Yule Logs
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:565 作者: 未知
简介:It was a grand success. Every one said so; and moreover, every one who witnessed the experiment predicted that the Mermaid would revolutionize naval warfare as completely as did the world-famous Monit...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:565 作者: 未知
简介:I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false religions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of eve...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:565 作者: 未知
简介:Sure enough, a lurid, red sun was setting in a bank of heavy, black clouds, which had already obscured his lower half, and the surface of which was flecked with little, white, fleecy dots, moving rapi...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:565 作者: 未知
简介:There was once a little Kid whose growing horns made him think he was a grown-up Billy Goat and able to take care of himself. So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his mother...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:564 作者: 未知
简介:The history of the Utah Batteries should be a plain tale, for deeds of valor cannot be garnished by the flower of rhetoric or the pomp of oratory. This is a simple story of brave deeds. The stern brow...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:564 作者: 未知
简介:My grandmother sat in her own particular easy-chair by the open window of her back parlor. This was a pleasant place in which to sit in the afternoon, for the sun was then on the other side of the hou...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:564 作者: 未知
简介:The whole class came to the meeting. There hadn't been such an important meeting at West Point for many a day. The yearling class had been outrageously insulted. The mightiest traditions of the academ...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:564 作者: 未知
简介:There were three of them Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you may think; and Jimmy's name was James; and Kathleen was never called by her name...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:564 作者: Joseph A. Altsheler
简介:The first youth rode to the crest of the hill, and, still sitting on his horse, examined the country in the south with minute care through a pair of powerful glasses. The other two dismounted and wait...