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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE.................................................................................................................................. 19 THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT .............................................

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...ok by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylva... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...ronic transmission, in any way. The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis,... ...................................................................... 59 THE UNDERTAKERS .................................................................. ...ll fall, And the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall cover you all! THE UNDERTAKERS WHEN ye say to Tabaqui, “My Brother!” when ye call the Hy...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. N... ... purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associate... ...ity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained ... ... for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Cle... ...ted lying around loose, and let anybody cord them up and cart them off that wanted to. Have you anything further to suggest?” “Nothing, except that th... ...then eight private carriages con- taining consulting surgeons; then a hack containing a coro- ner; then the two hearses; then a carriage containing th... ...iriting. The two gladiators fell upon each other’s neck, with floods of proud and happy tears; that other second embraced me; the surgeons, the orator... ... the grave, the melancholy, the sepulchral head waiter and said it was not the sort of wine he had asked for. The head waiter picked up the bottle, ca...

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...erson. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the mate... ... University assumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. L... ..., in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...d taken for his motto ‘Spend, and spare not!’ Mr Pecksniff had been to the undertaker, and was now upon his way to another officer in the train of mou... ...ve brought them to the house. In the passage they encountered Mr Mould the undertaker; a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with ... ...verything be very nice and comfortable, Mrs Gamp, if you please,’ said the undertaker, shaking his head with a solemn air. ‘It shall be, sir,’ she rep... .... ‘You knows me of old, sir, I hope.’ ‘I hope so, too, Mrs Gamp,’ said the undertaker. ‘and I think so also.’ Mrs Gamp curtseyed again. ‘This is one o...

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Excerpt: Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy?s Progress by Charles Dickens.

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...LIVER TWIST CHARLES DICKENS or The Parish Boy s Progress A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBL... ... A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pen... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Oli... ...n. It was rather expensive at first, in consequence of the increase in the undertaker’s bill, and the necessity of taking in the clothes of all the pa... ...countered at the gate, no less a person than Mr. Sowerberry, the parochial undertaker. Mr. Sowerberry was a tall gaunt, large jointed man, attired in ... ...n the measure of the two women that died last night, Mr. Bumble,’ said the undertaker. ‘Y ou’ll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,’ said the beadle, a... ...as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proferred snuff box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin. ‘I say ...

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...Excerpt: In the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School ...

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...Excerpt: It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days? illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she rose and turned she saw me rigid, with open eyes and silent pulses. She ran to me, fancying that I had fainted, ...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...ssics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...smission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...dentify you at the morgue to- morrow morning. When I’m bad, I’m called the Undertaker’s Friend, so I am, and I’m that bad to-night that I’m scared of ... ...r’s body was carried. Later on in the day, when it was almost evening, the undertaker’s black wagon passed the Derricks’ Home ranch on its way from Ho... ...uggles, and the local P . and S. W . agents. An hour before breakfast, the undertakers arrived and took charge of the bodies of Harran and Annixter. P... ...d everything, a silence broken only by the subdued coming and going of the undertaker and his assistants. When Presley, having resolved to go into Bon...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

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...Contents: I. PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE - ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CO...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his fath...

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...wo by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...d Valentine’s room, which on the following night was to be occupied by the undertakers. On entering the room, Noirtier’s eyes met those of the abbe, a... ...lose to the heads of the horses belonging to the hearse, and following the undertaker’s men, arrived with them at the spot appointed for the burial. E...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-...

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...sics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bil... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. Billy Budd by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...avy hempen breechens, tarred to the same tint, wore the like livery of the undertakers. In contrast with the funereal hue of these surroundings the pr... ...ise prepared to serve for his canvas cof- fin, the last offices of the sea-undertakers, the Sail-Maker’s Mates, were now speedily completed. When ever...

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...Excerpt: At Paris there are almost always two separate parties going on at every ball and rout. First, an official party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the han...

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...Excerpt: It is no easy task in this world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable chara...

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...enty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Van... ...me Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...had conducted her in perfect silence, and with a countenance as glum as an undertaker’s. “She writhes and twists about like a snake. All the time she ... ...ed of such vast sums that the gentle- men of the club (the apothecary, the undertaker, the great car- penter and builder, the parish clerk, who was al... ...d-piece of bugles and feathers, which waved on her Ladyship’s head like an undertaker’s tray. Sir Pitt had judged correctly, that she would not quit t... ...ainers of both Hall and Rectory were habited in sable; added to these, the undertaker’s men, at least a score, with crapes and hatbands, and who made ...

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... A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A... ... electronic transmission, in any way. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis... ...that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name ... ... had entered first. ‘Let the laundress alone to be the sec ond; and let the undertaker’s man alone to be the third. Look here, old Joe, here’s a chan...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The experience of great officials who have laid down their dignities before death, or have had the philosophic mind to review themselves while still wielding the deputy sceptre, teaches them that in the exercise of authority ...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Serv...

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...Table of Contents: ILLUSTRATION: HE HAD BEEN TIM?S BLOOD HORSE, ii -- PREFACE, 1 -- MARLEY?S GHOST, 2 -- THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 17 -- THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 31 -- THE LAST OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 49 -- THE END OF IT, 61 -- ILLUSTRATION: BOB CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM., 67...

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