more incurable Occasional effortshad been made to patch things up A boy had been now and then expelledA master had now and then resigned An old rule had now and thenbeen enforced A new rule was now and then instituted But you cantpatch up a dryrot and Bolsover crumbled more and more the oftener itwas touchedYears ago it had dropped out of the race with the other publicschoolsIts name had disappeared from the pass list of the University and CivilService candidates Scarcely a human being knew the name of its headmaster and no assistantmaster was ever known to make Bolsover asteppingstone to pedagogic promotion The athletic world knew nothingof a Bolsover Eleven or Fifteen and worse still no Bolsover boy wasever found who was proud either of his school or of himselfSomebody asks why if the place was in such a bad way did parentscontinue to send their boys there when they had all the publicschoolsin England to choose from To that the answer is very simple Bolsoverwas cheaphorribly cheapA high class publicschool education to quote the words of theprospectus with generous board and lodging in a beautiful midlandcounty in a noble building with every modern advantage gymnasiumcricketfield and a full staff of professors and masters forsomething under forty pounds a year was a chance not to be snuffed atby an economical parent or guardian And when to these attractions waspromised a strict attention to morals and a supervision of wardrobesby an experienced matron even the hearts of mothers went out towardsthe placeAfter all argues many an easygoing parent a publicschool educationis a publicschool education whether dear Benjamin gets it at Eton orShrewsbury or Bolsover We cannot afford Eton or Shrewsbury but wewill make a pinch and send him to Bolsover which sounds almost as goodand may even be betterSo to Bolsover dear Benjamin goes and becomes a publicschool boy Inthat noble building he does pretty much as he likes and eats verymuch what he can The full staff of professors and masters interferevery little with his liberty and the attention to morals is neverinconveniently obtruded He goes home pale for the holidays and comesback paler each term He scuffles about now and then in the playgroundand calls it athletics He gets up Caesar with a crib and Todhunterwith a key and calls it classics and mathematics He loafs about witha toady and calls it friendship In short he catches the Bolsover dryrot and calls it a publicschool trainingWhat is it makes Benjamin and his seventynine schoolfellows forBolsover had its full number of eighty boys this term in such aparticularly illhumour this grey October morning Have his professorsand masters gently hinted to him that he is expected to know his lessonsnext time he goes into class Or has the experienced matron beenoverdoing her attention to his morals Ask him What he saysdont you know what the row is Its enough to make anybody shirtyFrampton this new headmaster you know hes only been here a week ortwo hes going to upset everything I wish to goodness old Mullany hadstuck on cad as he was He let us alone but this beast Framptonssmashing the place up What do you thinkyoud never guess hes madea rule the fellows are all to tub every morning whether they like it ornot What do you call that I know Ill get my governor to make a rowabout it It wont wash I can tell you What business has he to makeus tub eh do you hear Thats only one thing He came and jawed usin the big room this morning and said he meant to make footballcompulsory There You neednt gape as if you thought I was gammoningIm not I mean it Footballs to be compulsory Every man Jacks gotto play whether he can or not I call it brutal The only thing isit wont be

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandBoycottedand other storiesBy Talbot Baines Reed________________________________________________________________________Here are fifteen of the most eccentric short stories you can imagineTo make the job more difficult the hard copy of the book from which Iworked was in very poor condition with the pages extensively brownedThat said in the way of my poor workmanship making me blame my toolsI do not think I have made too much of a mess of it and you should beable to gain much enjoyment from reading the bookThe whole ensemble is not really very long about twothirds of thelength of a typical book by this author So go ahead and see how youget on NH________________________________________________________________________BOYCOTTEDAND OTHER STORIESBY TALBOT BAINES REEDCHAPTER ONESubChapter ITHE SCHOOL CUTS MEI hardly know yet what it was all about and at the time I had not anidea I dont think I was more of a fool than most fellows of my age atDravens and I rather hope I wasnt an outandout cadBut when it all happened I had my doubts on both points and couldexplain the affair in no other way than by supposing I must be like thelunatic in the asylum who when asked how he came to be there said Isaid the world was mad the world said I was mad the world was biggerthan I was so it shut me up hereIt had been a dismal enough term as it was quite apart from mytroubles That affair of Browne had upset us all and taken the spiritout of Dravens We missed him at every turn What was the good ofgetting up the football fifteen when our only placekick was goneWhere was the fun in the Saturday nights when our only comic singerour only reciter our only orator wasnt there Who cared about givingstudy suppers or any other sociable entertainment when there was noBrowne to inviteBrowne had left us suddenly One day he had been the life and soul ofDravens next morning he had been summoned to Dravens study and thatsame evening we saw him drive off to the station in a cab with hisportmanteau on the topVery few of the fellows knew why he had been expelled I scarcely knewmyself though I was his greatest chum On the morning of the day heleft he met me on his way back from Dravens studyIm expelled Smither he said with a dismal faceGo on replied I taking his arm and scrutinising his face to seewhere the joke was hidden But it was no jokeI am said he hopelessly I am to go this evening Its my ownfault Ive been a cad I was led into it Its bad enough but Imnot such a blackleg as Draven makes outAnd here for the first time in my life I saw Browne look like breakingdownHe wasnt going to let me see it and hurried away before I could findanything to sayIf he hadnt told me himself I should have called any one who told meBrowne had been a cadwell Id better not say what I should havecalled him I knew my chum had been a rollicking sort of fellow whofound it hard to say No to anybody who asked anything of him but thathe was a blackleg I for one would not believe for all the Dravens inthe worldHardly knowing what I did I walked up to the masters study door andknockedCome in I could tell by the voice that came through the door Ishould do no goodI went in Mr Draven was pacing up and down the room and stoppedshort in front of me as I entered WellI wished I was on the other side of the door but I wasnt and must saysomething however desperatePlease sir BrowneBrowne leaves here today said Mr Draven coldly what do you wantPlease sir I hope you willI forgot where I was and what I was saying My mind wandered aimlesslyand I ended my sentence I dont know howDraven saw I was confused and wasnt unkindYou have been a friend of Browne I know he said and you are sorrySo am I terribly sorry and his voice quite quavered as he spokeThere was a pause and I made a frantic effort to recall my scatteredthoughtsWont you let him off this time sir I gaspedThat Smither is out of the question said the head master sosteadily and incisively that I gave it up and left the room withoutanother word The fellows were trooping down the passage to breakfastlittle guessing the secret of my miserable looks or the reason whyBrowne was not in his usual placeBut the secret came out and the school staggered under the shock MrDraven announced our comrades departure kindly enough in the afternoonadding that he had confessed the offence for which he was expelled andwas penitent Two hours later we saw his cab drive off and as wewatched it disappear it all seemed to us like a hideous dreamWe said little about it to one another We did not even care to inquireparticularly into the offence for which he had suffered But we mopedand missed him at every turn and wished the miserable term were endinginstead of beginningThis however is a long digression I sat down to write the story ofmy own trouble not Brownes But the reader will understand now why Isaid that as it was apart from my own misfortunes the term which hadstill a month more to run when my story begins had been a dismal oneI was wandering about the playground one frosty November morningbeginning to hope that if a frost should come we might after all get alittle fun at Dravens before the holidays came when Odger juniorwhistling shrilly crossed my pathOdger junior was not exactly my fag for we had no fags at Dravens andif we had had I had not yet reached that pitch of dignity at

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Willoughby CaptainsBy Talbot Baines Reed________________________________________________________________________This is one of this authors famous school stories Like a new boy orgirl at a school you will be faced with learning the names of a greatmany youngsters and to an extent their characters However by thetime you get halfway through the book you will be familiar enough withthe principal charactersOf course there are numerous small dramas being acted out as the bookproceeds but the main one concerns a boatrace between two of theHouses Along the course there is a very tight bend The boat on theoutside of the bend is slightly in the lead but will probably lose thisdue to the inside boat having less far to travel to the next straightAt a most crucial moment when maximum power is being exerted by the coxon the rudderlines one of them snaps and the boat goes out ofcontrol The cox shouts the instructions for an emergency stop and toback water The other boat proceeds to the end of the course It cannow be seen that the rudderline had been deliberately half cut throughso that it would snap at that tight bend on the riverFor the rest of the book people are trying to work out who had done thisdeed At one stage we think we know the answer We become quiteconvinced we know the answer in fact But we are wrong and we do notfind out till almost the end of the book And it is to be hoped that atthat point the promised rerow takes placeThere is some confusion with names in respect of Merrison and Morrisonbut I suspect that to be a printers error It is not of greatimportance since he is or they are not frontline characters in theactionThe punctuation becomes very difficult in the reporting of theproceedings of the school parliament because not only do you have thecurrent speaker but interspersed with it are comments by the raconteurand by the noisier of the boys The printed book settled for asimplified version here but we have done our best to give you aversion that is more according to rule________________________________________________________________________THE WILLOUGHBY CAPTAINSBY TALBOT BAINES REEDCHAPTER ONETHE LAST OF THE OLD CAPTAINSomething unusual is happening at Willoughby The Union Jack floatsproudly over the old ivycovered tower of the school the schoolroomsare deserted there is a band playing somewhere a double row ofcarriages is drawn up round the large meadow familiarly called TheBig old Mrs Gallop the orange and sherbert woman is almost besideherself with business flurry and boys are going hither and thithersome of them in white ducks with favours on their sleeves and others intheir Sunday tiles with sisters and cousins and aunts in tow whosepresence adds greatly to the brightness of the sceneAmong these lastnamed holidaymaking young Willoughbites no one paradesmore triumphantly today than Master Cusack of Welchs House by theside of his father Captain Cusack RN Cusack ever since he came toWilloughby has bored friend and foe with endless references to thegov captain in the RN you know and now that he really has achance of showing off his parent in the flesh his small head is nearlyturned He puffs along like a small steamtug with a glorious manofwar in tow and is too anxious to exhibit his prize in The Big to doeven the ordinary honours of the place to his relativeCaptain Cusack RN the meekest and most amiable of men resignshimself pleasantly to the will of his dutiful conductor only toopleased to see the boy so happy and pardonably gratified to know thathe himself is the special object of that young gentlemans jubilationHe had come down hoping for a quiet hour or two to see his boy andinspect Willoughby but he finds that instead he is to be inspectedhimself and though he wouldnt thwart the lad for the world he wouldjust as soon have dropped in at Willoughby on a rather less publicoccasionYoung Cusack as is the manner of small tugs assumes complete controlof his parent and rattles away incessantly as he conducts him throughthe grounds past the school towards the allattracting BigThats Welchs he says pointing to the right wing of the long Tudorbuilding before themthats Welchs on the right and Parretts in themiddle and the schoolhouse on the left Jolly rooks nests in theschoolhouse elms only Paddy wont let us go after themWho is Paddy inquires the fatherOh the doctor you knowDr Patrick Youll see him down in TheBig and his dame andAnd whats written up over the door there inquires Captain Cusackpointing up to the coatofarms above the great doorwayOh some Latin bosh I dont know I say wed better look sharpfather or theyll have started the open hurdlesWhat are the open hurdles mildly inquires the somewhat perplexedcaptain who has been at sea so long that he is really not up to all themodern phrasesWhy you know its the sports and there are two open events thehurdles and the mile and weve got Rawson of the London Athletic downagainst us in both but I rather back Wyndham He made stunning time inthe March gallops and hes in prime form nowIs Wyndham a Willoughby boyRather Hes our cock you know and this will be his last showupHullo you fellows he cries as two other small boys approach at atrot whats on Have the hurdles started By the way this is myfather you know he came downThe two small boys who are arrayed in ducks and runningshoes shakehands rather sheepishly with the imposing visitor and look shyly up anddownAnd are you running in any of the races my men says Captain CusackkindlyHe couldnt have hit on a happier topic The two are at their ease atonceYes sir the junior hundred yards I say Cusack your govyourfathers just in time for the final heat In the first I had a deadheat with Watkins you know

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Chris Curnow and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration ONE OF THE TRICKS WAS TO RUN AND JUMP THROUGH A PAPER HOOP The Curlytops and Their Pets Page 240 THE CURLYTOPS AND THEIR PETS OR _Uncle Tobys Strange Collection_ BY HOWARD R GARIS AUTHOR OF THE CURLYTOPS SERIES UNCLE WIGGILY SERIES BEDTIME STORIES ETC _Illustrations by JULIA GREENE_ NEW YORK CUPPLES LEON COMPANY THE CURLYTOPS SERIES By HOWARD R GARIS 12mo Cloth Illustrated _THE CURLYTOPS AT CHERRY FARM Or Vacation Days in the Country_ _THE CURLYTOPS ON STAR ISLAND Or Camping Out With Grandpa_ _THE CURLYTOPS SNOWED IN Or Grand Fun With Skates and Sleds_ _THE CURLYTOPS AT UNCLE FRANKS RANCH Or Little Folks on Ponyback_ _THE CURLYTOPS AT SILVER LAKE Or On the Water With Uncle Ben_ _THE CURLYTOPS AND THEIR PETS Or Uncle Tobys Strange Collection_ CUPPLES LEON COMPANY New York COPYRIGHT 1921 BY CUPPLES LEON COMPANY THE CURLYTOPS AND THEIR PETS Printed in USA CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I UNCLE TOBYS LETTER 1

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandA Middy in CommandA Tale of the Slave SquadronBy Harry Collingwood________________________________________________________________________Another excellent book by this talented nautical author As the titleimplies it is the tale of a young man who is a midshipman in the RoyalNavys antislavetrade squadronThere are the usual accidents and swimming events but the young mansecures his promotion by his distinguished performance in the captureof a slaverA wellwritten book by an author who from his actual trade understandshow sailing ships are designed and built and whose works are by thatreason all the more worthy of readingIt makes a very nice audiobook of eleven and a half hours duration________________________________________________________________________A MIDDY IN COMMANDA TALE OF THE SLAVE SQUADRONBY HARRY COLLINGWOODCHAPTER ONEOUR FIRST PRIZEThe first faint pallor of the coming dawn was insidiously extendingalong the horizon ahead as HM gunbrig _Shark_the latest addition tothe slavesquadronslowly surged ahead over the almost oilsmooth seaunder the influence of a languid air breathing out from the southeastShe was heading in for the mouth of the Congo which was about fortymiles distant according to the masters reckoningThe night had been somewhat squally and the royals and topgallantsailswere stowed but the weather was now clearing and as three bellschimed out musically upon the clammy morning air Mr Seaton the firstlieutenant who was the officer of the watch having first scanned theheavens attentively gave orders to loose and set again the light uppercanvasBy the time that the men aloft had cast off the gaskets that confinedthe topgallantsails to the yards the dawnwhich comes with startlingrapidity in those latitudeshad risen high into the sky ahead andspread well along the horizon to north and south causing the stars tofade and disappear one after another until only a few of the brightestremained twinkling low down in the westAs I wheeled at the sterngrating in my monotonous promenade of the leeside of the quarterdeck a hail came down from aloftSail ho two of em sir broad on the lee beam Look as if they werestandin out from the landWhat are they like Can you make out their rig demanded the firstluff as he halted and directed his gaze aloft at the man on the mainroyalyard who halfway out to the yardarm was balancing himselfupon the footrope and steadying himself with one hand upon the yard ashe gazed away to leeward under the shade of the otherI cant make out very much sir replied the man Theyre too faroff but one looks like a schooner and tother like a brigAnd they are heading out from the land you say demanded thelieutenantLooks like it sir answered the man but as I was sayin theyre along way off and its a bit thick down to leeward there soAll right never mind cast off those gaskets and come downinterrupted Mr Seaton impatiently Then turning to me he saidMr Grenvile take the glass and lay aloft if you please and see whatyou can make of those strangers Mr Keeneto the other midshipman ofthe watchslip down below and call the captain if you please Tellhim that two strange sail have been sighted from aloft apparentlycoming out from the CongoBy the time he had finished speaking I had snatched the glass from itsbeckets and was halfway up the weather main rigging while the watchwas sheeting home and hoisting away the topgallantsails and royalsWhen Keene reappeared on deck after calling the skipper I wascomfortably astride the royalyard with my left arm round the spindleof the vanethe yard hoisting close up under the truck With my righthand I manipulated the slide of the telescope and adjusted the focus ofthe instrument to suit my sightBy this time the dawn had entirely overspread the firmament and the skyhad lost its pallor and was all aglow with richest amber through whicha long shaft of pale golden light soaring straight up toward thezenith heralded the rising of the sun The thickness to leeward had bythis time cleared away and the two strange sail down there were nowclearly visible the one as a topsail schooner and the other as a brigThey were a long way off the topsails of the brigwhich was leadingbeing just clear of the horizon from my elevated point of observationwhile the head of the schooners topsail just showed clear of the seaThe brig I took to be a craft of about our own size say some threehundred tons while the schooner appeared to be about two hundred tonsI had just ascertained these particulars when the voice of the skippercame pealing up to me from the sterngrating near which he stood withMr Seaton alongside of himWell Mr Grenvile what do you make of themI replied giving such information as I had been able to gather andadded They appear to be sailing in company sirThank you that will do you may come down answered the skipperThen as I swung myself off the yard I heard the lieutenant give theorder to bear up in chase to rig out the port studdingsail booms andto see all clear for setting the port studdingsailsor stunsails asthey are more commonly called I had reached the crosstrees on my waydown when Captain Bentinck again hailed meAloft there just stay where you are for a little while Mr Grenvileand keep your eye on those sail to leeward And if you observe anyalteration in the course that they are steering report the fact to meat onceAy ay sir I answered and settled myself down comfortably for whatI anticipated might be a fairly long waitFor a few minutes all was now bustle and confusion below and about methe helm was put up and the ship wore short round the yards were swungand then several hands came aloft to reeve the gear rig out the boomsand set the larboard studdingsails from the royals down We ratherprided ourselves upon being a smart ship and in less than five minutesfrom the moment the order was given we were sliding away upon our newcourse at a speed

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandMore About Peggy by Mrs G de Horne Vaizey___________________________________________This is another excellent book by Mrs de Horne Vaizeydating from the end of the nineteenth century While ofcourse it is dated in its references to the world aroundits actors yet nevertheless their emotions arewelldescribed and no doubt are timelessIn some ways the world around the people in the book isrecognisable today in a way which a book written thirty orforty years before would not have been They haveelectricity telephones trains buses and many otherthings that we still use regularly today Of course onemajor difference is that few people today have servantswhile middleclass and upperclass families of the eighteennineties would certainly have had themToday we travel by aeroplane while in those days andindeed for much of my own life we travelled by ship andtrain It was normal when travelling back to England fromIndia to disembark at Marseilles and come on to theChannel Ports by train perhaps even spending a week or twoin Italy en route I have done it myselfSo it is not so very dated after all But I do think thereis a real value in reading the book Oddly enough I thinkthat a boy would benefit from reading any of theauthors books more than a girl would because it wouldgive him an insight into the girlish mind which he couldnot so easily otherwise obtain And as the young ladies ofthis book are trying to sort out whom they should marrymatters do get quite girlish NH_________________________________________________________MORE ABOUT PEGGYBY MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEYCHAPTER ONEIt was midJanuary and at home in England the ground was white withsnow but the sun shone down with brazen glare on the blue waters of theBay of Bengal along which a P and O steamer was gliding on its homewardway An awning was hoisted over the deck but not a breath of windfluttered its borders and the passengers lay back in their deckchairstoo limp and idle to do more than flick over the pages of the bookswhich they were pretending to read It was only twentyfour hours sincethey had left Calcutta and they were still in that early stage ofjourneying when they looked askance at their fellows decided thatnever no never had Fate placed them in the midst of such uninterestingcompanions and determined to keep severely to themselves during therest of the voyageThe stout lady in the white _pique_ stared stonily at the thin lady indrill and decided that she was an Impossible Person blissfullyunconscious of the fact that before Aden was reached she would pour allher inmost secrets into the Impossible Persons ear and weep salttears at parting from her at Marseilles The mother of the sicklylittle girls in muslin swept them away to the other end of the deck whenshe discovered them playing with the children who inhabited the nextstateroom and the men stared at one another stolidly across thesmokingroom The more experienced travellers knew that ere a week hadpassed the scene would be changed that a laughing babel of voices wouldsucceed the silence and deck sports and other entertainments take theplace of inaction but the younger members of the party saw no suchalleviation ahead and resigned themselves to a month of frostysolitudeThe ladies dozed amongst their cushions but the men strolled up anddown the deck smoking their cigars with that air of resigned dejectionwhich seems to be the monopoly of Englishmen of the upper classes Thequick movements animated gestures and sparkling eyes of the Southernerwere all lacking in these strongly built welldressed wellsetup menwho managed to conceal all signs of animation so successfully that noone looking at them could have believed that one was the wit of hisregiment another celebrated throughout an Indian province for hiscourage and daring and a third an expectant bridegroomAbout eleven oclock a diversion was made on the upper deck by theappearance of two more travellersan elegantlooking woman accompaniedby her husband who came forward in search of the deckchairs which hadbeen placed in readiness for their use They were not a young couple byany means yet the eyes of the passengers followed their movements withinterest for they were not only exceedingly good to look upon but hadan air of enjoyment in their surroundings and in each others societywhich is unfortunately not universal among middleaged couples The manwas tall and slight with the weatherbeaten driedup skin which tellsof a long residence under burning suns and he had a long nose and eyeswhich appeared almost startlingly blue against the brown of his skinThey were curious eyes with a kind of latent fierceness in their goodhumour but just now they shone in holiday mood and softened intotenderness as he waited on his wifeNo sooner had this interesting couple seated themselves in their chairsthan a chirrup of welcome sounded in their ears and a beaming littlefigure in grey alpaca darted forward to greet them Though the majorityof passengers in an oceangoing boat may be unsociably inclined at thestart there are always one or two exceptions to the rule to be foundin the shape of ultrafriendly souls who willynilly insist uponplaying the part of devoted friends to some unresponsive stranger andthe old lady in question was one of these exceptions She had begunoperations the night before by quarrelling violently over the possessionof a cabin had then proceeded to borrow halfadozen necessities of thetoilet which she had forgotten and had advanced to the length of termsof endearment before the bell sounded for dinner It was only naturalthen that she should exhibit a breathless anxiety to know how her newfriend had fared during the night and the invalid braced herself tobear the attack with composureSo glad to see you up this morning dear she cried I was afraidyou might be ill but I asked your daughter about you and was sorelieved to hear good news We met on deck before breakfast and had anice long talk Such a sweet

