Classicly Books
Buffalo Bill's Still Hunt
Prentiss IngrahamColonel Cody’s fame had reached the East long before, and a great many New Yorkers went out to see him and join in his buffalo hunts, including such men as August Belmont, James Gordon Bennett, Anson ..
Equation for Time
R. R. WinterbothamIt was customary for terrestrials to use terrestrial dates wherever their outposts were located in the stellar system. But instead of using the terrestrial year—as shown in parenthesis on The Sirian D..
In the Earth's Shadow
John L. ChapmanSiegal turned, astounded. The red-headed youngster stood there, a look of bewilderment on his face. Then Ferris leaped, caught Siegal about the hips and sent him sprawling over the station floor. But ..
The Warwickshire Avon
Arthur Quiller-CouchFrom Avon Well the spring flows to the northwest, and we follow it through “wide-skirted meads” dotted with rubbing-posts and divided by stiff ox fences (the bullfinches of the fox-hunter—for we are i..
What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?
Q. K. Philander DoesticksThe negroes came from two plantations, the one a rice plantation near Darien, in the State of Georgia, not far from the great Okefenokee Swamp, and the other a cotton plantation on the extreme norther..
Turkish fairy tales and folk tales
LevetusThe almost unique collection of Dr. Ignatius Kunos may therefore be regarded as a brand snatched from the burning; in any case it is an important “find,” as well for the scientific folk-lorist as for ..
A Green Cloud Came
Robert W. LowndesHer nose wrinkled in concentration. "Greer? Wasn't he the one who claimed to have discovered a sort of gaseous cloud in space? Our system was supposed to be approaching it; when it reached our atmosph..
An Adventure
Eleanor F. JourdainLooking in Baedeker’s map we saw the sort of direction and that there were two Trianons, and set off. By not asking the way we went an unnecessarily long way round,—by the great flights of steps from ..