Category: Short Stories
The glad tidings had been brought in by an Atlantic liner. It appeared that when the _Slains Castle_ had got well over half of her Pacific voyage, she had encountered a great storm, and had foundered upon the reefs among a small group of islands, all her boats being lost or de...
At what time do you dine? Dinner is the chief physiological event in the day. Therefore the answer to the question “At what time do you dine?” is a very important one, although...
4. PART XII.Those of you, my dear girl friends, who are members of large families, know how very soon the little ones begin to observe what is passing around them. One never-ending marvel,...
5. CHAPTER XXV.“I should like to go, Aunt Cossart, of course; but I will not accept unless you can really spare me. Now that Effie is away, I know it is dull for you, except in the evenings wh...
3. CHAPTER XII.That summer, our first on the ranch, we made a large reservoir to hold 200,000 gallons. There was a convenient gulch or dip, which drained a fair stretch of hill slope, and whic...
6. PART VI.Carrying out the directions given last month for preparing the hives for winter, must not be delayed later than the middle of September. All our colonies being strong and having...
2. CHAPTER IV.When the hard frost had broken, and the streets were full of slush and melting snow, Ada had to spend her five cents going in the Fifth Avenue stage-coach to and from her busine...
7. PART IX.Cicely—by herself called Thithily—is one of these. She has a little head atop of a long body, and when she laughs, which she does much, displays to view two rows of foolishly sm...
1. CHAPTER XXVI.The glad tidings had been brought in by an Atlantic liner. It appeared that when the _Slains Castle_ had got well over half of her Pacific voyage, she had encountered a great st...