Category: Short Stories
The stories in this volume made their first appearance in England as follows: "The Roll-Call of the Reef" in _The Idler_; "The Looe Die-hards" in _The Illustrated London News_, where it was entitled "The Power o' Music"; "Jetsom" and "The Bishop of Eucalyptus" in _The Pall Mal...
Joby by this time was wishing his eyesight to botheration; but before he could say a word, a breeze came about the pinnacles, and he was spinning around on the cock's back--spin...
7. Chapter 7"'You see it? Ah! but you didn't observe it till I spoke. Nobody does. Miss Montmorency, when I pointed it out, declared that in all the time she has lived here she never once n...
1. Chapter 1The stories in this volume made their first appearance in England as follows: "The Roll-Call of the Reef" in _The Idler_; "The Looe Die-hards" in _The Illustrated London News_,...
6. Chapter 6'O, de children shibber by de Jordan's flow-- Hey, Juliana, Juli-he-hi-holy! An' it's time fer Gaberl to shake hisself an' blow, Hey, Juliana, Juli-he-hi-ho! For it's weary here...
5. Chapter 5Musing thus, the other day, In a bight within a bay, I'd a sudden thought that yet some Purpose for this piece of jetsom Might be found; and straight supplied it. On the turf I...
2. Chapter 2"Well, sir, it appears that the very next day the trumpeter marched into Helston, and got a carpenter there to turn him a pair of box-wood drum-sticks for the boy. And this was...
10. Chapter 10The situation was awkward. At the back of the platform Mr. Rabling rose to it. He had once a tenor voice of moderate calibre which he was used to exert publicly in the days of P...
3. Chapter 3"Has it ever occurred to you, Pond," the Doctor began, one evening in the late summer of 1808, as the two strolled homeward from parade, "to reflect on the rate of mortality in...
9. Chapter 9My Dear Prince,--I feel sure that you, as a sympathetic student of western politics and manners, must be impatient to hear about our first Parish Meeting in Troy; and so I am ca...
11. Chapter 11To begin with, there were those confounded pot-boys. It puzzled Master Simon almost as much as it annoyed him; he paid fair wages and passed for a good employer; but he could no...
4. Chapter 4After this the musicians met every evening, Sundays and weekdays, and by the third evening the Doctor was able to predict with confidence that Fugler would last out. Indeed, the...
12. Chapter 12The house, too, was Elizabethan, shaped like the letter L, and, like that letter, facing eastward. The longer arm, which looked down the steep slope of the park, contained the e...