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GRAPES FROM THORNSCHAPTER IGeoffrey LAMBERT had felt sure that the blow was about to fall when he was summoned to the principal's office, and when he entered and was invited to be seated he was sure of it. It was, as he told his mother later, the same kind of consideration a fellow who is about to...

T CHAPTER I in the yard ¦^O write of the English inn is almost to write of England itself, so closely is the inn woven with the daily life of men of every degree, and with the gradual development of our land. It is as familiar in the national consciousness as the oak and the ash and the...

A Damsel in Distress. CHAPTER I INASMUCH as the scene of this story is that historic pile, Belpher Castle, in the county of Hampshire, it would be an agreeable task to open it with a leisurely description of the place, followed by some notes on the history of the Earls of Marshmoreton, who have...

YOUNG MEN IN SPATSfateIT was the hour of the morning snifter, and a little group of Eggs and Beans and Crumpets had assembled in the smoking-room of the Drones Club to do a bit of inhaling. There had been a party of sorts overnight, and the general disposition of the company was towards a restful...

ALL'S WELL WITH BINGO A BEAN and a Crumpet were in the smoking-room of the Drones Club having a quick one before lunch, when an Egg who had been seated at the writing-table in the corner rose and approached them. "How many 'r's' in 'intolerable'?" he asked. "Two," said the Crumpet. "Why?" "I...

Táblái enyhén deformáltak, vászna kopottas, fakó, kötése kissé laza. A könyvtest ép. N. K. Robertson. Thrifty Salmon Fishing. London (é.n.) Herbert Jenkins Limited. 224 p. Egészvászon.