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..................................................................... 104 THE FOUR ANGELS .................................................................. ..................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ............................................................... ... his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Com- bine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ank... ...if it rakes time, there are worse things than—How much have you?” “Between four and five million. But it isn’t the money. You know it isn’t. It’s the ... ...enuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and, so far as they could, judge in the bumpy da... ...g better, or is it senile decay?” “Climate, all climate.” Sophie swung her new-bought En- glish boots, as she sat on the stile overlooking Friars Par-... ...ce, dodged into a brood-frame, where young- sters who had not yet seen the winds blow or the flowers nod discussed life. Here she was safe, for young ... ...al Jelly. How the nectar for it was won out of hours in the teeth of chill winds. How the hidden egg hatched true— no drone, but Blood Royal. How it w... ...in and out, the low growl of the lift-shunts, and, louder than the yelling winds without, the scream of the bow-rud- der gouging into any lull that pr...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the sta...

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...am of nowadays look evanes- cent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we are seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreamy... ...rne to laugh as gayly as we may, and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at ... ... a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,” said a dark... ...te—almost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderful... ...tic aspect. He was clad in a voluminous cloak, that seemed to be made of a buffalo’s hide, and a pair of those goat-skin breeches, with the hair outwa... ...ide and dreary precincts of the catacomb, seeking, as some say, to beguile new victims into his own misery; but, according to other statements, endeav... ... can use it as adroitly as her pen; the woman’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gle... ...together the fragments ora letter which has been torn and scattered to the winds. Many words of deep signifi- cance, many entire sentences, and those ... ...ek that should be unvis- ited, throughout the summer, by more invigorating winds than any within fifty miles of the city; no bloom, but yet, if the mi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the sta...

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...am of nowadays look evanes- cent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we are seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreamy... ...rne to laugh as gayly as we may, and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at ... ... a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,” said a dark... ...te—almost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderful... ...tic aspect. He was clad in a voluminous cloak, that seemed to be made of a buffalo’s hide, and a pair of those goat-skin breeches, with the hair outwa... ...ide and dreary precincts of the catacomb, seeking, as some say, to beguile new victims into his own misery; but, according to other statements, endeav... ... can use it as adroitly as her pen; the woman’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gle... ...together the fragments ora letter which has been torn and scattered to the winds. Many words of deep signifi- cance, many entire sentences, and those ...

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...nd for such a classification; … fortiori, then, will it belong to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four millions of inhabitants at the very least, as we resolutely maintain after reviewing all that has been written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican Rome had her prerogative tribe; the...

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...ich counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four millions of inhabit- ants* at the very least, as we resolutely maintai... ...Oriental Cham, who daily proclaims by sound of trumpet to the kings in the four cor- ners of the earth—that they , having dutifully awaited the close ... ...s upon a distant crown, under another heaven, and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries! Splendor, thus transmitted, thus sustained, and thus im... ...ll confine ourselves as much as possible to those which are susceptible of new as- pects. For the whole gallery of those who follow, we can un- dertak... ...n has ever been applied to them, and that many might easily be placed in a new light. Indeed, the whole of this most momentous sec- tion of ancient hi... ...d some crazy old fleet, and whistle you down the tide—no matter under what winds, no matter towards what shore.” Finally, we might seek for the charac... ...ibution of Roman influence, were such as to leave a pos- sibility that any new triumvirate should arise—so long Augustus was secretly meditating a ret... ...ers, and facetiously distinguishing them by the names of the four cardinal winds, (Boreas, Aquilo, Notus, &c.) and others as levanters or hurricanes, ... ...s fancy; but in his anxi- ety that his runners should emulate their patron winds, and do credit to the names which he had assigned them, he is said to...

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...members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen ...

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...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...Europe, exclusive of Rus sia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is... ...nsidering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world—four thousand three hun dred miles. It seems safe to say that it is also... ...longitude. The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some h... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one half. An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, state... ...addle box, possibly; big roomy boiler deck, painted blue, and furnished with Windsor arm chairs; inside, a far receding snow white ‘cabin;’ porcelain... ...us thunder storm, that night, and it raged continuously until near dawn. The winds blew, the windows rattled, the rain swept along the roof in pelting... ...he carcass into pieces, yes, into small pieces, and scatter them to the four winds; for, unless you do this, he will again revive.’ She promised that ...

