story by mike stevens

... irreligious rhymes by some person he calls Ruby Ott, and who is no better than she should be, if you judge by her poetry." "Then Idaho has struck a new book," says I, "for the one he had was by a man who ... attainments apiece By the time the snow melted, if you had stepped up to me suddenly and said: "Sanderson Pratt, what would it cost per square foot to lay a roof with twenty by twenty- eight tin ... outer corner of her eye Up gallops the village doc by this time, and snorts around, and grabs at Mrs Sampson's pulse, and wants to know what I mean by any such sandblasted nonsense "Well, old Jalap...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... spoons and the gurgling intake of the juicy fruits by the cowpunchers, the stamping of the grazing ponies, and the singing of a doleful song by Sam as he contentedly brushed his stiff auburn hair ... their compliments and regards An hour afterward Curly staggered from the hotel barroom dismissed by his fickle friends, whose interest in him had subsided as quickly as it had risen Full stoked ... upon the shafts and doubletrees Curly recognised the place as a wagon-yard, such as is provided by merchants for their out-of- town friends and customers No one was in sight No doubt the drivers...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... no, I ain't But I will have, by the arrows of Cupid! That is, if " My voice must have trailed away and muffled itself in uncertainty and despair "I see you have a story yourself," said the dusty ... evenings in this park May I ask you to what you attribute your downfall in-" I was interrupted by a laugh from my purchase a laugh so rusty and unpractised that I was sure it had been his first ... Us park bums get to be fine judges of human nature We sit here all day and watch the people go by I can size up anybody who walks past my bench in a way that would surprise you." "Well," I said,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... turning business away Lawyer Gooch took client number one by the arm and led him suavely into one of the adjoining rooms "Favour me by remaining here a few minutes, sir," said he "I will return ... came a great knocking at the outermost door Archibald, opening it, was thrust aside as superfluous by the visitor, who without due reverence at once pene- trated to the office of Lawyer Gooch and ... inflection making his words at once a question, an assertion and an accusation Before committing himself by a reply, the lawyer esti- mated his possible client in one of his brief but shrewd and calculating...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... recitative by the chorus is only to bring us to the point where you may be told why Dry Valley shook up the insoluble sulphur in the bottle So long-drawn and inconsequential a thing is history the ... a bush, dropped his whip and stood, voiceless, motionless, the capacity of his powers consumed by the act of breathing and preserving the perpendicular Behind the bush stood Panchita O'Brien, ... edge of town He sat down in the grass and laboriously plucked the spines from a prickly pear, one by one This was his attitude of thought, acquired in the days when his problems were only those...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave ... hand those drawings in by to-morrow I need the light, or I would draw the shade down." "Couldn't you draw in the other room?" asked Johnsy, coldly "I'd rather be here by you," said Sue "Beside, ... was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer But Johnsy...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... the bright galaxy of months Oh, yes, the story was not quite finished A night passed, and Higgins helped old man Coulson in the morning to his chair by the window The cold of the room was gone ... off his bat "There is a rear entrance to this basement," said Miss Coulson, "which can be reached by driving into the vacant lot next door, where they are excavating for a building I want you to ... spring,' though the metaphor is not in the most refined taste." A little later she walked down by the side of the little park and on westward to Broadway to accomplish a little shopping A little...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... invented to play the piano with By itself it was about as musical as the holes of a flute without the flute "And that was the piano that Uncle Cal had selected; and standing by it was the good, fine, ... could spare away from lambing and shearing Miss Marilla was her name; and I had figured it out by the rule of two that she was destined to become the chatelaine and lady superior of Rancho Lomito, ... continuous use of language Old Cal was so obscure in his chosen profession that he wasn't even hated by the cowmen And when a sheepman don't get eminent enough to acquire the hostility of the cattlemen,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... following, the city editor halted at Vesey's desk where the reporter was writing the story of a man who had broken his leg by falling into a coal-hole Ames having failed to find a murder motive in it ... sent, hauling in such members of the staff as would be likely to know of a code, past or present, by reason of their wisdom, information, natural intelligence, or length of servitude They got together ... read it, anyhow," said he "He's up a tree, or something, and he's made this up so as to get it by, the censor It's up to us Gee! I wish they had sell, me, too Say we can't afford to fall down...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... lids of his staring eyes The lawyer applauded the feat by a look of envious admiration He poured his own drink, and took it like a drunkard, by gulps, and with shudders at the smell and taste "Two ... offered to him Goree refused it almost with violence, declaring he would never touch it again By and by he was recovered, and went quietly enough for a mile or two Then he pulled up his horse suddenly, ... hungry fisherman?" Evidently the colonel did not believe the story of his lost wealth; so Goree retired again into brooding silence By late Afternoon they had travelled ten of the twelve miles...