Category: Short Stories
[1] Pronounced Hwar-car-hál-yar. This story is a sequel to "Captured by the Navajos," contained in the Christmas Extra of Vol. XV. Frank and Henry Burton were the sons of a Colonel in the army, and had been appointed honorary corporals in Santa Fe, and attached to headquarters...
"You are asking me more, sir," said Lance, with something like a grim smile on his countenance, "than I could tell you in a month, or two months. But I can tell you how the Duke...
2. Part 2It must have been some time in March that he joined us, for I remember on St. Patrick's day, when the hills back of Valparaiso were echoing with the strains of "Garry-owen" and...
5. Part 5"Yep. Ye see, the Jamaiky people is so werry Henglish that they prefers misfit clothes to any others, so them kind is allus sent there by the mother country, an' so the colony a...
6. Part 6The Berkeley nine was very strong in batting, its record being 107 base hits out of 214 times at bat, or a base hit every other time. The best individual batting average of the...
1. Part 1[1] Pronounced Hwar-car-hál-yar. This story is a sequel to "Captured by the Navajos," contained in the Christmas Extra of Vol. XV. Frank and Henry Burton were the sons of a Colo...
4. Part 4"'Ah,' cried she, muffling her face in her handkerchief, 'it could not have been my husband. He was short, and had light hair, and had lost a part of his right ear in a duel; it...
7. Part 7It often happens that men in public life find themselves in possession of sources of power--or it may be of weakness--of which they did not dream, and which, in not a few cases,...