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...g to and died at their feet; the bamboos withered, clank- ing when the hot winds blew, and the moss peeled off the rocks deep in the Jungle, till they... ...ep-boring grubs under the bark of the trees, and robbed the wasps of their new broods. All the game in the jungle was no more than skin and bone, and ... ..., and the lumps on his knees and elbows, where he was used to track on all fours, gave his shrunken limbs the look of knotted grass-stems. But his eye... ...! We shall see the mohwa in blossom yet, and the little fawns all fat with new grass. Come down to the Peace Rock and hear the news. On my back, Littl... ...him steadily between the eyes. “That may come, too—Faugh, Shere Khan!—what new shame hast thou brought here?” The Lame Tiger had dipped his chin and j... ...eeonee Pack that hence- forward he would hunt in the Jungle alone; and the four children of Mother and Father Wolf said that they would hunt with him.... ...llow,” said Akela triumphantly. “Not for nothing have I led the Pack.” The four cubs said nothing, but ran down hill on their 38 The Second Jungle Bo... ... in the inside of a mud-trap, and, having carefully shut out all the clean winds, drew foul cloth over their heavy heads and made evil songs through t... ...cept the Waingunga rushing and gurgling in the dark, and the light evening winds among the tree-tops, till suddenly across the river a wolf called. It...

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...hout any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, ...

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............................................................ 427 DIALOGUE THE FOURTH ....................................................................... ...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...I resign to the reader’s unbiased judg- ment, adding here, with respect to four of them, a few prefa- tory words—not of propitiation or deprecation, b... ...tion”). The three first were distinctions maintained at all times; but the fourth and grandest belonged exclusively to the war with Napoleon; and this... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...es of “Autobiographic Sketches.” 20 Memorials, and Other Papers created a new principle of life within him, and evoked some nature hitherto slumberin... ...t the meanest and most cowardly mode of hunting known to human experience. Buffalo-hunting is much more dignified as regards the courageous exposure o... ...ays so stormy that they “kept the raven to her nest,” snow the heavi- est, winds the most frantic, were never listened to as any ground of reprieve fr... ...thesiléan mamma, on the very day of their nativity, to face the most cruel winds—did they, or did Mrs. Schreiber’s wards, justify, in after life, this...

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...ays a very easy one. CHAPTER I —GOING AWAY I SHALL NEVER FORGET the one fourth serious and three fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the ... ...ns, Esquire, and Lady, had held daily and nightly conferences for at least four months preceding: that American Notes – Dickens 4 this could by any ... ...per American Notes – Dickens 5 end a melancholy stove, at which three or four chilly stewards were warming their hands; while on either side, extend... ...of old Home in it for my fellow traveller; and for her predictions of fair winds and fine weather (all wrong, or I shouldn’t be half so fond of her); ... ...ast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state r... ...e little Scotch lady be fore mentioned, on her way to join her husband at New York, who had settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly,... ...plasters in various places. The baker is ill, and so is the pastry cook. A new man, horribly indisposed, has been required to fill the place of the la... ...e haven. It’s a blessed harbour — still water there, in all changes of the winds and tides; no driving ashore upon the rocks, or slipping your cables ... ...ast closed; and from the roof there dangle, limp and drooping, two useless windsails. A man with keys appears, to show us round. A good looking fello...

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...oat skin bag. So did Jawahir 6 Kim Singh, the Museum carpenter, bent over new packing cases. So did everybody in sight except the peasants from the c... ...of the Middle Way, living in peace in our lamasseries, and I go to see the Four Holy Places before I die. Now do you, who are children, know as much a... ...but parast [idolater],’ said Abdullah, the Mohammedan. Kim laughed. ‘He is new. Run to your mothers’ laps, and be safe. Come!’ Kim clicked round the s... ...he Curator of his own lamassery, the Such zen, opposite the Painted Rocks, four months’ march away. The Curator brought out a huge book of pho tos an... ...there by the unfamiliar Greek convention, but delighted as a child at each new trove. Where the sequence failed, as in the Annunciation, the Cu rator... ...g, and chaffering in the packed square. The cloisters, reached by three or four masonry steps, made a haven of refuge around this turbulent sea. Most ... ...heir jewels again. At first they breathed temperately upon the travellers, winds good to meet when one crawled over some gigantic hog’s back; but in a... ...a goat; and now and again a bright coloured bird, they were alone with the winds and the grass singing under the wind. The women of the smoky huts ove... ...loins for my Search. Out of the Hills I came–the high Hills and the strong winds. Oh, just is the Wheel!’ He blessed them in detail–the great glaciers...

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...e under notice to quit, the last patch of country in a district flooded by new and prbaa things. He did his best to console himself, to imagine matter... ...rench artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zeala... ...a whole day before he was five, and nearly drowned in the reservoir of the new water-works before he was seven. He had a real pistol taken away from h... ...eronaut, usually they smashed both. Machines that made flights of three or four miles and came down safely, went up the next time to headlong disaster... ...miles. Finally they glided off stage. Why, it must be nineteen hundred and four, or five, they vanished! Then there was those people in Ireland—no, I ... ...gner, or, for the matter of that, an unaccredited native, can’t get within four miles of Lydd nowadays—not to mention our little circus at Aldershot, ... ...a noble woman—misunderstood. I intend to vindicate her, sorr, to the four winds of heaven!” “I lurve England,” he used to say—”lurve England, but Pur... ...taking.—Butindeed it was not he who took that course, but his masters, the winds of heaven. Mys- terious voices spoke to him in his ear, jerking the w... ...was disabled and driving before the wind as smoothly as a balloon, a huge, windspread, tattered cloud of aerial wreckage. T o Bert it was no more than...

