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In Black and White
Excerpt: "e;In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubara of Dhunni Bhagat. No one remembered who or what Dhunni Bhagat had been. He had lived his life, made a little …
Letters of Marque
Excerpt: "e;Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the …
Abaft the Funnel
Excerpt: "e;The measure of a man's popularity is not always-or indeed seldom-the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in …
Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other Stories
Excerpt: "e;There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in people's memories, …
Debits and Credits
Excerpt: "e;It is narrated (and God knows best the true state of the case) by Abu Ali Jafir Bin Yakub-ulisfahani that when, in His determinate Will, The Benefactor had decided …
Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls
Excerpt: "e;The history of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the …
Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Stories Volume 2
Excerpt: "e;His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles. His mother's ayah …