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandBetty Trevorby Mrs George de Horne Vaizey aka Jessie Mansergh________________________________________________________________This book concerns a family where the children consist of a couple ofboys and a few more than that of girls They live in a Square inLondon which bears the name of an existing London Square but which isplaced according to the story in quite a different place to the realone The children are fascinated by the occupants of the various otherhouses some of whom they gradually get to knowThe children grow up the boys are away doing interesting things andthe girls become interested in their own clothes and appearances Thismay be just a males view of the story but it seems like it to me forthere doesnt seem to be nearly as much life as you find in the sameauthors Pixie books Well I suppose thats not true there is asubtle undercurrent of old love affairs revived that runs right to thevery last pageand that is one of Mrs Vaizeys greatest skills If youhavent done so do read the little biography we have written of her asit will help you to understand her writing rather better than if youdontStill you read the book and see what you think You may well bepleasantly surprised________________________________________________________________BETTY TREVORBY MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY aka JESSIE MANSERGHCHAPTER ONETHE PAMPERED PETThere goes the Pampered Pet again Got its little keeper with it asusual Why dont they lead her by a chain and be done with itMiles stood by the schoolroom window hands jingling in pockets as hesurveyed a prospect sufficiently grey and drear to make any diversitydoubly welcome and at his words there came the sound of a generalpushingback of chairs as the four other occupants of the room dashedforward to share in the viewThey jostled each other with the scant courtesy which brothers andsisters are apt to show each other in early days five big boys andgirls ranging between the ages of eight and nineteen Miles kept hiscentral position by reason of superior strength a vigorous dig of hispointed elbow being enough to keep trespassers at a distance Bettydarted before him and nimbly dropped on her knees the twins stood oneither side of the windowsill while poor Pam grumbled and fretted inthe background dodging here and there to try all positions in turn andfinding each as unsatisfactory as the lastThe Square gardens looked grey and sodden with the desolation of autumnin a city and the road facing the window was empty except for twofemale figuresa lady and a girl of sixteen who were slowlyapproaching the corner The lady was dressed in black the girl wasnoticeably smart in a pretty blue costume with dainty boots on hertiny feet and a fur cap worn at the fashionable angle on her goldenheadThats a new dressthe fifth Ive seen her in this month sighedBetty enviously Wearing it on an afternoon like this too The ideaServe her right if it were soaked throughLook at her mincing over the puddles Shed rather go a mile out ofher way than get a splash on those precious boots Im sure by the lookof them that they pinch her toes I am glad you girls dont makeninnies of yourselves by wearing such stupid thingsCant Feet too big mumbled Jill each cheek bulging in turn withthe lump of toffee which she was mechanically moving from side to sideso as to lengthen the enjoyment as much as possibleCant Too poor Only four shillings to last out till the end of thequarter sighed Betty dolorous againBoots Boots What boots Let me see her boots Its mean Youwont let me see a thing cried Pam pushing her shaggy head roundMiles elbow and craning forward on the tip of her toes I sayShes grander than ever today isnt sheLook at the umbrella About as thick as a lead pencil scoffed Jillflattening her nose against the pane Aunt Amy had one like that whenshe came to stay and I opened it because mother says it spoils them tobe left squeezed up and she was as mad as a hatter She twisted at ita good ten minutes before she would take it out again Shed never get_mine_ straight Ive carried things in it till the wires bulge outlike hoops An umbrella is made for use its bosh pretending its anornament They are going a toddle round the Square between theshowers for the benefit of the Pets complexion Im glad I havent gotone to bother aboutTrue for you agreed Miles with brotherly candour You are as brownas a nigger and the Pet is like a big waxdollyellow hair blue eyespink cheeks all complete Not a badlooking doll either I passedquite close to her one day and she looked rattling Shell be a jollypretty girl one of these daysOh if you admire that type Personally I dont care for niminypiminies You never see her speaking but I daresay if you poked her inthe right places she would bleat out Mamma Papa Now watchcried Betty dramatically When she gets to the corner she will peerup at this window beneath her eyelashes and mince worse than ever whenshe sees us watching Dont shove so Pam You can see quite wellwhere you are Now _look_ Shes going to raise her headThe five heads pressed still more curiously against the pane and fivepairs of eyes were fixed unblinkingly upon the young girl who wasdaintily picking her way round the corner of the Square The fur capleft her face fully exposed to view and true to Bettys prophecy asshe reached a certain point in the road she turned her head over hershoulder and shot a quick glance at the window overhead Quicker thanlightning the pretty head went round again and the pink

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandFor Fortune and GloryA Story of the Soudan WarBy Lewis Hough________________________________________________________________________We were a little nervous to know how Lewis Hough got on writing a bookwith such a very different setting to his masterly Doctor JolliffesBoys In fact the story opens in a boarding school the British PublicSchool called Harton This is probably meant to be a word based onEton and another school that has an annual cricket match with Etoncalled Harrow In fact there is plenty of internal evidence that itreally is Eton with the dropping of local slang terms only in use atthat schoolBefore I knew the story I was also nervous about the title What couldFortune possibly have to do with the Soudan War What actually happenedwas that a certain Will had been stolen by a former employe anEgyptian of a Dublin solicitor together with a previous version of theWill This had resulted in a family losing all their money since thefather had been a Partner in an Eastern Bank that foundered in theevents leading up to the Soudan WarEventually the two Wills are tracked down and justice done as regardsthe estateBut all this is a parallel story to the description of events in theSoudan War This is well worth reading for its own sake especially inthis day and age when certain events seem about to repeat themselvesNH________________________________________________________________________FOR FORTUNE AND GLORYA STORY OF THE SOUDAN WARBY LEWIS HOUGHA STORY OF THE SOUDAN WARCHAPTER ONEA MYSTERIOUS RELATIVEIt is nice to go home even from Harton though we may be leaving allour sports behind us It used to be specially nice in winter but youyoung fellows are made so comfortable at school nowadays that you missone great luxury of return to the domestic hearth Why they tell methat the schoolrooms at Harton are _warmed_ And I know that theSenate House at Cambridge is when men are in for their winterexaminations so it is probable that the younger race is equallypampered and if the present Hartonians teeth chatter at six oclocklesson consciousness of unprepared lessons is the cause not coldBut you have harder headwork and fewer holidays than we had so you arewelcome to your warm schoolrooms I am not sure that you have the bestof it at any rate we will cry quitsBut the superior material comforts of home are but a small matter in thepleasure of going there after all It is the affections centred in itwhich cause it to fill the first place in our hearts be it never sohumbleHarry Forsyth was fond of Harton fond of football which was in fullswing fond of his two chums Strachan and Kavanagh He rather likedhis studies than otherwise and indeed took a real pleasure in someclassical authorsHomer and Horace for exampleas any lad who hasturned sixteen who has brains and is not absolutely idle is likely todo He was strong active popular he had passed from the purgatorialstate of fag to the elysium of fagger But still his blood seemedturned to champagne and his muscles to watchsprings when the cabwhich carried him and his portmanteau passed through the gate into thedrive which curved up to the door of Holly Lodge For Holly Lodgecontained his mother and Trix and the thought of meeting either of themafter an absence of a schoolterm set his heart bounding and his pulsethrobbing in a way he would not have owned to his best friends for thechoice of bats in the best makers shop He loved his father also buthe did not know so much of him He was a merchant and his business hadnecessitated his living very much abroad while Cairo did not suit hiswifes health His visits to England were for some years butoccasional and did not always coincide with Harrys holidays Twoyears previously indeed he had wound up his affairs and settledpermanently at home but he was still a busy mana director of theGreat Transit Bank and interested in other things which took him up toLondon every day He was also fond of clublife and public dinnersand though he was affectionate with his wife and children too much oftheir society rather bored himWhen she heard the cabwheels crunching the gravel Beatrice Forsyth ranout without a hat and Harry seeing her opened the door and quittedthe vehicle while yet in motion as the railway notices have itwhereby he nearly came a cropper but recovered his balance and wasimmediately fitted with a live necklace Beatrice was a slight fairblueeyed curlyhaired girl of fifteen so light and springy that herbrother carried her without an effort to the hall steps where beingset down she sprang into the cab and began collecting the smallerpackages rug umbrella and other articles inside it while Harryhugged his mother in the hallYour father will be home by four said Mrs Forsyth when the firstgreetings and inquiries as to health were overAnd Haroun Alraschid has taken possession of his study added Trixwith a sort of aweHaroun how much asked HarryDont be absurd Trix said Mrs Forsyth It is only your uncleRalph BurkeBurke that was your name mother this uncle was your brother thenOf course Harry Have you never heard me speak of your uncle RalphNow you mention it yes mother But I had a sort of idea that he wasdeadSo we thought him for some time said Mrs Forsyth for he left theIndian Civil Service in which he had a good appointment anddisappeared for years He met with disappointments and had asunstroke and went to live with wild men in the desert and I believehas taken up with some strange religious notions In fact I fear thathe is not quite right in his head But he talks sensibly about thingstoo and seems to wish to be kind We were very fond of one anotherwhen we were children and he seems to remember it in spite of all hehas gone

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandDoctor Jolliffes Boysby Lewis Hough________________________________________________________________This a very enjoyable book about life in a boys boarding school in thelate nineteenth century Despite schoolrules the boys get out ofbounds for a number of reasons for instance visiting a forbidden tuckshop engaging in various cruel country sports like rat baiting goingskating on a frozen lake especially near the thin ice poaching on alarge nearby estate and suchlike attractionsEvery scene is beautifully drawn and I have wondered many times why theauthor did not write more and indeed why this book is not more wellknown than it is Until I found a copy in an old book shop I had neverheard of either the author or of the bookThe characters of the various principal actors in the story are verywell drawn and one feels one knows them all quite well by the end ofthe bookThere was in fact another contemporary author of the same name who wasan expert in economic and currency affairs and who also wrote usingand about a novel way of getting books printed NH________________________________________________________________DOCTOR JOLLIFFES BOYSBY LEWIS HOUGHCHAPTER ONEA TALE OF WESTON SCHOOLWESTON _versus_ HILLSBOROUGHWell cut Saurin well cut Run it out Four The ball wasdelivered again to the bowler who meditated a shooter but being alittle tired failed in his amiable intention and gave the chance of ahalfvolley which the batsman timed accurately and caught on the rightinch of the bat with the whole swing of his arms and body thrown intothe drive so that the ball went clean into the scorers tent as ifdesirous of marking the runs for itselfWell hit indeed Well hitThe Westonians roared with delight and their voices were fresh forthey had had little opportunity of exercising them hitherto Crawleythe captain of their eleven the hero in whom they delighted had beendeclared out leg before wicket when he had only contributed five tothe score Only two of the Westonians believed that the decision wasjust Crawley himself and the youth who had taken his place and wasnow so triumphant But he hated Crawley and rejoiced in hisdiscomfiture even though it told against his own side so his opinionwent for nothingWell no more did anybodys else except the umpires who after all isthe only person capable of judgingSaurin has got his eye in we may put together a respectable scoreyetHe is the best player we have got when he only takes the troubledont you think so said Edwards who believed in Saurin with a faithwhich would have been quite touching if it had not been so irritatingHe thinks so himself at any rate replied the boy addressed and weare a shocking bad lot if he is right Anyhow he seems to be in formtoday and I only hope that it will lastThe batsman under discussion hoped so too If he could only make anunprecedented score restore the fortunes of the day and show the worldwhat a mistake it was to think Crawley his superior in anythingwhatever it would be a glorious triumph He was not of a patrioticdisposition and did not care for the success of his school except as itmight minister to his own personal vanity and gain for he had a bet ofhalfacrown on his own side But his egotism was quite strong enoughto rival the public spirit of the others and raise his interest to thegeneral pitchThe match between Weston and Hillsborough was an annual affair andexcited great emulation being for each school the principal event ofthe cricketing season One year it was played at Weston and the next atHillsborough and it was the Westonians turn to play on their ownground on this occasionHillsborough went in first and put together 94 runs Then Weston wentto the wickets and could make nothing of it There was a certain lefthanded Hillsburian bowler who proved very fatal to them it was one ofhis twists which found Crawleys leg where his bat should have beenResult eight wickets down for twenty and then Saurin went in and madethe 9 we have witnessedBetween ourselves the cut was a fluke but the halfvolley was a genuinewellplayed hit which deserved the applause it got The next ball camestraight for the middle stump but was blocked back halfway between thecreases and another run was stolenOverThe new bowler went in for slows The first a very tempting ballSaurin played forward at and hit it straight and hard into the hands oflong field on who fumbled and dropped it amidst groans and derisivecheersWarned by this narrow shave he played back next time and seemed tohimself to have missed a really good chance This feeling inducedhesitation when the next ball was delivered and the result ofhesitation was that the insidious missile curled in somehow over his batand toppled his bails off Saurin was so much mortified as he walkedback to the tent that he could not even pretend to assume a jauntycareless air but scowled and carried his bat as if he would like to hitsomeone over the head with it Which indeed he wouldThere was one consolation for him he had made ten and that proved tobe the top scoreFor the first time within living memory Weston had to follow itsinningsNow when you consider that the presidents of Oxford and Cambridge Clubskept an eye on this match with a view to promising colts you mayimagine the elation of the Hillsburians and the dejection of theWestonians when Crawley and Robarts walked once more to the wicketsTheir schoolmates clapped their hands vigorously indeed and some ofthem talked about the uncertainty of cricket but the amount of hopethey had would not have taken the room of a pair of socks in PandorasboxBut Crawley was a bowler as well as a batsman and Robarts was theWestonian wicketkeeper so that both were somewhat fagged when theyfirst went in whereas they were now quite fresh Again theHillsburian bowling champion found his dangerous left arm a

Produced by Ruth Hart ruthharttwilightoraclecomTranscribers note In the original text all the verse titles anddedications are in regular type while all the stanzas are italicizedI have not indicated these different styles in this online textSILVERPOINTSBYJOHN GRAYLONDON MDCCCXCIIIELKIN MATHEWS ANDJOHN LANE AT THESIGN OF THE BODLEYHEAD IN VIGO STREETALL RIGHTS RESERVED EN COMPOSANT DES ACROSTICHES INDOLENTS PVLES DEMOISELLES DE SAUVETO S A S ALICE PRINCESSE DE MONACOBeautiful ladies through the orchard passBend under crutchedup branches forked and lowTrailing their samet palls oer dewdrenched grassPale blossoms looking on proud JacquelineBlush to the colour of her finger tipsAnd rosy knuckles laced with yellow laceHighcrested Berthe discerns with slant clinched eyesAmid the leaves pink faces of the skiesShe locks her plaintive hands SainteMargotwiseYsabeau follows last with languorous pacePresses voluptuous to her bursting lipsWith backward stoop a bunch of eglantineCourtly ladies through the orchard passBow low as in lords halls and springtime grassTangles a snare to catch the tapering toeHEARTS DEMESNETO PAUL VERLAINEListen bright lady thy deep Pansie eyesMade never answer when my eyes did prayThan with those quaintest looks of blank surpriseBut my love longing has devised a wayTo mock thy living image from thy hairTo thy rose toes and keep thee by alwayMy gardens face is oh so maidly fairWith limbs all tapering and with hues all freshThine are the beauties all that flourish thereAmaranth fadeless tells me of thy fleshBriar rose knows thy cheek the Pink thy poutBunched kisses dangle from the Woodbine meshI love to loll when Daisy stars peep outAnd hear the music of my garden dellHollyhocks laughter and the Sunflowers shoutAnd many whisper things I dare not tellSONG OF THE SEEDLINGTO ARTHUR SEWELL BUTTTell little seedling murmuring germWhy are you joyful What do you singHave you no fear of that crawling thingHim that has so many legs and the wormRain drops patter above my head Drip drip dripTo moisten the mould where my roots are fed Sip sip sipNo thought have I of the legged thing Of the worm no fear When the goal is so nearEvery moment my life has runThe livelong day Ive not ceased to singI must reach the sun the sunLADY EVELYNI know no Name too sweet to tell of herFor Loves sweet Sake and DominationShe hath me all her Spell hath Power to stirMy Heart to every Lust and spur me onLove saith tis even thus her Will no ThrallBut Touchstone of thy Worth in Loves ArmureThey only conquer in Loves Lists that fallAnd Wounds renewed for Wounds are captain CureHe doubly is inslaved that gilts his ChainSaith Reason chaffering for his Empire goneBestir and root the Canker that hath taenThy Breast for Bed and feeds thy Heart uponI this Sweet Love an sweet an sour thou beI know no Name too sweet to tell of theeCOMPLAINTTO FELIX FÉNÉONMen women call thee so or so I do not know Thou hast no nameFor me but in my heart aflameBurns tireless neath a silver vine And round entwine Its purple girthAll things of fragrance and of worthThou shout thou burst of light thou throb Of pain thou sob Thou like a barOf some sonata heard from farThrough bluehued veils When in these wise To my souls eyes Thy shape appearsMy aching hands are full of tearsA HALTING SONNETTO MISS ELLEN TERRY ON HER BIRTHDAYIt is not meet for one like me to praiseA lady princess goddess artist suchFor great ones crane their foreheads to her touchTo change their splendours into crowns of baysBut poets never rhyme as they are bidNor never see their ft goal but aspireWith straining eyes to some far silvern spireFlowers among sing to the gods cloudhidOne of these onetime opened velvet eyesUpon the worldthe years recall the dayThose lights still shine conscious of power alwayBut flattering men with feigned looks of surprise The couplet is so great that where thou art Thou being a poemit is past my artWINGS IN THE DARKTO ROBERT HARBOROUGH SHERARDForth into the warm darkness faring wideMore silent momently the silent quayTowards where the ranks of boats rock to the tideMuffling their plaintive gurgling jealouslyWith gentle nodding of her gracious snoutOne greets her master till he step aboardShe flaps her wings impatient to get outShe runs to plunder straining every cordFullwinged and stealthy like a bird of preyAll tense the muscles of her seemly flanksShe the coy creature that the idle daySees idly riding in the idle ranksBackward and forth over the chosen groundLike a young horse she drags the heavy trawlTireless or speeds her rapturous course unboundAnd passing fishers through the darkness callDeep greeting in the jargon of the seaHaul upon haul flounders and soles and dabsAnd phosphorescent animalculeSand seadrift weeds thousands of worthless crabsLow on the mud the darkling fishes gropeCautious to stir staring with jewel eyesDogs of the sea the savage congers mopeWinding their sulky march MeanderwiseSuddenly all is light and life and flightUpon the sandy bottom agate strewnThe fishers mumble waiting till the nightUrge on the clouds and cover up the moonTHE BARBERII dreamed I was a barber and there wentBeneath my hand oh manes extravagantBeneath my trembling fingers many a maskOf many a pleasant girl It was my taskTo gild their hair carefully strand by strandTo paint their eyebrows with a timid handTo draw a bodkin from a vase of kohlThrough the closed lashes pencils from a bowlOf sepia to paint them underneathTo blow upon their eyes with a soft breathThey lay them back and watched the leaping bandsIIThe dream grew vague I moulded with my handsThe mobile breasts the valley and the waistI touched and pigments reverently placedUpon their thighs in sapient spots and stainsBeryls and crysolites and diaphanesAnd gems whose hot harsh names are

Produced by Al HainesTHE WARS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICABYT C SMITHPROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN WILLIAMS COLLEGE WILLIAMSTOWN MASS USALONDONWILLIAMS AND NORGATETranscribers note Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbersenclosed in curly braces eg 99 They have been located where pagebreaks occurred in the original book in accordance with ProjectGutenbergs FAQV99 For its Index a page number has been placedonly at the start of that sectionFirst printed 191415vPREFACEThe purpose of this volume is to show how social economic andpolitical causes led to a period of almost continuous antagonismbetween England and the American communities from 1763 to theratification of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 and how that antagonismwas ended The war of American Independence 17751783 and the war of18121815 give their names to the book not because of their militaryor naval importance but because they mark in each case the outcomeof successive years of unavailing efforts on the part of each countryto avoid bloodshed With this aim in view no more detailed study ofthe internal political history or institutions of either country can beincluded than is necessary to account for different political habitsnor can the events of diplomatic history be developed beyond what iscalled for to explain persistent lines of action or the conclusion of asignificant treatyviCONTENTSCHAP PAGE I THE ELEMENTS OF ANTAGONISM 1763 9 II THE CONTEST OVER PARLIAMENTARY TAXATION 17631773 28 III THE DISRUPTION OF THE EMPIRE 17731776 51 IV THE CIVIL WAR IN THE EMPIRE 17761778 75 V FRENCH INTERVENTION AND BRITISH FAILURE 17781781 96 VI BRITISH PARTIES AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 17781783 114 VII THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED STATES 17811793 129 VIII THE FIRST PERIOD OF COMMERCIAL ANTAGONISM 17831795 149 IX THE TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED STATES 17951805 169 X THE SECOND PERIOD OF COMMERCIAL ANTAGONISM 18051812 189 XI THE WAR FOR SAILORS RIGHTS AND WESTWARD EXPANSION 18121815 215 XII END OF THE ANTAGONISM A CENTURY OF PEACE 236 BIBLIOGRAPHY 251 INDEX 2549THE WARS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICACHAPTER ITHE ELEMENTS OF ANTAGONISM 1763In 1763 by the Peace of Paris England won a position of unapproachedsupremacy in colonial possessions and in naval strength The entireNorth American continent east of the Mississippi River was now underthe British flag and four West India sugar islands were added to thosealready in English hands In India the rivalry of the French wasdefinitely crushed and the control of the revenues and fortunes of thenative potentates was transferred to the East India Company Guided bythe genius of Pitt British armies had beaten French in Germany andAmerica and British fleets had conquered French and Spanish withcomplete ease The power of the Empire seemed beyond challenge Yetwithin this Empire itself there lay already the seeds of a discordwhich was soon 10 to develop into an irrepressible contest leadingto civil war then for a generation to drive the separated parts intorenewed antagonism and finally to cause a second war Between theNorth American colonies and the mother country there existed suchmoral political and economic divergence that nothing but prudent andpatient statesmanship on both sides of the Atlantic could preventdisasterThe fundamental source of antagonism lay in the fact that the thirteencolonies had developed a wholly different social and political lifefrom that of the mother country Originally the prevailing ideas andhabits of the colonists and of the Englishmen who remained at home hadbeen substantially the same In England as in America the gentry andmiddle classes played a leading part during the years from 1600 to1660 But by 1763 England under the Hanoverian kings had become astate where all political and social power had been gathered into thehands of a landed aristocracy which dominated the government theChurch and the professions In parliament the House of Commonsoncethe body which reflected the conscious strength of the gentry andcitizenshad now fallen under the control of the peers owing to thedecayed condition of scores of ancient parliamentary boroughs Nearlyonethird of the seats were actually 11 or substantially owned bynoblemen and of the remainder a majority were venal the closecorporations of Mayor and Aldermen selling freely their right to returntwo members at each parliamentary election In addition the influenceand prestige of the great landowners were so powerful that even in thecounties and in those boroughs where the number of electors wasconsiderable none but members of the ruling class sought election Sofar as the members of the middle class were concernedthe

