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... QUEER STORY. Story of a Bicycle. 'Aho ?? Was Over, andI( had been a gr at a szzccess~, tiangog Pretty E'thel Churchill hald not or: niatite.nd aL dlare, nor even a count, but jiist a gyaiai busikoiiness an, by nakme Robert Smilth-it r can ikear being ...

... QUEER STORY. A NINETE E NTH C0ENTURY MIRACLE. i ,0ornise-it was oerly in May-a rnmour (trollels thle little town oi i~t. Lo that a sf1 d-,bout to he periorised. Ellsewhere 1.1 night have inet with scant credence, Dli eve have ed to unseemly jests ; bet ...

... QUEER STORY. THE SECRET DESPATCHES. C o It's about £iqlu vears ago, said the skipper, C that I waB i g one evening down lthe side v of the harbour aiZ (Cova with iny hands in my F Po-ket, having nothing to do, nor say prospects Ui of it, for my last ...

... au immeasurable distance, hollow t aud Ilutiled. I ' in those davs, said Vanderlyn, again inter. runting the thread of his story, while a faint s 1falih stoic over his pale features, younr as I was I was au inveterate gamester, and had already leririced ...

... TIHE STORY OF TIHE ARMADA. AS TOLD) IN ThJE M: N VIIO D)EFEATED IT1 1-- Lof?l) ADMIRAL. fir is difficult for us, living in this age of telegraphs, express trains, and newspapers, to form an accurate idea of the agonizing suspense of the time when our ...

... GHOST STORIES. A log-fire in an antique hall Upon the hearth was slowly dying; Across the dark oak-paneled wall Weird shadows were grotesquely flying. The lamp burned low; and gusts of wind Through the elms, outside the manor moaning, Put me in such a ...

... throat had ci some usnaccountablh Mark. T Shortlr we hegan to question each other in T hoarse, inseatural voices; and his story ias rneu T Yet we said nothing in surprise. We did not call eselh other liar! For we 1kmew. And so 6 too liulo to molint even ...

... LO,UEER STORY. ?? StanRedie. - I . v-itat d thiit ?? cried Dudliey .i. 1 !iliS bed with a bulnd that * oner ~- id --if thle roo mn. 'J lia ?? 'i'hnonhc of the ?? :. -to.k nost one eud to the other, e .1 x ' - l d Ititidly in their crisentents, eie ' rli ...

... NOVFILS AND STORIES. 1. The Curse of the Feyrills. By Sylvia e II Penni author of Chronicles of Wittleton,' '&c. a '(London: Jarrold & Sons, 3 Paternoster Raow)-. n The curse of the Fevrills is drink, and this I i is a story with a purpose. The dominant ...

... Odyssey had matter as crude as the story of the Volsungs before him in abundance, but everything that is not normal and human disappears in his song. Here, for instance, is a piece of Northern magic from The Story of Sigurd Then tip rose Grimihild the ...