By Sara Teasdale[American (Missouri & New York)
Poet]
To Marion Cummings Stanley
Song
You bound strong sandals on my feet,You gave me bread and wine, And
bade me out, 'neath sun ...
BY MARK TWAIN
PREFACE
MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two
were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates
of mine. Huck...
FRANK R. STOCKTON
Author of "The Lady or the Tiger," "Rudder Grange," "The Casting Away
of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine," "What Might Have Been
Expected," etc., etc.
THE GREA...
By Frederick A. Talbot
PREFACE
Ever since the earliest days of the great conquest of the air, first by
the dirigible balloon and then by the aeroplane, their use in time of
war has...
By John Fox, Jr.
ON HELL-FER-SARTAIN
CREEK
Thar was a dancin'-party Christmas night on ``Hell fer Sartain.'' Jes
tu'n up the fust crick beyond the bend thar, an' climb onto a stump...
BY H. BARBER (CAPTAIN, ROYAL FLYING
CORPS)
MOTIVE
The reasons impelling me to write this book, the maiden effort of my
pen, are, firstly, a strong desire to help the ordinary man t...