Classicly Collection of Books

Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)

Lizzie E. Cotton

In my early efforts at bee keeping, I met with many failures and heavy losses, from being confused by the contradictory teachings of selfish or ignorant bee keepers, and from a lack of that personal k..

Fighting King George

John T. McIntyre

The distance by water to this point was much shorter than by road; the skiff had lowered its sail and run its nose up on the sand before the dragoons reached the spot. Captain Deering was just about t..

Hand-book of Sanitary Information for Householders

Roger Sherman Tracy

There is no evidence to show that the emanations from fresh house-slops, or the excreta of healthy animals, are injurious to health, but it has been proved that when these matters decompose they becom..

Shepherds of the Wild

Edison Marshall

Perhaps he lacked the basic stuff. The Old Colonel was a little despairing: he had begun to fear that in this lay the true explanation. But perhaps—and this was the old man’s hope—the matter got down ..

Stories from the Crusades

Janet Harvey Kelman

The Crusades are long past, yet to-day there are men who see visions of good and who wish to bring them down to earth. With them are others who fight selfishly as did Bohemond and Baldwin long ago. Bu..

The Demon Trapper of Umbagog

Daniel P. Thompson

Some twenty two or three years previous to the juncture we have been describing, Arthur and Mark Elwood, by the fruits of their unremitting industry as laborers on a farm in summers, and as pedlars of..

The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur

Benjamin Muse

But I made display of enough of my ignorance without these special inducements. One day I think I made a blunder of quite everything which was given me to do. Besides such minor offences as putting th..

A Treatise on Regional Iodine Therapy for the Veterinary Clinician

Although the practitioner may not be able to satisfy his ethical desire to explain the action of preparations of iodine in the latter class of pathological conditions, he soon makes the discovery that..