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...Excerpt: ?The Lake Gun? is one of James Fenimore Cooper?s very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commissioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscellaneous stories and poems called ?The Parthenon? (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), and Cooper r...

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...ore Cooper “The Lake Gun” is one of James Fenimore Cooper’s very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commis- sione... ...s- sioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscella- neous stories and poems called “The Parthenon” (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), ... ...the late 1820s, but who later abandoned Chris- tianity and returned to his traditional way of life NOTE: See-wise = intended to represent William Henr...

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...e tale. At the same time, it must be admitted that the particular class of stories which turns on the marvellous possesses a stron- ger influence when... ...ort all the usual commentaries 15 Sir Walter Scott which are made on such stories. Lord Woodville never once asked him if he was sure he did not drea... ...d or surmounted, I have, nev- ertheless, ventured to draw up the following traditional nar- rative as a story in which, when the general details are k...

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... the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its shining walls rose against April sky to a simple cor- nice lik... ...ding was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed brick, with clean, upright, unornamented lines. I... .... As always he noted that the California Building across the way was three stories lower, therefore three stories less beautiful, than his own Reeves ... ...hree thousand members use it as a cafe in which to lunch, play cards, tell stories, meet customers, and enter- tain out-of town uncles at dinner. It i... ...good hotel, if it were more exclusive.” The Athletic Club building is nine stories high, yellow brick with glassy roof-garden above and portico of hug... ... the differences between Thompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, s... ... banker. The books were most of them Stan- dard Sets, with the correct and traditional touch of dim blue, dim gold, and glossy calf-skin. The fire was... ...dim blue, dim gold, and glossy calf-skin. The fire was exactly correct and traditional; a small, quiet, steady fire, reflected by polished fire-irons.... ...and absurd before the ancient and overwhelming realities, the standard and traditional realities, of sickness and menacing death, the long night, and ...

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...came to do quite a number of things together. In the language of schoolboy stories they became “inseparables.” Prothero’s first desire, so soon as the... ....” Prothero had been examined enough. Now he must be entertained. She told stories about the village people in her brightest manner. The third story s... ...ying keen intimate things about each other. He met Yeats, who told amusing stories about George Moore, and afterwards he met George Moore, who told am... ...s about George Moore, and afterwards he met George Moore, who told amusing stories about Yeats, and it was all, he felt, great fun for the people who ... ... in particular should we give way to Holy Fear and stifled sub- mission to traditional suppressions and the wisdom of the 198 The Research Magnificen... ...ful and must be subdued. The race is on one’s side. And so there is a vast traditional support for a man against the Second Limitation, the limitation... ...o a passion of resentment and anger. “I despised a jealous man. There is a traditional discredit of jealousy, not so strong as that against cowardice,... ...sted, had been the cause of China’s paralysis. “My idea of nobility is not traditional but expect- ant,” said Benham. “ After all, Confucianism has he... ...fter the Prophet. Life must relax at last….” “No!” cried Benham. “If it is traditional, I admit, yes; but if it is creative, no….” Under the stimulati...

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... 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible develop- ments in the future of some... ... bounds of the plough- life and the beast-tending. Slowly a vast system of traditional imperatives superposed itself upon his instincts, imperatives t... ...ckened its intelligence, dispelled its vanities, and emanci- pated it from traditional ambitions and antagonisms. It was stripped of the accumulation ... ...ted any repetition of their 126 The World Set Free experiences. There are stories of puffs of luminous, radio- active vapour drifting sometimes score... ...ncy of cu- riosity, and how these serve the universal drift. And all their stories lead in the end either to happiness missed or happi- ness won, to d...

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...rapidly to warm small feet; the ferruginous oil stove, who purrs and knows stories; and the skitamarigg, who will play with children before break- fas... ...d corrected all her worries and had opened a magazine of saffron detective stories, she sat upright. Here—she meditated—is the newest empire of the wo... ...d at the houses; tried not to see what she saw; gave way in: “Why do these stories lie so? They always make the bride’s home-coming a bower of roses. ... ...ick? … Good Lord, I hope it isn’t that! Not now! How people lie! How these stories lie! They say the bride is always so blushing and proud and happy w... ...Prairie—the Minniemashie House. It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs... ..., and inconspicuous clothes, and doing our commercial trickery only in the traditional ways, that none of us can live up to it, and we become horribly...