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...m provides for its favoured members. He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or mak- ing his toilet. When he cho... ...ter, because that luckless youth had brought him shav- ing-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty- six; and he was awaiting his suc... ... Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared. “The new servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are ... ...oo slow,” said Mr. Fogg. “Pardon me, monsieur, it is impossible—” “You are four minutes too slow. No matter; it’s enough to mention the error. Now fro... ...f without a word. Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his 7 Jules Verne pre... ... somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s “people,” let it be said, are of wax, and ar... ...de a false deal. “But that doesn’t take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on.” “All included,” returned ... ...ot find himself, when travelling by steamer in winter, at the mercy of the winds and fogs? Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or thr... ... of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of t...

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...is time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my good ness, he never plays them alik... ...least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three fourths of the work. Tom’s younger brother (or rather half brother) Sid w... ...oked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new inspiration: “Tom, you didn’t have to undo your shirt collar where I ... ...e whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man’s are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind f... ...scour aged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful w... ...dventures of Tom Sawyer 13 dog collar — but no dog — the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange peel, and a dilapidated old window sash. He had had... ...nt Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four horse passenger coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in t... ...rn and illus trious. No — better still, he would join the Indians, and hunt buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless... ...wer exerted over its terror by the illustrious Franklin! Even the boisterous winds unanimously came forth from their mystic homes, and blus tered abo...

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...literary world.” Six months previous to this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty- four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had pre... ...ng stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then followed more verse, and so on through an unending seri... ... London and brought her to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a pro... ...e grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fo... ...ons, I proceeded till I found a mighty street, full of sumptuous buildings four and five stories high, but paved with rude cobblestones, after the fas... ...e was a slight commotion in the street, a gathering to- gether of three or four, something that glittered as it moved very swiftly. A ponderous Irish ... ... awhile you shall pass a five-storied building humming with machinery that winds up an everlasting wire cable, and the initiated will tell you that he... ... eye. Addressing me by name, he claimed to have met me in New York, at the Windsor, and to this claim I gave a qualified assent. I did not remember th... ...t in finding me so responsive he would make remarks about New York and the Windsor which I could not under- stand. And, indeed, he adventured in this ...

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... of sphygmograph tracings (I write subject to correction) and an admirable new terminology, that did the thing for him. The general public saw little ... ...of Professor Armstrong’s Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred pounds’ worth of apparatus, a total ne- glect of all other stu... ...ce, and then, finding the pamphlet still out of reach, he went down on all fours in pursuit. It was on the floor that the idea of calling it the Food ... ...e was right and Redwood was right, then by injecting or administering this new substance of his in food, he would do away with the “resting phase,” an... ...s standing on a planet before a sort of black platform lecturing about the new sort of growth that was now possible, to the More than Royal Institutio... ...ocal showers, which may perhaps account for this intermission. Then on the fourth day came blue sky and brilliant sunshine and such an outburst of was... ...the Gods rifles—too small. Say it’s to kill—kill a bull. Say it’s to shoot buffalo! See? Eh? Rats? No! How the deuce are they to un- derstand that? Be... ...rthened National Schools. And to get what?—a proletariat of hungry giants. Winds up with a very serious passage, says even if this wild suggestion—mer...

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...ch the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land.” —Holland’ s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceede... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four miles.” —Scoresby. “Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh a... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ...nd up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in thei... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks any- thing the les... ... exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never ... ...h.—It’s the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It’s the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It’s a blasted heath.—It’s a Hyperborean winter scene... ...ence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds. Y es, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage comple...

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...per for permission to reprint them. The remaining tales are, more or less, new. —Rudyard Kipling ... ...ws and chuckles until, by and by, he finds out that blacking and Old Brown Windsor make him very sick; so he argues that soap and boots are not whole-... ...nd fretted over women not worth saddling a pony to call upon. He found his new free life in India very good. It does look attractive in the beginning,... ... after drink. He lost his money over whist and gymkhanas because they were new to him. He took his losses seriously, and wasted as much energy and int... ...He said, quietly: “The Boy has been alone, by himself, for— one, two, five—fourteen hours now! I tell you, I don’t feel easy.” This uneasiness spread ... ... through one of the windows a little hurri- cane-lamp burning. This was at four in the afternoon. We both stopped dead in the verandah, holding our br... ...e villagers to help—while the Major arranged—the other matters. It took us four hours’ hard work to make the grave. As we worked, we argued out whethe... ..., nipped hill-side and black rocks. Bagi dak-bunga- low is open to all the winds and is bitterly cold. Few people go to Bagi. Perhaps that was the rea... ...to engage coolies for the next day’s march. The sun had set, and the night-winds were beginning to croon among the rocks. Dumoise leaned on the railin...

