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When Polly was Eighteen

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 The young man, stretched on the grass among the waving shadows, was gazing across the valley to the hills in their soft afternoon veiling. It was a June picture beautiful enough to hold the attention of any one, yet it was plain that David’s thoughts were not on the landscape.


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What I Remember

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 I have no intention of writing an autobiography. There has been nothing in my life which could justify such a pretension. But I have lived a long time. I remember an aged porter at the monastery of the “Sagro Eremo,” above Camaldoli, who had taken brevet rank as a saint solely on the score of his ninety years. His brethren called him ...


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With Edged Tools

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  Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain. “My dear—Madam—what you call heart does not come into the question at all.”


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Watermelon Mystery at Sugar Creek

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 IF I hadn’t been so proud of the prize watermelon I had grown from the packet of special seed Pop had ordered from the State Experiment Station, maybe I wouldn’t have been so fighting mad when somebody sneaked into our truck patch that summer night and stole it.  


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Welcome Martians

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 The only sound was the swish of the jets against the sand as the big ship came down. Slowly, nose pointed skyward, a yellow tail streaming out behind the tubes, it settled to the ground like a cat nuzzling its haunches against a velvet pillow.


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When Scout Meets Scout

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 When Arthur Trevor caught the flying machine fever and organized the “Young Aviators,” neither he nor the other boys who joined the club meant to do anything but make toy aeroplanes. There was certainly no reason for them to foresee that their first tournament was to turn the young aviators into Boy Scouts, and in the end, into real B...


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Windmills and wooden shoes

Cate: Children's Novel  Author:novel 

 In “Windmills and Wooden Shoes” we have a continuous story of the doings of the Dutch children, Jan and Katrina and their little friends.


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White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War

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 When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru—her last harbour in the Pacific—I found myself without a grego, or sailor\'s surtout; and as, toward the end of a three years\' cruise, no pea-jackets could be had from the purser\'s steward: and being bound for Cape Horn, some sort of a substitute was indispensable; I employed myse...


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What Is Free Trade?

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 Years ago I could not rid my mind of the notion that Free Trade meant some cunning policy of British statesmen designed to subject the world to British interests. Coming across Bastiat\'s inimitable Sophismes Economiques I learnt to my surprise that there were Frenchmen also who advocated Free Trade, and deplored the mischiefs of the ...


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Warlord of Mars

Cate: Science Fiction  Author:novel 


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