baranskaya natalia b 1908 russian short story writer and feminist

... world, and the dates of all wars and battles, and how to restore drowned persons, and sunstroke, and the number of tacks in a pound, and how to make dynamite and flowers and beds, and what to before ... at a stick of candy Mine was a little book about five by six inches called "Herkimer's Handbook of Indispensable Information." I may be wrong, but I think that was the greatest book that ever ... or Gas. There is nothing better than flaxseed Place a few seed in the outer corner of the eye I shoved the Handbook back in my pocket, and grabbed a boy that was running by "Here," says I, giving...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... The pig and the cabbage wrestled with hydrogen and oxygen Behind the bar Schwegel laboured with an assistant whose epidermal pores showed no signs of being obstructed Hot weinerwurst and sauerkraut ... great bundles of grey blankets, and a number of bales, bundles, and boxes A reasoning eye would have estimated the load at once as ranch supplies, bound on the morrow for some outlying hacienda But ... Also he buried a brother with a Curtis bullet in him on the bank of the lake at Cibolo And then the Kiowa Indians made their last raid upon the ranches between the Frio and the Rio Grande, and Truesdell...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... was a middleweight, but could train down to a welter when necessary I boxed all over the West Side at bouts and benefits and private entertainments, and was never put out once "But, say, the first ... pretend to be one of us, and say they've just got in on the blind baggage from St Louis I can tell a reporter on sight Us park bums get to be fine judges of human nature We sit here all day and watch ... ring that I had beating up the best men outside of it, I'd be wearing black pearls and heliotrope silk socks to-day "One evening I was walking along near the Bowery, thinking about things, when...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... wore robes robes; not clothes ample and fluent In her eye could be per- ceived the lambent flame of genius and soul In her hand was a green bag of the capacity of a bushel, and an umbrella ... trouble Seek, out Mrs Billings, and persuade her to abandon this distressing pursuit of her lamentable folly Tell her, Mr Gooch, that her husband is willing to receive her back to his heart and ... became unaccountably infatu- ated with him Her attentions became so open that the man felt the community to be no safe place for him, so he left it She abandoned husband and home, and followed him...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... round-crowned, broad-brimmed felt Stetson whenever he met them, and then hurry past to get back to his beloved berries And all this recitative by the chorus is only to bring us to the point where you may be ... hair and flashing dark eyes dodging in and out between the pickets, keeping tabs on the reddening berries Late one afternoon Dry Valley went to the post office When he came back, like Mother Hubbard ... Iberian bandits and Hibernian cattle raiders had swooped down upon his strawberry patch To the outraged vision of Dry Valley there seemed to be a sheep corral full of them; perhaps they numbered...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... may bring a me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and - no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook." And ... only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall The cold breath ... red-fisted, short- breathed old duffer But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... Widdup "The air's real warm And there's bockbeer signs on every corner And the park's all yaller and pink and blue with flowers; and I have such shooting pains up my legs and body." "'In the spring,'" ... own room, and you come in and drivel to me about ivy and hand-organs Get me an overcoat at once See that all doors and windows are closed below An old, fat, irresponsible, one-sided object like ... regular bill This is for your extra trouble." Miss Coulson tendered a ten-dollar bill The iceman bowed, and held his hat in his two hands behind him "Not if you'll excuse me, lady It'll be a pleasure...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... "Well, in about a week the pneumonia got the best of Uncle Cal They had the funeral over at Birdstail, and all of us went over I brought Marilla back home in my buckboard Her uncle Ben and his wife ... unwept and considerably unsung "But that Marilla girl was a benefit to the eye And she was the most elegant kind of a housekeeper I was the nearest neighbour, and I used to ride over to the Double-Elm ... was a professor of the weather and politics and chemistry and natural history and the origin of derivations Any subject you brought up old Cal could give you an abundant synopsis of it from the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... Heffelbauer "How long you dink a code live? Der reborters call him a maskeet But von day he butt mit his head der editor, und " "Oh, he's talking about a goat," said Boyd "Get out, Heffelbauer." ... He had a thirty- two-inch chest and wore a number fourteen collar; but his bright Scotch plaid suit gave him presence and con- ferred no obscurity upon his whereabouts He wore his hat in such a ... Heffelbauer," said the m e "He was here when Park Row was a potato patch." Heffelbauer was an institution He was half janitor, half handy-man about the office, and half watchman thus becoming...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... concealed by the brow of the steep hill Inside and along the fence, pokeberries, elders, sassafras, and sumac grew high and dense At a rustle of their branches, both Goree and Coltrane glanced up, and ... eat and a place to sleep but whiskey they would not buy for him, and he must have whiskey His law business was extinct; no case had been intrusted to him in two years He had been a borrower and ... when both p-purchaser and b- buyer are s-satisfied Shall I wwrap it up for you, Mr Garvey?" Garvey rose, and shook out his broadcloth "Missis Garvev will be pleased You air out of it, and it stands...