A Day’s Pleasure
by William Dean Howells I.–THE MORNING. They were not a large family, and their pursuits and habits were very simple; yet the summer was lapsing
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by William Dean Howells I.–THE MORNING. They were not a large family, and their pursuits and habits were very simple; yet the summer was lapsing
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by Mark Twain I February 22. To-day is the great Birth-Day; and it was observed so widely in the earth that differences in longitudinal time
by O. Henry In Texas you may travel a thousand miles in a straight line. If your course is a crooked one, it is likely
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by Katherine Mansfield AND then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a
by W. W. Jacobs Mr. Potter had just taken Ethel Spriggs into the kitchen to say good- by; in the small front room Mr. Spriggs,
by W. W. Jacobs “There’s no doubt about it,” said the night watchman, “but what dissipline’s a very good thing, but it don’t always act
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by W. W. Jacobs Mr. George Burton, naval pensioner, sat at the door of his lodgings gazing in placid content at the sea. It was