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121Author:  Melville, Herman, 1819-1891Add
 Title:  I and My Chimney  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I AND my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day.
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122Author:  Mitchell, S. WeirAdd
 Title:  The Autobiography of a Quack  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AT this present moment of time I am what the doctors call an interesting case, and am to be found in bed No. 10, Ward 11, Massachusetts General Hospital. I am told that I have what is called Addison's disease, and that it is this pleasing malady which causes me to be covered with large blotches of a dark mulatto tint. However, it is a rather grim subject to joke about, because, if I believed the doctor who comes around every day, and thumps me, and listens to my chest with as much pleasure as if I were music all through—I say, if I really believed him, I should suppose I was going to die. The fact is, I don't believe him at all. Some of these days I shall take a turn and get about again; but meanwhile it is rather dull for a stirring, active person like me to have to lie still and watch myself getting big brown and yellow spots all over me, like a map that has taken to growing.
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123Author:  Moore, ClementAdd
 Title:  The Night Before Christmas / by Clement Moore  
 Published:  1999 
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124Author:  Neihardt, John G.Add
 Title:  The Stranger at the Gate  
 Published:  1996 
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125Author:  Oskison, John M.Add
 Title:  The Man Who Interfered  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: UNTIL long after midnight Jim Freeman sat reading a battered, graceful old volume containing "Troilus and Cressida" and "Julius Caesar"—a book bound in leather for a Gentleman of Virginia in 1771, and strayed from its mates of the set generations ago. Its type was bold and clear, fit for failing eyes to peruse.
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126Author:  Oskison, John M.Add
 Title:  The Problem of Old Harjo  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE Spirit of the Lord had descended upon old Harjo. From the new missionary, just out from New York, he had learned that he was a sinner. The fire in the new missionary's eyes and her gracious appeal had convinced old Harjo that this was the time to repent and be saved. He was very much in earnest, and he assured Miss Evans that he wanted to be baptized and received into the church at once. Miss Evans was enthusiastic and went to Mrs. Rowell with the news. It was Mrs. Rowell who had said that it was no use to try to convert the older Indians, and she, after fifteen years of work in Indian Territory missions, should have known. Miss Evans was pardonably proud of her conquest.
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127Author:  Page, Thomas NelsonAdd
 Title:  Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONE afternoon, in the autumn of 1872, I was riding leisurely down the sandy road that winds along the top of the water-shed between two of the smaller rivers of eastern Virginia. The road I was travelling, following "the ridge" for miles, had just struck me as most significant of the character of the race whose only avenue of communication with the outside world it had formerly been. Their once splendid mansions, now fast falling to decay, appeared to view from time to time, set back far from the road, in proud seclusion, among groves of oak and hickory, now scarlet and gold with the early frost. Distance was nothing to this people; time was of no consequence to them. They desired but a level path in life, and that they had, though the way was longer, and the outer world strode by them as they dreamed.
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128Author:  Page, John W.Add
 Title:  Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston / By J. W. Page  
 Published:  1998 
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 Description: [pp. 7-17 transcription omitted.]
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129Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Add
 Title:  Grizel Cochrane's Ride  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN the midsummer of 1685, the hearts of the people of old Edinburgh were filled with trouble and excitement. King Charles the Second, of England, was dead, and his brother, the Duke of York, reigned in his stead to the dissatisfaction of a great number of the people.
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130Author:  W. G. M., [Chicken Peddler]Add
 Title:  Burning of University of Virginia  
 Published:  1995 
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131Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Add
 Title:  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: THE child's dead," said Nora, the nurse. It was the upstairs sitting-room in one of the pretentious houses of Sutherland, oldest and most charming of the towns on the Indiana bank of the Ohio. The two big windows were open; their limp and listless draperies showed that there was not the least motion in the stifling humid air of the July afternoon. At the center of the room stood an oblong table; over it were neatly spread several thicknesses of white cotton cloth; naked upon them lay the body of a newborn girl baby. At one side of the table nearer the window stood Nora. Hers were the hard features and corrugated skin popularly regarded as the result of a life of toil, but in fact the result of a life of defiance to the laws of health. As additional penalties for that same self-indulgence she had an enormous bust and hips, thin face and arms, hollow, sinew-striped neck. The young man, blond and smooth faced, at the other side of the table and facing the light, was Doctor Stevens, a recently graduated pupil of the famous Schulze of Saint Christopher who as much as any other one man is responsible for the rejection of hocus-pocus and the injection of common sense into American medicine. For upwards of an hour young Stevens, coat off and shirt sleeves rolled to his shoulders, had been toiling with the lifeless form on the table. He had tried everything his training, his reading and his experience suggested—all the more or less familiar devices similar to those indicated for cases of drowning. Nora had watched him, at first with interest and hope, then with interest alone, finally with swiftly deepening disapproval, as her compressed lips and angry eyes plainly revealed. It seemed to her his effort was degenerating into sacrilege, into defiance of an obvious decree of the Almighty. However, she had not ventured to speak until the young man, with a muttered ejaculation suspiciously like an imprecation, straightened his stocky figure and began to mop the sweat from his face, hands and bared arms.
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132Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Add
 Title:  Grain of Dust.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: INTO the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the most important and most famous — radical orators often said infamous — in New York. The girl seemed, at a glance, about as unimportant and obscure an atom as the city hid in its vast ferment. She was blonde — tawny hair, fair skin, blue eyes. Aside from this hardly conclusive mark of identity there was nothing positive, nothing definite, about her. She was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, neither grave nor gay. She gave the impression of a young person of the feminine gender — that, and nothing more. She was plainly dressed, like thousands of other girls, in darkish blue jacket and skirt and white shirt waist. Her boots and gloves were neat, her hair simply and well arranged. Perhaps in these respects — in neatness and taste — she did excel the average, which is depressingly low. But in a city where more or less strikingly pretty women, bent upon being seen, are as plentiful as the blackberries of Kentucky's July — in New York no one would have given her a second look, this quiet young woman screened in an atmosphere of self-effacement.
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133Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Add
 Title:  The Price She Paid.  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: HENRY GOWER was dead at sixty-one—the end of a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances and neighbors, with his wife and son and daughter, he passed as a generous, warm-hearted, good-natured man, ready at all times to do anything to help anybody, incapable of envy or hatred or meanness. In fact, not once in all his days had he ever thought or done a single thing except for his own comfort. Like all intensely selfish people who are wise, he was cheerful and amiable, because that was the way to be healthy and happy and to have those around one agreeable and in the mood to do what one wished them to do. He told people, not the truth, not the unpleasant thing that might help them, but what they wished to hear. His family lived in luxurious comfort only because he himself was fond of luxurious comfort. His wife and his daughter dressed fashionably and went about and entertained in the fashionable, expensive way only because that was the sort of life that gratified his vanity. He lived to get what he wanted; he got it every day and every hour of a life into which no rain ever fell; he died, honored, respected, beloved, and lamented.
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134Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943Add
 Title:  The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Image of the Fierce Bad Rabbit
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135Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.Add
 Title:  The tale of Benjamin Bunny  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: ONE morning a little rabbit sat on a bank.
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136Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943Add
 Title:  The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONCE upon a time there was a frog called Mr. Jeremy Fisher; he lived in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond.
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137Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943Add
 Title:  The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen! —Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs.
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138Author:  Prest, Thomas PreskettAdd
 Title:  Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1  
 Published:  2000 
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139Author:  Prest, Thomas PreskettAdd
 Title:  Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2  
 Published:  2000 
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140Author:  Prest, Thomas PreskettAdd
 Title:  Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3  
 Published:  2000 
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