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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The frowsy chambermaid of the Red Lion had just finished washing the front door steps. She rose from her stooping posture and, being of slovenly habit, flung the water from her pail straight out, without moving...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The land dropped abruptly down from the gate, and a thick, shrubby growth of young apple orchard almost hid the little weather-grey house from the road. This was why the young man who opened the sagging gate could...

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To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are opening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as a friend of mine, a successful lawyer in a great city, felt when in talking of the future of his four little children he said, “For the two boys it is not so serious,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right— except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

The following genealogical sketch was compiled in 1897. The crest is copied from John Rooney's “Genealogical History of Irish Families.

I think I may say that more than one President, relieved from the onerous duties of a great reception, has found rest by sitting quietly in the corner of a convenient room and listening to the music.

It is with no desire to excite animosity against a people whose blood is in our veins that we publish this volume of facts about some of the Americans, seamen and soldiers, who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the enemy during the period of the Revolution. We have concealed nothing of the truth, but we have set nothing down in malice, or with undue recrimination.

In England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristic of the last twenty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. The standard histories of the last generation need to be revised,...

The story of Margaret of Anjou forms a part of the history of England, for the lady, though of Continental origin, was the queen of one of the English kings, and England was the scene of her most remarkable adventures and exploits. She lived in very stormy times, and led a very stormy life; and her history,...

CITY AND TOWN. Which London shall we visit first? said Mr. George to Rollo. Why, rejoined Rollo, surprised, are there two of them? Yes, said Mr. George. We may almost say there are two of them. Or, at any rate, there are two heads to the monster, though the immense mass forms but one body.

There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on to the roof and tailboard as best we could. We were shearers, bagmen, agents, a squatter, a cockatoo, the usual joker— and one or two professional spielers, perhaps. We were tired and stiff and nearly frozen— too...

IN THE CLOUDS My God, said Rutherford, the cable has broken!