A bad penny

With our modern habit of huddling together in cities, fair urban gardens, together with many other pleasant things of an age which loved elbow room, are now rare: yet in some of...

Miss Elizabeth shook her head sadly, as if to express a doubt as to whether boys ought to be boys after all, when the culprit under discussion slouched into the room with red ey...

James, after having been told to leave the dining-room by his father, waited anxiously around the front doorsteps of the house, plucking the long tassels of grass, and biting of...

On the morning after the return of the prodigal Cheever to his native town, the worthy old Captain was walking down the High Street slowly and deliberately. He was revolving in...

When he reached the end of the wharf and stood by the ladder, covered with green slime, down which he was to slide into his dory, he was delighted to see that the north-west win...

“It must have been the ‘original Adam’ my father used to preach about. I certainly was not one of the ‘elect.’ I always felt sure of that. They used to make me pray that ‘I shou...

Noyes wagged his head slowly in assent, and his eye lighted up for a moment, in anticipation of the extra fifty dollars, which he was to receive for his silence. As it was a gre...

“I would rather cut off my right hand, my boy, than take you away from the course of life which your father has laid out for you. I’ve finished my seafaring, James, and I’ll set...

“Perhaps I can arouse him--put his great-coat around him, dear, and I will bathe his head--poor father! it was a cruel blow. Go up-stairs, Alice, and send the maid down.”

She was on pins and needles as to what she should say about the extraordinary plasters and swellings which disfigured his ordinarily smooth face. It was, of course, etiquette th...

Captain Broke parried the blow with his sword and cut at his opponent, laying open his head. James, seeing that his uncle was blinded by the blood, rushed in to save him, but Ch...