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Produced by Al HainesFrontispiece Orison Swett MardenPushing to the FrontBYORISON SWETT MARDENThe world makes way for the determined manPUBLISHED BYThe Success CompanysBranch OfficesPETERSBURG NY TOLEDO DANVILLEOKLAHOMA CITY SAN JOSECOPYRIGHT 1911By ORISON SWETT MARDENFOREWORDThis revised and greatly enlarged edition of Pushing to the Front isthe outgrowth of an almost worldwide demand for an extension of theidea which made the original small volume such an ambitionarousingenergizing inspiring forceIt is doubtful whether any other book outside of the Bible has beenthe turningpoint in more livesIt has sent thousands of youths with renewed determination back toschool or college back to all sorts of vocations which they hadabandoned in moments of discouragement It has kept scores of businessmen from failure after they had given up all hopeIt has helped multitudes of poor boys and girls to pay their waythrough college who had never thought a liberal education possibleThe author has received thousands of letters from people in nearly allparts of the world telling how the book has aroused their ambitionchanged their ideals and aims and has spurred them to the successfulundertaking of what they before had thought impossibleThe book has been translated into many foreign languages In Japan andseveral other countries it is used extensively in the public schoolsDistinguished educators in many parts of the world have recommended itsuse in schools as a civilizationbuilderCrowned heads presidents of republics distinguished members of theBritish and other parliaments members of the United States SupremeCourt noted authors scholars and eminent people in many parts of theworld have eulogized this book and have thanked the author for givingit to the worldThis volume is full of the most fascinating romances of achievementunder difficulties of obscure beginnings and triumphant endings ofstirring stories of struggles and triumphs It gives inspiring storiesof men and women who have brought great things to pass It givesnumerous examples of the triumph of mediocrity showing how those ofordinary ability have succeeded by the use of ordinary means It showshow invalids and cripples even have triumphed by perseverance and willover seemingly insuperable difficultiesThe book tells how men and women have seized common occasions and madethem great it tells of those of average ability who have succeeded bythe use of ordinary means by dint of indomitable will and inflexiblepurpose It tells how poverty and hardship have rocked the cradle ofthe giants of the race The book points out that most people do notutilize a large part of their effort because their mental attitude doesnot correspond with their endeavor so that although working for onething they are really expecting something else and it is what weexpect that we tend to getNo man can become prosperous while he really expects or half expects toremain poor for holding the poverty thought keeping in touch withpovertyproducing conditions discourages prosperityBefore a man can lift himself he must lift his thoughts When we shallhave learned to master our thought habits to keep our minds open tothe great divine inflow of life force we shall have learned the truthsof human endowment human possibilityThe book points out the fact that what is called success may befailure that when men love money so much that they sacrifice theirfriendships their families their home life sacrifice positionhonor health everything for the dollar their life is a failurealthough they may have accumulated money It shows how men have becomerich at the price of their ideals their character at the cost ofeverything noblest best and truest in life It preaches the largerdoctrine of equality the equality of will and purpose which paves aclear path even to the Presidential chair for a Lincoln or a Garfieldfor any one who will pay the price of study and struggle Men who feelthemselves badly handicapped crippled by their lack of earlyeducation will find in these pages great encouragement to broadentheir horizon and will get a practical helpful sensible education intheir odd moments and halfholidaysDr Marden in Pushing to the Front shows that the average of theleaders are not above the average of ability They are ordinarypeople but of extraordinary persistence and perseverance It is astorehouse of noble incentive a treasury of precious sayings Thereis inspiration and encouragement and helpfulness on every page Itteaches the doctrine that no limits can be placed on ones career if hehas once learned the alphabet and has push that there are no barriersthat can say to aspiring talent Thus far and no fartherEncouragement is its keynote it aims to arouse to honorable exertionthose who are drifting without aim to awaken dormant ambitions inthose who have grown discouraged in the struggle for successTHE PUBLISHERSCONTENTSCHAPTER I THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY II WANTEDA MAN III BOYS WITH NO CHANCE IV THE COUNTRY BOY V OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE VI POSSIBILITIES IN SPARE MOMENTS VII HOW POOR BOYS AND GIRLS GO TO COLLEGE VIII YOUR OPPORTUNITY CONFRONTS YOUWHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT IX ROUND BOYS IN SQUARE HOLES X WHAT CAREER XI CHOOSING A VOCATION XII CONCENTRATED ENERGY XIII THE TRIUMPHS OF ENTHUSIASM XIV ON TIME OR THE TRIUMPH OF PROMPTNESS XV WHAT A GOOD APPEARANCE WILL DO XVI PERSONALITY AS A SUCCESS ASSET XVII If YOU CAN TALK WELL XVIII A FORTUNE IN GOOD MANNERS XIX SELFCONSCIOUSNESS AND TIMIDITY FOES TO SUCCESS XX TACT OR COMMON SENSE XXI ENAMORED OF ACCURACY XXII DO IT TO A FINISH XXIII THE REWARD OF PERSISTENCE XXIV NERVEGRIP PLUCK

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttpwwwpgdpnet Music transcribed by Linda CantoniJoyce Wilson Espe Nada Prodanovic and the PG FinaleProject TeamTranscribers notesPage vii The word following view of what Owen was unclearand may not be the Writes which has been chosenMus Not following a title means that the original book containsmusical notation for that song COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS What keeps the herd from running Stampeding far and wide The cowboys long low whistle And singing by their side COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS COLLECTED BY JOHN A LOMAX MA THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SHELDON FELLOW FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF AMERICAN BALLADS HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BARRETT WENDELL _New York_ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1929 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT 1910 1916 By STURGIS WALTON COMPANY Set up and electrotyped Published November 1910 Reprinted April 1911 January 1915 New Edition with additions March 1916 April 1917 December 1918 July 1919 Reissued January 1927 Reprinted February 1929 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY BERWICK SMITH CO _To_ MR THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHO WHILE PRESIDENT WAS NOT TOO BUSY TO TURN ASIDECHEERFULLY AND EFFECTIVELYAND AID WORKERS IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN BALLADRY THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED Cheyenne

Produced by Joe Longo and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIllustration Betsy Held the Skipper by His Coattails_Frontispiece_ _Page_ 113_TUCKMEIN TALES_Trademark RegisteredTHE TALE OF BETSY BUTTERFLYBY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYIllustrationNEW YORKGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERSMade in the United States of AmericaCopyright 1918 byGROSSET DUNLAPCONTENTSCHAPTER PAGE I BEAUTY AND THE BLOSSOMS 1 II JOHNNIE GREENS NET 6 III A MISHAP 11 IV BUSYBODIES 17 V NO JOKER 22 VI MRS LADYBUGS ADVICE 27 VII BUTTERFLY BILL 32 VIII DO YOU LIKE BUTTER 37 IX UNEXPECTED NEWS 42 X THE NIGHT WATCH 47 XI A SLY ONE 52 XII A TERRIBLE BLUNDER 57 XIII THE FRIENDLY STRANGER 63 XIV A DEEP PLOT 68 XV JOSEPH BUMBLES COMPLAINT 73 XVI NOTHING BUT A FRAUD 78 XVII DUSTYS DIFFICULTY 83 XVIII SOLOMON OWLS IDEA 88 XIX A BIT OF LUCK 93 XX SOMETHING SEEMS WRONG 98 XXI A STRANGE CHANGE 103 XXII THE SKIPPER 110THE TALE OF BETSY BUTTERFLYIBEAUTY AND THE BLOSSOMSEVERY one of the field people in Pleasant Valley and the forest folk aswell was different from his neighbors For instance there was JasperJay He was the noisiest chap for miles around And there was PeterMink Without doubt he was the rudest and most rascally fellow in thewhole district Then there was Freddie Firefly who was the brightestyoungster on the farmat least after dark when his light flashedacross the meadowSo it went One person was wiser than any of his neighbors another wasstupider and somebody else was always hungrier But there was one whowas the loveliest Not only was she beautiful to look upon She wasgraceful in flight as well When one saw her flittering among theflowers it was hard to say which was the daintierthe blossoms orBetsy ButterflyFor that was her name Whoever gave it to her might have chosen aprettier one Betsy herself always said that she would have preferredViolet In the first place it was the name of a flower And in thesecond her redandbrown mottled wings had violet tipsHowever a person as charming as Betsy Butterfly did not need worryabout her name Had she been named after a dozen flowers she couldhave been no more attractivePeople often said that everybody was happier and better just for havingBetsy Butterfly in the neighborhood And some claimed that even theweather couldnt help being fine when Betsy went abroadWhy the sun just has to smile on her they would exclaimBut they were really wrong about that The truth of the matter was thatBetsy Butterfly couldnt abide bad weathernot even a cloudy sky Shesaid she didnt enjoy flying except in the sunshine So no one ever sawher except on pleasant daysTo be sure a few of the field people turned up their noses at BetsyThey were the jealous ones And they generally pretended that they didnot consider Betsy beautiful at allShe has too much color Mehitable Moth remarked one day to MrsLadybug Between you and me Ive an idea that it isnt natural Ithink she paints her wingsI dont doubt it said Mrs Ladybug I should think shed be ashamedof herself And little Mrs Ladybug pursed up her lips and looked verysevere And then she declared that she didnt see how people could sayBetsy was even goodlooking if they had ever noticed her tongueHonestly her tongues as long as she is Mrs Ladybug gossiped Butshe knows enough to carry it curled up like a watchspring so it isntgenerally seen You just gaze at her closely some day when shessipping nectar from a flower and youll see that I know what Imtalking aboutNow some of those

Produced by Hillary Fischer Juliet Sutherland and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThe Works ofGuy de MaupassantVOLUME IBOULE DE SUIFAND OTHER STORIESNATIONAL LIBRARY COMPANYNEW YORK1909BIGELOW SMITH CO CONTENTS PAGEINTRODUCTION xBOULE DE SUIF 1MISS HARRIET 54FRANCESCA AND CARLOTTA RONDOLI 82CHÂLI 117THE UMBRELLA 131MY UNCLE SOSTHENES 143HE 152A PHILOSOPHER 162ALWAYS LOCK THE DOOR 171A MEETING 179THE LITTLE CASK 190HOW HE GOT THE LEGION OF HONOR 198THE ACCURSED BREAD 206WHAT WAS REALLY THE MATTER WITH ANDREW 213MY LANDLADY 221THE HORLA OR MODERN GHOSTS 228LOVE THREE PAGES FROM A SPORTSMANS BOOK 263THE HOLE 270SAVED 279BELLFLOWER

Produced by John Bickers DagnyCHINESE SKETCHESby Herbert A GilesThe institutions of a despised people cannot be judged with fairnessSpencers Sociology The Bias of PatriotismDEDICATIONTo Warren William de la RueAs a mark of friendshipPREFACEThe following _Sketches_ owe their existence chiefly to frequentperegrinations in Chinese cities with pencil and notebook in handSome of them were written for my friend Mr F H Balfour of Shanghaiand by him published in the columns of the _Celestial Empire_ Thesehave been revised and partly rewritten others appear now for thefirst timeIt seems to be generally believed that the Chinese as a nation arean immoral degraded race that they are utterly dishonest cruel andin every way depraved that opium a more terrible scourge than ginis now working frightful ravages in their midst and that only theforcible diffusion of Christianity can save the Empire from speedy andoverwhelming ruin An experience of eight years has taught me thatwith all their faults the Chinese are a hardworking sober and happypeople occupying an intermediate place between the wealth andculture the vice and misery of the WestH A GSutton Surrey 1st November 1875CHINESE SKETCHESTHE DEATH OF AN EMPERORHis Imperial Majesty TsaiShun deputed by Heaven to reign over allwithin the four seas expired on the evening of Tuesday the 13thJanuary 1875 aged eighteen years and nine months He was erroneouslyknown to foreigners as the Emperor Tung Chih but Tung Chih wasmerely the style of his reign adopted in order that the people shouldnot profane by vulgar utterance a name they are not even permitted towrite Until the new monarch the late Emperors cousin had beenduly installed no word of what had taken place was breathed beyondthe walls of the palace for dangerous thoughts might have arisen hadit been known that the State was drifting rudderless a prey to thewild waves of sedition and lawless outbreak The accession of a childto reign under the style of Kuang Hsu was proclaimed before it waspublicly made known that his predecessor had passed away Either one or all of the characters composing an emperors name are altered by the addition or omission of certain component parts as if for instance we were to write an Alb_a_rt chain merely because Alb_e_rt is the name of the heirapparent Similarly a child will never utter or write its fathers name and the names of Confucius and Mencius are forbidden to all alikeOf the personal history of the illfated boy who has thus beenprematurely cut off just as he was entering upon manhood and theactual government of four hundred million souls we know next tonothing His accession as an infant to the dignities of a sensualdissipated father attracted but little attention either in China orelsewhere and from that date up to the year 1872 all we heard aboutHis Majesty was that he was making good progress in Manchu or hadhit the target three times out of ten shots at a distance of abouttwentyfive yards He was taught to ride on horseback though up tothe day of his death he never took part in any great huntingexpeditions such as were frequently indulged in by earlier emperorsof the present dynasty He learnt to read and write Chinese thoughwhat progress he had made in the study of the Classics was of courseonly known to his teachers Painting may or may not have been anImperial hobby but it is quite certain that the drama received moreperhaps than its full share of patronage The ladies and eunuchs ofthe palace are notoriously fond of whiling away much of theirmonotonous existence in watching the grave antics of professionaltragedians and laughing at the broad jokes of the lowcomedy man withhis comic voice and funnilypainted face Listening to the tunesprescribed by the Book of Ceremonies and dining in solemn solitarygrandeur off the eight precious kinds of food set apart for thesovereign his late Majesty passed his boyhood until in 1872 hemarried the fair Alute and practically ascended the dragon throneof his ancestors Up to that time the EmpressesDowager hidden behinda bamboo screen had transacted business with the members of the PrivyCouncil signing all documents of State with the vermilion pencil forand on behalf of the young Emperor but probably without even goingthrough the formality of asking his assent The marriage of theEmperor of China seemed to wake people up from their normal apathy sothat for a few months European eyes were actually directed towards theFlowery Land and the _Illustrated London News_ with praiseworthyzeal sent out a special correspondent whose valuable contributionsto that journal will be a record for ever The ceremony however washardly over before a bitter drop rose in the Imperial cup Barbariansfrom beyond the sea came forward to claim the right of personalinterview with the sovereign of all under Heaven The story of thefirst audience is still fresh in our memories the trivialdifficulties introduced by obstructive statesmen at every stage of theproceedings questions of etiquette and precedence raised at everyturn until finally the _kotow_ was triumphantly rejected and fivebows substituted in its stead Every one saw the curt paragraph in the_Peking Gazette_ which notified that on such a day and at such anhour the foreign envoys had been admitted to an interview with theEmperor We all laughed over the silly story so sedulously spread bythe Chinese to every corner of the Empire that our Ministers kneeshad knocked together from terror when Phaetonlike he had obtained hisdangerous request that he fell down flat in the very presencebreaking all over into a profuse perspiration and that the haughtyprince who had acted as his conductor chid him for his want of coursebestowing upon him the contemptuous nickname of chickenfeather These arebears paws deers tail ducks tongues torpedos roe camels humps monkeys lips carps tails and beefmarrowSubsequently in the spring of 1874 the late Emperor made his greatpilgrimage to worship at the tombs of his ancestors He had previousto his marriage performed this filial duty once

Produced by Taavi Kalju Janet Blenkinship and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet ArchiveAmerican Libraries THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRAS BY JOAQUIN MILLER AND OTHER STORIES _FULLY ILLUSTRATED_ Illustration COLOR TWO COLORS THREE FOUR FIVEA DOZEN BOSTON D LOTHROP COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS Copyright 1886 by D LOTHROP COMPANY CONTENTS PAGE I THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRAS 7 _Joaquin Miller_ II A MODERN HERO 23 _Marion Harland_ III BENNYS WIGWAM 44 _Mary Catherine Lee_ IV BENNYS DISAPPEARANCE 63 _Mary Catherine Lee_ V HOW TWO SCHOOLBOYS KILLED A BEAR 86 _H F Marsh_ VI PETES PRINTING PRESS 94 _Kate Gannett Wells_ VII AUNT ELIZABETHS FENCE 119 _George H Hebard_ VIII THE BUTTON BOY 138 _A M Griffin_ IX DAN HARDYS CRIPPY 156 _James Otis_ X HIS THREE TRIALS 185 _Kate Gannett Wells_ XI IN THE SECOND DORMITORY 211 _John Preston True_ XII THE DOUGHNUT BAIT 232 _George Varney_ XIII A REAL HAPPENING 239 _Mary B Claflin_THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRASTheir mother had died crossing the plains and their father had had aleg broken by a wagon wheel passing over it as they descended theSierras and he was for a long time after reaching the mines miserablelame and poorThe eldest boy Jim Keene as I remember him was a bright littlefellow but wild as an Indian and full of mischief The next eldestchild Madge was a girl of ten her fathers favorite and she was wildenough too The youngest was Stumps Poor timid starved Little StumpsI never knew his real name But he was the baby and hardly yet out ofpetticoats And he was very short in the legs very short in the bodyvery short in the arms and neck and so he was called Stumps because helooked it In fact he seemed to have stopped growing entirely Oh youdont know how hard the old Plains were on everybody when we crossedthem in oxwagons and it took more than half a year to make thejourney The little children those that did not die turned brown likethe Indians in that long dreadful journey of seven months and stoppedgrowing for a timeFor the first month or two after reaching the Sierras old Mr Keenelimped about among the mines trying to learn the mystery of findinggold and the art of digging But at last having grown strong enoughhe went to work for wages to get bread for his

Produced by Tapio RiikonenNAIMISEN JUORUJAKuvaelma kansan elämästäKirjP PÄIVÄRINTASuomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura Helsinki 1882JOHDANTOEräässä paikkakunnassa on muiden joukossa kaksi talonpojan taloaKolkkila on toisen ja Kirrilä toisen nimi Talot ovat siksi likitoisiaan että talojen asukkaat tuntevat hyvin toisensa sisällisestikö ei ei niin tarkoin eivät he ainakaan kaikin tunteneettoisiansa vaan tuo tunteminen oli paremmin ulkonaista tuntemistanimittäin semmoista tuntemista kuinka rikkaita kummankin talonasukkaat olivat kuinka paljon heillä oli maallisia tavaroita kuinkapaljon heillä oli lapsia kuinka he olivat komeoita kuinka paljonheillä oli kunniaa jne semmoista tuntemista oli ainaki suurimmallaosalla noiden talojen asukkailla toisistansa Kertomuksessammenimitämme kummankin talon isäntää talojensa nimellä toista Kolkiksi jatoista KirriksiKatselkaamme kummankin noiden talojen sekä sisällisiä että ulkonaisiaasioita erikseenKolkkila oli vielä velkainen talo ja sen isännällä ja emännällä oliniin paljon lapsia että heitä määrittävä luku oli lähinnä kymmenennumeroa alhaalta päin lukien Lapset elivät kaikki ja olivat terveitäja virkkuja lapsia heistä oli toiset isompia toiset pienempiätiettypä se Talon isäntäväki olivat tyhjästä alkaneet elämänsä jonkavuoksi eivät he vielä olleet saaneet kaikkia velkojansa maksetuiksiMutta Kolkki oli laittanut maansa ja koko taloutensa hyvään voimaanSentähden tulivat he ison lapsilaumansa kanssa hyvästi toimeensemminkin kun hyvä järjestys oli kaikissa talouden toimissa heidänalituisena apunaan Kaikki heidän lapsensa olivat puhtaissa jaterveissä vaatteissa eikä heidän elämästään eikä toimeentulostaanpuuttunut mitään sillä ne oli aina kodista saatavina jos kohtakinvielä velkaakin oli Kolkki oli niitä miehiä joihin nouseva valistusalkoi tunkea säteitänsä ja lämmittää ja elähyttää jäykkää suomalaistarintaa Hänelle tuli useammat sanomalehdet ja nuorta kirjallisuuttarakasti hän hartaasti Sentähden osti hän aina parhaat ilmestyvätkirjat ja kirjastonsa paisui ajan pitkään melkoiseksi kirjastoksi Hänoli välttävä kirjoitus ja laskumies ja mitä hän itse osasi sitä hänopetti lapsillensakin Kaikki hänen lapsensa olivat hyviä lukijoita jakotona oleva kirjasto tuli heille rakkaaksi ja suureksi elämänohjeeksi Vanhemmat rakastivat keskenänsä toisiansa ja lapsiansa jalapset vuorostaan vanhempiansaKaiken tuon ulkonaisen elämänsä tietäen ja tuntien perheensäsisällisenkin tilan piti Kolkki itseänsä ja perhettänsä ihmisinäUsein hän tunsi sisällistä iloa ja rauhaa tykönänsä siitä että hänihmisenä kansalaisena ja perheen isänä on täyttänyt kalliinkutsumuksensa Hänen ilonsa tuli oikeen täydelliseksi silloin kuin hänhuomasi ison terveen lapsilaumansa sillä hän huomasi silloin ettäJumalakin häntä rakastaa koska on uskonut hänelle niin paljon lapsiaVäliin kun joku suuttui Kolkille soimasi hän häntä tavallisesti ainakin takapuolella velkakirjoilla mutta Kolkki ei tuommoisistamielestänsä tuhmista puheista ollut millänsäkään vaan antoi ne mennätoisesta korvasta sisälle ja toisesta ulos Kaikki kunniakkaat jatunnolliset ihmiset kunnioittivatkin Kolkkia kunnollisena jatunnollisena kansalaisena ja perheen isänä ja tuo oli enempi Kolkinmielestä kuin tuhmien ihmisien parjaaminen ihan viattoman asian tähdenLyhyen kuvauksemme täydentämiseksi ja lopulliseksi selitykseksisaatamme sanoa että Kolkki oli uuden ajan oli edistyspuolueen miehiäsanan täydellisessä merkityksessä ja siitä selvästä syystä oli hänenväkensä myös henkisissä riennoissa eteenpäin pyrkiviäKirrilä oli suora vastakohta Kolkkilalle sekä ulkonaisissa ettäsisällisissä suhteissa Kirri oli isältään perinyt talon velattomana javieläpä valmiita rahojakin Kirrilän isäntäväki oli niin kitsasta javisua laatua että siinä oli työ tuska jos he raskivat oikeensyödään Emäntä oli niin saita ja visu ettei hän raskinut sormeaannuolasta kun hän maitoastioitaan kuoriessa sormellaan pyyhki viimeisiäpäällisen hituleita kermapönttöön vaan hänellä oli leipäsiivuja ainavaralla joihin hän pyyhki sormensa sitten hän pirosteli hienoa suolaatuon voiteluksensa päälle ja antoi ne sitten lapsillensa voileivännimelläIsäntä taas oli niin saita ettei hän koskaan olisi raskinut maksaatyömiehille palkkaa jonka he kyllä olivat kovalla työnteollansaansainneet Jokaisen työmiehen palkan maksun aikana oli Kirrillä riitaaja kinaa työmiestensä kanssa ja kun hän lopen ei pääsnyt puuhun eikäpitkään vaan hänen täytyi kun täytyikin maksaa tavallinen maassakulkeva palkka vannoi hän tavallisesti silloin ettei hän kuunaherran valkeana ota enään työhönsä noin korkean palkan ottajaa Tuonvalansa vannoi hän joka työmiehelle jolle hän vaan palkkaa maksoimutta tuo vala ei kumminkaan pitänyt paikkaansa siitä pienestä jayksinkertaisesta syystä kun hän kumminkin tarvitsi työmiestä useinVaikka hänellä oli rahoja lainoissa oli hänellä kuitenkin niin huonotja ketuset talouden kapineet ja muut työkalut että hän näytti paremminköyhältä kuin rikkaalta eläjältä hän näytti varojensa keskelläkärsivän puutosta Hän selaili melkeen joka päivä velkakirjojansa jalaski lukua päässään kuinka paljon ne kasvua tuottivat ja tuossajokaaikaisessa työssään oli hän niin varttunut rahojen kasvun laskuunettei sitä laskumiestä ollut joka olisi hänen saanut penninkäänhäpeään Kun joku velallinen maksoi Kirrille velkaansa oli hänellä jokasvu pennin päälle tiedossa ennenkun he kerkesivät kirjoitusmiehenluoksikaan Erään kerran maksoi joku hänelle velkaansa ja kirjoitusmieslaski ja sanoi kuinka monen vuoden kuukauden ja päivän vanhavelkakirja oli Kirri pyörähti heti laskumieheen päin ja kysyihätäisesti entäs tämä päivä Asian selittäjänä oli vanha ja vakanenseurakunnan kanttori Hän otti nuuskatousansa esille otti siitäjuhlallisesti hyppysellisen nuuskaa ja veti sen hyvin miettiväisennäköisenä nokkaansa Sitten kääntyi hän Kirrin puoleen ja sanoikuinka minä tämän päivän ottaisin lukuun jota ei vielä oleelettykään Kirri kiepsahti heti velkamieheen päin ja kysäsi teinkömies väärin kun helpotin yhden päivän kasvun Semmoinenhan seKirri oli Tuon vähäisen käsiinsä kiertyneen mammonan vuoksikatsoivat Kirrilän isäntäväki kaikki ne ihmiset ylön joilla ei ollutrahoja lainassa ja niitä joilla oli vähänkään velkaa eivät hepitäneet ihmisinäkäänHeillä oli vaan kolme lasta jotka kaikki olivat poikia Silläajalla jolta kertomuksemme alkaa oli vanhin poika Martti jo silläijällä että hän oli jo kerran nainut mutta tuolla naimisella oliollut kova onni sillä hänen nuori vaimonsa oli kuollut jo toisenayhdessäolovuotena Tuo Martti oli isälleen ja äidilleen täysivastakohta Hän oli jo pienestä pitäin opinhaluinen ja pienenäpoikasena ollessaan käytti ja kärhensi hän niin kauvan isäänsä ettähänen täytyi ostaa pojalle lyijykynä Mutta tuota rahallista tappiotaanei Kirri tahtonut saada mielestänsä menemään moneen vuoteen Hänpaapotti ja nurisi myötänsä kuinka se raha meni aivan hukkaan jonkahän silloisessa tuhmuudessaan tuhlasi lyijykynän ostoon Mutta Marttiei ollut tuosta millänsäkään hän piti vaan saaliinsa ja piirteli jatähräsi vaan väliaikoina ja niin hän omin nokkinsa teki itsestänsäkirjoitusmiehen Ei hän isommaksi ja vanhemmaksi tultuansakaanheittänyt opin haluaan vaan hän hankki itsellensä hyödyllisiä kirjojaluki ja tutki niitä Usein sai Martti kuulla opin halunsa vuoksituhlarin ja laiskan nimeä sekä vanhemmiltansa että nuoremmiltaveljiltänsä jotka kumpikin vielä olivat poikasia sillä heidän jaMartin välillä olevat lapset olivat kuolleet Esko oli toisen ja Hannutoisen nuoremman veljen nimiKolkilla oli Aina niminen tytär kaunis ja siveä tyttö jota kylännuoriso piti isossa arvossa siveytensä ja kainoutensa tähden Hän olivasta viimeisinä vuosina kehkeentynyt ikääskun äkkiarvaamattaaikaiseksi ihmiseksi sillä hän oli vasta kahdeksannellatoistaikävuodellansa Kodin siveä elämä ja siellä oleva kirjasto olivat jopienestä pitäen pitäneet puhtaana hänen sydämensä ja vanhemmaksitultuansa rupesi kristillissiveellinen kasvatus kehittämään hänentarkkoja ja ymmärtäväisiä sielunlahjojansa Hänellä oli puhdasselkeä luja ja kaunis ääni ja hän oli oppinut paljon nuottien jälkeenlaulamaan kansallislauluja niitä lauloi Aina useinkin nuorison