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...r do we revel in details of slaugh- ter. He reasoned with her; he repeated stories known to him of civilian heroes, and won her assent to the heroical... ... had his interests at heart, the fork-tongued world said. The cry revived. Stories of Lord D. and Mrs. W . whipped the hot pursuit. The moral repute o... ...queerly, as though he ought to know; and then Redworth recollected current stories of Raiser’s fantastical devotion to the popular prima donna of the ... ...shmen); those women, or some of them, as little knowing it as the moon her traditional influ- ence upon the tides. He thought of Percy Dacier too. In ... ...ow if it’s a day!’ ‘I heard a story in London …’ ‘In London there are many stories. I heard one. Is there a foundation for it?’ ‘No.’ He breathed reli... ... to divert him from a too intent perusal of her features with sparkles and stories current or invented to serve the immediate purpose. Miss Paynham wa... ...iana bowed to the compact little apologue. ‘I will tell you another story, traditional in our family from my great-grandmother, a Spanish woman,’ she ...

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...the appallingly edifying careers of “early piety” lusciously described, or stories of condemned crimi- nals who traced their final ruin unerringly to ... ...reet loafers, grimy workers that made the social background of London, the stories one heard of privation and sweating, only joined up very slowly wit... ...ce and stood on the thread- bare rug, and urged me not to be misled by the stories of prejudiced and interested enemies of our national industries. “T... ...o me the strangest of conventions, this assumption of unreal loyalties and traditional respects, this repudiation and concealment of passionate intere... ...proposals that shows any sense of the need for leadership to replace these traditional leaders you are ousting. This was the substance of my case, and... ... that self-development led to a profound breach with my wife. One has read stories before of husband and wife speaking severally two different languag... ... was absurd and delightful. And we talked. We discussed and criticised the stories of nov- els, scraps of history, pictures, social questions, sociali...

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...onald of Keppoch, and subjoins the following remarks: ‘This and many other stories are romantick; but there is one thing, that at first thought might ... ...s well as the ear may be deceived upon such occasions, is evident from the stories of armies in the air, and other spectral phenomena with which histo... ...aturely, have announced the plot to many of my country men, among whom the traditional stories above mentioned are still current.” 798. My spell-bound... ...e announced the plot to many of my country men, among whom the traditional stories above mentioned are still current.” 798. My spell-bound steps. The ...

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...stead of shivering in the damp human herd on the pier. Admitting the sex’s traditional right to change, she might at least have advised him of hers by... ...hearted philosophy was not without charm to a young man accustomed to more traditional views. George Darrow had had a fairly varied experience of femi... ...ve Anna a glimpse of a society at once freer and finer, which observed the traditional forms but had discarded the underly- ing prejudices; whereas th... ...ld rake up dozens of them: have her ‘traced’, as they call it in detective stories. I don’t think you’d frighten Owen, but you might: it’s natural eno...

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... inflexible shepherdess. As a set-off against this, the old historical and traditional ballads, and the true pastorals, the songs and ballads of peasa... ...t, all you have to do is to manage to quote these names, or refer to these stories I have men- tioned, and leave it to me to insert the annotations an... ... need to weep,” answered Sancho, “for I will amuse your worship by telling stories from this till daylight, unless indeed you like to dismount and lie... ...anage to relate it, and nobody interferes with the telling, is the best of stories, and let your worship give me your attention, for here I begin. Wha... ...id Sancho. “In truth,” said Don Quixote, “thou hast told one of the rarest stories, tales, or histories, that anyone in the world could have imagined,... ...I take them as seen already and pronounced upon, and I will tell wonderful stories to my lady; so write the letter and send me off at once, for I long...

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...a long, dark passage, and in another moment made the ac- quaintance of the traditional room of the Latin Quarter. A young man’s poverty follows him wh... ...us folk no more recoiled before these horrors than the prince in the fairy stories turns tail at sight of the dragon or of the other obstacles put be-... ...e publishers at this moment, things that nobody can make head nor tail of, stories in verse that begin in the middle, like The Corsair and Lara. They ... ...n view, the noble youth had come to the Ambigu- Comique. Do not believe in stories of elaborate treachery. Neither the great world nor the world of jo... ...on him by life in Paris. Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Barbet A Man of Business The Seamy Side ...

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...the period following upon the publication of the “Typhoon” volume of short stories. I don’t mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending ... ...sturbing mood lasted some little time; and then, as with many of my longer stories, the first hint for “Nostromo” came to me in the shape of a vagrant... ... boundary pillars of their estates. In all these households she could hear stories of political out- rage; friends, relatives, ruined, imprisoned, kil... ...ferred the unceremonious gatherings of men where he could tell jaguar-hunt stories, boast of his powers with the lasso, with which he could perform ex... .... His high rank always procured an audience of Caballeros for his sporting stories, which he detailed very well with a simple, grave enjoyment. As to ... ...d, what was more, in the private budgets of many officials as well. It was traditional. It was known. It was said. It was credible. Every Minister of ...