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...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ...st spun away. Cues of men with lunch-boxes clumped toward the immensity of new factories, sheets of glass and hollow tile, glittering shops where five... ...the cen- ter of the city was three miles away—Zenith had between three and four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second Na... ...ng, Ted observed that her friends were “a scream of a bunch-stuck-up gabby four-flushers.” His friends, she indicated, were “disgusting imitation spor... ...bbitt.” “But I’ll tell you—and my stand on this is just the same as it was four years ago, and eight years ago, and it’ll be my stand four years from ... ...rence and—She was chirp- ing, “Any more, Mist’ Babbitt?” He grunted, “That winds it up, I guess,” and turned heavily away. For all his wandering thoug... ...or Seattle or Duluth is the twin-brother of every like fellow booster from Buffalo or Akron, Fort Worth or Oskaloosa! 162 Babbitt “‘But it’s here in ...

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...t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der the w... ...t what’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He isn’t much more than a sec- ond-hand hotel cl... ...uldn’t it be great if we ran down one?” “Shut the door, Harvey ,” said the New Yorker. “Shut the door and stay outside. You’re not wanted here.” “Who’... ...v to wait till you see your pa to reward me, then?” “ A hundred and thirty-four dollars-all stolen,” said Harvey , hunting wildly through his pockets.... ...might you have been doin’ at your time o’ life with one hundred an’ thirty-four dollars, young feller?” “It was part of my pocket-money-for a month.” ... ...nd it 12 Captains Courageous was—indirectly . “Oh! One hundred and thirty-four dollars is only part of his pocket-money—for one month only! You don’t... ...ndy weather—” Here Long Jack joined in: And it’s blowy weather; When the winds begin to blow, pipe all hands together!” Dan went on, with a cautiou... ...by Tom Platt launching into a most dolorous tune, like unto the moaning of winds and the creaking of masts. With his eyes fixed on the beams above, Di... ... he hez. ‘Gits liquor frum the Feecamp boats fer makin’ spells an’ selling winds an’ such truck. Crazy , I guess.” ‘Twon’t be any use underrunnin’ the...

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... course,’ said Dan, flushing. ‘Well, Sir Huon was young when that song was new. But about tricks on mortal babies. I said to Sir Huon in the fern here... ...round their necks.’ ‘What sort of rings?’ said Dan. ‘ A ring of Cold Iron, four fingers wide, and a thumb thick, 12 Rewards and Fairies just like a q... ...ie! Thor help us!” the Boy called. “It is round, with- out end, Cold Iron, four fingers wide and a thumb thick, and there is writing on the breadth of... ...child Meets the Cold Iron.” And there he stood, in clear starlight, with a new, heavy, shin- ing slave-ring round his proud neck. ‘“Is this how it goe... ...e banquet at Brickwall. They say she danced Philip of Spain out of a brand-new king- dom that day. Worth the price of a pair of old shoes—hey?’ She th... ...ame back so much as a single rope-yarn to show what had befallen them. The winds blew, and they were not. Does that make you alter your mind, young Bu... ...e foundation stone— Ralph Springett, Builder—and the stone she’s bedded on four foot good concrete. If she shifts any time these five hundred years, I... ...eople of the Worked Flint. I am the one son of the Priestess who sells the Winds to the Men of the Sea. I am the Buyer of the Knife—the Keeper of the ... ...log. ‘Y ou tell me that that good ship’s timber never done nothing against winds and weathers since her up-springing, and I’ll confess ye that young F...

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...ore Cooper whites. When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribe... ...-civilized be- ings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New Y ork. The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which thei... ...n- tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New Y ork, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the Fren... ...d bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I be- held a beast which verifie... ...of the soldiery with a care that seemed better fitted to the experience of four or five additional years. It could be seen, however, that her person, ... ...d nothing would relieve the mind more than such a consoling communion. But four parts are altogether necessary to the perfection of melody. Y ou have ... ...o recover from the shock, his feeble barrier of brush was scattered to the winds, the cav- ern was entered at both its extremities, and he and his com... ...ior. I see it in your eye, Sagamore; a Huron pays for this, afore the fall winds have blown away the scent of the blood!” Chingachgook approached the ... ...y of danger. “What now?” asked the scout; “the lake is as smooth as if the winds had never blown, and I can see along its sheet for miles; there is no...