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More Beetles
by Jean-Henri FabreChildhood is pitiless because it does not understand, for nothing is more cruel than ignorance. None of my madcaps will heed the sufferings of the insect, a melancholy galley-slave chained to a cannon-ball. These artless minds find amusement in torture. I dare not always call them to order, for I admit that I on my side am also guilty, though I am ..
Return to Gone-Away
by Elizabeth EnrightThe Villa Caprice, which was the cause of all their rejoicing, was a large elderly house a hundred miles away in the country, not far from the heavenly spot that Portia and her cousin, Julian Jarman, had discovered the summer before. This spot was called Gone-Away Lake, and as its name implied, a live lake that had once sparkled there had long ago ..
The Memoirs of a Failure
by Daniel Wright KittredgeDunlevy was a student at the University of Virginia at the time when some of us, who were undergraduates, began to notice and comment upon his personality. He was considerably older than the other students; and we imagined that this was the reason why he held himself aloof from us. We used to watch him from the athletic field on pleasant afternoons..
The Story of the House
by Orman Wesley KetchamThe Story of the House: Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. Ketcham. The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long side-wall The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks, The bricks, one after another, each laid so workmanlike in ..
The Box of Smiles, and Other Stories
by Laura Rountree SmithThe Box of Smiles is a collection of fairy tales for the children written by Laura Rountree Smith which contains the stories below.THE BOX OF SMILESTHE FAIRY SHOEMAKERTELL-TALE AND TATTLE TOOLITTLE STAY-AT-HOME AND THE WISHING PINLITTLE GIRL THROW-AWAYTHE ENCHANTED STAIRCASELITTLE DWARF COURAGEDOROTHY ANN AND THE WEE LITTLE MAN..
The Light Machine
by Ray CummingsThe little Moving Picture Theater was hot and stuffy; Tubby found an aisle seat with his friends, near the back. For a quarter of an hour or more he sat blinking at the flickering screen. The Topical Review interested him not at all; he yawned and squeezed his fat little body lower into the hard narrow seat. The wonders of celestial space were unfo..
A United States Midshipman Afloat
by Yates StirlingThe Navy-Yard at Brooklyn buzzed with its daily turmoil of labor. It was a bright June morning, and the high chimneys of the numerous shops and foundries belched forth flame and smoke. Thousands of begrimed workmen toiled incessantly, hammering, bending and riveting masses of metal, fashioning them into shape to be carried by the steam cranes to be..
A United States Midshipman in the South Seas
by Yates StirlingIn this story Midshipmen Phil Perry and Sydney Monroe, together with Boatswain’s Mate “Jack” O’Neil, act through an historic drama of a South Sea war.The same characters have seen active service in many parts of the world. In “A United States Midshipman Afloat,” life in a battle-ship of the Atlantic fleet, together with a typical South American rev..