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Note on Some Spring Styles

In Bill Nye's Cordwood

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Bill Nye

From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Chapter 24

In Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

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Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.

In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

Ch.4 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Professional Body-Snatchers

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

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George Macgregor

From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

They Come to the Gate of Higham By the Way

In The Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

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William Morris

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) wit…

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