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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...ubject. Pictures of flying and flying machines returned to the newspapers; articles and allusions increased and multiplied in the serious magazines. P... ...on of the entire detestableness of Jessica. 24 The War in the Air CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HOW BER W B... ...daylight and the expansive warmth of daylight had gone altogether, and the index of the statoscope quivered over to Descente. 3 3 3 3 3 “N0w what’s go...

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ...nce of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of the separation. It then became, in a sub- sequent division of territ... ...ellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; an... ...n; but as he has—in intention, at least—done his full share in amusing the world, he trusts to its good-nature for overlooking this attempt to please ... ...was given to the sleigh, and Leather-Stock- ing was hid from view. CHAPTER II All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and hap... ...the veteran had soon a free indul- gence of his wishes. Whatever views the world might enter- tain of this act of the Major, to himself and to his chi... ...s, or chopping jobs, was of great stature, and carried in his very air the index of his character. He was a noisy, boisterous, reckless lad, whose goo... ... use of a forefinger, that was bent like some of his own characters, as an index to point out his meaning. The first thing referred to by the sheriff ...