... Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed ofthe great news. Three days and nights of toil and ... told them their situation and their famished condition; how the men didn't believe the wild tale at first, "because," said they, "you are five miles down the river below the ... its big door sheathed with boiler THE ADVENTURESOF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 32 TUESDAY afternoon came, and waned to the twilight. The village of St. Petersburg still mourned. The lost children...
... candles, by the help ofthe calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and THE ADVENTURESOF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 37 THAT was all fixed. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile ... the rest of her soul out about it, and wouldn't count them again not to save her life; she druther die first. So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the ... And the shirt ain't all that's gone, nuther. Ther's a spoon gone; and THAT ain't all. There was ten, and now ther's only nine. The calf got the shirt, I reckon, but the...
... you clearly see the sequence of events, though you see them, of course, in the inverse order to the way THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE The Adventure ofthe Six Napoleons ... with the happiest results. By that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after. The name ofthe murdered man linked the one event with the other. There ... lost, to the interior of this, the last ofthe six busts of Napoleon which were manufactured by Gelder & Co., of Stepney. You will remember, Lestrade, the sensation caused by the disappearance...
... upon a beam, the cat sat down in the fireplace, the duck got into the washing cistern, the pin stuck himself into the bed pillow, the millstone laid himself over the house door, and the egg rolled ... said the fox. ‘Yes; but you must get up behind, or my horses will not be able to draw you.’ Then the fox got up behind; and presently the wolf, the bear, the goat, and all the beasts ofthe ... the bride; and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him water, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the meantime she...
... they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening. Now, whether it was that they had eaten so many nuts that they could not walk, or whether they were ... However, the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach. An hour or two afterwards the landlord ... and, fetching the egg, they pecked a hole in it, ate it up, and threw the shells into the fireplace: they then went to the pin and needle, who were fast asleep, and seizing them by the heads,...
... and the boys entered the hole, Tom in the lead. They toiled their way to the farther end ofthe tunnel, then made their spliced kite-strings fast and moved on. A few steps brought them to the ... "Money. You make them raise all they can, off'n their friends; and after you've kept them a year, if it ain't raised then you kill them. That's the THE ADVENTURESOF TOM SAWYER ... left the wagon near the door and followed. The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any consequence in the village was there. The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses,...
... "It's one ofthe widow's parties that she's always having. This time it's for the Welshman and his sons, on account of that scrape they helped her out of the other night. And ... little side-tables in the same room, after the fashion of that country and that day. At the proper time Mr. Jones made his little speech, in which he thanked the widow for the honor she was doing ... that there was another person whose modesty And so forth and so on. He sprung his secret about Huck's share in the adventure in the finest dramatic manner he was master of, but the surprise...
... out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of ... says: THE ADVENTURESOF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 38 MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all. ... 'em they all do. So don't make no more fuss about it. Prisoners ain't ever without rats. There ain't no instance of it. And they train them, and pet them, and learn them tricks,...
... dripping from the rafters and places every now and then; and they generly landed in your plate, or down the back of your neck, and most ofthe time where you didn't want them. Well, they was ... in the house and not bother them. I am one ofthe gang, but have got religgion and THE ADVENTURESOF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 39 IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a ... and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick ofthe flock. I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was. We got a splendid stock of sorted...
... over, glorified, until the reason of many ofthe citizens tottered under the strain ofthe unhealthy excitement. Every "haunted" house in St. Petersburg and the neighboring villages ... to take up the story ofthe younger ones again and see what sort of men and women they turned out to be; therefore it will be wisest not to reveal any of that part of their lives at present. ... start the gang and turn robbers?" "Oh, right off. We'll get the boys together and have the initiation to-night, maybe." "Have the which?" "Have the initiation."...
... a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst ofthe music the reader probably remembers how ... looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her ... soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope. Tom chased the traitor home,...
... when they got pretty close on to us we dodged into the bush and let them go by, and then dropped in behind them. They'd had all the dogs shut up, so they wouldn't scare off the robbers; ... some of them talking a little, in a low voice, and all of them fidgety and uneasy, but trying to look like they warn't; but I knowed they was, because they was always taking off their ... heels and shoved. Then there was a rush, and a BANG, BANG, BANG! and the bullets fairly whizzed around us! We heard them sing out: "Here they are! They've broke for the river! After...
... Why, they've stole everything they could lay their hands on and we a-watching all the time, mind you. They stole that shirt right off o' the line! and as for that sheet they made the ... was all right. We followed the men and the dogs, but they outrun us, and we lost them; but we thought we heard them on the water, so we got a canoe and took out after them and crossed over, but ... post-office to get "Sid"; but just as I suspicioned, he warn't there; so the old man he got a letter out ofthe office, and we waited awhile longer, but Sid didn't come; so the...
... " "They're in the trunk. There, now. And they're just the same as they was when I got them out ofthe office. I hain't looked into them, I hain't touched them. But ... we was out ofthe cabin, and we had to rush, and they heard us and let drive at us, and I got my share, and we dodged out ofthe path and let them go by, and when the dogs come they warn't ... they was going to do with Jim; and the old doctor and Uncle Silas followed after Tom into the house. The men was very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other...