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Sixteenth Scene - Salt Patch - Chapter the Fifty-Sixth

In Man and Wife

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Wilkie Collins


This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were …

Preparation of Vegetables

In Enquire Within Upon Everything

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Robert Kemp Philp


Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Patern…

Conclusion

In The Soul of a People

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Harold Fielding and Harold Fielding Hall


In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, e…

Chapter 12

In The Reason Why

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Robert Kemp Philp


This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and compre…

Lunch

In Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5

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Louisa May Alcott


A book of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and Eight Cousins. It includes Two Little Travellers, a story about two…

Danish Popular Legends

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 6, 1866 to 1875

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Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. Summary by Kristin…

The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin

In The Bab Ballads (version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert


The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

Santa-Claus

In Later Poems

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Julia Caroline Dorr


This is the last volume in Julia Caroline Dorr's collected poems, the Later Poems. - Summary by Carolin

Rhythm: Balance

In The Practice and Science of Drawing

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Harold Speed


This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass…

The Proposal—The Interruption—The Indian —The Rescue—The Wounded Man—The Myster…

In Prisoner of the Mill

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Harry Hazelton


Subtitled "Captain Hayward's Body Guard”. An adventure story for boys.

The Story of Samuel Jackson

In Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land

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Charles Godfrey Leland


This is a volume of poetry by Charles Godfrey Leland. The first half of this volume is taken up by the Songs of the Sea, with rather romanti…

Sarah Shaw Russell

In From the Easy Chair Vol. 1

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George William Curtis


George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…

Foreword

In The Flying Girl

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L. Frank Baum


Frank L. Baum, author of the Oz books, delivers an engaging story for all ages. Orissa Kane works in order to provide for her family. Her mo…