Rick and Ruddy Out West
Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
Chot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste.
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Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
Chot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste.
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Category: Author:John Breck
You’d have thought every wing and paw in the Woods and Fields (except the Bad Little Owls, of course) would have been glad to know that Silvertip the Fox was caught.
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Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
Years ago, in a little country called Switzerland, there lived a little girl who was the daughter of a doctor. This doctor sometimes had to climb up high mountains and sometimes he had to descend slowly to the deep valleys
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Category: Author:novel
The substance of this little work was first published as a series of articles in the British Clayworker, in 1895–96, and I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of that Journal for permission to reproduce them.
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Category: Author:novel
This short treatise was written for the benefit of those who cannot devote much time to the study of the Index. It appeared first in the “Catholic union and Times,” Buffalo, N. Y., and was reprinted in the “Catholic Mind” series, Fordham University Press, New York, as numbers 23 and 24 of 1907.
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Category: Author:novel
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and from the tree of life.
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Category: Author:novel
It was early in 1756 that a Scottish trader, from Edinburgh, entered the port of Stettin. Among the few passengers was a tall young Scotch lad, Fergus Drummond by name. Though scarcely sixteen, he stood five feet ten in height; and it was evident, from his broad shoulders and sinewy appearance, that his strength was in full propo...
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Category: Author:novel
If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop.
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Category: Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
货运工约翰的妻子、善良的主妇多特相信,壁炉边的蟋蟀是捍卫自家家宅的小小神灵。这是一桩不被看好的婚姻,靠运货为生的约翰比多特要年长许多,他粗壮笨拙,多特则娇小可爱,朋友们围绕在多特身边,大家虽皆不富足,却因为拥有多特这样特殊的朋友,在团聚时充满欢声笑语、气氛其乐融融。然而,就在这时,一位不速之客的到来打破了这对夫妻看似平静的普通人...
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Category: Author:novel
\"You are aware, I suppose, Marshall, that there have been considerably over a million dollars\' worth of automobiles stolen in this city during the past few months?\" asked Guy Garrick one night when I had dropped into his office.
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