On a certain May afternoon, Tom Jessop, assigned to "cover" the Seattle waterfront for his paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had ...

It was early in the afternoon of a July day. A warm sun beaming down with almost tropical fervency glinted through the open windows of ...

Near the mouth of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the yacht Day Dream lay at anchor on a certain day in September, two years ago. The driving ...

“There comes that sea cub of Beacon Cliff, mates, so let us clip his claws.” “So say I, mates, for he’s too blue-blooded to associate ...

"Well, Carey, my gallant aide-de-camp and friend, I am to lose you, it seems; but then what is my loss is your gain, as you have been ...

There was a large crowd on the Battery in New York City one hot day in June in the year eighteen-hundred-and-twelve. Everyone was ...

"Oh, what a splendid kick!" The yellow pigskin football went whizzing through the air, turning over and over in its erratic flight. ...

“I vum! I eenamost feel as if I was lost, though there do seem to be plenty o’ folks round.” “Black yer boots and make ’em shine; only ...

"'Pears to me, Marse Jack, you done gone been quiet long 'nuff dis spell," exclaimed Monday, Jack Harkaway's colored servant, as he ...

"Ho, my boy! do you wish to make a dollar?" "I do, sir—indeed I do." "What is your name?" "Will, sir." "Well, Will, can you keep ...

“He’s the most lifelike corpse I ever saw in my life, and I’ve seen several in my time,” said Jack Howard, a stalwart, bronze-featured ...

“See here, Dick Armstrong; when you’ve taken that water into the house, I want you to clean these. Do you understand?” The speaker, a ...

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“You have bags of gold, and do you refuse to give me just a little?” “Not one cent.” “I helped you to earn that money.” “Yes.” “And ...

Biff—thump! “Oh, what a soaker!” “Go at him, Rattleton!” “Don’t let him knock you up against the door like that.” Biff! biff!—...

A glorious midsummer morning, clear, balmy, and bracing. An ideal stretch of macadam, level as a floor and straight as a die for close ...

The scene was the stage of the Star Theater in Atchison, Kansas, and the occasion of the rehearsal of Frank Merriwell’s company in his ...

Manager Thaddeus Burnham, of the Keesport Opera House, was worried. Zolverein, the magician, was billed to play in his house that ...

“Stop dot tonkey!” Boom-te-boom-te-boom-boom! The bass drummer of the band at the head of “Haley’s All-Star Combination and Mammoth ...

“Well, fellows, what do you think of Paris?” asked Frank Merriwell, settling himself into a comfortable position on his chair. With his ...