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Excerpt from The Cheerful BlackguardI 10515 DE LA mancha Y o'brien, was born on the ninth day of November, 1865, in Spain, of an Irish mother and a Spanish sire. Ten years later my parents entered the service of God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

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Excerpt from HorsesIn the world where the horse lives there is one god. This god is only a human creature, soldier by trade, stockrider, groom, or dray man, but from him all things proceed. SO far as the horse knows his god made the girth gall and the harness, the oats and the weather, and most certainly provides a lump of salt to lick, a canter over turf, or any other little scrap of Heaven which falls into the world. SO he hates his god or l...

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Excerpt from A FrontiersmanBut in the first camp on the Trail of the Pioneers I can only remember, through the mist of years, a navvy who stood beside me at the fire, a man of middle-age, with a rough Scotch face, who, cocking up one shrewd grey eye, said quietly, I hear you're looking for me?I had come a thousand miles to see the General Officer commanding this war of giants, and found a navvy. He glanced at my letter of introduction, scanned...

Excerpt from Captains of AdventureWhat is an adventurer? One who has adventures? Surely not. A person charged by a wild rhinoceros is having an adventure, yet however wild the animal, however wild the person, he is only somebody wish ing himself at home, not an adventurer. In diction aries the adventurer is one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. But outside the pages of a dictionary, the man who seeks his fortu...

Excerpt from The Cheerful BlackguardSince I could not take Brat home, and would not return without him, I had no use for the remaining funds. Most of the cash was disposed of at a race meeting where the wrong horses won. The rest of it merely dispersed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forg...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from The Chariot of the Sun: A FantasyThis is the story of the world-storm. Leaders in every field of thought have described the events of. The year 1980, but we who have come aged and Shaken out of that chaos, know well that the half was not told.The world-storm was a human affair, and human events are ever based on love. For the love of woman a man gives all the labour of his life, or in the loss or lack of love will cast his life aw...

Excerpt from A Man in the OpenThe characters wish me to tell you that they are all Imaginary Persons, and therefore very sensitive. The persons of a drama are protected by footlights, by the stage doorkeeper, not to mention grease paint and scalps by an eminent artiste, but the characters in a novel are thrust defenseless into a rude world, with many reporters about. In a page fright, worse even than stage fright, their only comfort is that ab...

Excerpt from Sword and DragonThe lights of your train. It looked like a snake writhing down the loops from the Pass. Haraldson seen it too. He was moving around. I seen him strike a match. Then he got some waste from his pocket. Set it alight, put it on the brake-beam which pinned his feet to the ground. And began piling on kindlings and sticks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Curly: A Tale of the Arizona DesertAck in Old Texas, 'twixt supper and sleep time, the boys in camp would sit around the fire and tell lies. They talked about the Ocean which was bigger than all the plains, and I began to feel worried because I'd never seen what the world was like beyond the far edge of the grass. Life was a failure until I could get to that Ocean to smell and see for myself. After that I would be able to tell lie...

Excerpt from The Frontiersman's Pocket-BookBlank pages are inset so that readers may make their own entries, and, with a view to the improvement of future editions, all suggestions and corrections will be welcomed by the Editor, at 6, Adam Street, Strand, London. A note is valued for the purposes of this volume if it applies to more than one continent, or to several trades, but no attempt can be made to advise men as to methods only applicable...

Excerpt from The Frontiersman's Pocket-BookBlank pages are inset so that readers may make their own entries, and, with a view to the improvement of future editions, all suggestions and corrections will be welcomed by the Editor, at 6, Adam Street, Strand, London. A note is valued for the purposes of this volume if it applies to more than one continent, or to several trades, but no attempt can be made to advise men as to methods only applicable...

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Excerpt from The Cheerful BlackguardI 10515 DE LA mancha Y o'brien, was born on the ninth day of November, 1865, in Spain, of an Irish mother and a Spanish sire. Ten years later my parents entered the service of God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Excerpt from The Cheerful Blackguard Since I could not take Brat home, and would not return without him, I had no use for the remaining funds. Most of the cash was disposed of at a race meeting where the wrong horses won. The rest of it merely dispersed. 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 wo...