Crofton Chums
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:561 作者: 未知
简介:In the good old football time!sang Poke Endicott, as he pulled a nice new pair of fawn-hued football pants from his trunk and reverently strove to smooth the creases from them. Arent those some pants,...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:561 作者: 未知
简介:In the good old football time!sang Poke Endicott, as he pulled a nice new pair of fawn-hued football pants from his trunk and reverently strove to smooth the creases from them. Arent those some pants,...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:560 作者: 未知
简介:It's true, Consul Passwyn said, I requested assignment as principal officer at a small post. But I had in mind one of those charming resort worlds, with only an occasional visa problem, or perhaps a d...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:560 作者: 未知
简介:Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:559 作者: 未知
简介:A party was assembled in a room of an hotel in Calcutta, at the end of the year 1822. It consisted of a gentleman, a lady in deep mourning, a boy of between fourteen and fifteen, and two girls of thir...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:559 作者: 未知
简介:A dark night on the banks of the Thames; the south-west wind, heavily charged with sleet, was blowing strongly, causing little waves to lap against the side of a punt moored by the bank. Its head-rope...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:558 作者: 未知
简介:In these piping days when fiction plays the handmaid or prophet to various propaganda; when the majority of writers are trying to prove something, or acting as venders of some new-fangled social nostr...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:558 作者: 未知
简介:If we accept as our definition of an Epic:(a) A long poem, (b) of an interest not less than national[1], describing (c) in noble language (d) a series of naturally and organically connected actions (e...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:557 作者: 未知
简介:The old Pig went to wander, The other went far to roam And, at last, when night was falling, And a little Pig was calling Never a one came home.Rhunewalt's Ballads of Life....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:557 作者: 未知
简介:A queer, unexpected streak of sunshine, which by some miracle had found its way through a pall of clouds and a low-hanging mist, suddenly fell as though exhausted across the asphalt path of the Embank...