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  2. THE HERMIT OF THE ROCK

    I was hunting in the wilderness of one no the upper counties of Canada, far away, as , supposed, from any habitation of man in I, when I came to the front of a hold ...

    Article : 1,264 words
  3. WHY HE COULDN'T GET A DIVORCE

    Black and yellow woe sat upon his brow armbition had fled from his eyes, and his ft gait was slow and shambling. He heaved a F deep and melancholy sigh as he removed a p ...

    Article : 533 words
  4. WOULDN'T PLAY ANY MORE.

    During the winter of 1862 and '63, our regiment, the 14th—, was in winter quarters near Falmouth, Virginia. The captain of our company was a tall, ...

    Article : 362 words
  5. HOW WE TRIED TO WHIP THE TEACHER.

    I was a boy of seventeen ungainly dull and tall, Ez green ez eny gozlin but I the I know it all. ...

    Article : 559 words
  6. (Copyright) THE ROMANCE OF OUR FIRST CENTURY.

    When Barrington appeared again on 1 Newmarket heath, after a considerable absence from that scene of sport and festivity, he was regarded with particular interest by ...

    Article : 2,192 words
  7. BLIGH'S DEPOSITION.

    It was in Governor King's time that the colonisation of the island, now called Tasmania, was undertaken. It arose in the accident that Collins, to whom had been ...

    Article : 811 words
  8. SHARING THE RISK.

    Mr. Pinto, who was on a drumming expedition in Maine, had neglected to fill his flask before leaving civilisation, and, on the home stretch from Bagnor ...

    Article : 392 words
  9. TOO APT AT RETORT.

    In the latter days of Frederick the Great British minister at the Court of Berlin was Hugh Elliot. The relations between Prussia and England were not altogether ...

    Article : 242 words
  10. SLANG.

    She was a very nice looking girl; she had bright eyes that gleamed alike with fun and determination. She :had on a pretty brown dress, her gloves fitted her ...

    Article : 351 words
  11. LAW A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

    In Vermont (United States), burglary was punished by branding with a B on the forehead, and nailing one of the offenders ears to a post and cutting it off, ...

    Article : 409 words
  12. KNOW WHEN YOU ARE WELL OFF.

    A certain man in the time of the Khalit of Bagdad laid claim to the gift of prophecy. The people took him to the klhalif, who asked him: ...

    Article : 327 words
  13. JAMES SQUIRE.

    One of the First Fleeters who earned a right to reverential remembrance and record, in the pages of history, was James Squire. He was a brewer by trade. In the course of ...

    Article : 650 words
  14. VOICES OF THE LOVED ONES.

    In the mountains of the Tyrol it is the custom of the women and children to come out when it is bedtime to sing their national songs until they hear their ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. A CONVINCING ARGUMENT.

    He was squirting tobacco juice over the floor of the room, and telling how capital oppressed labour, when one on the down met in the place inquired, ...

    Article : 264 words
  16. DEFINITION OF WEALTH.

    In striving to reach a higher order of life than we have yet attained to, the first thing needful is that we should acquire a know- ledge of what wealth really consists of. The ...

    Article : 156 words
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