Thomas Allibone Janvier: 6 books

12 works of Thomas Allibone Janvier American story-writer and historian (1849-1913) This ebook presents a collection of 12 works of Thomas Allibone Janvier. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: A Border Ruffian A Romance Of...

Captain Luke Chilton counted over the five-dollar notes with a greater care than I thought was necessary, considering that there were only ten of them; and cautiously examined each separate one, as though he feared that I might be trying to pay for my passage in bad money. His show of distrust set my...

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I've been around considerable in the Western Country – mostly some years back – and I've seen quite a little, one way and another, of the folks living there: but I can't really and truly say I've often come up with them nature's noblemen – all the time at it doing stunts in natural nobility –...

Fancy you've journeyed down the Rhône, Fancy you've passed Vienne, Valence, Fancy you've skirted Avignon— And so are come en pleine Provence. Fancy a mistral cutting keen Across the sunlit wintry fields, Fancy brown vines, and olives green, And blustered, swaying, cypress shields. Fancy a widely...

In the essay and especially in poetry the cat has become a favourite subject, but in fiction it must be admitted that he lags considerably behind the dog. The reasons for this apparently arbitrary preference on the part of authors are perfectly easy to explain. The instinctive acts of the dog, who is...