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1Author:  Ah-nen-la-de-ni [La France, Daniel]Requires cookie*
 Title:  An Indian Boy's Story  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: By Ah-nen-la-de-ni
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2Author:  Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Cash Boy  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A group of boys was assembled in an open field to the west of the public schoolhouse in the town of Crawford. Most of them held hats in their hands, while two, stationed sixty feet distant from each other, were "having catch."
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3Author:  Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Errand Boy; or, How Phil Brent Won Success  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: PHIL BRENT was plodding through the snow in the direction of the house where he lived with his step-mother and her son, when a snow-ball, moist and hard, struck him just below his ear with stinging emphasis. The pain was considerable, and Phil's anger rose.
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4Author:  More, Hannah (attributed)Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Sorrows of Yamba or The Negro Woman's Lamentation  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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5Author:  Burnett, Frances HodgsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Dawn of A To-morrow  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THERE are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough. When it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a man's throat and lungs as he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning is either an unearthly and grewsome, or a mysteriously enclosing, secluding, and comfortable thing. If one awakens in a healthy body, and with a clear brain rested by normal sleep and retaining memories of a normally agreeable yesterday, one may lie watching the housemaid building the fire; and after she has swept the hearth and put things in order, lie watching the flames of the blazing and crackling wood catch the coals and set them blazing also, and dancing merrily and filling corners with a glow; and in so lying and realizing that leaping light and warmth and a soft bed are good things, one may turn over on one's back, stretching arms and legs luxuriously, drawing deep breaths and smiling at a knowledge of the fog outside which makes half-past eight o'clock on a December morning as dark as twelve o'clock on a December night. Under such conditions the soft, thick, yellow gloom has its picturesque and even humorous aspect. One feels enclosed by it at once fantastically and cosily, and is inclined to revel in imaginings of the picture outside, its Rembrandt lights and orange yellows, the halos about the street-lamps, the illumination of shop-windows, the flare of torches stuck up over coster barrows and coffee-stands, the shadows on the faces of the men and women selling and buying beside them. Refreshed by sleep and comfort and surrounded by light, warmth, and good cheer, it is easy to face the day, to confront going out into the fog and feeling a sort of pleasure in its mysteries. This is one way of looking at it, but only one.
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6Author:  Burnett, Frances HodgsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  T. Tembarom  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE boys at the Brooklyn public school which he attended did not know what the "T." stood for. He would never tell them. All he said in reply to questions was: "It don't stand for nothin'. You+'ve gotter have a' 'nitial, ain't you?" His name was, in fact, an almost inevitable school-boy modification of one felt to be absurd and pretentious. His Christian name was Temple, which became "Temp." His surname was Barom, so he was at once "Temp Barom." In the natural tendency to avoid waste of time it was pronounced as one word, and the letter p being superfluous and cumbersome, it easily settled itself into "Tembarom," and there remained. By much less inevitable processes have surnames evolved themselves as centuries rolled by. Tembarom liked it, and soon almost forgot he had ever been called anything else.
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7Author:  Churchill, WinstonRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Crossing  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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8Author:  Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Frances Waldeaux  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In another minute the Kaiser Wilhelm would push off from her pier in Hoboken. The last bell had rung, the last uniformed officer and white-jacketed steward had scurried up the gangway. The pier was massed with people who had come to bid their friends good-by. They were all Germans, and there had been unlimited embracing and kissing and sobs of "Ach! mein lieber Sckatz!" and "Gott bewahre Dick!"
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9Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Scarlet Car  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: For a long time it had been arranged they all should go to the Harvard and Yale game in Winthrop's car. It was perfectly well understood. Even Peabody, who pictured himself and Miss Forbes in the back of the car, with her brother and Winthrop in front, condescended to approve. It was necessary to invite Peabody because it was his great good fortune to be engaged to Miss Forbes. Her brother Sam had been invited, not only because he could act as chaperon for his sister, but because since they were at St. Paul's, Winthrop and he, either as participants or spectators, had never missed going together to the Yale-Harvard game. And Beatrice Forbes herself had been invited because she was herself.
