Explorers of the Dawn

"Smith," meditated Mr. Watlin, "I know several Smiths in Kent. You're likely one on 'em. Well, I must shake 'ands with you for the sake of Carrot Bill." He reached across the ta...

"Just look at Coppertoes," said the cobbler, pointing to a large ruffled bird, "he's heard this tale often afore, yet it always excites him. He'll peck at his perch; and beat hi...

It was true that the fat pony was in amazing spirits that morning. Shops and houses were passed with exhilarating speed. To us little fellows, who always walked with our governe...

I looked at Angel, and Angel looked at me--such looks as might be exchanged by lion cubs in captivity. We remembered our old home with its stretch of green lawn, the dogs, the s...

When I had gained the top, her angular hand grasped my shoulder and pushed me before her, into the schoolroom. The Seraph's eyes were large with sympathy, but Angel grinned mali...

"He's David Curzon, senior," I said proudly, "and he's in South America building a railroad an' Mrs. Handsomebody used to be his governess when he was a little boy, so he left u...

"Tell you what I'll do, John," he said, as he came abreast, "tell you what I'll do--I'll fight you for her. Like knights of old, you know. We could go down to the coal cellar, a...

At that moment, Mary Ellen, having heard the voice of her mistress, projected her face above the doorsill of the backstairs. It was always a rosy face, but now with excitement a...

"Mrs. Handsomebody," she said, winking her white eyelashes very fast, "I really do not think that you should allow your pupils to accept this--er--treasure. My father-in-law has...

The space between two tall chests of drawers formed a sort of alcove in which stood a pier glass, whose tarnished frame was draped in white net. Before it Angel drew (without mu...

"If I believed that you realized the enormity of what you have done, I should write to South America to your father, and tell him that I would no longer undertake the responsibi...

"It was a marvel," she said afterwards, "how the scallywag did what she did widout wakenin' _her_, for there was the mistress sleepin' on the broad of her back, and her two shoe...

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"I was finking"--with a chuckle--"that you might poison one of the nicest of the stuffed birds. Then you might get in the glass case wiv the others. We could lock the door on th...