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1Author:  Fox, John, 1863-1919Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE days of that April had been days of mist and rain. Sometimes, for hours, there would come a miracle of blue sky, white cloud, and yellow light, but always between dark and dark the rain would fall and the mist creep up the mountains and steam from the tops—only to roll together from either range, drip back into the valleys, and lift, straightway, as mist again. So that, all the while Nature was trying to give lustier life to every living thing in the lowland Bluegrass, all the while a gaunt skeleton was stalking down the Cumberland— tapping with fleshless knuckles, now at some unlovely cottage of faded white and green, and now at a log cabin, stark and gray. Passing the mouth of Lonesome, he flashed his scythe into its unlifting shadows and went stalking on. High up, at the source of the dismal little stream, the point of the shining blade darted thrice into the open door of a cabin set deep into a shaggy flank of Black Mountain, and three spirits, within, were quickly loosed from aching flesh for the long flight into the unknown.
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2Author:  Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume II.  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON--GENERAL ROSECRANS--COMMANDING MILITARY DIVISION OF MISSISSIPPI-- ANDREW JOHNSON'S ADDRESS--ARRIVAL AT CHATTANOOGA.
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3Author:  Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume I.  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD.
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4Author:  Haggard, H. RiderRequires cookie*
 Title:  Montezuma's Daughter  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Now glory be to God who has given us the victory! It is true, the strength of Spain is shattered, her ships are sunk or fled, the sea has swallowed her soldiers and her sailors by hundreds and by thousands, and England breathes again. They came to conquer, to bring us to the torture and the stake--to do to us free Englishmen as Cortes did by the Indians of Anahuac. Our manhood to the slave bench, our daughters to dishonour, our souls to the loving-kindness of the priest, our wealth to the Emperor and the Pope! God has answered them with his winds, Drake has answered them with his guns. They are gone, and with them the glory of Spain.
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5Author:  Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679Requires cookie*
 Title:  Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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6Author:  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894Requires cookie*
 Title:  The one-hoss shay, with its companion poems  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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7Author:  Joyce, JamesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Chamber Music  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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8Author:  Lang, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Angling Sketches  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: These papers do not boast of great sport. They are truthful, not like the tales some fishers tell. They should appeal to many sympathies. There is no false modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men are born duffers; others, unlike persons of genius, become so by an infinite capacity for not taking pains. Others, again, among whom I would rank myself, combine both these elements of incompetence. Nature, that made me enthusiastically fond of fishing, gave me thumbs for fingers, short-sighted eyes, indolence, carelessness, and a temper which (usually sweet and angelic) is goaded to madness by the laws of matter and of gravitation. For example: when another man is caught up in a branch he disengages his fly; I jerk at it till something breaks. As for carelessness, in boyhood I fished, by preference, with doubtful gut and knots ill-tied; it made the risk greater, and increased the excitement if one did hook a trout. I can't keep a fly-book. I stuff the flies into my pockets at random, or stick them into the leaves of a novel, or bestow them in the lining of my hat or the case of my rods. Never, till 1890, in all my days did I possess a landing-net. If I can drag a fish up a bank, or over the gravel, well; if not, he goes on his way rejoicing. On the Test I thought it seemly to carry a landing- net. It had a hinge, and doubled up. I put the handle through a button- hole of my coat: I saw a big fish rising, I put a dry fly over him; the idiot took it. Up stream he ran, then down stream, then he yielded to the rod and came near me. I tried to unship my landing-net from my button-hole. Vain labour! I twisted and turned the handle, it would not budge. Finally, I stooped, and attempted to ladle the trout out with the short net; but he broke the gut, and went off. A landing-net is a tedious thing to carry, so is a creel, and a creel is, to me, a superfluity. There is never anything to put in it. If I do catch a trout, I lay him under a big stone, cover him with leaves, and never find him again. I often break my top joint; so, as I never carry string, I splice it with a bit of the line, which I bite off, for I really cannot be troubled with scissors and I always lose my knife. When a phantom minnow sticks in my clothes, I snap the gut off, and put on another, so that when I reach home I look as if a shoal of fierce minnows had attacked me and hung on like leeches. When a boy, I was--once or twice--a bait-fisher, but I never carried worms in box or bag. I found them under big stones, or in the fields, wherever I had the luck. I never tie nor otherwise fasten the joints of my rod; they often slip out of the sockets and splash into the water. Mr. Hardy, however, has invented a joint-fastening which never slips. On the other hand, by letting the joint rust, you may find it difficult to take down your rod. When I see a trout rising, I always cast so as to get hung up, and I frighten him as I disengage my hook. I invariably fall in and get half-drowned when I wade, there being an insufficiency of nails in the soles of my brogues. My waders let in water, too, and when I go out to fish I usually leave either my reel, or my flies, or my rod, at home. Perhaps no other man's average of lost flies in proportion to taken trout was ever so great as mine. I lose plenty, by striking furiously, after a series of short rises, and breaking the gut, with which the fish swims away. As to dressing a fly, one would sooner think of dressing a dinner. The result of the fly-dressing would resemble a small blacking-brush, perhaps, but nothing entomological.
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9Author:  Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Monk: A Romance  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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10Author:  Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Monk: A Romance  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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11Author:  Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Monk: A Romance  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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12Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The tale of Benjamin Bunny  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONE morning a little rabbit sat on a bank.
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13Author:  Smith, F. HopkinsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Tom Grogan  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SOMETHING worried Babcock. One could see that from the impatient gesture with which he turned away from the ferry window on learning he had half an hour to wait. He paced the slip with hands deep in his pockets, his head on his chest. Every now and then he stopped, snapped open his watch and shut it again quickly, as if to hurry the lagging minutes.
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14Author:  Smith, Adam, 1723-1790Requires cookie*
 Title:  The theory of moral sentiments  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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15Author:  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894Requires cookie*
 Title:  Essays of Travel  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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16Author:  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894Requires cookie*
 Title:  New Arabian nights  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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17Author:  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894Requires cookie*
 Title:  New Arabian nights  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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18Author:  Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l`Aulne, 1727-1781Requires cookie*
 Title:  Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: 
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19Author:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892Requires cookie*
 Title:  Leaves of Grass [1860]  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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