Category: History - European

Harper's Round Table, November 24, 1896

The Editor of the ROUND TABLE has asked me to relate some incident of my life which may be of interest to its readers. Will they permit me to tell them that episode in my life which gives me, when I recall it, the greatest pleasure?

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4. Part 4

"Hyops!" said Sandboys. "Planked shad is very good, but it can't hold a candle to planked salmon. But, as I was tellin' you, the place was full of moose too. They used to catch...

3. Part 3

In such an indescribable turmoil as the one that followed, with every Yale sympathizer swarming out on the field to embrace the eleven which had so gallantly snatched a victory...

7. Part 7

"You fellows get down quick as you can," he cried to Tom and Phil. "Hurry!" The boys scrambled along the ledge and slid down the leader. "Get hold of that sign, the whole four o...

2. Part 2

"Not this time. Indeed, no one can afford to quietly accept things when arranging entertainments;" and Blanche rose and paced several times up and down the room. While she walke...

6. Part 6

"Of course," added Mrs. Martin, "these musical attempts presuppose some knowledge of sight-reading on the part of you young people; and as nothing is accomplished without applic...

1. Part 1

The Editor of the ROUND TABLE has asked me to relate some incident of my life which may be of interest to its readers. Will they permit me to tell them that episode in my life w...

5. Part 5

"If there had been a spring there twenty years before, it had dried up in the interval, although a bowl-shaped hollow in the soil possibly showed where the water had once oozed...

8. Part 8

As for the detail of the game: In the first few minutes New Britain scored by end plays and by going through Hirschfield, right tackle. The same sort of work was kept up by New...

9. Part 9

2. Every year there is drawn out of the waters of Newfoundland wealth amounting to from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000, including the value of fish used for home consumption, and mos...