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SOCIETY OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERSMO
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CHARLES E. MERRILL COMPANYCopyright
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y Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews; to
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Its History. The idea of the short
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details are omitted. Thus the short
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With the help of the biographical s
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There was a pier-glass between the
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like it in any of the stores, and s
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"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't l
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But she hugged them to her bosom, a
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"Yes; this is nice!" Sam said, in a
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horse who had wandered into the all
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good-night!"Whitey found a little f
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"You hold the doors open," he comma
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"I don't know," said Sam frankly, a
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"What's the matter?" called Penrod
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a casual manner through the house.
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the shovel, stick the shovel in the
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"better," even in his slumber. It i
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"Well, we got to fix about that," s
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in a perfectly amiable manner."I go
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Penrod produced the briefer paragra
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"I just said——""I don't mean th
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smothered shriek reached their ears
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It grew darker in the cellar, so th
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Immediately that door opened, revea
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Each glanced pleasantly at the othe
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or "Scroll and Key"[49-1] and I was
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eyes shone out of the dark face fro
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with his arm around my shoulder una
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over me in his young magnificence.I
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as if his right to being American w
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"He stopped and stared with those q
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"I found him. He was hurt too badly
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I heard my throat make a queer soun
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angelically, Uncle Bill. And he whi
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"'That sounds nice,' he said. Sudde
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It was nine o'clock of a wild night
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Price on John G., leading.John G. h
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the full drive of the storm. Awhile
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again, she had a hairpin between he
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Nevertheless, when Enriquez appeare
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and the half-frightened, half-serio
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and a whiff of smoke from Mother Ri
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fine gentleman has a pumpkin head,
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sunshine which struggled through th
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motes of dust. It seemed a convulsi
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the truth? At its present point of
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The scarecrow gasped, struggled, an
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all the coin she had about her, and
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of all this wonder-work ceased to a
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"That gold head has as much sense i
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ags, nobility would shine through a
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the gate, ascended the steps of the
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"Polly! Daughter Polly!" cried the
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self-possessed, and therefore the s
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witchcraft.The wretched simulacrum!
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"Poor fellow!" quoth Mother Rigby,
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The stout gentleman half rose from
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eing an average commonplace British
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"I begin to think, Watson," said Ho
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"Why, indeed? You seem most fortuna
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very much with one's other occupati
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the crowd, and right up to the step
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their maintenance. It is exceedingl
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"'Is to copy out the "Encyclopædia
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the door was shut and locked, with
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"I started off, Mr. Holmes, but whe
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"At half-wages, in fact?""Yes.""Wha
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the mantelpiece."Sarasate[221-1] pl
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"The knees of his trousers.""And wh
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knowledge was not that of other mor
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as Peter Jones, the official police
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Sherlock Holmes was not very commun
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attempt might be made upon it.""You
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that I could not only hear the gent
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veins. Have the goodness, also, whe
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"So far I had got when we went to v
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waiters, though I have been in the
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eached the soup, and yet he gave me
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"I beg your pardon, sir! I—I shou
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"It was a liberty," I said."I know,
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"Have you been married long, Willia
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"But she is six years old," he said
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Several days passed, and I took car
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I stamped my foot."I beg your pardo
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positions, drew himself up and rais
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the windows in the hope that Willia
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To stop him I had to say:"And, ah,
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"East.""West."I smiled, which so an
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"She told me to nod three times," t
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should get away at twelve, 'cause h
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"I said the young 'uns.""And Willia
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"Such as what?""Like whether he lar
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I had arranged that the girl Jenny,
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"William," I said, "the head waiter
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grape-shot. Just before we reached
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crying."But he is going to get well
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emember, with a heavy heart at the
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country." And then came suggestions
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Was the door of her grandfather's b
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Finally the carriage tongue did ind
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expecting a visit from our King her
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"The people are good," said the min
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said, with an air of preparing to f
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y the King's indifference. "They be
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"'We have a whole mountain,' answer
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"When the minister had gone a short
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emark that there were not fit accom
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forehead.[290-1] I shall hang now a
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eminded them of the many tragedies
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"Does he not care, then, how it goe
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O. HENRY (Page 11)Sydney Porter, wh
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BOOTH TARKINGTON (Page 19)Booth Tar
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(Return)43, 1. Nemesis. An ancient
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our own country.Miss Mayo during th
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wise tolerance as well as a shrewd
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about sixteen, he became a pupil at
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Dorothea Canfield, the author of "A
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armies of France and Spain.(Return)
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(Return)137, 1. Andy. Andrew Carneg
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145, 1. Castilian. Of pure Spanish
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career until rather late. We owe it
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who have never heard of the author,
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, one of th
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Monsieur Daudet, like the moody, im
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(Return)267, 1. Mac Mahon. The Mars
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She might well be called the founde
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Balzac, HonoréChouans. "A Passion
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The Wind in the Rose BushFox, JohnC
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Life's Handicap. "Betram and Bimi,"
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Stockton, FrankThe Lady or the Tige
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A Reward of Merit1. Look over the s
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