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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 364, December 18, 1886

Various Authors

Our next dish is the curried rabbit. First class curry can be obtained in tins. Remember that tinned meats are like everything else in the world—some are good, and some are bad. If you wish for a bott..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)Joseph Pitton de TournefortDr. Thomas ShawFrederic HasselquistLady Wortley MontagueRichard PocockeJohn BellJohn LedyardGeorge ForsterJames BruceJonas H..

The Yellow Frigate

James Grant

It is not the fine west window which overlooks the wooded path that winds by the river-side, and is known as "the Good Bishop's walk," nor the ruined shrine where sleeps St. Blane of Bute—he whose boa..

Travels into Turkey

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c. The whole being a ..

Clubfoot the Avenger

Valentine Williams

Clubfoot the Avenger: Being some further adventures of Desmond Oakwood, of the Secret Service. My friends, the two Okewoods, are reticent on this point; but I make no doubt that they, who origina..

Cry Chaos!

Dwight V. Swain

The Thorian's eyes flicked to the Earthman in the same instant. Desperately, he tried to halt his headlong plunge—to throw himself sidewise, out of the way. He moved too late. The steel struck home. T..

Boy Scouts in California

G. Harvey Ralphson

The cave in which the boys found themselves in a moment was not far from twenty feet in size each way, with the ceiling at least ten feet above the smooth floor. Perhaps thousands of years before that..

Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab

Kate Sanborn

My first wish for an Indian was to add to the effect of my wigwam. I’ve always been rather partial to the Indian race because there is a tradition (which cannot be verified) that my great grandmother,..