ALICE HINDMAN, a woman of twenty-seven when George Willard was a mere boy, had lived in Winesburg all her life. She clerked in Winney’s Dry Goods Store and lived with her mother, who had married a second husband.
Alice’s step-father was a carriage painter, and given to drink. His story is an odd one. It will [...]

“Unless they alter their course, and there’s no reason why they should, they’ll reach your plantation in two days at the latest.”
Leiningen sucked placidly at a cigar about the size of a corncob and for a few seconds gazed without answering at the agitated District Commissioner. Then he took the cigar from his lips, and [...]

CHAPTER I
During the early part of the month of March, in the year 1841, I traveled in
Corsica.
There is nothing more agreeable than a journey through this picturesque
country. Embarking at Toulon, you arrive in twenty hours at Ajaccio, or in
twenty-four hours at Bastia, where you can either hire a horse for five francs
per day, or [...]

I.
Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr. Jennings, near Land’s End.
In no department of zoological science, indeed, [...]