Word: ups
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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And naturally, as we scudded along that evening, the mare and I, my thoughts turned on my future companion. They could not give me one of the boys. Either of my sisters? Well, perhaps. Mrs. Earl? Not if I knew it. I'm afraid she would be dangerous with a...
When I reached home I found the ladies going up stairs to dress. I seized my sister Alice, and made her promise that Miss Ethel should be late. Such was my simple plan of battle.
IT is a remarkably fine section, this of ours, but it has its peculiarities. There is a little saying, -which I hope you have never heard, -that it takes all kinds of people to make up a world. So it is with that part of the world which consists of...
But I don't so much object to him, because he uses up the time. The man who is most incomprehensible to me is he who laughs, -laughs at all the instructor says, all that he says himself, and all that I say. How he can so break decorum as...
One day, as I was staring disconsolately at the shelves, in vain straining my eyes for the wished-for book, a youth came along, mounted the step-ladder, and, removing some books on the top shelf, brought from behind them the very book I was looking for. The mystery was...