The Grey Brethren Some of the happiest remembrances of my childhood are of days spent in a little Quaker colony on a high hill. The walk was in itself a preparation, for the hill was long and steep an...

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 GREAT WAR SYNDICATE. In ...

BY BEATRIX POTTER THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were- -Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, u...

By Sarah Fielding There lived in the northern parts of England, a gentlewoman who undertook the education of young ladies; and this trust she endeavoured faithfully to discharge, by instructing those ...

By Kenneth Grahame PROLOGUE: THE OLYMPIANS Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have wor...

by O. Henry I THE OCTOPUS MAROONED "A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters. "That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a policeman?'" "It is not," said ...

By Katherine Mansfield AT THE BAY. Chapter 1.I. Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back w...

by Richard Harding Davis When the voice over the telephone promised to name the man who killed Hermann Banf, District Attorney Wharton was up- town lunching at Delmonico's. This was contrary to his cu...

Charles Darwin INTRODUCTION. The share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer of vegetable mould, which covers the whole surface of the land in every moderately humid country, is the sub...

by Gideon Wurdz CHAPTER I Distilled waters run deep. ABSINTHE From two Latin words, ad, and sinistrum, meaning "to the bad." If in doubt, try one. (Old adage, "Absinthe makes the jag last longer)." AB...