"Oh, py shiminy! Look at dere, vonce! Vat it iss, Matt? Br-r-r! I feel like I vould t'row some fits righdt on der shpot! It's a shpook, ...

"Help! Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar! Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver! He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg. He's ...

Whiz, bang! "Dutchee boy no good! Have gotee mon, no makee pay. Whoosh! Allee same cheap skate!" Whiz, bang, clatter, bang! "Vat's ...

"Ye're afeared! Yah, that's what ye are! Motor Matt's scared, an' I never thought ye was afeared o' nothin'. Go ahead! I dare ye!" An ...

"Ready, Perk?" "Hold up there, Chub! Don't ye git in sich a tarnal hurry. What am I goin' to do with this here rope?" "Why, cast it ...

"Shade o' Gallopin' Dick! Say, allow me to rise an' explain that I kin ride anythin' from a hoss to a streak o' greased lightnin'. I ...

"Hello, peaches!" The girl in the calico dress turned quickly. There was a startled look in her brown eyes, and she drew back a little ...

The little village of Edgewater was covered by the inky pall of night. The big clock on the steeple of the town hall had just tolled ...

The first important event of my life transpired on the 22nd May 1831. On that day I was born. Six weeks after, another event occurred ...

It was a magnificent evening, in balmy June, on the far-famed St. Lawrence. The steamer "St. Lawrence" was making her nightly ...

A warm day in the southern part of West Virginia was fast drawing to a close; the heat during the day had been almost intolerable under ...

A little party of tourists might be seen one lovely day in January, on the hill back of the city of Valetta, on that gem of ...

It was five o'clock on a raw, gusty February afternoon. All that day and all the night before it had been snowing hard. New York lay ...

One day in the spring of 1820, a singular occurrence took place on one of the upper tributaries of the Mississippi. The bank, some ...