And that’s all I know for certing.” “Did any one else see anything?” “One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony, when he s...

If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhausted. What natural force could possibly have produced such abnormal and extraordinary pla...

A number of people were standing about it, and some sappers were busy in the midst of it. Over it flaunted a Union Jack, flapping cheerfully in the mo...

My family itself is so small that it will not take me long to describe it. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I had to love. I could not be...

Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.” “Thus I relieve thee, my creator,” he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung...

Mate getting very impatient with them; feared some trouble ahead. * * * * * On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in a...

There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he woul...

"Are you ill, Henry?" continued the Professor in an anxious tone. All now seems well," I added, looking around me with strangely puzzled eyes. "All ri...

But this man of nerve manifested neither impatience nor annoyance; it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme, and had been foreseen. Aoud...

But a learned man, a philosopher, is nothing if not a philosopher, when he keeps his ideas calm and collected; and certainly the Professor possessed t...