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THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything,—only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and ...
Mohan was the only child of his parents. He was a quiet boy of eight, who mostly remained absorbed in his own world of fantasy. Whatever spare time remained after his school hours and study time, he ...
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 having its face washed by the old cat for the last ...
It is told that there was once a mighty river which ran south into the sea, and at the mouth thereof was a great and rich city, which had been builded and had waxed and thriven because of the great ...
"Good evening, sir. A bit gusty?" "Very much so, sergeant," I replied. "I think I will step into your hut for a moment and light my pipe if I may." "Certainly, sir. Matches are too scarce nowadays to ...
Finally I got down from the bus at Jadugada, a small town near Rakha Mines Railway Station. It is a heavily forested area of eastern singbhum and here hills and waterfalls were just breathtaking. It ...
Have you heard about the jolly king of the cloud kingdom?He had three sons , all taking after him and they revelled in dance and music as much as they took delight in a duel, a game of polo or riding ...
It is a curious story, full of exciting adventures, extraordinary discoveries, and mysteries amazing. Strange, too, that I, Richard Scarsmere, who, when at school hated geography as bitterly as I did ...
I. Eustace’s career – if career it can be called – certainly dates from that afternoon in the chestnut woods above Ravello. I confess at once that I am a plain, simple man, with no pretensions to ...
It was a lowering and gloomy night in the early part of the present century. Mr. Edward Middleton, a gallant youth, who had but lately passed his twenty-third year, was faring northward along the ...
TO Dr Wallis Budge of the British Museum as a small token of gratitude for his unfailing kindness and help in the making of it ...
After the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to "write something more" about the ...
The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could ...
Through the kindness of Dorothy Gale of Kansas, afterward Princess Dorothy of Oz, an humble writer in the United States of America was once appointed Royal Historian of Oz, with the privilege of ...
THE LONG TAPERS flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which ...