| | 281 | Author: | Grinnell, George Bird | Add | | | Title: | Little Friend Coyote  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was in the summer when the Blackfoot and Piegan tribes were
camped together that the Blackfoot, Front Wolf, first noticed
Su-ye-sai-pi, a Piegan girl, and liked her, and determined to make her
his wife. She was young and handsome and of good family, and her
parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of
his tribe. Front Wolf was himself a noted warrior, and had grown
rich from his forays on the camps of the enemy, so when he asked
for the young woman her parents were pleased—pleased to give their
daughter to such a strong young man, and pleased to accept the
thirty horses he sent them with the request. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 284 | Author: | Hamilton, Alexander; John Jay; and James Madison | Add | | | Title: | The Federalist Papers | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the
subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on
a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject
speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences
nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare
of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many
respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently
remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this
country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important
question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of
establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether
they are forever destined to depend for their political
constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the
remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be
regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a
wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve
to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 288 | Author: | Hawthorne, Julian | Add | | | Title: | The Golden Fleece | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE professor crossed one long, lean leg
over the other, and punched down the
ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip
of his middle finger. The thermometer on
the shady veranda marked eighty-seven
degrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to
languor and revery; but nothing could abate
the energy of this bony sage. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 289 | Author: | Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka (Angel De Cora) | Add | | | Title: | "The Sick Child" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Greyscale, horizontal oblong image of little girl's portrait in profile.
In left foreground, she faces left across a slightly rolling plain, her
gaze lifted. The back of her head is covered with a striped blanket.
Her small right hand holds the edge of the blanket near her throat.
Her dark hair is combed close to her head and then braided, one
circular knot of braid just visible above her right ear. Some
handwriting is visible in the bottom right-hand corner of the
portrait, but is not decipherable. Illustration by the author. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 295 | Author: | Jacobs, William Wyman. | Add | | | Title: | The Monkey's Paw. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHOUT, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor
of
Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned
brightly.
Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas
about
the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such
sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from
the
white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 296 | Author: | Johnson, Samuel | Add | | | Title: | The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE difficulty of the first address on any new
occasion, is felt by every man in his transactions
with the world, and confessed by the settled and
regular forms of salutation which necessity has
introduced into all languages. Judgment was wearied
with the perplexity of being forced upon choice,
where there was no motive to preference; and it was
found convenient that some easy method of introduction
should be established, which, if it wanted
the allurement of novelty, might enjoy the security
of prescription. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 299 | Author: | McLaughlin, Marie L. | Add | | | Title: | Myths and Legends of the Sioux | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An Arikara woman was once gathering corn from
the field to store away for winter use. She passed
from stalk to stalk, tearing off the ears and dropping
them into her folded robe. When all was gathered
she started to go, when she heard a faint voice, like
a child's, weeping and calling: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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