Category: Humour
I. ROLY POLY'S SICKNESS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. II. AN AUSTRALIAN COLONY IN SPAIN. III. OLD ENGLAND. IV. THE LAST OF THE ENGLISHMEN. V. AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF OLD ENGLAND. VI. THE DEATH OF THE LAST OF THE ENGLISHMEN. VII. LILYA. VIII. LOVE MISPLACED. IX. A DISCOV...
"I fell in love. Papaverica was medicine, surgery, and anatomy to me. The pharmacopoeia was neglected, the vade mecum thrust on one side. I forgot drugs and dressings, lancets a...
2. Part 2As the Albatross approached the coast, the buildings of a small seaport became distinguishable. Some large houses faced the sea, and a battery commanded the entrance to the port...
10. Part 10"I cannot confer praise on any invention, however brilliant it may be, that must come into operation at the expense of human sufferings, don't you see," observed the other; "and...
12. Part 12"And I will love you;" murmured his fair companion, trembling and blushing she knew not for why--"I will love you as fondly as you wish. I will love you kindly and affectionatel...
4. Part 4"It was so," said the professor. "There were the public dockyards, the arsenal, a college for the education of youth to the profession of war, manufactures on the most extensive...
1. Part 1I. ROLY POLY'S SICKNESS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. II. AN AUSTRALIAN COLONY IN SPAIN. III. OLD ENGLAND. IV. THE LAST OF THE ENGLISHMEN. V. AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF OLD...
14. Part 14"And yet I am afraid I shall lose you," said his companion, anxiously; "I have just heard upon what errand you are hastening. It is full of danger. It is beset by perils. But th...
13. Part 13"There's no saving his life, don't you see;" remarked Tourniquet, who had discovered that Captain Death was not quite dead, and had been examining his wounds. "Every effort woul...
8. Part 8"Grieve not, sweet Lilya!" exclaimed Zabra, as he was endeavouring to console the afflicted mourner; "he for whom you mourn mourns not; why, therefore, should you be afflicted?...
3. Part 3"There you're wrong again, don't you see," observed Tourniquet. "The name Ire-land was derived from Higher-land, to express that the country was more elevated in the estimation...
9. Part 9Zabra hastened to the quarter deck, where he sat himself down in a retired corner, apparently in the most intense agony of mind. His dark features were impressed with the workin...
5. Part 5As soon as the young girl observed the voyagers, she started back with an exclamation of fear, and clung to the arm of her elder companion, who, noticing the cause of her alarm,...
6. Part 6"The survivor was a boy of ten years of age; he was one of the few whom the plague had touched and spared. Me it had passed by harmless. But the destruction caused by the pestil...
7. Part 7"It must be so, oh my Lilya," exclaimed the old man affectionately. "When I have left you, this desolate place can be no proper home for you. You must accompany these kind stran...
15. Part 15The artillery was then brought to bear upon the place, but scarcely had it been placed in a proper position, before it was rendered unserviceable by the destructive fire from th...