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandOur Soldier Boy by George Manville Fenn________________________________________________________________________Well this certainly is a departure from the usual Fenn style Suspenseas always there certainly is but the intended audience is much youngerthan his usual teenager oneThe date is the Peninsular War in PortugalA British family of merchants in Portugal are unaware of the intensityof the nearby fighting in the vicinity They are at their country homeand go out for a few minutes leaving their eightyear old son with theservants The French attack slay the servants and leave the childwith a severe injury to the headLater the 200th Fusiliers come by and the corporal sees the villa andgoes up there to see if he can get anything useful for his men to eatHe sees the slain servants and comes across the little boy whom hecarries back to his wife to see if she can bring him roundThe boy does recover becomes the mascot of the regiment and eventuallyafter a battle with the French heroically rescues the Colonel himselfThe boy comes to believe that the corporal and his wife are his realparentsMonths go by while the boy who does not have the faintest memory ofhis real father and mother becomes more and more the favourite of theRegiment The Portuguese give a great party to celebrate the Britishvictory and at the Ball there are present the Trevors the real fatherand mother of the boy There are touching scenes as recognition dawnsSo there is quite a lot of action for a short book________________________________________________________________________OUR SOLDIER BOY BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENNCHAPTER ONEYou Tom Jones let that potlid aloneIt was a big brownfaced woman who said that crossly and a bigroughlooking bugler in the uniform of the 200th Fusiliers with beltsbuttons and facings looking very clean and bright but the scarlet clothragged and stained from the rain and mud and sleeping in it anywhereoften without shelter who dropped the lid as if it were hot and shut inthe steam once more as the iron pot bubbled away where it hung fromthree sticks over a wood fireIt was in a lovely part of Portugal and the regiment was halting amongthe mountains after a long weary tramp fires had been lit for cookingand the men were lying and sitting about sleeping cleaning theirfirelocks pipeclaying their belts and trying to make themselves lookas smart as they could considering that they were all more or lessragged and torn after a fortnights tramp in all weathers in pursuit ofa portion of the French army which had been always a few hours aheadBut it was easy enough to follow their steps for everywhere they hadplundered and destroyed villages and pleasant homes were burned andblackened ruins cutup gardens and vineyards met the soldiers eyeswherever the enemy had beenThere had been a straggling little village by the side of the mountainstream where the 200th had halted at midday after their long marchunder a burning sun at a spot where there was plenty of fresh waterand it was the pot over one of these cooking fires whose lid Tom Joneshad lifted offOny wanted to smell what was for dinner he said What have yougot Mother BeaneNever you mind Rare ohs for meddlers and pumphandle sauce perhapsand look here you sir you come when we halt tonight and Ill mendsome of them rags Youre a disgraceAint worse than the rest of the fellows said Tom grinning TheColonels horse went down s mornOh dear dear cried the woman excitedly is he hurtBroke both his knees and bled ever soThe ColonelNowww His horse Colonel only went sliding down mong the stonesand ripped his jacket sleeve right upOh thats a blessing said the woman You go to him when we campand say Mrs Corpral Beanes dooty and shes got a needle and silkready and may she mend his jacketAll right but you might tell us whats for dinnerWait and see And why dont you go and forage about and see if youcant find a bit o fruit or some vegetablesTarnt no good Old Frogsoups clears everythingYes said the woman with a sigh as she rearranged her battered oldstraw bonnet cocked up as if it were a hat and took off the old scarletuniform tail coat she wore over her very clean cotton gown before goingto the pot wooden spoon in hand to raise the lid and give the contentsa stir roundOh I say Mother Beane it does smell good Whats in itShoulder o goat said the womanYah Dont care much for goat said the boy Arnt half so good asmuttonYou must take what you can get Tom Two chickensWhy that they aint I see em they was an old cock and hen as wechivied into that burnt house this mornin and Corpral shot one andMick Toole run his baynet through the other Reglar stringiesNever mind Im cooking em to make em taste like chicken and itstime they were all back to mess Which way did my old man goClimbed up yonder Said he knowed thered be a house up somewheresthereAnd why didnt you go with him sir said Mrs Corporal Beane Mighthave found a melon or some orangesNot me grumbled the boy Frenchies dont leave nothing hungrybeggars Murdrin wermin Wish we could ketch emAh so do I and it makes my heart bleed to see what we doAh but you wait a bit We shall ketch em one o these daysYou wont Youre too lazyThat I aint Id ha gone foraging s morning and theres an oldboot nail made a hole in one foot and tothers all blistersOh my poor boy And I havent finished that pair of stockings I wasknitting for you Look here you go and sit down till the men comeback and bathe your feet in the streamDid said the boy with a chuckleAh Where abouts Not above where we

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandAdventures in Australia by WHG Kingston________________________________________________________________________A couple of young men go to Australia to stay awhile with the uncle ofone of them While on the way up to the uncles station they meet withvarious adventuresDuring the book we are introduced to various of the animals ofAustralia the kookaburra the wombat the kangaroo the wallaby andmany others We also meet with the aboriginal occupiers of the landFinding that they like the life in Australia the two young men decideto settle and they buy with the uncles assistance an area of land onwhich to create a stationThis is not a long book but it is amply illustrated Some of thedrawings are very nice indeedYou will enjoy this book and it makes a good audiobook________________________________________________________________________ADVENTURES IN AUSTRALIA BY WHG KINGSTONCHAPTER ONESome years ago two travellers mounted on wiry yet strong lookingsteeds were wending their way through a forest in Australia They wereboth young and dressed much alike in broadbrimmed pith hats loose redshirts corduroy trousers and high boots with spursEach of them had stuck in his belt an axe a brace of pistols and along knife while at his back was slung a serviceablelooking rifleshowing that they were prepared to defend themselves should theyencounter any treacherous blacks a very possible contingency at thatperiod of the countrys historyThey were followed by an active native also mounted who led a horsecarrying their baggage The scenery was not especially attractiveindeed so great was its sameness that alone they would have been utterlyunable to find their way On either side rose tall stringybark andother gumtrees their curious and narrow leaves affording scarcely anyshelter from the rays of the almost vertical sun the huge white stemsfrom which the bark hung down in ragged masses giving them a weird anddreary aspect Tracks there were but they branched now in onedirection now in the other and were more calculated to bewilder thetravellers than to guide them aright Their mapfor being new arrivalsin the country they carried onetold them that they should soon reach abroad stream They were now looking out eagerly for it wonderingwhether they should have to wade through it or should find a ferryboatready to take them and their animals acrossI may as well sayhaving thus begun after the fashion of a writerwhose pure and wholesome works I used heartily to enjoy in my boyhooddaysthat one of the travellers was myself Maurice Thurston and theother my brother Guy a year only my senior We had lately lost ourfather with whose sanction we had settled some time before to come outto Australia and seek our fortunes We our mother our two sistersand another brother had been left with a very limited income and Guyand I wishing to push our own fortunes and establish a home for therest of the family agreed that no time should be lost in carrying ourplan into execution As soon therefore as our mothers affairs had beensettled we set sail from England and about two weeks before the day Iam describing arrived in Australia We had not come entirely on awildgoose chase A cousin of our fathers Mr Oliver Strong had longbeen settled in the country and had replied to an application made tohim some time before by our father saying that he should be happy toreceive us and put us in the way of doing well for ourselves if we weresober steady strong active willing fellows with heads on ourshoulders and without any fine gentleman notionsWe were now making our way toward his station some hundred miles in theinterior Though we had not ridden far from our camping place theintense heat of the sun made us feel very thirsty and sympathise withour horses which must have been equally so thus we were anxious as soonas possible to reach the river where we hoped to find an abundance ofwaterFrom our black guide we could not obtain much information for althoughwe were well assured that he spoke English when we engaged him we foundthat it was of a character which would take us some time to learnHowever he understood us better than we did him though we had to putquestions in all sorts of ways and repeat them over and over again Wethen had to puzzle out his replies not always arriving at asatisfactory conclusionGuy frequently stood up in his stirrups and looked ahead hoping tocatch the sheen of water At last we began to have some uncomfortablesuspicions that although our black attendant professed to know the wayhe had managed to lose ita circumstance not at all unlikely to occurand that we were wandering far out of our proper course Though the sunwas of some assistance yet we might be going too much to the north ortoo much to the west and might pass a long way off from the stationwhich we wished to reach All we could do therefore was to exert ourwits and should we have got out of the direct path to try and findit At length the foliage before us became somewhat thicker but nosign of water did we see We were riding on when a loud cry reached ourearsTheres some one in distress I exclaimedI fear that you are right we must find out answered GuyWe were urging on our horses when a peal of mocking laughter seemed tocome from the wood close to usWhat can that be I asked some natives who want to frighten us oran unfortunate maniacThe shout of laughter was repeatedHim one jackass observed our guide TobyJackass What can the fellow mean cried GuyThen looking up we discovered a large bird not far off who was evidentlyuttering the extraordinary sound we heard It was as Toby told us alaughingjackass or a gigantic kingfisher So ridiculous were thesounds that we could not help laughing tooPresently a number of cockatoos rising with loud screams just beforeus flew over

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandAfar in the Forest by WHG Kingston________________________________________________________________________This is not a long book but is very much in the Kingston style thatis the style he employs when writing about landbased adventures asopposed to seabased onesIt is quite difficult to follow who is who in this story and why theyare doing what they do I suggest that you use a pen and paper to jotdown peoples names as and when they make their appearanceBut there are some surprises regarding who is related to whom a devicewhich Kingston uses quite often________________________________________________________________________AFAR IN THE FOREST BY WHG KINGSTONCHAPTER ONEOUR HABITATION IN THE FORESTMY SHARE OF THE SPOILS OF THE DAYSCHASEUNCLE MARK COMMENCES HIS NARRATIVEWHY MY UNCLES DECIDED TOEMIGRATELANDING IN SAFETY THEY START UP COUNTRYTHEIR MEETING WITHSIMON YEARSLEY AN OLD SETTLERTHE SETTLEMENT IS FOUND IN RUINSLILYAND I RESCUEDUNCLE MARK PROMISES TO RESUME HIS NARRATIVE ON THE FIRSTOPPORTUNITYMY LOVE OF NATURAL HISTORYUNCLE MARK CONTINUES HISNARRATIVEYEARSLEY GOES IN PURSUIT OF THE INDIANSTHE BURIAL OF LILYSMOTHERTHE RETURN TO THE WAGGONTHEY REACH THE NEAREST SETTLEMENTALARM OF THE SETTLERS UPON HEARING OF THE OUTRAGE COMMITTED BY THEINDIANSUNCLE STEPHENS MARRIAGECONCLUSION OF UNCLE MARKSNARRATIVELILY AND I GO BERRYINGWE ARE ATTACKED BY A WOLFKEPENAUSAVES OUR LIVESHIS PRESENT OF VENISON TO AUNT HANNAHKEPENAUS BELIEFIN THE GOODNESS OF THE GREAT SPIRITTHE INDIANS ADVICEIs Lily not Uncle Stephens daughter then I askedThe question was put to my uncle Mark Tregellis whom I found seated infront of our hut as I returned one evening from a hunting excursionithaving been my duty that day to go out in search of game for our larderUncle Mark had just come in from his days work which had been that offelling the tall trees surrounding our habitation He and I togetherhad cleared an acre and a half since we came to our new locationIt was a wild region in which we had fixed ourselves Dark forests wereon every side of us To the north and the east was the great chain oflakes which extend a third of the way across North America Numberlessmountainranges rose in the distance with intervening heightssomerugged and precipitous others clothed to their summits with vegetationNumerous rivers and streams ran through the country one of which onwhose banks we purposed building our future abode passed close to ourhut Besides the features I have described there were waterfalls andrapids deep valleys and narrow gorges penetrating amid the hills whileto the southwest could be seen from the higher ground near us thewide prairie extending away far beyond human ken Wild indeed it wasfor not a single habitation of white men was to be found to thewestward and on the other side beyond the newlyformed settlement inwhich Uncle Stephen resided but few cottages or huts of the hardypioneers of civilisationand these scattered only here and thereexisted for a hundred miles or moreUncle Mark having lighted the fire and put the pot on to boil hadthrown himself down on the ground in front of the hut with his back tothe wall and was busy contemplating the dark pines which towered upbefore him and calculating how long it would take with his sharp axeto fell themI had brought home a haunch of venison as my share of the spoils of thechase in which I had joined Uncle Stephen and it was in consequenceof a remark made by him while we were out hunting that I had somewhateagerly asked at Uncle Mark the question with which this story opensNo Lily is not Stephens daughternor even related to him heanswered But we will cut some steaks off that haunch and broil themand while we are discussing our supper I will tell you all about thematterThe slices of venison and flourcakes baked on the fire were soonready and seated at the door of our hut with a fire burning before usto keep off the mosquitoes we commenced our repast when I reminded myuncle of his promiseIt is a good many years ago but even now it is painful to think ofthose days he began We came from Cornwall in the old countrywhere your Uncle Stephen your mother and I were born She had marriedyour father Michael Penrose however and had emigrated to Americawhen we were mere boys and we were just out of our apprenticeshipStephen as a blacksmith and I as a carpenter when we received a letterfrom your father and mother inviting us to join them in America andsetting forth the advantages to be obtained in the new country We werenot long in making up our minds to accept the invitation and in thespring of the next year we crossed the sea with well nigh three hundredother emigrantssome going out to relatives and friends others benton seeking their fortunes trusting alone to their own strong arms anddetermined will for successWe found on landing that we had a journey of some hundred milesbefore us part of which could be performed in boats up the rivers butthe greater portion was along corduroy roads through dark forestsand over mountains and plains Our brotherinlaw a bold determinedperson had turned backwoodsman and uniting himself with a party ofhardy fellows of similar tastes had pushed on in advance of the oldsettlers far to the westward in spite of the difficulties of obtainingstores and provisions and the dangers they knew they must encounterfrom hostile Indians whose territories they were invading We did nothowever think much of these things and liked the idea of being aheadas it seemed to us of others The forest was before us We were towin our way through it and establish a home for ourselves and ourfamiliesWe had been travelling on for a couple of weeks or so following thedirections your father had given us in order to find his new locationbut greatly in doubt as to whether we were going right when we werefortunate enough to fall in with a settler who knew him and who wasreturning with a waggon and team He readily undertook

Produced by Ted Garvin Martin Pettit and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetFIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIESBYARTHUR SYMONSLONDONCONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD1917_First published December 1916__Reprinted January June 1917_TOJOSEPH CONRADWITH A FRIENDS ADMIRATIONCONTENTS PAGESAINT AUGUSTINE 1CHARLES LAMB 13VILLON 37CASANOVA AT DUX 41JOHN DONNE 80EMILY BRONTË 109EDGAR ALLAN POE 115THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 122GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 130GEORGE MEREDITH AS A POET 141ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 153DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 201A NOTE ON THE GENIUS OF THOMAS HARDY 207LÉON CLADEL 216HENRIK IBSEN 222JORISKARL HUYSMANS 268TWO SYMBOLISTS 300CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Produced by Carlo Traverso Claudio Paganelli and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetThis file was produced from images generously madeavailable by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Milano MATILDE SERAO LInfedele MILANO DITTA EDITRICE BRIGOLA DI E BRIGOLA E G MARCO Via Annunciata N 6 M DCCC XCVII Proprietà Letteraria 171597Milano Tipografia Capriolo e MassiminoLinfedeleITre sono i personaggi di questa istoria damore Paolo Herz LuisaCima e Chérie Malgrado il suo cognome tedesco Paolo Herz è italianodi madre e di padre italiani delle provincie meridionali Veramentenon è inutile aggiungere che lavo paterno di Paolo era tedescoQuesto nonno aveva lasciato la Germania in piccolissima età emigrandoin Italia qui era cresciuto aveva lavorato ad accrescere la sostanzafamigliare e il decoro del nome Herz qui si era ammogliato con unaitaliana e aveva procreato dei figli Così i legami con la patria diorigine almeno quelli esteriori si eran venuti col tempo con lalontananza rallentando e poi più tardi sciogliendosi tanto che gliHerz sembrava non conservassero più nessuna traccia nordica neltemperamento e nel caratterePaolo Herz ha trentasei anni è alto forte elegante sebbene per glianni e per la vita di piaceri trascorsa sia in lui più evidenteleleganza che la forza ha il volto pallido ma sano e sotto ilpallore è diffusa una lieve tinta ambrata emblema del mezzogiorno oveegli nacque i capelli tagliati molto corti e che formano delle puntenaturali sulla fronte e sulle tempia ha i mustacchi soltantocastani che lasciano intravvedere una bocca ancora fresca mentreintorno agli occhi già manca la freschezza Paolo Herz ha unafisonomia tranquilla e quasi immota certe volte ma questa immobilitànon è lassenza della vitalità nè quel ritiro dellespressionefaciale che lascia le linee come morte È piuttosto un riposodignitoso del viso che esprime chiaramente il silenzio e lameditazione dellanima una pacatezza nobile e pensosa che pare piùadatta al suo genere di bellezza virile e che maggiormente gli attiralamore delle donne e lamicizia degli uomini Forse senza che eglineppure ne abbia sentore in quei periodi di pace del volto rinascein lui lantica avita conscienza germanica fatta di speculazionispirituali di contemplazioni pure e poetiche In quei momenti PaoloHerz è bello le donne spesso gli hanno imposto di tacere e dipensare quando era accanto a loro Sovra tutto non lo vogliono vedersoffrire le sue peggiori giornate come estetica sono quelle in cuiper un puntiglio non vinto per un capriccio non soddisfatto per unadelusione inaspettata per un immeritato dolore tutta la suafisonomia si decompone quasi luomo toccasse le soglie della morteEgli non può soffrire egli non sa soffrire quando soffre è bruttoè antipatico è talvolta odioso Il suo volto bruno diventatoterreo i suoi occhi come velati da una nebbia torbida le rughe chesi moltiplicano intorno agli occhi le guancie sparute che fan pareregrosso il naso le pieghe accanto alla bocca mostrano un Paolo Herztutto diverso senza energia morale senza forza fisica inetto aldolore abbattuto dal patimento e non destante alcuna compassionePerò bisogna dirlo pochi uomini lo hanno veduto soffrire e una soladonna Per lo più quando è infelice e non regge ad essere infeliceegli fugge e si nasconde non si sa dovePaolo Herz è libero Egli ha perduto sua madre essendo ancoragiovanissimo un orfanello di sedici anni Dopo nove anni avendonePaolo venticinque gli è morto il padre Da undici anni quindi egliè solo nella vita ha lontani parenti che poco conosce e non vedemai ha qualche amico buono ma lamicizia loro non è nè profonda nèesclusiva Egli ha amato più sua madre che suo padre mentre è statoamato moltissimo da ambedue come figliuolo unico La morte di suamadre sparita assai giovane e bella ha colpito ladolescenza diPaolo di un dolor folle con lunghe crisi nervose e intervallipaurosi di stupefazione in cui è parso naufragasse la sua salute eforse la sua ragione suo padre ha dovuto condurlo a fare unlunghissimo viaggio di due anni nei paesi più lontani ma ilfigliuolo calmato limpeto angoscioso ha conservato un rimpiantoinconsolabile la nostalgia di quel fido seno materno su cuiappoggiava così volentieri il capo A Paolo Herz è restatodalladorazione per sua madre una invincibile inclinazione a tutte ledelicatezze muliebri un bisogno di tenerezza quasi morboso undesiderio di blande e innocenti carezze una necessità di chinare latesta sovra un petto femminile e di udire un cuore tenuementepalpitare sotto il suo orecchio Malgrado questo Paolo Herz come sisupponeva dovesse fare non ha preso moglie Una sola volta nel suosegreto ha avuto lidea di sposare una fanciulla intelligente eaffettuosa ma al momento di parlare ha esitato dolendogli dilasciare una libertà tanto piacevole a un giovane poi la vita lo hacondotto altrove La creatura prescelta intimamente dallanima sua haavuto qualche vago presentimento di questa probabile elezione haatteso lungamente e vanamente il segno reale ma ha finito perstancarsi e ha dato il suo cuore e la sua vita ad altri Paolo Herz sadi aver perduto per sempre loccasione di essere onestamente felicema il suo rammarico non è nè acuto nè grande nè continuo Invece lalibertà di cui dispone ampiamente è una delle maggiori gioie dellasua esistenza nè egli commette lerrore di gusto di lagnarsi maidelle ore solinghe mai egli invoca borghesemente le dolcezzefamiliari nella sua vita Forse nel matrimonio più perfetto con lapersona che più egli aveva sognata di far sua egli ha sempre temutoun misterioso pericoloPaolo Herz è ricco Egli ha avuto da suo padre e da sua madre unamagnifica fortuna senza impicci senza noie perfettamente liquidadenaro e denaro cioè In verità egli ne ha mangiato una partevivendo cioè amando viaggiando giuocando spendendo il suo denaroin piaceri alti mediocri e anche qualche volta bassi non prodigogeneroso A trentaquattro anni rimane ancora ricco mentre ha giàpercorso una metà del mondo mentre ha già esaurito le tre o quattrofollie costose della giovinezza e della età meno giovane mentre hagià quasi toccato il fondo e anche assaporato un po la feccia di quelprogramma di lusso di godimenti di squisite ed estreme raffinatezzeche fa fremere ogni temperamento nobile e ardente Egli non è dopotutto questo nè un vizioso nè uno scettico in fatto di sensazioniumane Ha avuto del gusto un vivacissimo

