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2026-03-24
I heard its teeth grind on the iron plate, and the dugong disappeared, carrying the harpoon with him. But the barrel soon returned to the surface, and shortly after the body of the animal, turned on its back. The boat came up with it, took it in tow, and made ...
2026-01-29
“I have been a governess for five years,” said she, “in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his children over to America with him, so that I found myself without a situ...
2026-01-03
But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between Horsell, Ottershaw, and Woking, rose early with the idea of finding it. Find it he did, soon after dawn, and no...
2025-11-19
What could be the cause of this--to what atmospheric agitation could be ascribed this draught? But this was a question which I did not care to discuss just then. An unceasing march of seven hours had not been kept up without great exhaustion. I was really and ...