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... his whip and went to the only other bank in town, a private one, run by Cooper & Craig "Cooper," he said, to the partner by that name, "I've got to have $10,000 today or to-morrow I've got a ... twelve o'clock tomorrow I shall call at this bank If this loan has been cleared out of the way by that time it will not be mentioned in my report If not I will have to my duty." With that the ... doubly violated the national banking laws, and have laid yourself open to criminal prosecution by the Government A report of the matter to the Comptroller of the Currency-which I am bound to...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... friend of Lane, stopped Rosita as she was passing by him on the gallery, where he was sitting smoking "Well, Mrs Lane," said he, "I suppose by this Christ- mas you've gotten over being afraid ... time." He backed rapidly out the door Carson, the sheepman, spurred on to attempt further exploits by the success of his plate-throwing, was first to reach the door McRoy's bullet from the darkness ... of the Frio Kid He became the "bad man" of that portion of the State The rejection of his suit by Miss McMullen turned him to a dangerous man When officers went after him for the shooting of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... came the good fairy or the gallant prince to the rescue So, here in the ogre's castle, enslaved by a wicked spell, Lena had leaned upon Grimm and waited, longing for the powers of goodness to ... Gretel and Claus and Heinrich and little Adolf I am so tired I want to see you To-day I was slapped by Mrs Maloney and had no supper I could not bring in enough wood, for my hand hurt She took my ... reached the big post oak forest, eight miles from Ballinger's Here his ruminations were scattered by the sudden flash and report of pistols and a whooping as if from a whole tribe of Indians A band...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... 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 was a policeman on the ... and biff the nigger's head with the baseball Do you catch my smoke? What?" Rivington pulled me by the arm impatiently "Please come on," he said "Let's go see something This isn't what you want." ... and walked "We are now on the famous Bowery," said Rivington; "the Bowery celebrated in song and story. " We passed block after block of "gents'" furnishing stores the windows full of shirts with...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... strike terror into the hearts of the foe I'm not going to give you a history of the war, I'm just dragging it in to fill out my story about Willie Robbins, just as the Republican party dragged it ... schoolgirls in white frightening the street-car horses 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 ... hundred thousand strong and then some,' was the way they sang it And the old party lines drawn by Sherman's march and the Kuklux and nine-cent cotton and the Jim Crow street-car ordinances faded...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... Josefa, on her pony, had prospected over every mile of it Every cowpuncher on the range knew her by sight and was a loyal vassal Ripley Givens, foreman of one of the Espinosa outfits, saw her one ... has a carnivorous desire for your acquaintance In the grass lay an empty fruit can, cast there by some former sojourner Givens caught sight of it with a grunt of satisfaction In his coat pocket ... and she brushed the sand from the palms of her hands Ten yards away, to her right, half concealed by a clump of sacuista, Givens saw the crouching form of the Mexican lion His amber eyeballs glared...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... sleep, and dreamed that I had been kidnapped and chained to a tree by a ferocious pirate with red hair Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bill They weren't yells, or ... for washing the dishes I dragged him out and poured cold water on his head for half an hour By and by, Bill sits up and feels behind his ear and says: "Sam, you know who my favourite Biblical ... Gentlemen: I received your letter to-day by post, in regard to the ransom you ask for the return of my son I think you are a little high in your demands, and I hereby make you a counter-proposition,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... neckties and shoes, and was made dumb by woman's presence "The big water-hole on Sandy Creek," said Pearson, scarcely hoping to make a hit, "was filled up by that last rain." "Oh! Was it?" said ... gulf cloud sailing across the cerulean dome, "nobody could ride to Lone Elm and back by the time the girls call by for me to-morrow So, I reckon I'll have to stay at home this Easter Sunday." And ... folks have to have new hats by the almanac or bust all cinches trying to get 'em?" "It's a seasonable statute out of the testaments," explained Burrows "It's ordered by the Pope or somebody And...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... shattered bottle The new gilt weathercock on Judge Riley's lemon and ultramarine two -story residence shivered, flapped, and by a splinter, the sport of the wanton breezes The artillery was in trim Calliope's ... concernedly to youngsters at large The din was perforated at intervals by the staccato of the Terror's guns, and was drowned periodically by the brazen screech that Quicksand knew so well The occasions ... volunteers waited, concealed by beer barrels, until Calliope had passed their retreat, and then peppered him from the rear In another moment they were reinforced by the marshal and his other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... article on Vienna-bred society by Tom Vampson Here's an Italian serial by Captain Jack no it's the other Crawford Here are three separate exposes of city governments by Sniffings, and here's a dandy ... special society correspondent describing a tea-party given by the swell Boston and English set, where a lot of tea was spilled overboard by some of the guests masquerading as Indians One day a person ... tell whether it was about the depot of the battle of Bull Run Now, here's a short story called 'Rosies' Temptation,' by Fosdyke Piggott It's rotten What is a Piggott, anyway?" "Mr Piggott," said...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15