Produced by Al HainesMary Powell Deborahs DiarybyAnne Manning A tale which holdeth children from play old men from the chimney corner Sir Philip SidneyLondon published by J M Dent Coand in New York by E P Dutton Co1908INTRODUCTIONIn the Valhalla of English literature Anne Manning is sure of a littleand safe place Her studies of great men in which her imaginationfills in the hiatus which history has left are not only literature inthemselves but they are a service to literature it is quiteconceivable that the ordinary reader with no very keen _flair_ forpoetry will realise John Milton and appraise him more highly havingread _Mary Powell_ and its sequel _Deborahs Diary_ than having read_Paradise Lost_ In _The Household of Sir Thomas More_ she had forhero one of the most charming whimsical lovable heroical men Godever created by the creation of whose like He puts to shame all thatmen may accomplish in their literature In John Milton whose firstwife Mary Powell was Miss Manning has a hero who though a supremepoet was gey ill to live with and it is a triumph of her art thatshe makes us compunctious for the great poet even while we appreciatethe difficulties that fell to the lot of his womenkind John Miltona Parliament man and a Puritan married at the age of thirtyfour MaryPowell a seventeenyearold girl the daughter of an Oxfordshiresquire who with his family was devoted to the King It was at oneof the bitterest moments of the conflict between King and Parliamentand it was a complication in the affair of the marriage that MaryPowells father was in debt five hundred pounds to Milton Themarriage took place Milton and his young wife set up housekeeping inlodgings in Aldersgate Street over against St Brides Churchyard avery different place indeed from Forest Hill Shotover by Oxford MaryPowells dear country home They were together barely a month whenMary Powell on report of her fathers illness had leave to revisithim being given permission to absent herself from her husbands sidefrom midAugust till Michaelmas She did not return at Michaelmas norfor some two years was there a reconciliation between the bride andgroom of a month During those two years Milton published hispamphlet _On the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce_ begun while hisfewweeksold bride was still with him In this pamphlet he stateswith violence his opinion that a husband should be permitted to putaway his wife for lack of a fit and matchable conversation whichwould point to very slender agreement between the girl of seventeen andthe poet of thirtyfour This was that Mary Powell who afterwardsbore him four children who died in childbirth with the youngestDeborah of the _Diary_ and who is consecrated in one of theloveliest and most poignant of English sonnets Methought I saw my lateespouséd Saint Brought to me like Alkestis from the grave Whom Joves great son to her glad husband gave Rescued from death by force though pale and faint Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint Purification in the Old Law did save And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint Came vested all in white pure as her mind Her face was veiled yet to my fancied sight Love sweetness goodness in her person shinedSo clear as in no face with more delight But oh as to embrace me she inclined I waked she fled and Day brought back my NightIt is a far cry from the woman so enshrined to the child of seventeenyears who was without fit and matchable conversation for herirritable intolerant poethusbandA good many serious writers have conjectured and wondered over thislittle tragedy of Miltons young married life but since all must needsbe conjecture one is obliged to say that Miss Manning with her gift ofdelicate imagination and exquisite writing has conjectured moreexcellently than the historians She does not play the sedulous apeto Milton or Mary Powell but if one could imagine a gentle and tenderBoswell to these two then Miss Manning has well proved her aptitudefor the place Of Mary Powell she has made a charming creature Thediary of Mary Powell is full of sweet country smells and sights andsounds Mary Powell herself is as sweet as her flowers frank honestloving and tender Her diary catches for us all the enchantment of anold garden we hear Mary Powells bees buzz in the mignonette andlavender we see her pleached garden alleys we loiter with her on thebowlinggreen by the fish ponds in the stillroom the dairy and thepantry The smell of aromatic box on a hot summer of long ago is inour nostrils We realise all the personagesthe impulsive hotheadedfather the domineering indiscreet mother the cousin Rose Agnew andher parson husband little Kate and Robin of the Royalist householdaswell as John Milton and his father and the two nephews to whom thepoet was tutorand a hard tutor Miss Mannings delightful humourcomes out in the two pragmatical little boys But Mary herselfdominates the picture She is so much a thing of the country ofgardens and fields that perforce one is reminded of Sir ThomasOverburys _Fair and Happy Milkmaid_She doth all things with so sweet a grace it seems ignorance will notsuffer her to do ill being her mind is to do well The gardenand beehive are all her physic and chirugery and she lives the longerfor it She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night and fears nomanner of ill because she means none yet to say truth she is neveralone for she is still accompanied by old songs honest thoughts andprayers but short ones

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Three Admirals Life in the Royal Navy in the 1860s By WHGKingston________________________________________________________________________This is the fourth in Kingstons tetralogy that begins with The ThreeMidshipmen and ends with The Three Admirals These books were amongthe first written by Kingston and were published serially in weeklymagazines Kingstons reputation was made by these books that firstappeared about 1860 and dealt with an officers life in the Navy atabout that timeBy an extraordinary coincidence the three young men who had met asmidshipmen get postings that enable them to keep their friendships liveeven when they are Admirals Another old friend is Admiral Triton whois now dead and buries on the Isle of Wight but they get to visit hisgraveThis is actually quite a long book but it is full of adventures andyou will love it as much as you loved its predecessors________________________________________________________________________THE THREE ADMIRALS LIFE IN THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE 1860s BY WHGKINGSTONCHAPTER ONETHE DRAGON OFF THE BONINSA CONVERSATION BETWEEN TOM ROGERS AND ARCHIEGORDONGERALD DESMOND ON THE SICKLISTTHREATENINGS OF A TYPHOONITSTRIKES THE SHIPSHE RUNS BEFORE ITTHE SHIP HOVE TOTHE BOWSPRITCARRIED AWAYA MARINE WILLOTHEWISPENTER A BAY IN ONE OF THE BONINISLANDSTOM GERALD AND BILLY GET LEAVE TO VISIT THE SHOREABEAUTIFUL CAVERNLAND ON THE ISLANDTHEIR DISCOVERIESFISHINGINTERRUPTED BY SHARKSA PICNICBOAT DRIFTS AWAY FROM THE SHORETOMSWIMS OFFNARROW ESCAPE FROM A SHARKSEE THE SHIP IN THE OFFINGPULLAFTER HERA HURRICANE COMING ONFEARFUL DANGER WHEN REENTERING THEHARBOURHer Majestys corvette _Dragon_ lately commanded by our old friend JackRogers who had been superseded by Commander Rawson was on her passageacross the wide Pacific bound for Esquimault harbour VancouversIsland from Japan to which she had been sent with despatchesThe wind being fair the screw was at rest and she was under all saillooking as trim and taunt a little manofwar as a sailors heart coulddesire Her stay in Japan had been short so that no leave had beengranted and even the officers had seen little of the country andpeople though as they hoped to return before long that did not muchmatter As it was of no great importance that the _Dragon_ should soonget back to Vancouvers Island Commander Rawson had received directionsto visit the Ladrone Islands somewhat to the southward of his coursein order to obtain particulars of an outrage said to have beencommitted on an English subject by some of the mongrel inhabitants ofthose islands which have for some centuries belonged to SpainThe smooth sea shone brightly in the rays of the sun undimmed by cloudor mist In all directions the snowy wings of sea fowl could be seennow dipping towards the ocean now rising into the blue ether showingthat land was at no great distance As the wind was from the northwardthe air was cool though the shady side of the ship was generally soughtfor by the watch on deck except by a few whose heads seemed imperviousto the hot rays of a tropical sunTwo midshipmen were slowly pacing the port side of the quarterdeckwhere a few feet of shade afforded them shelter from the heat The onea somewhat short wellknit lad with open countenance well tanned andblue laughing eyes his whole appearance giving promise of strength andactivity the other a tall youth with sandy hair and pleasant featureswell freckled Though tall he was too well built to be called lankyand showed that he possessed both strength and activityI say Archie I do envy those fellows of the _Eolus_ going on toChina they will see all sorts of fun for the Celestials are sure notto give in in a hurry The _Eoluses_ will have the same sort of workthat my brother Jack and your cousin Murray went through in the lastChinese war when they were midshipmenThe speaker was Tom Rogers the youngest brother of Captain Jack Rogershis companion was Archie Gordon Captain Alick Murrays cousinGerald was dreadfully cut up at not being able to remain on board the_Eolus_ and having instead to come back with us to return home butCaptain Adairs letter was peremptory and as the newspapers say Ihope that he will hear of something to his advantage Gerald would havebeen better pleased had his uncle let him know why he was sent forHe has no great cause to complain seeing that the climate of China isnone of the most delectable and he would have run the risk of beingshot into the bargain observed Archie I wish that I had the chanceof going home and finding myself the possessor of a tidy fortune with atitleBut then theres the honour and glory and the fun and the pigtailsto be captured and the loot and the chance of serving in a navalbrigade and seeing some work on shore just as the _Shannons_ peopledid in India with a fair prospect of promotion at the end of itIf a body happens not to be shot ye ken observed Archie who thoughevery bit as eager as Tom for the sort of work he described took apleasure in differing in opinion from him whenever he couldWe will not however bother poor Desmond about the subject until he iswell again said Tom I really believe that he fell sick throughvexation though he was happy enough to be with us once moreHe is much better today remarked Archie and I hope by tomorrowthat the doctor will let him come on deck again although he may not befit for duty for a day or two moreMr Mildmay the first lieutenant who was officer of the watch pacedthe deck spyglass in hand now and then going on to the bridge andsweeping the horizon with his glass while he frequently called to thelookouts on the forecastle and foreyardarm to keep their eyes openJos Green the master was also continually there or else consultingthe chart in his cabin for that part of the ocean was comparativelylittle known and cruel reefs might exist not marked downThe first lieutenant and the master seem very fidgety remarked TomSo would we be I suspect if the responsibility of

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandSnow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a FurTrader in the Hudson BayTerritory by William H G Kingston________________________________________________________________________The basic storyline is that there is a fort in the Hudson Bay Territorythat needs some stores and materials to be sent to it from another fortabout 150 miles away The journey could be done by canoe but there arenone available at this time So a party of people are sent overland tofetch what is requiredThere are encounters with bears and other dangerous animals there aretimes when they are very hungry and very tired They encounter bothfriendly and unfriendly Indians They borrow canoes at one stage andhave wrecks in the mighty rapidsThere are strong overtones indicating that Kingston has read theauthentic books by Ballantyne who had worked in the Hudson Bay Companyand whose letters home had set off his literary career But Kingstonhas a unique style of his own and he was good at research so he can beforgiven for using valuable authentic material to help him get his factsright and make his story credibleAbout 105 hours to read aloud________________________________________________________________________SNOW SHOES AND CANOES THE EARLY DAYS OF A FURTRADER IN THE HUDSON BAYTERRITORY BY WILLIAM H G KINGSTONCHAPTER ONEBLACK FORTTHE PACKHORSE TRAIN SETS OUTSANDY MCTAVISHS SAGACITYTHE NIGHTWATCHTHE TWO REDSKIN HORSETHIEVESA SNOWSTORMANUNCOMFORTABLE BED AND A TERRIBLE NIGHTMY DELIGHT AT FINDING MY HORSEALIVEWE OBTAIN SHELTER IN A WOODDESPERATE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A LYNXAND AN EAGLE FOR THE POSSESSION OF A HARETHE HARE BECOMES MY PRIZETHE UNTIMELY APPEARANCE OF A WOLFThe short summer of the NorthWest Territory of British America theregion in which the events I am about to describe took place wasrapidly drawing to a closeI had been sent from Black Fort of which my elder brother Alick hadcharge with Sandy McTavish an old follower of our fathers and twoother men to bring up ammunition and other stores as a winter supplyfrom Fort Ross about 150 miles offa distance however of which wedid not think muchThe stores ought to have been brought up the greater part of the way bythe Saskatchewan but a canoe had been lost in ascending the rapids andno other was at that time to be procured to replace her It becamenecessary therefore at all costs to transport the required stores byland We had eight packhorses besides the four animals my companionsand I rodeWe were all well armed for though the Crees and other Indian tribes inthe northern part of the territory were generally friendly we mightpossibly encounter a party of Blackfeet on the wartrail who shouldthey find us unprepared would to a certainty attack us and endeavourto steal our horses and goods We were but few in number for such anundertaking but no more men could be spared Sandy however was ahost in himself He thoroughly knew all the Indian ways and from hislong experience was well able to counteract themMany an evening while seated at our campfire or at the stove in thefort during winter has he beguiled the time with accounts of hishairbreadth escapes and desperate encounters with the redskins He hadno enmity towards them notwithstanding the attempts they had made onhis lifeThey were but following the instincts of their savage natures he usedto observe and they were not ower weel pleased with the white men forhunting in the country which they call theirs though it must be allowedthey dinna make gude use of itSandy was as humane as he was brave and I am very sure he never tookthe life of an Indian if he could avoid doing so with due regard to hisown safety He had come out from Scotland when a mere boy with ourfather who was at that time a clerk in the Hudsons Bay Company butwho had ultimately risen to be a chief factor and was the leader inmany of the adventurous expeditions which were made in those days Hewas noted for being a dead shot and a firstrate hunter whether ofbuffalo elk or grizzly bear Sandy had followed him in all hisexpeditions and took the greatest delight in describing them to usHaving remained at Fort Ross a couple of days to rest our beasts andprepare the packages for transport we set out Sandy and I leading andthe two men Pat Casey and Pierre Lacrosse following in the rear withthe baggage animalsWe travelled at the rate of about twentyfive miles each day Thatdistance being accomplished we encamped at night under shelter of agrove of poplars or willows we being glad of the protection theyafforded for although the weather was fine the wind had begun to blowsomewhat coldOur beasts having been unloaded were hobbled near at hand the goodsbeing piled up so as to form a breastwork in case of an attack Fuel tolast the night had then to be collected when the fire was lighted andthe pot put on to boilSupper being ready we sat round our fire to discuss it with goodappetites We then after a chat for half an hour or so drawing ourbuffalorobes over us with our saddles for pillows lay down to restour feet turned towards the fire One of us however always remainedon guard to watch the horses and to give warning should any BlackfeetIndians or prowling wolves draw near our encampmentWe did not believe that we had much to fear from either one or theother The Blackfeet seldom ventured so far north into the territory oftheir hereditary enemies the Crees and should any wolves approach thehorses would be sure to make their way up to the camp for protectionThe two hours watch which each of us took in turn made us sleep thesounder for the remainder of the time We were all too well inured tothe sort of life to think it any hardship Just before dawn the lastman on watch roused up the rest of us The ashes were raked togetherfresh sticks put on the water boiled for the

Produced by Robert Cicconetti Louise Pryor and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetTranscribers note This etext was produced from Worlds of If November1961 Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the UScopyright on this publication was renewed Groverzb knew what he wantedpeace and quiet He was willing to scream his head off for itQUIET PLEASEBy KEVIN SCOTTThe big man eased the piano off his back and stood looking at GroverzbYou aint gonna like it here He mopped his face Boy will I ever beglad to get off this cockeyed planetGroverzb pushed at his spectacles sniffed and said QuiteThe big man said Aint no native here over three feet tall And theygot some crazy kind of communication They dont talkGroverzb said QuietUhPrecisely why I am here I said Groverzb sniffing again loatheconversationOh Well He leftAlone Groverzb surveyed his realm The house was the shell of what hadformerly been a Little People apartment building Ceilings floors andwalls had been removed to form one large room The tiny doors andwindows had been sealed and a single window and door had been cut intothe shell for Groverzbs use Crude but serviceableGroverzb walked to the window and looked down the slope Little Peoplebuildings dotted the landscape and the people themselves scurriedsilently about Yes thought Groverzb it would do nicely He hadbrought an adequate foodtablet supply He would finish without thedistraction of voices his beautiful concerto He would return to Earthfamous and happyArmed with paper and pencils he went to the piano having decided toenlarge upon the theme in the second movement His mind knew exactly howthe passage should run and he swiftly covered the paper with sharpangular notes Then he triumphantly lifted his hands and began to playwhat he had writtenHe jerked back from the keyboard his hair on end his teeth on edgehis ears screaming with the mass of sounds he had produced He looked athis hands peered at the score adjusted his spectacles and tried againIm tired he thought recoiling in horror from the racket A foodtablet and a nap will remedy the situation When he awoke Groverzb walked to the window refreshed A violet glowhad replaced the harsh yellow light of day At the foot of the slopethe Little People dashed to and fro but no voice broke the peacefulquiet of the eveningWith a sigh of satisfaction Groverzb went to the piano Gently hestruck the keys Blatant jumbled noise filled the roomBreathing hard Groverzb rose and gingerly lifted the spinets lid Nonothing amiss there Good felts free hammers solid soundingboardmust be out of tuneGroverzb closed the lid sat down and struck a single note A cleartone sang out He moved chromatically up and down the scale Definitelynot out of tuneHe shifted the score glanced uneasily at the keys and began to playDiscord immediately pierced his eardrumsHe clapped his hands over his ears and leaped wildly from the pianobench The trip he decided frantically It must have affected myhearingHe flung himself from the house and down the slope The Little Peoplescattered staring He charged into the administration building andclutched the lapels of a uniformed officialA doctor he gasped Now This minuteThe official raised his eyebrows and removed Groverzbs hands withdistasteIts a little late in the day he drawled but maybe the doc up onthe top floorGroverzb flew up the stairs and into the doctors office The doctorsface lit upA patient he exclaimed Capital What seems to be the trouble Foodpoisoning Shouldnt eat the food here Garbage Appendix HeartattackStop talking you idiot its my earsObviously disappointed the doctor nevertheless poked and peered atGroverzbs earsNo he said finally A trifle big yes But nothing wrong with themYoure sureAbsolutely A pity Im getting a bit rustyWith a groan Groverzb staggered out of the building back through townand up the slope to his house Seating himself firmly on the bench hebegan to playHe shuddered The noise was abominableSuddenly his door burst open and a crowd of Little People rushed inThey pulled him off the bench and slapped angrily at his hands Thenwith cutters they attacked the pianoHere stop that Groverzb screeched What do you think youre doingThe Little People pushed and dragged him out of the house down theslope through the town and into the launching bowl at the spacestripThe launching agent took one look and yelled Get the interpreter Onthe doubleThe interpreter ran up and whipped something from his pocket It lookedlike a miniature piano skeleton He tripped a hammer There was a fainttinkle Instantly one of the Little People produced a single miniaturehammer and tapped it rapidly against his skull The interpreter trippedanother hammer A second little one responded Suddenly one of the Little People ran over and tripped all theinterpreters hammers simultaneously The Little People wincedOh said the interpreter Well its their planet He hustledGroverzb out to a freight ship that was warming up for takeoffIs everyone insane Groverzb croaked I demand to know what this isall aboutThe interpreter shoved Groverzb into the shipThey say you talk too much he yelled as he slammed the doorENDEnd of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Quiet Please by Kevin Scott

Produced by David Newman Sigal Alon Chuck Greif and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet SPIRIT AND MUSIC _By the same Author_ NERVE CONTROL SELF TRAINING A BOOK OF AUTOSUGGESTIONS THE INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT A MANUAL OF HYPNOTISM THE HIDDEN SELF POINTS ON PRACTISINGSpirit and MusicBYH ERNEST HUNTAuthor of Nerve Control Self Training c cLecturer in Psychology at the Training School forMusic Teachers The Metropolitan Academy ofMusic The Kensington School of Music cLondonLONDONKEGAN PAUL TRENCH TRUBNER CO LTDJ CURWEN SONS LTDNEW YORK E P DUTTON CO1922Printed in Great Britain by St Stephens Printing Works BristolCONTENTSCHAPI THE SPIRIT OF MUSICII THE PLACE OF MUSIC IN LIFEIII THE EXPRESSION OF LIFEIV SPIRIT A LIVING FACTV THE CONDITIONS OF INSPIRATIONVI THE INTERPRETERVII THE TEACHERVIII THE SOUL OF SONGIX MUSIC AND EDUCATIONX THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENTXI PURE MUSICXII THE PURPOSE OF ARTSPIRIT AND MUSICCHAPTER ITHE SPIRIT OF MUSICArt is the Manifestation of the Spiritual by means of theMaterialNewlandsmithMusic is a part of life It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobbynor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning aliving It is not an addendum or an excrescence it is an actual part ofthe fabric of life itself The object of these pages will be to show howclosely Music and indeed Art in general has woven itself into thepattern of our lives and how intimately it may influence and fashionthe designThe structural basis of Music is vibration Sound comes to us in theguise of airwaves which impinge upon the drum of the ear Thenerveimpulse thus aroused is conveyed to the brain and theretranslated into sound Strictly speaking there is thus no sound untilthe brain translates the message while if the machinery of the ear betoo dull to answer to the vibration the sound simply does not exist forus Beyond doubt the world is full of sounds that we cannot hear and ofsights that we never see for of the whole range of vibration our sensespermit us to garner but the veriest fragmenta few notes here of soundand a brief range there of sight out of the whole vast scale of vibrantNatureThere are sounds which are musical and others that are raucous and merenoise The difference lies in the fact that harsh sounds are compoundedof irregular vibrations while the essence of Music is that its wavesare rhythmic and follow each other in ordered swing Rhythm is thus theprimary manifestation of Music but equally so it is the basiccharacteristic of everything in life We learn that in Nature there isnothing still and inert but that everything is in incessant motionThere is no such thing as solid matter The man of Science resolvedmatter into atoms and now these atoms themselves are found to be asminiature universes Round a central sun termed a Proton whirl anumber of electrons in rhythmic motion and incessant swing And theseelectrons and protonswhat are they Something in the nature of chargesof electricity positive and negative So where is now ourseemingsolid matterWhen this knowledge informs our outlook we see that all that livesmoves and even that which never seems to move lives also in continualrhythm and response The eternal hills are vibrant to the eye ofscience and the very stones are pulsing with the joy of life Thecountryside sings and there is the beat of rhythm not merely in ourhearts but in every particle of our body Stillness is a delusion andimmobility a fiction of the senses Life is movement and activity andrigidity and stiffness come more near to what we understand as deathYet even in death there is no stillness there is but a change in theform of activity The body is no longer alive as an organised communitybut in its individual cells the activity is the liveliness ofdecomposition Thus all the world expresses life and expresses it in arhythm in which law and order reign supreme and in which a sweet andsane regularity is the ordinanceRegular rhythm involves accent Whether or no there be any such emphasisas a thing in itself the listening ear supplies it to meet a need Whenwe attend to a clock ticking the ticktock ticktock however even itmay sound at first soon resolves itself into a rhythm with the accenton either the tick or the tock So does the beat of an engine or thehum of a railway train merge itself into some definite sound picturewith the accent for relief that the ear demands Thus out of rhythmgrows very naturally an accentuation which gives balance structure andform We start with the little unitsthe ticks and the tocksand webuild something bigger by grouping these together This is a principlewhich we may see running through the activities of life in a thousandformsBricks are made to pattern and thus possess a rhythm of their own butwhen they are laid in courses they merge their individual rhythm intothe ordered lines of the courses These again may be comprehended inlarger units of arches buttresses and stories and all these againwill be grouped and contained in this or that style of architecture Sotoo Music may begin with notes and tones but accent quickly groupsthese into larger units to satisfy the senses in their demand forbalance and proportion Thus by increasing the size of our unit we buildthe rhythm of form and lay the foundation for the further development ofthe ArtSince Nature is regular from the beating of our own hearts to the swingof universes in the heavens therefore engrained in our very selves isthis claim for ordered progression balance and sustained sequenceWhen we attain this whether in Music or otherwise we derive a measureof restfulness and satisfaction and we gain a sense of completeness Anywork of Art should leave us with this conviction that nothing could beadded or left out without marring the perfect proportion of the wholeJazz whether in Music or in any other direction gives just the veryopposite

