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Excerpt from Big Laurel Where the narrow, rocky road from Big Laurel Cove taps the main highway down the valley, a limpid trout stream refuses to give up its right of way and forces a ford. Here, one afternoon in June, Bud Childers coming down from his shack on Green Mountain stopped to water his horse in the middle of the brook. Lank and lean, he sat easily astride the mare, gazing about indifferently in spite of his twenty-two years. In his...

Excerpt from The TriflersAt the point where the Older Sisters gave him up as hopeless, he came as a sort Of challenge to the younger.This might have proved dangerous for him had it not been for his schedule, which did not leave him Very long in any one place and which kept him always pretty well occupied. By spending his winters at his New York club until after the holi days, then journeying to Switzerland for the winter sports, then to Nice f...

Excerpt from The Wall Street Girl On the Whole, Barton could not escape the deduction that the son re¿ected the present rather than the past. Try as he might, it was difficult for him to connect this young man with Grandfather Pendleton, shipbuilder of New Bedford, or with the father who in his youth commanded the Nancy R. But that was by no means his duty as Don faintly suggested when he uncrossed his knees and hitched for ward impatiently. ...

Excerpt from The Seventh Noon "The right to die?" Professor Barstow, with a perplexed scowl ruffling the barbette of gray hairs above his keen eyes, shook his head and turning from the young man whose long legs extended over the end of the lean sofa upon which he sprawled in one corner of the laboratory, held the test-tube, which he had been studying abstractedly, up to the light. The flickering gas was not good for delicate work, and it was...

Excerpt from One Way Out: A Salary-Drawing New-Englander Emigrates to AmericaHowever, I received some letters follow ing that brief article which made the dis comfort 'seem worth while. My wife and I' read them over with something like awe. They came from Maine and they came from Texas, they came from the north, they came from the south, until we numbered oun unseen friends by the hundred. Running through these letters was the racking cry that...

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Excerpt from New Lives for Old One thing alone disturbed Ruth and that was the thought that with success we were running away from our new-found friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

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Excerpt from The Forest CastawaysThough tall for seventeen and, on the whole, compactly built, his face at present revealed a little too much cheek-bone, a lit tle too sharp a chin for even a lean man in the best condition. His deep-set eyes were perhaps partly responsible for his generally underfed appearance, but he could not justly claim that such a detail, even if it prejudiced Dr. Fitz, the school physician, affected the gymnasium scales....

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