Classicly Collection of Books

The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge

Laura Lee Hope

The four Outdoor Girls, in Mollie Billette's touring car and with Mollie herself at the wheel, were at the present moment rushing wildly over a dusty country road at the rate of thirty miles an hour.G..

The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico

Frank Gee Patchin

The snore had come from Stacy Brown. Both he and Tad Butler were resting from their long journey on the Atlantic and Pacific train. Further to the rear of the car, their companions, Ned Rector and Wal..

A Rock in the Baltic

Robert Barr

IN the public room of the Sixth National Bank at Bar Harbor in Maine, Lieutenant Alan Drummond, H.M.S. “Consternation,” stood aside to give precedence to a lady. The Lieutenant had visited the bank fo..

Slips of Speech

John H. Bechtel

Homer, in all probability, knew no rules of rhetoric, and was not tortured with the consideration of grammatical construction, and yet his verse will endure through time. If everybody possessed the ge..

Blacky the Crow

Thornton W. Burgess

Blacky the Crow is always watching for things not intended for his sharp eyes. The result is that he gets into no end of trouble which he could avoid. In this respect he is just like his cousin, Sammy..

Minnesota and Dacotah

C. C. Andrews

Introduction by Author:THE object of publishing these letters can be very briefly stated.During the last autumn I made a tour into Minnesota, upwards of a hundred and thirty miles north-west of St. Pa..

Old Granny Fox

Thornton W. Burgess

Snow covered the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, and ice bound the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook. Reddy and Granny Fox were hungry most of the time. It was not easy to find enough to eat the..

The McNaughtens

Jean François Regnard

Spruce Oh, if I gamble a little it's only to spend the time while you are spending the night in certain black gambling dens. I hear you swearing right up to the door. I swear, too, when luck is agains..