Produced by Michael Ciesielski and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetSOUTHERN ARABIAIllustration Lafayette photoWalker Boutall ph scSignature Theodore BentLondon Published by Smith Elder Co 15 Waterloo PlaceSOUTHERN ARABIABYTHEODORE BENT FRGS FSAAUTHOR OFTHE RUINED CITIES OF MASHONALAND THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANSTHE CYCLADES OR LIFE AMONG THE INSULAR GREEKS ETCANDMRS THEODORE BENT_WITH A PORTRAIT MAPS AND ILLUSTRATION_LONDONSMITH ELDER CO 15 WATERLOO PLACE1900All rights reservedPREFACEIf my fellowtraveller had lived he intended to have put together inbook form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia Nowas he died four days after our return from our last journey there I havehad to undertake the task myself It has been very sad to me but I havebeen helped by knowing that however imperfect this book may be what iswritten here will surely be a help to those who by following in ourfootsteps will be able to get beyond them and to whom I so heartilywish success and a Happy Homecoming the best wish a traveller may haveIt is for their information that I have included so many things about theprice of camels the payment of soldiers and so forth and yet evencasual readers may care to know these details of explorers daily livesMuch that is set down here has been published before but a good deal isnewMy husband had written several articles in the _Nineteenth Century_ andby the kindness of the editor I have been able to make use of these alsoI have incorporated the lectures he had given before the RoyalGeographical Society and the British Association The rest is from hisnotebooks and from the Chronicles that I always wrote during ourjourneysI thought at first of trying to keep our several writings apart but toavoid confusion of inverted commas I decided acting on advice just toput the whole thing into as consecutive a form as possible only sayingthat the least part of the writing is mineThe bibliography is far from complete as I can name only a few of themany books that my husband consulted on all the districts round thosewhich we were going to penetrateAs to the spelling of the Arabic it must be remembered that it is a verywidely spread language and there are naturally many different forms ofthe same word_eg ibn_ _ben_ _bin_and such very various ways ofpronouncing the name of the Moslem prophet that I have heard itpronounced Memet Mamad and MadI must give hearty thanks in both our names to all who helped us on inthese journeys and especially to Mr Headlam who has given me muchassistance by going through the proofs of this book Mr W C Irvine haskindly provided the column of literary Arabic for the vocabularyMABEL VIRGINIA ANNA BENT13 Great Cumberland Place W _October 13 1899_CONTENTS PAGEBibliography ixSOUTHERN ARABIAchapter I Manamah and Moharek 1 II The Mounds of Ali 16 III Our Visit to Rufaa 30MASKAT IV Some Historical Facts about Oman 45 V Maskat and the Outskirts 63THE HADHRAMOUT VI Makalla 71 VII Our Departure into the Interior 81 VIII The Akaba 88 IX Through Wadi Kasr 98 X Our Sojourn at Koton

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surgiam depois mais limpidas até ás rodas do moinhoque as marulhavam e batiam constantementeNo verão quando a levada era minguada os dois velhotes visitavamse amiudo atravessando destemidamente pelas poldras mas quando as chuvasdo outomno principiavam a tornar o rio caudaloso limitavamse então afalar dum lado para o outro Era triste Já tão velhotes E depoisdizia o EuzebioAnselmo fala mais alto que te não oiçoO que éperguntava o outro inclinando o pavilhão da orelhaO Euzebio fazia um portavoz com as mãos e gritavaNão te intendoQuando chegavam a falar concordavam sempre que era o barulho das rodasdo moinho que os não deixava ouvir Isso sim Era o peso dos annos queos tinha quasi surdos de todo Pobres velhosO Euzebio tinha um filho que era um rapagão de vinte e dois annos comoum castello Ainda o dia vinha longe já elle estava a trabalhar queera um regalo a gente veloLida como um moirodiziam os conhecidosE se havia esfolhada ou espadellada quem lá não faltava era elleO pae que noutros tempos tinha sido um folião dizialhe á bôcca danoiteSimão se tens de ir a algures parte que eu cá fico para aviar osfreguezesEstava arranjadorespondia o moço a rirVocemecê já deu o quetinha a dar Agora coma e beba e deixeme cá com a vidaPrimeiro que tudo estava a sua obrigação O rapaz assim que não tinhamais freguezes a aviar fechava a ucha do moinho e partia então para abrincadeiraE o velhote do pae quando alguem lhe contava as diabruras do filhoparece que até a alma se lhe ria na menina dos olhosO Anselmo tinha uma filha Chamavase ella Margarida e era formosadaquella formusura campesinha sem artificio jovial e expansiva Emdotes do coraçãoque é a principal bellezanem as mais virtuosas aexcediamDesde pequenina foi Margarida creada com Simão Se não ficasse malestabelecer agora parallelos já sabidos e repetidos estava em dizer queos dois se queriam e estimavam como _Paulo_ e _Virginia_Quando os quinze annos de Margarida que era mais nova dois do queSimão vieram pôr termo aos brinquedos dinfancia então principiou ellea olhala com aquelle respeito com que se olha para uma irmã mais velhaMas váse desde já sabendo que esse respeito não estorvava antesacrysolava um outro sentimento que principiava a exercer e a avultar nogeneroso coração do rapazMargarida quando Simão lhe falava na sua tristeza e no seu amorfingiase contrariada carregava o sobrolho e mudava de conversaDestas esquivanças repetidas ateouse o fogo da paixão na alma domoleiroMargaridadizialhe elle duma vezse não quizeres casar comigo heide morrer solteiroNão te faltam mulheres SimãoE se te vejo ser doutroprotestava o rapaz com as lagrimas nosolhosnão sei que faça que me não mateE Margarida era tão cruel que assim despresasse o seu amigo ecompanheiro dinfanciaNós veremos já até onde vae a dedicação de uma mulher Isto passavase no tempo em que se guerreavam os partidos de D Pedro ede D MiguelQuando ás aldeias chegavam noticias aterradoras as mães estremeciam aocontemplar os filhos afadigados na lavouraDe mortos nem a conta se sabediziam os mensageiros Vae por ahi _a_fim do mundoJesus Senhor E então diz que é guerra dirmão contra irmãoValhanos DeusDe uma vez oito soldados e um furriel pararam á porta da azenha doEuzebio Passado um instante a gente da aldeia chorava com bradosafflictivos vendo o Simão do moleiro atravessar no meio da escolta comos braços presos como um degredado O velho assim que lhe arrebataramo filho ainda tentou abraçalo mascoitadinhocomo já lhe custava aandar quando chegou á porta ia o rapaz a subir a encostaAos gritos da visinhança acudiu Margarida ao postigo da azenhaPerguntou o que tinha acontecido da outra banda e quando lhe disseramque o Simão tinha sido levado para a guerra a pobre rapariga soltou umgrito agonisante e cahiu desfallecida nos braços do paeAs aguas tinham engrossado com as ultimas chuvas e os dois velhosquando se avistavam de longe desatavam a chorar como duas creancinhasDecorridos oito dias a gente da aldeia acordou sobresaltada com otiroteio com o rufo das caixas e o som dos clarins Feriase umabatalha a pequena distanciaQuando a tropa alli passou todos viram o Simão moleiro que pareciaoutro Ia magro esfalfado com os sapatos rotos coberto de pó aespingarda ao hombro a mochila ás costas e a chorar Ao passar rentedas casas ia saudando os conhecidos e dizia ás raparigas que pedissem aDeus por elleSahiu do povoado sem ter visto o pae nem Margarida Levava o coraçãoretalhadoAssim que a filha do Anselmo o soube quiz logo ir ter aonde podessefalarlheIsso Deus te livredisselhe do lado uma visinhaSe lá vaes láficas E de mais a mais teres de falar com soldados credoLá issoatalhou a moçatambem o Simão é soldado tia JoaquinaAo fim da tarde principiaram a chegar as ambulancias dos mortos eferidos Vinham apinhados uns com as cabeças ligadas com as facesempastadas de sangue outros com os braços ao peito mutilados outroscom as pernas partidas quasi todos moribundosNunca se tinha visto uma cousa assim Aos gemidos dos feridos reuniamseos clamores da gente que se agglomerava

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Produced by Suzanne Lybarger Brian Janes and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetBIBLIOMANIAINTHE MIDDLE AGESBYF SOMNER MERRYWEATHER_With an Introduction by_CHARLES ORRLibrarian of Case LibraryNEW YORKMEYER BROTHERS COMPANY1900Copyright 1900By Meyer Bros CoLouis Weiss CoPrinters118 Fulton Street New YorkBibliomania in the Middle AgesORSKETCHES OF BOOKWORMS COLLECTORS BIBLE STUDENTS SCRIBES ANDILLUMINATORS_From the AngloSaxon and Norman Periods to the Introduction of Printinginto England with Anecdotes Illustrating the History of the MonasticLibraries of Great Britain in the Olden Time by_ F Somner Merryweather_with an Introduction by_ Charles Orr _Librarian of Case Library_INTRODUCTIONIn every century for more than two thousand years many men have owedtheir chief enjoyment of life to books The bibliomaniac of today had hisprototype in ancient Rome where book collecting was fashionable as earlyas the first century of the Christian era Four centuries earlier therewas an active trade in books at Athens then the center of the bookproduction of the world This center of literary activity shifted toAlexandria during the third century B C through the patronage ofPtolemy Soter the founder of the Alexandrian Museum and of his sonPtolemy Philadelphus and later to Rome where it remained for manycenturies and where bibliophiles and bibliomaniacs were graduallyevolved and from whence in time other countries were invadedFor the purposes of the present work the middle ages cover the periodbeginning with the seventh century and ending with the time of theinvention of printing or about seven hundred years though they are moreaccurately bounded by the years 500 and 1500 A D It matters littlehowever since there is no attempt at chronological arrangementAbout the middle of the present century there began to be a dispositionto grant to mediæval times their proper place in the history of thepreservation and dissemination of books and Merryweathers _Bibliomaniain the Middle Ages_ was one of the earliest works in English devoted tothe subject Previous to that time those ten centuries lying between thefall of the Roman Empire and the revival of learning were generallyreferred to as the Dark Ages and historians and other writers were wontto treat them as having been without learning or scholarship of any kindEven Mr Hallam1 with all that judicial temperament and patientresearch to which we owe so much could find no good to say of the Churchor its institutions characterizing the early university as the abode ofindigent vagabonds withdrawn from usual labor and all monks aspositive enemies of learningThe gloomy survey of Mr Hallam clouded no doubt by his antipathy to allthings ecclesiastical served however to arouse the interest of theperiod which led to other studies with different results and laterwriters were able to discern below the surface of religious fanaticismand superstition so characteristic of those centuries much of interestin the history of literature to show that every age produced learned andinquisitive men by whom books were highly prized and industriouslycollected for their own sakes in short to rescue the period from thestigma of absolute illiteracyIf the reader cares to pursue the subject further after going throughthe fervid defense of the love of books in the middle ages of which thisis the introduction he will find outside of its chapters abundantevidence that the production and care of books was a matter of greatconcern In the pages of _Mores Catholici or Ages of Faith_ by MrKenelm Digby2 or of _The Dark Ages_ by Dr S R Maitland3 or ofthat great work of recent years _Books and their Makers during theMiddle Ages_ by Mr George Haven Putnam4 he will see vivid andinteresting portraits of a great multitude of mediæval worthies who werealmost lifelong lovers of learning and books and zealous laborers inpreserving increasing and transmitting them And though little of themass that has come down to us was worthy of preservation on its ownaccount as literature it is exceedingly interesting as a record ofcenturies of industry in the face of such difficulties that to workers ofa later period might have seemed insurmountableA further fact worthy of mention is that book production was from the artpoint of view fully abreast of the other arts during the period as mustbe apparent to any one who examines the collections in some of thelibraries of Europe Much of this beauty was wrought for the love of theart itself In the earlier centuries religious institutions absorbednearly all the social intellectual movements as well as the possession ofmaterial riches and land Kings and princes were occupied with distantwars which impoverished them and deprived literature and art of thatpatronage accorded to it in later times There is occasional mentionhowever of wealthy laymen whose religious zeal induced them to givelarge sums of money for the copying and ornamentation of books and therewere in the abbeys and convents lay brothers whose fervent spiritsburning with poetical imagination sought in these monastic retreats andthe labor of writing redemption from their past sins These men of faithwere happy to consecrate their whole existence to the ornamentation of asingle sacred book dedicated to the community which gave them inexchange the necessaries of lifeThe labor of transcribing was held in the monasteries to be a fullequivalent of manual labor in the field The rule of St Ferreol writtenin the sixth century says that He who does not turn up the earth withthe plough ought to write the parchment with his fingersMention has been made of the difficulties under which books wereproduced and this is a matter which we who enjoy the conveniences ofmodern writing and printing can little understand The hardships of the_scriptorium_ were greatest of course in winter There were no fires inthe often damp and illlighted cells and the cold in some of the partsof Europe where books were produced must have been very severeParchment the material generally used for writing upon after theseventh century was at some periods so scarce that copyists werecompelled to resort to the expedient of effacing the writing on old andless esteemed manuscripts5 The form of writing was stiff and regularand therefore exceedingly slow and irksomeIn some of the monasteries the _scriptorium_ was at least at a laterperiod conducted more as a matter

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Sankar Viswanathan and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnet The Works of Guy de Maupassant VOLUME VIII PIERRE ET JEAN AND OTHER STORIES _ILLUSTRATED_ NATIONAL LIBRARY COMPANY NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1909 BY BIGELOW SMITH CO CONTENTSPIERRE ET JEANDREAMSMOONLIGHTTHE CORSICAN BANDITA DEAD WOMANS SECRETTHE CAKEA LIVELY FRIENDTHE ORPHANTHE BLIND MANA WIFES CONFESSIONRELICS OF THE PASTTHE PEDDLERTHE AVENGERALL OVERLETTER FOUND ON A DROWNED MANMOTHER AND SONTHE SPASMA DUELTHE LOVE OF LONG AGOAN UNCOMFORTABLE BEDA WARNING NOTETHE HORRIBLEA NEW YEARS GIFTBESIDE A DEAD MANAFTERA QUEER NIGHT IN PARISBOITELLE OF THE NOVELI do not intend in these pages to put in a plea for this little novelOn the contrary the ideas I shall try to set forth will ratherinvolve a criticism of the class of psychological analysis which Ihave undertaken in _Pierre et Jean_ I propose to treat of novels ingeneralI am not the only writer who finds himself taken to task in the sameterms each time he brings out a new book Among many laudatoryphrases I invariably meet with this observation penned by the samecritics The greatest fault of this book is that it is not strictlyspeaking a novelThe same form might be adopted in replyThe greatest fault of the writer who does me the honor to review meis that he is not a criticFor what are in fact the essential characteristics of a criticIt is necessary that without preconceived notions prejudices ofSchool or partisanship for any class of artists he shouldappreciate distinguish and explain the most antagonistic tendenciesand the most dissimilar temperaments recognizing and accepting themost varied efforts of artNow the Critic who after reading _Manon Lescaut_ _Paul andVirginia_ _Don Quixote_ _Les Liaisons dangereuses_ _Werther__Elective Affinities_ _Wahlverwandschaften_ _Clarissa Harlowe__Émile_ _Candide_ _CinqMars_ _René_ _Les Trois Mousquetaires__Mauprat_ _Le Père Goriot_ _La Cousine Bette_ _Colomba_ _Le Rougeet le Noir_ _Mademoiselle de Maupin_ _NotreDame de Paris__Salammbo_ _Madame Bovary_ _Adolphe_ _M de Camors_ _lAssommoir__Sapho_ etc still can be so bold as to write This or that is oris not a novel seems to me to be gifted with a perspicacitystrangely akin to incompetence Such a critic commonly understands bya novel a more or less improbable narrative of adventure elaboratedafter the fashion of a piece for the stage in three acts of whichthe first contains the exposition the second the action and thethird the catastrophe or _dénouement_And this method of construction is perfectly admissible but oncondition that all others are accepted on equal termsAre there any rules for the making of a novel which if we neglectthe tale must be called by another name If _Don Quixote_ is a novelthen is _Le Rouge et le Noir_ a novel If _Monte Christo_ is a novelis _lAssommoir_ Can any conclusive comparison be drawn betweenGoethes _Elective Affinities_ _The Three Mousqueteers_ by DumasFlauberts _Madame Bovary_ _M de Camors_ by Octave Feuillet and_Germinal_ by Zola Which of them all is The Novel What are thesefamous rules Where did they originate Who laid them down And invirtue of what principle of whose authority and of what reasoningAnd yet as it would appear these critics know in some positive andindisputable way what constitutes a novel and what distinguishes itfrom other tales which are not novels What this amounts to is thatwithout being producers themselves they are enrolled under a Schooland that like the writers of novels they reject all work which isconceived and executed outside the pale of their esthetics Anintelligent critic ought on the contrary to seek out everythingwhich least resembles the novels already written and urge youngauthors as much as possible to try fresh pathsAll writers Victor Hugo as much as M Zola have insistently claimedthe absolute and incontrovertible right to composethat is to say toimagine or observein accordance with their individual conception oforiginality and that is a special manner of thinking seeingunderstanding and judging Now the critic who assumes that thenovel can be defined in conformity with the ideas he has based on thenovels he prefers and that certain immutable rules of constructioncan be laid down will always find himself at war with the artistictemperament of a writer who

Produced by Ruth Hart ruthharttwilightoraclecomNote I have made the following spelling changes Prologue methedto method Chapter 2 renders imposssible to renders impossiblewhich man possessses to which man possesses absoluteunqestionable to absolute unquestionable loathesomeness toloathsomeness Chapter 3 alllowed to distort to allowed todistort Chapter 4 itelf in its precise to itself in its preciseChapter 5 do very considerably to do vary considerablyChapter 6 oversoul to oversoul its own permonition to itsown premonition arbitrement to arbitrament subtratum tosubstratum gooodeness to goodness Chapter 7 flicherings tofilcherings Perapity to Peripety Chapter 8 penerated topenetrated Chapter 9 the anthropomorphic expresssion tothe anthropomorphic expression convuluted to convolutedChapter 10 a vast hierachy to a vast hierarchy Chapter 11 tobe too anthromorphic to to be too anthropomorphic strictly strictlyspeaking to strictly speaking Chapter 13 working in isolatonto working in isolation If to this the astronomer answer toIf to this the astronomer answers difficult to decribe todifficult to describe the asethetic sense to the aestheticsense no attentuation to no attenuation the Complex Visionrepresents to the complex vision represents Conclusion iseternaly divided to is eternally divided rest of the imortalsto rest of the immortals elimination of the objectice mystery toelimination of the objective mystery The word oversoul ismostly spelled with a hyphen so I added a hyphen to all instances ofthis word The word outflowing is mostly spelled without a hyphenso I deleted the hyphens from all instances of this word All otherspelling remains the sameTHE COMPLEX VISIONBYJOHN COWPER POWYSNEW YORKDODD MEAD AND COMPANY1920DEDICATEDTOLITTLETON ALFREDPROLOGUEWhat I am anxious to attempt in this anticipatory summary of thecontents of this book is a simple estimate of its final conclusions insuch a form as shall eliminate all technical terms and reduce thematter to a plain statement intelligible as far as such a thing can bemade intelligible to the apprehension of such persons as have nothad the luck or the illluck of a plunge into the ocean ofmetaphysicA large portion of the book deals with what might be called our_instrument of research_ in other words with the problem of whatparticular powers of insight the human mind must use if its visionof reality is to be of any deeper or more permanent value than thepassing on the wing so to speak of individual fancies andspeculationsThis instrument of research I find to be the use by the humanperson of all the various energies of personality concentrated intoone point and the resultant spectacle of things or reality of thingswhich this concentrated vision makes clear I call the originalrevelation of the complex vision of manHaving analyzed in the earlier portions of the book the peculiarnature of our organ of research and the peculiar difficultiesamounting to a very elaborate work of artwhich have to beovercome before this _concentration_ takes place I proceed in thelater portions of the book to make as clear as I can what kind ofreality it is that we actually do succeed in grasping when thisconcentrating process has been achieved I indicate incidentally thatthis desirable concentration of the energies of personality is sodifficult a thing that we are compelled to resort to our memory ofwhat we experienced in rare and fortunate moments in order toestablish its results I suggest that it is not to our average momentsof insight that we have to appeal but to our exceptional moments ofinsight since it is only at rare moments in our lives that we are ableto enter into what I call the _eternal vision_To what then does this conclusion amount and what is thisresultant reality in as far as we are able to gather it up andarticulate its nature from the vague records of our memoryI have endeavoured to show that it amounts to the following seriesof results What we are in the first place assured of is theexistence within our own individual body of a real actual living thingcomposed of a mysterious substance wherein what we call mind andwhat we call matter are fused and intermingled This is our real andselfconscious soul the thing in us which says I am I of whichthe physical body is only one expression and of which all the bodilysenses are only one gateway of receptivityThe soul within us becomes aware of its own body simultaneouslywith its becoming aware of all the other bodies which fill the visibleuniverse It is then by an act of faith or imagination that the soulwithin us takes for granted and assumes that there must be a soulresembling our own soul within each one of those alien bodies ofwhich simultaneously with its own it becomes awareAnd since the living basis of our personality is this real soul withinus it follows that all those energies of personality whoseconcentration is the supreme work of art are the energies of this realsoul If therefore we assume that all the diverse physical bodieswhich fill the universe possess each of them an inner soulresembling our own soul we are led to the conclusion that just asour own soul halfcreates and halfdiscovers the general spectacle ofthings which it names the universe so all the alien souls in theworld halfcreate and halfdiscover what they feel as _their_universeIf our revelation stopped at this point we should have to admit thatthere was not one universe but as many universes are there areliving souls It is at this point however that we become aware thatall these souls are able in some degree or other to enter intocommunication They are able to do this both by the bodily soundsand signs which constitute language and by certain immaterialvibrations which seem to make no use of the body at all In thiscommunication between different souls as far as humanity isconcerned a very curious experience has to be recordedWhen two human beings dispute together upon any importantproblem of life there is always an implicit appeal made by both ofthem to an invisible arbiter or invisible standard of arbitration inthe heart of which both seem aware that the reality upon whichtheir opinions differ is to be found in its eternal truth What thenis this invisible standard of arbitration Whatever it is

