Canoemates: A Story of the Florida Reef and Everglades
Chapter XXII: “Good-Bye to the Transit”
by Kirk Munroe
The ships are repaired and preparations are made for the travels through the Everglades.
The ships are repaired and preparations are made for the travels through the Everglades.
Pip dines with Jaggers and learns of Estella's marriage.
The ship is navigated out to sea.
Ishmael embraces Queequeg and his strange customs.
The author discusses the origin and role of government.
The author's earliest memories of childhood and the conditions in which his family lived and worked are explained.
Tom plays hooky from school feeling bad about his lunch with Becky. Tom runs into his friend Joe Harper.
Silas isolates himself from all companionship, focusing on his work instead.
A man is stranded on an island because of a trick his friend played on him out of jealousy. He meets another woman and they live a magical life.
Mr. Marvel meets The Invisible Man and finds him to be very demanding. (London, England; Pearson's Magazine, 1897)
Mr. Douglass remembers the kindness of Miss Lucretia.
Claude Frollo watches Esmeralda's performance, wishing to know the identity of her assistant. Having recognized Gringoire, Claude Frollo chastises him about his current occupation. Gringoire informs Claude Frollo of his wife and the strange events which lead to his nuptials.
The many members of the Bird family return home to visit during the holidays.
This book tells the story of a poor tailor, his cat, and the mice that live in his shop. He has many scraps of cloth and ribbons left over that are too small for any practical use. The mice take these and make fine clothes for themselves. The tailor sends his cat Simpkin to buy food and a twist of cherry-colored silk for a coat the mayor has commissioned for his wedding. While the cat is gone, he frees the mice from teacups where Simpkin has imprisoned them. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger. When the tailor falls ill, the mice save the day by completing the coat.
Exam results are posted, bringing positive news to Anne. The Cuthbert's continuing health problems concern Anne.
Brownie goes to pick up his new suit and finds that his pants are too long. Mr. Frog tells him to tie stones to his feet to help his legs stretch. The next morning (after his pants had stopped shrinking) they were just the right size.
A profile of Henry M. Flagler published in 1925 in a Florida magazine. This profile was the first in a series called "The Ten Greatest Men of Florida," which the magazine described as a reader-requested series on the "men who had done the most toward the progress and development of Florida."
The author gives the reader several random logic puzzles to decipher.
Agnes Grey spends time with her family, but finally determines to seek employment and try her hand at becoming a governess once more.
A king has two daughters, though one is ugly and cruel and the other beautiful and kind. A prince is supposed to be promised to the former, but falls in love with the latter. The bitter sister and the king send away the younger princess to a tower where she is trapped. The prince tries to see his princess, but is harmed by the plans of the elder sister.The princess escapes her tower and sets off to save the prince she loves.
Joseph pays a visit to Becky. Dobbin departs after a heated discussion.
Bruno and the narrator discuss the fairy king’s dinner party.