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of some vegetable substance, smooth as paper, and covered with writing.
“It looks like Egyptian papyrus,” said the doctor. “That was the common paper of antiquity.”
A story of strange adventure and stranger discovery in the regions of the Antarctic. What is best in the book can hardly be considered original; its fantastic unreality is all its own.
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being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America
Accordingly after tea Mrs. Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde’s Hollow. To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further. Matthew Cuthbert’s father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got a
The Bonehead had a wonderful faculty for calling people by their first names on the street. This, he doubtless argued, would impress the new “swipe” with a sense of his (Porter’s) popularity. It
his is the list of the fleet. It is written here in the order in which they are sailing. Three warships are heading the fleet; the flagship is the H.M.S. Charybdis, commanded by Admiral Wemyss, who distinguished himself a few weeks ago in the Battle of Heligoland.
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