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Rover of the Andes a Tale of Adventure in South America by RMBallantyne________________________________________________________________________This book is wellwritten and carries the reader right up to the lastchapter always panting to know what ever will happen next It describesa journey across central South America at about the latitude of BuenosAires in Argentina Lots of different sorts of nasty happenings andnasty people are encountered and the problems are overcome one by oneIt seems quite realistic but at anyrate it is a good product of thewriters imagination and research I enjoyed transcribing it very muchRobert Michael Ballantyne was born in 1825 and died in 1894 He waseducated at the Edinburgh Academy and in 1841 he became a clerk withthe Hudson Bay Company working at the Red River Settlement in NorthenCanada until 1847 arriving back in Edinburgh in 1848 The letters hehad written home were very amusing in their description of backwoodslife and his family publishing connections suggested that he shouldconstruct a book based on these letters Three of his most enduringbooks were written over the next decade The Young Fur TradersUngava The Hudson Bay Company and were based on his experienceswith the HBC In this period he also wrote The Coral island andMartin Rattler both of these taking place in places never visited byBallantyne Having been chided for small mistakes he made in thesebooks he resolved always to visit the places he wrote about Withthese books he became known as a great master of literature intended forteenagers He researched the Cornish Mines the London Fire Brigadethe Postal Service the Railways the laying down of submarine telegraphcables the construction of lighthouses the lightship service thelifeboat service South Africa Norway the North Sea fishing fleetballooning deepsea diving Algiers and many more experiencing thelives of the men and women in these settings by living with them forweeks and months at a time and he lived as they livedHe was a very truetolife author depicting the often squalid scenes heencountered with great care and attention to detail His young readerslooked forward eagerly to his next books and through the 1860s and1870s there was a flow of books from his pen sometimes four in a yearall very good reading The rate of production diminished in the lastten or fifteen years of his life but the quality never failedHe published over ninety books under his own name and a few books forvery young children under the pseudonym ComusFor todays taste his books are perhaps a little too religious and whatwe would nowadays call pi In part that was the way people wrote inthose days but more important was the fact that in his days at the RedRiver Settlement in the wilds of Canada he had been a littledissolute and he did not want his young readers to be unmindful of howthey ought to behave as he felt he had beenSome of his books were quite short little over 100 pages These booksformed a series intended for the children of poorer parents having lesspocketmoney These books are particularly wellwritten and researchedbecause he wanted that readership to get the very best possible fortheir money They were published as six series three books in eachseries Typical of these series is On the Coast________________________________________________________________________THE ROVER OF THE ANDES A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AMERICA BY RMBALLANTYNECHAPTER ONEA TALE OF ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AMERICAAT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGETowards the close of a bright and warm day between fifty and sixtyyears ago a solitary man might have been seen mounted on a mulewending his way slowly up the western slopes of the AndesAlthough decidedly inelegant and unhandsome this specimen of the humanfamily was by no means uninteresting He was so large and his legswere so long that the contrast between him and the little mule which hebestrode was ridiculous He was what is sometimes styled loosely puttogether nevertheless the various parts of him were so massive andmuscular that however loosely he might have been built up most menwould have found it rather difficult to take him down Although wantingin grace he was by no means repulsive for his face which wasornamented with a soft flaxen beard and moustache of juvenile textureexpressed wonderful depths of the milk of human kindnessHe wore boots with the trousers tucked into them a grey tunic orhunting coat belted at the waist and a broadbrimmed straw hat orsombreroEvidently the times in which he travelled were troublous for besideshaving a brace of large pistols in his belt he wore a cavalry sabre athis side As if to increase the eccentricity of his appearance hecarried a heavy cudgel by way of ridingwhip but it might have beenobserved that however much he flourished this whip about he neveractually applied it to his steedOn reaching a turn of the road at the brow of an eminence the mulestopped and letting its head droop till almost as pendent as its tailsilently expressed a desire for repose The cavalier stepped off Itwould convey a false impression to say that he dismounted The muleheaved a sighPoor little thing murmured the traveller in a soft low voice and ina language which even a mule might have recognised as English you maywell sigh I really feel ashamed of myself for asking you to carry sucha mass of flesh and bone But its your own faultyou know it isforyou _wont_ be led Im quite willing to walk if you will only followComelet us tryGently insinuatingly persuasively the traveller touched the reinsand sought to lead the way He might as well have tried to lead one ofthe snowclad peaks of the mighty Cordillera which towered into the skybefore him With ears inclining to the neck a resolute expression inthe eyes his forelegs thrown forward and a lean slightly backward themule refused to moveCome now _do_ be amiable theres a good little thing Come on saidthe strong youth

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandMAN ON THE OCEAN A BOOK ABOUT BOATS AND SHIPS BY RM BALLANTYNECHAPTER ONETREATS OF SHIPS IN GENERALThere is perhaps no contrivance in the wide world more wonderful thana shipa fullrigged wellmanned gigantic shipThose who regard familiar objects in art and nature as mere matters ofcourse and do not trouble themselves to wander out of the beaten trackof everyday thought may not at first feel the force or admit the truthof this statement Let such folk endeavour to shake themselvesvigorously out of this beaten track of everyday thought Let them knittheir brows and clench their teeth and gaze steadfastly into the fireor up at the sky and try to realise what is involved in the idea ofashipWhat would the men of old have said if you had told them that youintended to take yonder large wooden house launch it upon the sea andproceed in it out of sight of land for a few days Poor fellow theywould have replied you are mad Ah many a wise philosopher has beendeemed mad not only by men of old but by men of modern days Thismad idea has long since been fulfilled for what is a ship but awooden house made to float upon the sea and sail with its inmateshither and thither at the will of the guiding spirit over a tracklessunstable ocean for months together It is a selfsustaining movablehotel upon the sea It is an oasis in the desert of waters soskilfully contrived as to be capable of advancing against wind and tideand of outliving the wildest stormsthe bitterest fury of winds andwaves It is the residence of a community whose country for the timebeing is the ocean or as in the case of the _Great Eastern_ steamshipit is a _town_ with some thousands of inhabitants launched upon thedeepShips are as it were the electric sparks of the world by means ofwhich the superabundance of different countries is carried forth tofill reciprocally the voids in each They are not only the media ofintercourse between the various families of the human race whereby ourshores are enriched with the produce of other lands but they are thebearers of inestimable treasures of knowledge from clime to clime andof gospel light to the uttermost ends of the earthBut for ships we should never have heard of the wonders of the coralisles and the beauties of the golden South or the phenomena andtempests of the icy North But for ships the stirring adventures andperils of Magellan Drake Cook etcetera had never been encounteredand even the farfamed Robinson Crusoe himself had never gladdened andsaddened and romantically maddened the heart of youth with his escapeshis fights his parrots and his philosophy as he now does and as hewill continue to do till the end of timeSome account then of ships and boats with anecdotes illustrative ofthe perils to which they are frequently exposed cannot fail we thinkto prove interesting to all especially to boys for whose particularedification we now write Boys of all creatures in this world arepassionately fond of boats and ships they make them of every shape andsize with every sort of tool and hack and cut their fingers in theoperation as we know from early personal experience They sail themand wet their garments in so doing to the wellknown sorrow of allrightminded mammas They lose them too and break their heartsalmost at the calamity They make little ones when they are littleand big ones when they grow big and when they grow bigger they notunfrequently forsake the toy for the reality embark in some noblecraft and wed the stormy seaA word in your ear reader at this point Do not think that becauseyou fall in love with a _ship_ you will naturally and necessarily fallin love with the _sea_ Some do and some dont with those who do itis well with those who dont and yet go to sea it is remarkably illThink _philosophically_ about going to sea my lads Try honestly toresist your own inclination _as long as possible_ and only go if youfind that _you cant help it_ In such a case you will probably findthat you are cut out for itnot otherwise We love the sea with a trueand deep affection and often have we tossed upon her foamtopped wavesbut we dont wish to be a sailorby no manner of meansAnd now boys come along and we will conduct you as pleasantly andprofitably as we can from a ships cradle through all her stormyexistence to her graveCHAPTER TWOTHE EARLIEST DAYS OF WATERTRAVELLINGOnce upon a time there were no ships Men did not know the meaning ofthe word they did not want them and for many many centuries theseagulls had the ocean all to themselves But _boats_ are of veryancient date Doubtless the _first_ boats must have been constructed bythe _first_ men who dwelt on the earth They consisted probablyforwe are now in the land of conjectureof stumps of fallen trees orbundles of rushes seated astride of which the immediate descendants ofour first parents ferried themselves over small lakes and across riversWet feet are not agreeable under any circumstances We can conceivethat prolonged voyages performed in this fashionsay several hundredyards or a milerendered those primitive mariners so uncomfortablethat they resolved to improve their condition and after much earnestthought hit upon the plan of fastening several logs together by meansof twigs and thus they formed _rafts_As time progressed and men began to display wisdom in making tools ofstone and in the moulding of metal we can imagine that they soonbethought themselves of flattening the surface of their rafts and thenfinding them unwieldy and difficult to manage no doubt they hit uponthe idea of hollowing out the logs Adzes were probably not invented atthat time so they betook themselves to the element of firewhich is atthe present day used by savage nations for

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandThe Middy and the Moors an Algerine Tale of Piracy and Slavery by RMBallantyne________________________________________________________________________Robert Michael Ballantyne was born in 1825 and died in 1894 He waseducated at the Edinburgh Academy and in 1841 he became a clerk withthe Hudson Bay Company working at the Red River Settlement in NorthenCanada until 1847 arriving back in Edinburgh in 1848 The letters hehad written home were very amusing in their description of backwoodslife and his family publishing connections suggested that he shouldconstruct a book based on these letters Three of his most enduringbooks were written over the next decade The Young Fur TradersUngava The Hudson Bay Company and were based on his experienceswith the HBC In this period he also wrote The Coral island andMartin Rattler both of these taking place in places never visited byBallantyne Having been chided for small mistakes he made in thesebooks he resolved always to visit the places he wrote about Withthese books he became known as a great master of literature intended forteenagers He researched the Cornish Mines the London Fire Brigadethe Postal Service the Railways the laying down of submarine telegraphcables the construction of lighthouses the lightship service thelifeboat service South Africa Norway the North Sea fishing fleetballooning deepsea diving Algiers and many more experiencing thelives of the men and women in these settings by living with them forweeks and months at a time and he lived as they livedHe was a very truetolife author depicting the often squalid scenes heencountered with great care and attention to detail His young readerslooked forward eagerly to his next books and through the 1860s and1870s there was a flow of books from his pen sometimes four in a yearall very good reading The rate of production diminished in the lastten or fifteen years of his life but the quality never failedHe published over ninety books under his own name and a few books forvery young children under the pseudonym ComusFor todays taste his books are perhaps a little too religious and whatwe would nowadays call pi In part that was the way people wrote inthose days but more important was the fact that in his days at the RedRiver Settlement in the wilds of Canada he had been a littledissolute and he did not want his young readers to be unmindful of howthey ought to behave as he felt he had beenSome of his books were quite short little over 100 pages These booksformed a series intended for the children of poorer parents having lesspocketmoney These books are particularly wellwritten and researchedbecause he wanted that readership to get the very best possible fortheir money They were published as six series three books in eachseries One of these series is On the Coast which includes Saved bythe LifeboatRecreated as an eText by Nick Hodson July 2003________________________________________________________________________THE MIDDY AND THE MOORS AN ALGERINE TALE OF PIRACY AND SLAVERY BY RMBALLANTYNECHAPTER ONEAN ALGERINE STORYTHE HERO IS BLOWN AWAY CAPTURED CRUSHED COMFORTED AND ASTONISHEDOne beautiful summer night about the beginning of the present centurya young naval officer entered the public drawingroom of a hotel atNice and glanced round as if in search of some oneMany people were assembled theresome in robust others in delicatehealth many in that condition which rendered it doubtful to which classthey belonged but all engaged in the quiet buzz of conversation whichin such a place is apt to set in after dinnerThe young Englishman for such he evidently was soon observed anelderly lady beckoning to him at the other end of the _salon_ and wasquickly seated between her and a fragile girl whose hand he gently tookhold ofMother he said to the elderly lady Im going to have a row on theMediterranean The night is splendid the air balmy the starsgorgeousNow George interrupted the girl with a little smile dont beflowery We know all about thatToo bad returned the youth I never rise to poetry in your presenceMinnie without being snubbed But you cannot cure me Romance is toodeeply ingrained in my soul Poetry flows from me likelike anythingI am a midshipman in the British Navy a position which affords scopefor the wildest enthusiasm andandIll astonish you yet see if IdontI am sure you will dear boy said his mother and she believed thathe wouldOf course you will added his sister and she at least hoped that hewouldTo say truth there was nothing about the youthas regards appearanceor characterwhich rendered either the assurance or the hopeunwarrantable He was not tall but he was strong and active He wasnot exactly handsome but he was possessed of a genial heartydisposition a playful spirit and an earnest soul also a modestlyreckless nature which was quite captivatingYou wont be anxious about me mother if I dont return till prettylate he said rising I want a good long refreshing pull but Illbe back in time to say goodnight to you Minnie before you go tosleepYour leave expires on Thursday mind said his sister we cannotspare you longI shall be back in good time trust me _Au revoir_ he said with apleasant nod as he left the roomAnd they did trust him for our midshipman George Foster wastrustworthy but those circumstances over which people have nocontrol are troublesome derangers of the affairs of man That was thelast the mother and sister saw of George for the space of nearly twoyearsTaking his way to the pebbly shore young Foster hired a small boat orpunt from a man who knew him well declined the owners servicespushed off seized the oars and rowed swiftly out to sea It was ashe had said a splendid night The stars bespangled the sky likediamonddust The water was as clear as a mirror and the lights ofNice seemed to shoot far down into its depths The hum of the city cameoff with everdeepening softness as the distance from

Produced by Nick Hodson of London EnglandTHE HOT SWAMP BY RM BALLANTYNECHAPTER ONEA ROMANCE OF OLD ALBIONOPENS WITH LEAVETAKINGNearly two thousand seven hundred years agoor somewhere about eighthundred years BúCúthere dwelt a Phoenician seacaptain in one of theeastern seaports of Greeceknown at that period or soon after asHellasThis captain was solid square bronzed bluff and resolute as allseacaptains areor ought to bewhether ancient or modern He ownedas well as commanded one of those curious vessels with one mast and amighty squaresail fifty oars or so doublebanked a dragons tail inthe stern and a horses head at the prow in which the Phoenicians ofold and other mariners were wont to drive an extensive and lucrativetrade in the Mediterranean sometimes pushing their adventurous keelsbeyond the Pillars of Hercules visiting the distant Cassiterides or TinIsles and Albion and even penetrating northward into the Baltic insearch of tin amber gold and what notOne morning this captain whose name was Arkal sauntered up from theharbour to his hut which stood on a conspicuous eminence overlookingthe bay His hands were not thrust into his pockets because he had nopockets to put them intothe simple tunic of the period being destituteof such appendages Indeed the coarse linen tunic referred toconstituted the chief part of his costume the only other portions beinga pair of rude shoes on his feet a red fez or tarbouche on his bushybrown locks and yards of something wound round his lower limbs toprotect them from thorns on shore as well as from the rasping ofcordage and cargo at seaAt the door of his hut stood his pretty little Greek wife with a solidsquare bluff and resolute but not yet bronzed baby in her armsWell Penelope Im off said the captain At least he used words tothat effect as he enveloped wife and baby in a huge embraceOf course he spoke in a dialect of ancient Greek of which we render afree translationThe leavetaking was of the briefest for just then a loud halloo fromhis mate or second in command apprised the captain that all was readyto set sail But neither Penelope nor her husband were anxious souls oraddicted to the melting mood The square baby was rather more given tosuch conditions In emulation of the mate it set up a sudden howl whichsent its father away laughing to the harbourNo sign of the young men remarked the mate as his superior camewithin hailIt is ever the way with these halffledged boys who think themselvesmen while their faces are yet hairless growled the captain casting aglance at his unfailing chronometer the rising sun They have no moreregard for the movements of that ball of fire than if it was set in thesky merely to shine and keep them warm and had no reference whatever totime If this youth from Albion does not appear soon I shall set sailwithout him prince though he be and leave him to try his hand atswimming to the Cassiterides His comrade and friend Dromas assuredme they would not keep us waiting but he is no better than the rest ofthema shouting singing smoothfaced sixfoot set they are whothink they inherit the combined wisdom of all their grandfathers butnone of their weaknesses reckless fearnothings fit only for war andthe Olympic gamesNevertheless we could not do well without them returned the mateglancing significantly at the ships crew a large proportion of whichwas composed of these same stalwart fearnothings of whom his leaderspoke so contemptuously at least they would make a fine show at thesegames and our ventures at sea would not prosper so well if we had notsuch to help usTrue true and I would not speak slightingly of them but they do tryones patience here is the wind failing and we all ready to hoistsail returned the captain with another growl a glance at the sky anda frown at his vessel everything about which betokened readiness forinstant departure The crewpartly composed of slaveswere seated atthe oars the fighting men and seamen were all on board arranging theirshields round the vessels sides and the great sail was cast looseready to hoist as soon as the mouth of the harbour should be clearedJust then a band of young men issued from the town and the captainsgood humour was restored as they hurried towards him They seemed to bemuch excited and talked in loud tones as they advanced their mannersand costumes indicating that they belonged to the upper ranks ofsocietyOne of the band a fair youth towered like Saul head and shouldersabove his fellows Another of dark complexion handsome features andelegant active frame hurried forward to salute the captainI fear we have kept you waiting he said with a pleasant expressionthat disarmed reproofI will not deny that Dromas answered the captain but you have notdetained me long Nevertheless I was on the point of sailing withoutyour friend for the winds and waves respect no oneBut you are neither a wind nor a wave remarked the youthTrue but I am the humble friend of both retorted the captain andam bound to accommodate myself to them I suppose this is the princeyou spoke of he added turning to the towering youth already referredto with the air of a man who had as littleor as muchregard for aprince as a peasantYes Captain Arkal this is Prince Bladud Let me present him to youAs the prince and the seaman joined hands the latter looked up from analtitude of five feet six and squared his broad shoulders with the airof a man ready to defy all creation and anxious rather than otherwiseto do so The prince on the other hand looked down from an eminenceof six feet seven and bent his head with a modest grace and a genialsmile that indicated a desire to be on good terms if possible with theworld at largeAlthough almost equal as to physical strength the inequality of the twomen in height rendered their experience in

Produced by Michael Pullen and David WidgerTHE MARBLE FAUNor The Romance of Monte BeniBY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEVolume IIIn Two VolumesContents Volume I I MIRIAM HILDA KENYON DONATELLO II THE FAUN III SUBTERRANEAN REMINISCENCES IV THE SPECTRE OF THE CATACOMB V MIRIAMS STUDIO VI THE VIRGINS SHRINE VII BEATRICE VIII THE SUBURBAN VILLA IX THE FAUN AND NYMPH X THE SYLVAN DANCE XI FRAGMENTARY SENTENCES XII A STROLL ON THE PINCIAN XIII A SCULPTORS STUDIO XIV CLEOPATRA XV AN AESTHETIC COMPANY XVI A MOONLIGHT RAMBLE XVII MIRIAMS TROUBLE XVIII ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE XIX THE FAUNS TRANSFORMATION XX THE BURIAL CHANT XXI THE DEAD CAPUCHIN XXII THE MEDICI GARDENS XXIII MIRIAM AND HILDA Volume II XXIV THE TOWER AMONG THE APENNINES XXV SUNSHINE XXVI THE PEDIGREE OF MONTE BENI XXVII MYTHS XXVIII THE OWL TOWER XXIX ON THE BATTLEMENTS XXX DONATELLOS BUST XXXI THE MARBLE SALOON XXXII SCENES BY THE WAY XXXIII PICTURED WINDOWS XXXIV MARKETDAY IN PERUGIA XXXV THE BRONZE PONTIFFS BENEDICTION XXXVI HILDAS TOWER XXXVII THE EMPTINESS OF PICTURE GALLERIES XXXVIII ALTARS AND INCENSE XXXIX THE WORLDS CATHEDRAL XL HILDA AND A FRIEND XLI SNOWDROPS AND MAIDENLY DELIGHTS XLII REMINISCENCES OF MIRIAM XLIII THE EXTINCTION OF A LAMP XLIV THE DESERTED SHRINE XLV THE FLIGHT OF HILDAS DOVES XLVI A WALK ON THE CAMPAGNA XLVII THE PEASANT AND CONTADINA XLVIII A SCENE IN THE CORSO XLIX A FROLIC OF THE CARNIVAL L MIRIAM HILDA KENYON DONATELLOTHE MARBLE FAUNVolume IICHAPTER XXIVTHE TOWER AMONG THE APENNINESIt was in June that the sculptor Kenyon arrived on horseback at thegate of an ancient country house which from some of its featuresmight almost be called a castle situated in a part of Tuscany somewhatremote from the ordinary track of tourists Thither we must nowaccompany him and endeavor to make our story flow onward like astreamlet past a gray tower that rises on the hillside overlooking aspacious valley which is set in the grand framework of the ApenninesThe sculptor had left Rome with the retreating tide of foreignresidents For as summer approaches the Niobe of Nations is made tobewail anew and doubtless with sincerity the loss of that largepart of her population which she derives from other lands and on whomdepends much of whatever remnant of prosperity she still enjoys Romeat this season is pervaded and overhung with atmospheric terrors andinsulated within a charmed and deadly circle The crowd of wanderingtourists betake themselves to Switzerland to the Rhine or from thiscentral home of the world to their native homes in England or Americawhich they are apt thenceforward to look upon as provincial afteronce having yielded to the spell of the Eternal City The artist whocontemplates an indefinite succession of winters in this home of artthough his first thought was merely to improve himself by a briefvisit goes forth in the summer time to sketch scenery and costumeamong the Tuscan hills and pour if he can the purple air of Italyover his canvas He studies the old schools of art in the mountain townswhere they were born and where they are still to be seen in the fadedfrescos of Giotto and Cimabue on the walls of many a church or inthe dark chapels in which the sacristan draws aside the veil from atreasured picture of Perugino Thence the happy painter goes to walkthe long bright galleries of Florence or to steal glowing colors fromthe miraculous works which he finds in a score of Venetian palacesSuch summers as these spent amid whatever is exquisite in art or wildand picturesque in nature may not inadequately repay him for the chillneglect and disappointment through which he has probably languished inhis Roman winter This sunny shadowy breezy wandering life in whichhe seeks for beauty as his treasure and gathers for his winters

