So he thought a minute, and then he told us this story. Long ago--might have been hundreds of years...
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filled full of orange-juice and iniquity, he conceived a deadly snare. Having deftly patted and squ...
"Oh, dear!" cried the boy, "I wish you'd try and grasp the situation properly. When the other peopl...
than to go through life thus gorgeously equipped! Success was his key-note, adroitness his panoply,...
and how you were bound to win, in the cause of right and justice, and so on; but let me tell you, I...
got into the crow's-nest, you could just see over the headland, and take in at your ease the life a...
more and we should all be aboard, the hawsers would splash in the water, the sails would fill and s...
but--" WHACK! A well-aimed clod of garden soil, whizzing just past my ear, starred on a tree-trunk...
possibly eat; and here, apparently, was one of them. "You can have all the creams," I said magnanim...
a well-fed boy with the world for his playground. People like that did one good--one felt "made ove...
"Do you suppose I'm a light woman?" she snarled, and swooping over she fastened her teeth in his gl...
Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame Contents THE TWENTY-FIRST OF OCTOBER DIES IRAE MUTABILE SEMPER T...
The doctor whistled a little tune and flicked the mare again. "Well, I hope the young shaver won't ...
sacrifice of autumn leaves to the calm-eyed goddess of changing hues and chill forebodings who was ...
The Child gathered the baby into her lap and sat rocking him. "Ts--ts--ts," she said. "He's cutting...