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... gun in each hand Merwin raised himself from behind a clump of chaparral and started for the engine But before he had taken three steps, two long, strong arms clasped him from behind, and he was ... of the maximum sum the bank can loan any individual legally, but it is absolutely without endorsement or security Thus you have doubly violated the national banking laws, and have laid yourself ... "There was a bank examiner," said Longley, "nosing around our place today, and he bucked a sight about that note of yours You know I know it's all right, but the thing is against the banking laws...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... had arrived in buckboards and on horseback, and were making themselves comfortable inside The evening went along pleasantly The guests enjoyed and praised Rosita's excellent supper, and after- ward ... himself in magnificent white beard and furs appeared and began to distribute the toys "It's my papa," announced Billy Sampson, aged six "I've seen him wear 'em before." Berkly, a sheepman, an old ... mustang, and sat in his saddle, thoughtful and grim, with dangerously narrowing eyes The rich, sweet scent touched him somewhere beneath his ice and iron "I don't know what I've been thinking about,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... stair And then the Prince came up and wrapped me in the bedclothes and carried me out He was so tall and strong and fine His face was as rough as a scrubbing brush, and he talked soft and kind and ... in Mexico by means of some fordable spot on the Rio Grande The booty from the train had melted the desperate bushrangers to jovial and happy skylarkers Trembling with outraged dignity and no little ... your old cheesy nation Here, boys!" Hondo Bill parleyed aside briefly with his band, and then they seized Fritz and conveyed him off the road to one side Here they bound him fast to a tree with...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... Phi, but some other time!" We said our farewells and boarded a home-bound car We had a rabbit on upper Broadway, and then I parted with Rivington on a street corner "Well, anyhow," said he, braced ... of money, and see how quickly the Bowery will sustain its reputation." "You make impossible conditions," said I, coldly By and by Rivington stopped and said we were in the heart of the Bowery There ... homes far to the north and west, the credulous readers who were beguiled by this new 'dialect' perused and believed Like Marco Polo and Mungo Park pioneers indeed, but ambitious souls who could...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... jammed with everybody in town waiting to honor the hero? And two brass-bands, and recitations and flags and jags and grub to follow waiting for you?' "Willie sighs "'All right, Ben,' says he 'Darned ... by throwing Cherokee roses in the streets, and- well, maybe you've seen a celebration by a town that was inland and out of water "They wanted Brevet-Colonel Willie to get into a carriage and be ... chap, and I never wondered that Joe Granberry beat him out "The next day the battleship Maine was blown up, and then pretty soon somebody-I reckon it was Joe Bailey, or Ben Tillman, or maybe the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... hurt a cottontail rabbit It'll break the boys all up when they hear about it But you couldn't tell, of course, that Bill was just trying to play with you." Josefa's black eyes burned steadily upon ... hole A little brown rabbit skipped around a bunch of catclaw and sat twitching his whiskers and looking humorously at Givens The pony went on eating grass It is well to be reasonably watchful ... sportsman who has brought down ignoble quarry? Her eyes grew softer, and the lowered lids drove away all their bright mockery "I'm very sorry," she said humbly; "but he looked so big, and jumped so...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... when his braves returned from the warpath, I was to be broiled at the stake at the rising of the sun Then we had supper; and he filled his mouth full of bacon and bread and gravy, and began to ... black -and- blue from the knees down; and I've got to have two or three bites on my thumb and hand cauterized "But he's gone" continues Bill "gone home I showed him the road to Summit and kicked ... around," says I, "and have a took behind you." Bill turns and sees the boy, and loses his complexion and sits down plump on the round and begins to pluck aimlessly at grass and little sticks...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... babe "I reckon I'll be trotting along back to Mucho Calor There's some cutting out to be done on Dry Branch first thing in the morning; and me and Road Runner has got to be on hand It's too bad ... through and through Thompson Burrows was the more skilled and pliable He hailed from somewhere in the East originally; and he wore neckties and shoes, and was made dumb by woman's presence "The big ... deficiency against the coming Sabbath Pearson's deep brown face and sunburned light hair gave him the appearance of a schoolboy seized by one of youth's profound and insolvable melancholies Tonia's...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... been a good boy good when he was growin' up, and kind and 'bedient and well-behaved Won't you let me advise you, sir, not to so no more? Be a good man, and leave liquor alone and live peaceably ... that way barkin' 'em, Abe called it You jest been barked, sir, and you'll be all right in a little bit Feel lots better already, don't ye! You just lay still a while longer and let me bathe your ... peaceably and goodly Keep away from bad company and work honest and sleep sweet." The black-mitted hand of the old pleader gently touched the breast of the man she addressed Very earnest and candid...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... off and furnished in the second floor of the First National Bank building; and it was for the colonel to cause The Rose of Dixie to blossom and flourish or to wilt in the balmy air of the land ... Terhune, the colonel's stenographer and typewriter, had an aunt who had once been kissed by Stonewall Jackson Tommy Webster, the head office-boy, got his job by having recited Father Ryan's poems, ... believe me, The Rose of Dixie blossomed five times before anybody heard of it except the people who buy their hooks and eyes in Toombs City Then Hawkins climbed off his stool and told on 'em to the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15