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In Elsie's Vacation and After Events

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Martha Finley


Elsie and her family take a boat trip to visit wartime sites in NE USA. Illness, a son's departure and the willfulness of a daughter make fo…

The Little Men of the Diomedes

In The Young Ice Whalers

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Winthrop Packard


Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…

Trial of Harris Seymour, Moses Roberts, Holloway Hayward, Henry Howard and Jame…

In American State Trials, Volume 3

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John D. Lawson


"A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our go…

Letter 2

In A Bundle of Letters from over the Sea

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Louise B. Robinson


In presenting my little book to the public, I feel that I should apologize for so doing, instead of introducing it; for at the time my lette…

Sea Constables: a Tale of ’15

In Debits and Credits

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Rudyard Kipling


This is a collection of short stories, poems, and play fragments published in 1926. Many of them are set during World War I. Many have stron…

Chapter 15

In Emily's Quest

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


This is the third and final book in the "Emily of New Moon" trilogy.This is the story of Emily Starr's uneven climb from success i…

The Round-Up

In The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West

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Laura Lee Hope


Bert, Nan, Flossie and Freddie go out west, and help solve a strange mystery about an old man.This is the 13th book in the Bobbsey Twin seri…

BIRDS IN THE SNOW

In Go She Must!

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David Garnett


Anne Dunnock is desperately unhappy. Her widowed father is an unpopular clergyman, who takes his work more seriously than his parishioners w…

The Discovery of a Tenor; A Long Encore Number; "Englyshe Meetre"; "The Devil o…

In Anecdotes of Great Musicians

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Willey Francis Gates


Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers.I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that…

Cherubim of Hell

In Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 18, March, 1921

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W. H. Fawcett


"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packe…

JOE IS CAUGHT

In The Moral Pirates

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William Livingston Alden


Excerpt: “… you and two or three other fellows might make a splendid cruise in a row-boat. You could have a mast and sail, and you could tak…