Category: Short Stories

Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls

ACTIONS AND REACTIONS BRUSHWOOD BOY, THE CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS COLLECTED VERSE DAY’S WORK, THE DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, A EYES OF ASIA, THE FEET OF THE YOUNG MEN, THE FIVE NATIONS, THE FRANCE AT WAR FRINGES OF THE FLEET FR...

Chapters

3. Part 3

“That is a lie. All you Cape people lie. You want to save your cattle and your farms. Wait till _our_ flag flies from here to Port Elizabeth and you shall see what you will save...

13. Part 13

Some of the masters, particularly on the classical side, vowed that Army examinations were making education no more than mark-hunting; but there are a great many kinds of educat...

2. Part 2

The enemy—they were called Kanjuts—had fortified themselves in a place nearly as impregnable as nature and man could make it. One position was on the top of a cliff about twelve...

11. Part 11

The Mail train splashed out into the dark, and Ottley made great haste to let off his steam and draw his fire. Number Forty had done enough for that night.

4. Part 4

When Martin Trevor had waited on the river from his boyhood; when he had risen to be a Senior Pilot, entitled to bring up to Calcutta the very biggest ships; when he had thought...

5. Part 5

William’s share in the affair was—what it had always been. First he lost most of his kit; next his uncle talked to him after the fashion of the Navy of ’96 before refitting him;...

12. Part 12

“By Gum!” said Strickland, when the tale was done, and went away, while Adam took me to task for laughing at Imam Din’s stories. I did not wonder that he was called Huzrut Adam,...

10. Part 10

“Yes, sir,” he went on, “here’s where all the bullets ought to come. There’s fourteen thousand of ’em this year, somewhere on the premises, but it don’t hinder the rabbits from...

8. Part 8

“Bide till I lock the door,” quoth Abraham, faithful to his trust. They heard him padlock the barn door; saw him come out with yet another pitchfork. A bullock lowered his head,...

7. Part 7

“I’m envious,” Duckett protested. “Why should the Flyin’ Corps get all the plums? But Baxter didn’t forget His Majesty’s aeroplane. He got ’em to tow it to his island o’ delight...

6. Part 6

“Dunno. It’s _my_ job to find that out—Mr. Marsh says. Anyway, Rickworth told me he liked cleaning out a fryin’ pan because it made him think of what it might be cookin’ next ti...

9. Part 9

At this point in the story we come across Mr. Frazer, the Scotch engineer, who, like most of his countrymen, had been holding his trump-card in reserve. He knew the _Sarah Sands...

1. Part 1

ACTIONS AND REACTIONS BRUSHWOOD BOY, THE CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS COLLECTED VERSE DAY’S WORK, THE DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, A...

14. Part 14

What is the song the children sing When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring, And the Schools are loosed, and the games are played That were deadly earnest when Earth was made? Hear t...