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With Sword and Crucifix

Edward S. Van Zile

With Sword and Crucifix- Being an Account of the Strange Adventures of Count Louis Sancerre, Companion of Sieur LaSalle, on the Lower Mississippi, in the Year of Grace 1682.Like a statue done in bronz..

Yellow Butterflies

Mary S Andrews

Out from the door of the house burst the laughing, shouting little lad. He raced across the grass and halted by the tulip-bed; there, with yet more shouts of full-throated baby laughter, he turned to ..

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes

W. D. Westervelt

Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions, whirlwinds, avalanches, lava flows, earthquakes, and fiery blasts which composed the narrative of the domain of Pele before man appe..

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa

F. G. Speck

It is important to note, in dealing with myths in this area, that the scenes of the trickster-transformer’s adventures always lay in well known localities within the territory of the band among which ..

Observations on Abortion

John Burns

By abortion is generally understood the expulsion of the contents of the gravid uterus, at a period of gestation so early as to render it impossible for the fœtus to live. It is an accident or disease..

The Bagpipers

George Sand

I dedicate this novel to you, my dear Eugène, not to give you a proof of motherly affection, which you do not need to make you feel at home in my family, but to leave with you, after I am gone, a poin..

The Curtiss Aviation Book

Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born at Hammondsport, New York, May 21, 1878. His middle name shows his connection with the pioneer family for which the town is named. Then Hammondsport was a port for canal..

The Moon - A Popular Treatise

Garrett Putman Serviss

One serene evening, when the full moon, rising slowly above the tree tops, began to spread over the landscape that peculiar radiance which, by half revealing and half concealing, by softening all outl..