"Lisden, vonce, you fellers! I t'ink I hear someding." Carl Pretzel turned back from the forward rail of the Hawk, gave his chums, ...

"Py shinks, aber dot's funny! Dose fellers look like dey vas birates, or some odder scalawags. Vat vas dey doing, anyvays, in a blace ...

"Your name King?" "Yes." "You de feller dey calls Motor Matt?" "You've struck it." "Chee! I seen yer mug in de poipers an' I t'ought ...

The 12th of April, 189—, as Old Broadbrim, the famous Quaker detective, will ever remember, fell on a Thursday. Just after the noon ...

"Py chimineddy!" muttered Carl Pretzel to himself, starting up on the couch, where he had been snatching forty winks by way of passing ...

"Py shiminy grickets! Vat do you t'ink oof dot! See dere vonce, Matt. A palloon, or I vas a lopsder! Und vat a funny palloon it iss." ...

"Vat's der madder mit you? Ach, du lieber! Vaid a minid! For vy you do dot monkey-doodle pitzness? Hoop-a-la! Oof it vas a fighdt, den ...

"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 ...

It was upon a bright morning of the month of May 1813, as I, a sailor just paid off from my last ship, was wandering along the wharves ...

A small valley cutting through a range of mountains in California—a green oasis that looked strange and picturesque in the midst of that ...

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 ...

"By my soul, it shall be done! Yes, safety, honor, fame, fortune, all require it!" It was a wild spot. The towering rocks reached the ...

"Hark! I thought I heard the outside door open and shut." "No, it was nothing." "Are you sure?" "Quite sure, Seth." "What time is it ...

A night of storm and tempest, the wind blowing a perfect gale; and above its mad shrieking the sullen roar of the ocean, as it beat ...

"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 ...

The traveler who has stopped at Catskill, on his way up the Hudson, will remember that a creek of no insignificant breadth washes one ...

"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 ...