Category: Short Stories
In the spring of the year 1870, when my merry Paquette and I used to laugh at the cartoons of the _Kladderadatch_, representing King William lowering a mannikin in regimentals gently, by the spike of his helmet, into a huge chair, inscribed "Spanien," we little foresaw the hor...
In the spring of the year 1870, when my merry Paquette and I used to laugh at the cartoons of the _Kladderadatch_, representing King William lowering a mannikin in regimentals g...
2. CHAPTER II.I saw the whole scheme now. The bankrupt--for such I had no doubt he was--meant to make his power over Paquette and me a source of future revenue to himself; and I felt sure tha...
3. CHAPTER I.The Scottish newspaper recorded, not long ago, some instances of mirages in the Firth of Forth exactly like the freaks of the Fata Morgana in the Straits of Messina, and on thre...
4. CHAPTER II.In the year 1765, the French, Dutch, and Brussels papers teemed with marvellous accounts of a monstrous creature, called "The Wild Beast of Gévaudan," whose ravages for a time s...
5. CHAPTER III.Among many other strange things, our unlettered ancestors believed in the past existence of those tall fellows, giants (individually, or even collectively as nations), quite as...
6. CHAPTER IV.It is natural enough that the human heart--deemed by poets and philosophers to be the seat of our affections and passions, of our understanding and will, courage and conscience,...
7. CHAPTER V.On the 29th of January, 1719, a Scottish gentleman, named Alexander Jaffray, Laird of Kingswells, was riding across a piece of wide and waste moorland to the westward of Aberdee...
8. CHAPTER VI.A belief in the ghost of vulgar superstition is as much exploded in England now as are the opinions advanced by King James in his "Demonologie." Yet the learned Bacon admitted t...