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...red, gave a long whistle. The art gallery took in the height of two of the stories of the house. It was shaped like a rotunda, and topped with a vast ... ...or between the wheat and corn pits, ousting the traders in oats from their traditional ground. The market had closed the day before with May wheat at ... ...s, not only of Chicago, but of every city in the Union, exploited him for “stories.” The history of his corner, how he had effected it, its chronology...

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...ir repute, the Raynham kitchen stuck to tradition, and pre- served certain stories of ghosts seen there, that effectually blackened it in the suscepti... ...e floor, crying, “What a muddle you’re in, Rip! You’re mixing half-a-dozen stories together. The old lady I told you about was old Dame Bakewell, and ... ...rel than many a woman who holds her head high.” T o back this she told him stories of blooming dames of good repute, and poured a little social sewera... ...ard. “Y ou want to reform this woman. Her manner is open—fair and free—the traditional characteristic. We won’t stop to canvass how that particular ho...

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...he ceiling, formed of colossal beams, bent beneath the weight of the upper stories, though it had never given way under them. Built en colombage, that... ...and door casings, the entablatures, corner stones, and courses between the stories, are of granite, cut in facets like a diamond. The courtyard, which... ... and skilled workmen rendered serious. The corner towers, which have three stories with a single window in each, looking to the side, are covered with... ... with a mansarde roof in the olden style. The towers at each end are three stories in height. The middle tower has a stunted dome something like that ... ...nd yet, look at his brow, how noble in shape! Isn’t it like the classic or traditional brow given by sculptors to Lycurgus and the Greek sages? The re... ...s found a second mother. Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bianchon, Horace Father Goriot The Athei...

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... Chris’s problem. “So how did Chris find out?” Rick asked, he’d heard some stories before, but this was a whopper and was getting more incredible by ... ...oung boy at the time and he always accompanied his parents to church. The traditional minister prayed aloud, but he was so serious and orderly. He’d... ...sumed Bill would see through any lie, taking into consideration the man’s traditional nature. “Bill…” Rick sighed. “I like Chris.” He paused uneasy. ... ...centre. Large chandeliers hung from a high roof with fancy cornices where traditional landscapes framed in gold hung on beige colourer walls. Waiter... ...ave a good natter about this tomorrow; I bet granny told you some whopper stories.” “No.” Chris shook her head. “Okay, so, Australia post has a repri... ... going to be a necking session. Mistaken was Rick’s notion of her being a traditional girl, lacking experience with a real man. Assisting Chris up o... ...p front on such issues, as she always thought her neighbour was strict on traditional values. “Yes,” Chris mumbled. “It was an experience alright.” S... ...ome; you can’t get a word in edgeways. She tells you what she learnt, what stories she heard and wrote, what the teacher wore, what she played in and...

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... and sizzled from the points of clocking in and clocking out. Among other stories, she had heard this one of the decapitated woman, head and limbs bo... ...os, in part the store catered toward the Asian community where, among more traditional American products, one could find kimchee or seaweed flavored ... ...a blessing: it is so difficult for one to decipher of her own life-- many stories in my brain, not all of which are vampires, but how can I write the...

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...enough to pay all your good debts, the debts of a gentleman. I’ll play the traditional uncle now, and revenge myself!” “Ah! uncle, I know your vengean... ...us.” 22 Madame Firmiani Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Blamont-Chauvry, Princesse de The Thirteen...

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...of human life than any one, since Shakspeare, who has attempted to tell us stories about 8 A Little Tour in France it; and the very small scene on wh... ...This facade, one of the most finished things in Tou-raine, consists of two stories, surmounted by an at- tic which, as so often in the buildings of th... ... bank of the Cher, and over them she threw a long, straight gallery of two stories. This part of the chateau, which looks simply like a house built up... ... Renaissance francaise.” “Its height,” he goes on, “is divided between two stories, terminating under the roof in a projecting entablature which imita... ... railway-carriage without breaking si- lence is forced to believe that the traditional reputation of these gentlemen is simply the survival of some pr... ... it, it looks very handsome and delicate. To this street it pre- sents two stories and a considerable length of facade; and it has, both within and wi... ...d with the beds of patients, all draped in curtains of dark red cloth, the traditional uniform of these, eleemosynary couches. Among them the sisters ...