It was on the first day of the New Year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories,…
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At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. Express. In one…
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The papa had told the story so often that the children knew just exactly what to expect the moment he…
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Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her,…
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Once upon a time there lived a poor widow and her son Jack. One day, Jack’s mother told him to…
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Once on a time there was a Little Old Woman who lived in a Shoe. This shoe stood near a…
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Montague Silver, the finest street man and art grafter in the West, says to me once in Little Rock: “If…
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A Child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other…
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Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail…
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In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad…
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Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening– the last evening of the year….
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A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in…
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