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Excerpt: Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...rt Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...enson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...an- ion, I was saluted by something in Strathspey time. A white- faced Orpheus was cheerily playing to an audience of white- faced women. It was as mu... ...weather diversions to beguile the time. There was a single chess-board and a single pack of cards. Sometimes as many as twenty of us would be playing ... ...a single chess-board and a single pack of cards. Sometimes as many as twenty of us would be playing domi- noes for love. Feats of dexterity, puzzles f... ...gh with a somewhat indistinct and childish hope. We had a father and son who made a pair of Jacks-of-all- trades. It was the son who sang the ‘Death o... ...nd quiver- ing, and looked like assault and battery, every inch of him. But we had a better card than violence. ‘You will have to make it your busines... ...as poorly clad, to the verge, if not over the line, of disrespectability, with a ragged old jacket and a bit of a sealskin cap no bigger than your fis...

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Excerpt: Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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... Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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Excerpt: Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

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Excerpt: Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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