MARUJAbyBRET HARTEMARUJACHAPTER IMorning was breaking on the high road to San Jose The long lines ofdusty level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point inthe growing light on either side the awakening fields of wheat andoats were stretching out and broadening to the sky In the east andsouth the stars were receding before the coming day in the west a fewstill glimmered caught among the bosky hills of the canada delRaimundo where night seemed to linger Thither some obscurelowflying birds were slowly winging thither a gray coyote overtakenby the morning was awkwardly limping And thither a tramping wayfarerturned plowing through the dust of the highway still unslaked by thedewless night to climb the fence and likewise seek the distant coverFor some moments man and beast kept an equal pace and gait with astrange similarity of appearance and expression the coyote bearingthat resemblance to his more civilized and harmless congener the dogwhich the tramp bore to the ordinary pedestrians but both exhibitingthe same characteristics of lazy vagabondage and semilawlessness thecoyotes slouching amble and uneasy stealthiness being repeated in thetramps shuffling step and sidelong glances Both were young andphysically vigorous but both displayed the same vacillating andawkward disinclination to direct effort They continued thus half amile apart unconscious of each other until the superior faculties ofthe brute warned him of the contiguity of aggressive civilization andhe cantered off suddenly to the right fully five minutes before thebarking of dogs caused the man to make a detour to the left to avoidentrance upon a cultivated domain that lay before himThe trail he took led to one of the scant watercourses that issuedhalf spent from the canada to fade out utterly on the hot June plainIt was thickly bordered with willows and alders that made an arboredand feasible path through the dense woods and undergrowth Hecontinued along it as if aimlessly stopping from time to time to lookat different objects in a dull mechanical fashion as if rather toprolong his useless hours than from any curious instinct and tooccasionally dip in the unfrequent pools of water the few crusts ofbread he had taken from his pocket Even this appeared to be suggestedmore by coincidence of material in the bread and water than from thepromptings of hunger At last he reached a cuplike hollow in thehills lined with wild clover and thick with resinous odors Here hecrept under a manzanitabush and disposed himself to sleep The actshowed he was already familiar with the local habits of his class whoused the unfailing dry starlit nights for their wanderings and spentthe hours of glaring sunshine asleep or resting in some wayside shadowMeanwhile the light quickened and gradually disclosed the form andoutline of the adjacent domain An avenue cut through a parklikewood carefully cleared of the undergrowth of gigantic ferns peculiarto the locality led to the entrance of the canada Here began a vastterrace of lawn broken up by enormous bouquets of flowerbedsbewildering in color and profusion from which again rose the floweringvines and trailing shrubs that hid pillars veranda and even the longfacade of a great and dominant mansion But the delicacy of floraloutlines running to the capitals of columns and at times mounting tothe pediment of the roof the opulence of flashing color or the massingof tropical foliage could not deprive it of the imperious dignity ofsize and space Much of this was due to the fact that the originalcasaan adobe house of no mean pretensions dating back to the earlySpanish occupationhad been kept intact sheathed in a shell ofdarkred wood and still retaining its patio or inner courtyardsurrounded by low galleries while additions greater in extent thanthe main building had been erectednot as wings and projections butmassed upon it on either side changing its rigid square outlines to avague parallelogram While the patio retained the Spanish conceptionof al fresco seclusion a vast colonnade of veranda on the southernside was a concession to American taste and its breadth gave thatdepth of shadow to the inner rooms which had been lost in the thinnershell of the new erection Its cloistered gloom was lightened by thered fires of cardinal flowers dropping from the roof by the yellowsunshine of the jessamine creeping up the columns by billows ofheliotropes breaking over its base as a purple sea Nowhere else didthe opulence of this climate of blossoms show itself as vividly Eventhe Castilian roses that grew as vines along the east front thefuchsias that attained the dignity of trees in the patio or the fouror five monster passionvines that bestarred the low western wall andtold over and over again their mystic storypaled before the sensuousglory of the south verandaAs the sun arose that part of the quiet house first touched by itslight seemed to waken A few lounging peons and servants made theirappearance at the entrance of the patio occasionally reinforced by anearlier life from the gardens and stables But the south facade of thebuilding had not apparently gone to bed at all lights were stillburning dimly in the large ballroom a tray with glasses stood uponthe veranda near one of the open French windows and further on ahalfshut yellow fan lay like a fallen leaf The sound ofcarriagewheels on the gravel terrace brought with it voices andlaughter and the swiftly passing vision of a charabancs filled withmuffled figures bending low to avoid the direct advances of the sunAs the carriage rolled away four men lounged out of a window on theveranda shading their eyes against the level beams One was still inevening dress and one in the uniform of a captain of artillery theothers had already changed their gala attire the elder of the partyhaving assumed those extravagant tweeds which the tourist from GreatBritain usually offers as a gentle concession to inferior yet moreflorid civilization Nevertheless he beamed back heartily on the sunand remarked in a pleasant Scotch accent that Did they know it wasvery extraordinary how clear

Produced by Al HainesFrontispiece Dark against the light illumination of the hall stoodLucy FultonWE THREEBYGOUVERNEUR MORRISAUTHOR OF THE SEVEN DARLINGS ETCILLUSTRATED BYHENRY HUTTGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERSNEW YORKCOPYRIGHT 1916 BYD APPLETON AND COMPANYCOPYRIGHT 1913 1916 BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANYLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSDark against the light illumination of the hall stood Lucy Fulton _Frontispiece_They met with an honest kiss like lovers long partedIts what you and I stood up and promised before a lot of peopleYou are all that counts you know thatWE THREEIWhen I know that Lucy is going to Palm Beach for the winter I shall goto Aiken When I know that she is going to Aiken I shall go to PalmBeach And I shall play the same game with Bar Harbor NewportEurope and other summer resorts So we shall only meet by accidentand hardly ever Weve been asked not toBut I ought to begin further back It would do no harm to begin at thebeginning There is even a kings advice to that effect Said theking in Alice Begin at the Beginning go on to the End and thenstopIn the beginning then When I was a little boy old enough to bewarned against playing with matches I began of course to think themdesirable playthings and whenever I got a chance played with themAnd I never1 Set myself on fire2 Nor anybody else3 Nor the house in which my parents lived with meAnd yet I had been told that I should do all of these things not oftenperhaps but certainly every once in a whileOf course it is possible to do all sorts of things with a match Youmay light it and blow it out for instance Lighted you may put it inyour mouth without burning yourself And if you do this in the darkthe light will shine through your cheek and if you are a fat child youwill give the impression of a Halloween lantern carved from a pumpkinOr you may light the butt of your fathers cigar and learn to smokeIt is one of the cheapest ways Or you may set fire to the lower edgeof the newspaper which your grandfather is reading in the big armchairby the window and I guarantee that you will surprise him Here is aninteresting play Light a match blow it out and while the end isstill red hot touch the cook firmly on the back of the neck If shehas been reading Swinburne she will imagine that she has been kissed bya policeman When she finds out that she hasnt she will bedisappointed and perhaps you will be disappointed too Oh a matchis a wonderful thing even the wooden ones that are made on earth Youmay burn a whole city to the ground And once I am told there was aman who lighted a match and fired a cannon that was heard around theworldTo play with matches is one thing to play with the fire that you havelighted or helped light is another And it was not until I playedwith fire that I did any real harm in this world that I know aboutPlaying with fire I singed a moth I singed a butterfly and I burnt amanIf this was just the story of my own life I wouldnt be so impertinentas to hope that it would be interesting to anybody It isnt my storyand no matter how much I may seem to figure in it I am neither itshero nor I think the god who started the machineryThirtyfive years ago I took to live with me a middleaged couple whohad begun to fear that they were going to die without issue Though Isay it that shouldnt I was very good to them I let them kiss me andmaul me from morning till night Later when I knew that it was thevery worst thing in the world for me I let them spoil me as much asthey wanted to They even gave me the mans name without my consentand I didnt make a row But I _did_ lift my head with sufficientsuddenness and violence to cause the Bishop of New York to bite histongue and to utter a word that is not to be found in the prayer bookI was christened Archibald Mannering DamnBut I have never used the surname with which the good Bishop sosuddenly and without due authorization provided me Certain oldfriends acquainted with the story do not always however show myexquisite taste and reticence in this matter Only the other day inthe Knickerbocker Club I overheard some men talking And one of themin a voice which I did not care for said Archibald ManneringdamnAnd conveyed without other word or qualification than the tone of hisvoice that he had very little use for me Well I can thank God forputting into the world some other people who have not that mansclearsightedness and excellent powers for passing judgment upon hisfellow menSo the man gave me his name and took other liberties with me and thewoman gave me her watch to break I broke it and took other libertiesand a second woman who called herself Nana took still other libertieswith meliberties which made me furiously angry at the time and whicheven now would make me blushSometimes I was sorry that I had taken the man and the woman to livewith me At times they bored me They seemed to me intelligent and Ihad to choose my words carefully and talk down to them as to a pair ofchildren But I got used to them gradually And I got to like themespecially the woman I even formed the habit of forgiving her thingsoffhand without being asked toOh my dear parents I am only tryingto poke a little fun at you And you werent middleaged when you cameto live with

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 siteIllustration JACK MANAGED TO GET THE BALL AND START WITH IT FORTHE GOAL_The Rover Boys at Colby Hall_ _FrontispiecePage_ 223THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALLOR_THE STRUGGLES OF THE YOUNG CADETS_ByARTHUR M WINFIELDEdward StratemeyerAUTHOR OF THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL THE ROVERBOYS ON THE OCEAN THE PUTNAM HALL SERIES ETC_ILLUSTRATED_NEW YORKGROSSET DUNLAPPUBLISHERSMade in the United States of AmericaBOOKS BY ARTHUR M WINFIELDEdward StratemeyerTHE FIRST ROVER BOYS SERIESTHE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOLTHE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEANTHE ROVER BOYS IN THE JUNGLETHE ROVER BOYS OUT WESTTHE ROVER BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKESTHE ROVER BOYS IN THE MOUNTAINSTHE ROVER BOYS IN CAMPTHE ROVER BOYS ON LAND AND SEATHE ROVER BOYS ON THE RIVERTHE ROVER BOYS ON THE PLAINSTHE ROVER BOYS IN SOUTHERN WATERSTHE ROVER BOYS ON THE FARMTHE ROVER BOYS ON TREASURE ISLETHE ROVER BOYS AT COLLEGETHE ROVER BOYS DOWN EASTTHE ROVER BOYS IN THE AIRTHE ROVER BOYS IN NEW YORKTHE ROVER BOYS IN ALASKATHE ROVER BOYS IN BUSINESSTHE ROVER BOYS ON A TOURTHE SECOND ROVER BOYS SERIESTHE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALLTHE PUTNAM HALL SERIESTHE PUTNAM HALL CADETSTHE PUTNAM HALL RIVALSTHE PUTNAM HALL CHAMPIONSTHE PUTNAM HALL REBELLIONTHE PUTNAM HALL ENCAMPMENTTHE PUTNAM HALL MYSTERY12mo Cloth IllustratedGROSSET DUNLAP Publishers New YorkCOPYRIGHT 1917 BYEDWARD STRATEMEYER_The Rover Boys at Colby Hall_INTRODUCTIONMY DEAR BOYS This book is a complete story in itself but forms thefirst volume in a line issued under the general title The SecondRover Boys Series for Young AmericansAs mentioned in several of the other volumes of the first series thisline was started a number of years ago with the publication of TheRover Boys at School in which my readers were introduced to DickTom and Sam Rover three wideawake American lads In that volume andin those which followed I gave the particulars of their adventureswhile attending Putnam Hall Military Academy Brill College and whileon numerous outings both in our own country and abroadThe Rover boys were of course growing older and having met threeyoung ladies very much to their liking each married and settled downas related in detail in the several volumes immediately preceding thisThey were well established in business and in due course of time DickRover was blessed with a son as was also Sam while the funloving Tombecame the proud possessor of a pair of twins who were as full of lifeas their father had ever beenIn this volume the younger Rover boys are old enough to go to boardingschool They are sent to Colby Hall Military Academy presided over byan old friend and schoolmate of their fathers and there they make bothfriends and enemies and have numerous adventuresIn the beginning this chronicle of the younger Rovers I wish to thankmy numerous readers for all the kind things they have said about theother volumes in these series and I trust that they will make just asgood friends of Jack Andy and Randy and Fred as they did of DickTom and Sam RoverAffectionately and sincerely yoursEDWARD STRATEMEYERCONTENTS PAGE I INTRODUCING THE YOUNGER ROVERS 1 II SOMETHING OF THE PAST 13 III WHAT FOLLOWED ANOTHER TRICK 24 IV JACK IN WALL STREET 35 V GETTING READY TO LEAVE 45 VI ON THE TRAIN 54 VII A SCENE IN THE DINING CAR 65 VIII AT COLBY HALL 76 IX THE MISSING SUITCASE 88 X GETTING ACQUAINTED

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at httpwwwpgdpnetIN PORTUGALNaar het Fransch vanGérard de Beauregard en Louis de FouchierO wat zijn die vriendelijke gastvrije dienstvaardige Portugeezenwel echt van ons latijnsche ras De ethnologen de archaelogen en dephysiologen die met behulp van microscopen en hypothesen de menschenhebben onderzocht mogen ons al verzekeren dat er in het bloed derLusitaniërs iberische bolletjes zweven en suevische westgothischeen karthaagsche moorsche en zelfs fransche die wel klein zijn maarzeer levendig het blijft niettemin duidelijk dat het amalgama ietslatijnsch is geworden zooals de amerikaansche wijnstok ten slottede Vougeot voortbrengt als hij maar genoeg sappen van de hellingenvan den Cote dOr heeft opgezogenAan wien zal men doen gelooven dat het oude Lusitanië met zijnvruchtbaren grond zijn donkerblauwen hemel zijn stroomend waterzijn rozen zijn palmen zijn oranjes en zijn onverstoorbaar goedhumeur niet een aartslatijnsch land isEn bovendien zonder al te lang stil te staan bij de deugden derPortugeezen zonder hen al te zeer te prijzen wat op hetzelfde neerzou komen als het uitbazuinen van onzen eigen lof herkennen wijhen als volbloed Latijnen juist door twee van hun ondeugdenVooreerst geven ze graag op zichzelf af net als wij en bij heneven als bij ons is in hetgeen ze beweren veel overdrijving meteen ondergrond van waarheid Vervolgens houden ze van staatsiewoordenpraal en ostentatie maar op een naïeve manier goedaardignooit met het doel om den buurman onaangenaam te wezen of hem zijnkleinheid te doen gevoelen Zoo is daar ginds ieder illustrissimeen dat gaat zoo ver dat de officiëele gedrukte stukken die bestemdzijn om met antwoorden aan allerlei vragers te worden gezondendeze uitdrukking als aanspraak dragen Illustrissime wil niet zeggenillustre dat is beroemd of doorluchtig Vasco de Gama is beroemdmen noemt hem illustre maar gij en ik wij zijn illustrissime menmoet het weten om daaruit te besluiten dat sommige superlatieven eenverkleinende beteekenis hebben Excellentissime is ook druk in gebruiken men past het woord zonder iemand aanstoot te geven op den eerstenden besten schurk toe Men heeft daaruit afgeleid dat in Portugalieder van adel is en trotsch is op zijn hooge geboorte Maar nietsis minder waar De oude familiën zijn precies bekend in spijt vande veelheid der namen waarover ze beschikken en zij zijn volstrektniet bijzonder talrijkIn waarheid is Portugal echter een heerlijk land en hier doet zichde gelegenheid voor om opruiming te houden onder een hoop oudegeschiedenissen en sprookjes die in oude tijden zijn rondgebazuinddoor den een of anderen vroolijken prater die graag voor gewichtigdoor wilde gaan en pronken wou met wat hij op zijn reizen had gezienAls men geloof wilde slaan aan wat sommige fijngevoeligen vertellenwonen er in hoofdzaak in Portugal roovers en ongedierte Wat de eerstenaangaat die zijn als ze bestaan al zeer bescheiden want wij hebbende 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A WARD OF THE GOLDEN GATEbyBret HarteJTABLE 5 9 1PROLOGUEIn San Francisco the rainy season had been making itself a reality tothe wondering Eastern immigrant There were short days of driftingclouds and flying sunshine and long succeeding nights of incessantdownpour when the rain rattled on the thin shingles or drummed on theresounding zinc of pioneer roofs The shifting sanddunes on theoutskirts were beaten motionless and sodden by the onslaught ofconsecutive storms the southeast trades brought the saline breath ofthe outlying Pacific even to the busy haunts of Commercial and Kearneystreets the lowlying Mission road was a quagmire along the CityFront despite of piles and pier and wharf the Pacific tides stillasserted themselves in mud and ooze as far as Sansome Street thewooden sidewalks of Clay and Montgomery streets were mere floatingbridges or buoyant pontoons superposed on elastic bogs Battery Streetwas the Silurian beach of that early period on which tin canspackingboxes freight household furniture and even the runaway crewsof deserted ships had been cast away There were dangerous and unknowndepths in Montgomery Street and on the Plaza and the wheels of apassing carriage hopelessly mired had to be lifted by the volunteerhands of a half dozen highbooted wayfarers whose wearers weresufficiently content to believe that a woman a child or an invalidwas behind its closed windows without troubling themselves or theoccupant by looking through the glassIt was a carriage that thus released eventually drew up before thesuperior public edifice known as the City Hall From it a womanclosely veiled alighted and quickly entered the building A fewpassersby turned to look at her partly from the rarity of the femalefigure at that period and partly from the greater rarity of its beingwell formed and even ladylikeAs she kept her way along the corridor and ascended an iron staircaseshe was passed by others more preoccupied in business at the variouspublic offices One of these visitors however stopped as if struckby some fancied resemblance in her appearance turned and followedher But when she halted before a door marked Mayors Office hepaused also and with a look of half humorous bewilderment and aslight glance around him as if seeking for some one to whom to imparthis arch fancy he turned away The woman then entered a largeanteroom with a certain quick feminine gesture of relief and findingit empty of other callers summoned the porter and asked him somequestion in a voice so suppressed by the official severity of theapartment as to be hardly audible The attendant replied by enteringanother room marked Mayors Secretary and reappeared with astripling of seventeen or eighteen whose singularly bright eyes wereall that was youthful in his composed features After a slightscrutiny of the womanhalf boyish half officialhe desired her to beseated with a certain exaggerated gravity as if he was overacting agrownup part and taking a card from her reentered his officeHere however he did NOT stand on his head or call out a confederateyouth from a closet as the woman might have expected To the left wasa green baize door outlined with brassstudded rivets like a cheerfulcoffinlid and bearing the mortuary inscription Private This hepushed open and entered the Mayors private officeThe municipal dignitary of San Francisco although an erectsoldierlike man of strong middle age was seated with his officialchair tilted back against the wall and kept in position by his feet onthe rungs of another which in turn acted as a support for a secondman who was seated a few feet from him in an easychair Both werelazily smokingThe Mayor took the card from his secretary glanced at it saidHullo and handed it to his companion who read aloud Kate Howardand gave a prolonged whistleWhere is she asked the MayorIn the anteroom sirAny one else thereNo sirDid you say I was engagedYes sir but it appears she asked Sam who was with you and when hetold her she said All right she wanted to see Colonel Pendleton tooThe men glanced interrogatively at each other but Colonel Pendletonabruptly anticipating the Mayors functions said Have her in andsettled himself back in his chairA moment later the door opened and the stranger appeared As sheclosed the door behind her she removed her heavy veil and displayedthe face of a very handsome woman of past thirty It is only necessaryto add that it was a face known to the two men and all San FranciscoWell Kate said the Mayor motioning to a chair but without risingor changing his attitude Here I am and here is Colonel Pendletonand these are office hours What can we do for youIf he had received her with magisterial formality or even politelyshe would have been embarrassed in spite of a certain boldness of herdark eyes and an ever present consciousness of her power It ispossible that his own ease and that of his companion was part of theirinstinctive good nature and perception She accepted it as such tookthe chair familiarly and seated herself sideways upon it her rightarm half encircling its back and hanging over it altogether an easyand not ungraceful poseThank you JackI mean Mr Mayorand you too Harry I came onbusiness I want you two men to act as guardians for my littledaughterYour what asked the two men simultaneouslyMy daughter she repeated with a short laugh which however endedwith a note of defiance Of course you dont know Well she addedhalf aggressively and yet with the air of hurrying over a compromisingand inexplicable weakness the long and short of it is Ive got alittle girl down at the Convent of Santa Clara and have hadthereIve been taking care of herGOOD care too boysfor some time Andnow I want to put things square for her for the future See I wantto make over to her all my propertyits nigh on to seventyfivethousand dollars for Bob Snelling put me up to getting those waterlots a year agoand you see Ill have to

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por saldar mas quero ao menosmostrarlhes deste modo que não esqueço o muito que teem a haver dossentimentos do meu coraçãoAcceitem pois a offerta que é singella e avaliemna pela intenção enão pelo que éSempre Sobrinho amigo e agradecido Alfredo CamposA FILHA DO CABINDAA FILHA DO CABINDAIA filha do cabinda é formosa como a visão dum sonho celeste meiga comoo canto do sabiá poisado nos galhos do cajueiro e ingenua como avirgem da innocenciaO cabinda é negro e negro de raça fina mas é branca a sua filha efilha porque o velho escravo quer muito á senhora moça que ellebeijava e embalava no seu collo quando era pequeninaRevêse nella e nella se mira doido daffeição o pobre negro e tantoa gravou na ideia tanto a traz no coração que chega até a esquecersedo trabalho sujeitandose ás reprehensões do seu senhor parainsensivelmente se entregar a scismar nella que é tão bondosa tãomeiga e tão carinhosa para elle nella que por uma destas illusõesdestas miragens destas doidices dum grande affecto e duma vivasympathia chega a julgar realmente sua filhaE _filha do cabinda_ lhe chama elleO negro vivia na sua terra alegre e feliz lá tinha seus paes a suacompanheira os filhos e a sua familiaUm dia não sabe como achouse com todos elles dentro dum navio quecomeçou a affastalo cada vez mais da sua patria Passou assim algumtempo entre as duas immensidões o mar e o céo sem sentir saudades dasua terra porque levava ainda ao seu lado aquelles que lhe davamalegria Depois pozeramo de novo em terra levaramo a elle e aos seuscompanheiros para uma grande casa onde os brancos começaram a disputaro preço por que haviam de compralosO cabinda foi vendido e quizeram levaloLevalo E a sua companheira e os filhos e seus paesEsses foram vendidos tambem e cada um a seu senhorTristissimo era o negocio da escravidãoReagiu o negro quando o quizeram separar dos seus e quando tambem osseparavam delleTeve então saudades da sua patria terriveis sem duvida porque eramao mesmo tempo saudades da sua liberdadeFizeramlhe porém estancar as lagrimas angustiosas as ameaças dumaçoite e o Cabinda lá partiu sem esperanças de tornar a vêr os filhosqueridos que nem sequer beijara na despedida a esposa que elleadorava com um culto rude mas sincero e os paes que elle respeitavacom a sua veneração selvagemPartiu mas ainda assim boa estrella o guiava porque cortandolhe asaffeições mais caras da sua vida ao menos o levaram para onde tinha deser estimado quasi como pessoa de familia e não como escravo e negroque eraEm casa do seu senhor foi elle encontrar uma creancinha de dois annosque tinha uns olhos lindos os cabellos como os olhos negros da côr doabysmo e um rosto como o dos anjos dum sonho de poeta como o dasfadas boas das visões nocturnas das mattas virgensA convivencia foio affeiçoando áquella creancinha que lhe sorria tãoinnocentemente que lhe estendia alegre os bracinhos mimosos ebrincando o abraçava carinhosamente pelas pernasO negro quando via a pequenina Magdalena sentia não sei que doçurasnalma não sei que effluvios no coração mas que deviam sergratissimos porque os olhos desannuviavamselhe logo das sombras detristeza que os velavam sempre e os labios desatavamselhe numsorriso de sincero e intimo jubiloE tomavaa no collo sentavase com ella á sombra das copadastamarindeiras ou das laranjeiras em flor cobriaa de beijos e affagosentretecialhe corôas de jasmins e martyrios e olhavaa assim numaespecie de adoração sublime e concentrada talvez com a recordação nosfilhinhos que perdera e que eram tambem pequeninos como a mimosaMagdalenaTinha dez annos a filha do cabinda quando perdeu sua mãeFicavamlhe os affagos dum pae estremoso e os carinhos do negroaffeiçoado mas que valia tudo isso que valia a gotta dagua para tãogrande sêde o atomo em face da immensidade desfeitaO negro que era dedicado á sua senhora tanto como á pequeninaMagdalena esqueceuse da sua condição de escravo e arrojouse em umimpeto de dôr e daffecto a entrar no quarto da moribunda poucosmomentos antes della despedir o derradeiro alentoEstava junto ao leito Jorge de Macedo que era o seu senhor embebendoem beijos lacrymosos o rosto da innocente que ia em breve ser o seuunico encanto neste mundoOs dois pae e filha assistiam angustiados ao desabamento daquelleedificio da sua venturaO cabinda entrou como perdido olhou para Jorge com receio com amorpara Magdalena e foi ajoelharse de mãos postas junto ao