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10Author:  Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Blue Flower  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside the rattling windows there was a restless, whispering wind. The room grew light, and dark, and wondrous light again, as the moon played hide-and-seek through the clouds. The boy, wide-awake and quiet in his bed, was thinking of the Stranger and his stories.
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11Author:  Ferber, EdnaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Fanny Herself  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without being aware of Mrs. Brandeis. In a town of ten thousand, where every one was a personality, from Hen Cody, the drayman, in blue overalls (magically transformed on Sunday mornings into a suave black-broadcloth usher at the Congregational Church), to A. J. Dawes, who owned the waterworks before the city bought it. Mrs. Brandeis was a super-personality. Winnebago did not know it. Winnebago, buying its dolls, and china, and Battenberg braid and tinware and toys of Mrs. Brandeis, of Brandeis' Bazaar, realized vaguely that here was some one different.
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12Author:  Field, EugeneRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: My First Love
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13Author:  La Flesche, FrancisRequires cookie*
 Title:  "An Indian Allotment."  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: [Mr. La Flesche is an Omaha Indian and is the author of "The Middle Five," a book that has recently received a good deal of attention.—EDITOR.]
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14Author:  Fox, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Knight of the Cumberland  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HIGH noon of a crisp October day, sunshine flooding the earth with the warmth and light of old wine and, going single-file up through the jagged gap that the dripping of water has worn down through the Cumberland Mountains from crest to valley-level, a gray horse and two big mules, a man and two young girls. On the gray horse, I led the tortuous way. After me came my small sister—and after her and like her, mule-back, rode the Blight—dressed as she would be for a gallop in Central Park or to ride a hunter in a horse show.
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15Author:  Harrison, James A. ; William. E. Peters ; R. Heath DabneyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Address to the Students of the University of Virginia  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY of Sunday, October 27th, has left the main building of our revered and beloved Alma Mater in ruins. The historic monuments of three-quarters of a century have been obliterated by the fury of the flames in a few hours, and nothing is left of our great Rotunda, our Public Hall, our Old Chapel, and our Academic Halls and Lecture-Rooms, hallowed by so many recollections precious to us all, except blackened walls. In this unspeakable calamity all that remains to us except brave hearts and unbroken spirits is the memory of the gallant and heroic conduct of the entire student body, without which nothing could have been saved from the Library and the Scientific halls in and adjacent to the Rotunda. We therefore desire, on behalf of the Faculty, to express to you collectively and individually, one and all, our profoundest gratitude and our warmest praise for your noble and admirable demeanor on this trying occasion, for your intense sym- pathy with us in our irreparable losses, and your manly and self-sacrificing co-operation in our endeavors to save something from the wreck, and rehabilitate the great institution consecrated by the name of Jefferson. We are perfectly sure that every man, every student, will continue to do his whole duty in the same splendid spirit of devotion to Alma Mater; that all will nobly stand by us in our misfortune; that all will work gladly and gallantly together without murmur and without complaint, and soon we shall behold our great Mother rising before us statelier, stronger than ever, the glory of Virginia, the glory of the entire South.
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16Author:  Ish, William K.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Three Hundred Dollars Reward: A broadside issued by William K. Ish and Joseph L. Hawling to recover three slaves  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Large ink spot on upper left center of document.
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17Author:  W. G. M., [Chicken Peddler]Requires cookie*
 Title:  Burning of University of Virginia  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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18Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Conquest of Canaan  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A DRY snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white harmony—roof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw; only where the line of factories followed the big bend of the frozen river, their distant chimneys like exclamation points on a blank page, was there a first threat against the supreme whiteness. The wind passed quickly and on high; the shouting of the school-children had ceased at nine o'clock with pitiful suddenness; no sleigh-bells laughed out on the air; and the muffling of the thoroughfares wrought an unaccustomed peace like that of Sunday. This was the phenomenon which afforded the opening of the morning debate of the sages in the wide windows of the "National House.''
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19Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Fortune Hunter  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: On an afternoon late in April Feuerstein left his boarding-house in East Sixteenth Street, in the block just beyond the eastern gates of Stuyvesant Square, and paraded down Second Avenue.
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