Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers by Victor Appleton CHAPTER XII THE GREAT STONE HEAD It was a wild and desolate country in which Tom Swift and Mr. Jenks were traveling. Villages were far apart, and...
CHAPTER I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and...
-CHAPTER 14 'I slept little, hurried over my breakfast, and after a slight hesitation gave up my early morning visit to my ship. It was really very wrong of me, because, though my chief mate...
-CHAPTER 9 '"I was saying to myself, 'Sink--curse you! Sink!'" These were the words with which he began again. He wanted it over. He was severely left alone,...
-CHAPTER 15 'I did not start in search of Jim at once, only because I had really an appointment which I could not neglect. Then, as ill-luck would have it, in my agent's office I was...
CHAPTER 10 "I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched!" --Midsummer Night's Dream The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had...
A Walk In The Park (Schinder) Ripples on the lake, no ripples on the lake no ripples on the lake, no ripples on the lake at all. Crows are quieter than ever Swans are diving into dark. A...
CHAPTER 15. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible The four travelers walked up to the great gate of Emerald City and rang the bell. After ringing several times, it was opened by the same Guardian of the...
CHAPTER 2 - Part 1 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on...
CHAPTER 4 Sounds But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects and provincial, we are in danger...