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A the Heart of the Continent

Chapter 10 Chapter 12 A the Heart of the Continent Captain Clark continued his observations up the long series of rapids and falls until he came to a group of three small…

The Devil's Dictionary: Manna

by Ambrose Bierce MANICHEISMMARRIAGEMANNA -n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil,…

Tales from Shakespeare: As You Like It

As You Like It During the time that France was divided into provinces (or dukedoms, as they were called) there reigned in one of these provinces a usurper who had deposed and banished his…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book IX

Book IX Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit, Was known in Heav'n;…