ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE.
A TALE OF ANCIENT ROME. The Consul Duilius was entering Rome in triumph after his…
A FAREWELL APPEARANCE.
A DOG STORY FOR CHILDREN. ‘Dandy, come here, sir; I want you.’ The little girl…
A CANINE ISHMAEL
(FROM THE NOTES OF A DINER-OUT) ‘Tell me,’ she said suddenly, with a pretty imperiousness…
MY AUNT SUSAN
I HELD the lamp, while Aunt Susan cut up the Pig. The whole day had…
WAITING FOR A SHIP.
The Shipping Office in Tower Hill is a place where seamen, firemen, stokers, and others…
“TRY FOR HER IN FIFTY.”
The following extraordinary story was told to me some years ago by the commander of…
THE TRANSPORT “PALESTINE.”
In the spring of 1853 the hired transport Palestine, which had been fitting out at…
THE STRANGERS’ HOME.
A plain red-brick building stands in the West India Dock Road, with the following lengthy…
THE SECRET OF THE DEAD MATE.
Black in the wake of the moon, in the heart of the trembling spread of…
THE PLEASURES OF YACHTING.
Steam has played sad havoc with the beauty of our naval and merchant vessels; but,…