This dinner auction is one of the most funny auctions on the peninsula. The reason for it being, you only do you get food and you visit with friends you haven't seen in a long time. But, the...
CHAPTER III THE PANTECHNICON I "How do you do, Miss Earp?" said Denry, in a worldly manner, which he had acquired for himself by taking the most effective features of the manners of...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 1: Tom Tit Tot Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XV. Newland Archer arrived at the Chiverses' on Friday evening, and on Saturday went conscientiously through all the rites appertaining to a...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE Mr and Mrs Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 6 CUT ADRIFT The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, already mentioned as a tavern of a dropsical appearance, had long settled down into a state of hale...
CHAPTER 16 When Jurgis got up again he went quietly enough. He was exhausted and half-dazed, and besides he saw the blue uniforms of the policemen. He drove in a patrol wagon with half a dozen of them...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER X. The next day he persuaded May to escape for a walk in the Park after luncheon. As was the custom in old-fashioned Episcopalian New York, she usually...
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those...
[music] OK, so we are about to demonstrate Dragon's Breath ammo, the ultimate in muzzle flash, and we got the most manly person we know, John to do it, John can you hear us? - yeah -Are you...