One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been ha …
This is the story of Joseph, the boy who had the strangest and most exciting adventures of any boy who ever lived.Joseph was but a little lad when his …
“Uncle, I am quite disappointed. Mrs. Lyons showed me the bear she has got tied up in their compound, and it is the most wretched little thing, not bi …
The plain truth was that Bunyip and his Uncle lived in a small house in a tree, and there was no room for the whiskers. What was worse, the whiskers w …
For some time before his death Mark Twain had appeared before the public in the rôle less of a laughing philosopher than of a somewhat gloomy prophet …
General Gage, the commander of the British troops who were quartered in Boston about this time, had become a tyrant in the eyes of the people. When sp …
It was just past ten o’clock on a chilly morning in the early spring when Joe Bradley emerged from the shop door of the little house which had been hi …
Glad and grateful at having escaped with unbroken bones from such a dangerous accident, I set out walking along the edge of the ravine, which soon bro …
You’d have said, if you had glanced casually at Henri de Farquissaire, that he was British—British from the well-trimmed head of hair beneath his ligh …
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their proper …