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...his trade. Though her voyage of twelve hundred miles extends from apple to orange, from clime to clime, yet, like any small ferry- boat, to right and ... ...these hunters. Fine ladies in slippers, and moccasined 9 Melville squaws; Northern speculators and Eastern philosophers; English, Irish, German, Scot... ... young friend, if to know human nature is your object, drop Tacitus and go north to the cemeteries of Auburn and Greenwood.” “Upon my word, I—I—” “Nay... ...l possible be- nevolence taxes; as in America here, the state-tax, and the county-tax, and the town-tax, and the poll-tax, are by the assessors rolled... ...ould you?” “New Jerusalem?” “Yes, the new and thriving city, so called, in northern Min- nesota. It was originally founded by certain fugitive Mor- mo... ..., a kind of invalid Titan in homespun; his beard blackly pendant, like the Carolina-moss, and dank with cypress dew; his coun- 84 The Confidence-Man ... ...nd was inky as the pools of falls among mountain-pines. An Indian blanket, orange-hued, and fringed with lead tassel-work, appeared that morning to ha... ...aper cap and leather apron, was selling one candle for one penny to a poor orange-woman, who, with the patronizing coolness of a liberal customer, req...

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...andal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, ...

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...oscombe Valley Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Five Orange Pips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Th... ...vertisement. “I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his ha... ...treet was choked with red headed folk, and Pope’s Court looked like a coster’s orange barrow. I should not have thought there were so many in the whol... ... by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there... .... It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of comm... ...l something to my medical instincts? I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the... ...ng part in opposing the carpet bag politicians who had been sent down from the North. “Well, it was the beginning of ’84 when my father came to live a... ... “Let me introduce you,” he shouted, “to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee, in the county of Kent.” Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man’s f... ...ut this whistle and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?” “That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is my strong impression that...

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...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bou... ...the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population... ...he United States, we halted in the evening in a tropical climate where the orange and banana, the coffee and the sugar-cane were flourishing. We had b... ...tions. There are two roads, good for that part of Virginia, run- ning from Orange Court House to the battle-field. The most southerly of these roads i... ...use to the battle-field. The most southerly of these roads is known as the Orange Court House Plank Road, the northern one as the Orange T urnpike. Th...

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... perpetual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civiliz... ...at the time of the Persian inva sion, or of the first or third William of Orange. It would be absurd to construct institutions for the mere purpose o... ...ole country; not merely from the assortment of two or three perhaps rotten oranges, which may be the only choice offered to him in his local market. U... ...e suffrage, are not, in this coun try, nor probably any where save in the Northern United States, accessible to the whole people, nor does there exis... ...of an honest minority. In such a case as that of the repudiating states of North America, is there not some check to the unprincipled voter in the sha... ...e principles which are the foundation of represen tative government. In a County Board there is not the same justification as in Boards of Guardians ... ... admix ture of ex officio with elected members, since the business of a county being on a sufficiently large scale to be an object of interest and ... ...ves elected to the Board than they have in being returned to Parliament as county members. In regard to the proper circumscription of the constituen ... ..., which has been printed and widely circulated by the Legislature of South Carolina, vindicated this preten sion on the general principle of limiting...