"Dick, how many are twenty-seven and eight?" The girl looked up, with narrow eyes and puckered brow, from the butcher's book, which she ...

My Dear Father: My first duty, as it is my highest pleasure, is to comply with your command to write you as soon as I should arrive at ...

“Stop!” A boy of some eighteen or nineteen years rushed frantically out upon a wharf bordering the harbor of Havana. “Hold on!” ...

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

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 ...

“Das vas Pelvast,” said Hans. “Yes,” nodded Frank, who was at the wheel of the White Wings, “that is Belfast, ‘the home of fair women, ...

Choo! choo! choo! The sound came from the exhaust pipe of the little steamer. “Chew! chew chew!” grunted Bruce Browning, lazily ...

"How fast the river flows! How it roars in my ears and drowns the sound of your voice, my dearest! It is bearing me away! Oh, save me! ...