Mince Pie
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：797 作者： 未知
简介：Those who buy their ink in little stone jugs may prefer to do so because the pottle reminds them of cruiskeen lawn or ginger beer (with its wire-bound cork), but they miss a noble delight. Ink should ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：797 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介：From the earliest records of history we learn that man has ever been envious of the birds, and of all other winged creatures. He has longed and striven to fly. He has also signally failed to do so....
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：797 作者： Herbert Winslow Collingwood
简介：Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. Many readers of that magazine have expressed the desire to have a collect...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：796 作者： 未知
简介：The modern club, with its luxuries and comforts, has its origin in the tavern and coffee-house of a long-past age. The resorts in question have long since entirely changed their character, although th...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：796 作者： 未知
简介：These three stories are now brought together under one cover because they have not quite outworn their welcome; but in their first estate two of them appeared as gift-books, with decorative borders an...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：795 作者： 未知
简介：Matters had come to a crisis with Len and Max, when Sandy McKinnon arrived at the camp, with a letter of introduction from a friend in Denver....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：795 作者： 未知
简介：At a short distance from Bussang, a little town in the Department des Vosges in France, is the source of the Moselle; trickling through the moss and stones that, together with fallen leaves, strew the...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：795 作者： 未知
简介：I have been reading this morning a very pathetic and characteristic document. It is a paper that has lurked for years in an old collection of archives, a preface, sketched by a great writer, who is fa...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：794 作者： 未知
简介：Ensign Jack Steel sat on the edge of a life raft whittling a stick. A strange place to whittle, one might say, on the deck of a great U. S. aircraft carrier in mid-Pacific. But Jack loved to whittle....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：794 作者： 未知
简介：Years ago, in a chapter concerning eyes in a book of Patagonian memories, I spoke of the unpleasant sensations produced in me by the sight of stuffed birds. Not bird skins in the drawers of a cabinet,...