The sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed i...

But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. Seward seemed to answer them both in a dreamy k...

I could just see the curate’s face, a dim, oval shape, and his collar and cuffs. Outside there began a metallic hammering, then a violent hooting, and...

Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? Then tell me--for I am...

I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.” “_That_ will make your Ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no ef...

grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.

One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising himself upon the frame of her majesty’s c...

no, bread, indeed.” “I do not say that fish is not good; we must not abuse it; but a piece of fresh venison, grilled on live coals, will agreeably var...

For my own part, I had been feverishly excited all day. Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got...

Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, tow...