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...ck cliffs of Taytitikitheeker (Drys Bluff) and along the Tellerpanger (Liffey River) is a kaleidoscope of forests, ferneries, shrubberies, mosses and fungi. The native heart berries and the pepper brushes, the mountain cresses and the tiny sweet ?cherries? of the ancient ecosystem, give way in the farmlands to mint, hawthorn and briar, and the organic herb farms brought wi...

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... 2 nd Edition While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the author assumes no responsibilit... ...y adverse affects or consequences resulting from the use of any recipes offered in this book. ... ... All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way, or by any means, el... ...Liffey River) is a kaleidoscope of forests, ferneries, shrubberies, mosses and fungi. The native heart berries and the pepper brushes, the mountain... ...ption of the plants used in the recipes is given; this includes their legends, cultivations, and medicinal values of course. To treat minor disorde...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... took up one of several sealed tubes. “Here is the living thing. This is a cultivation of the actual living disease bacteria.” He hesitated. “Bottled ... ... afraid,” said the Bacteriolo- gist to himself. “How he gloated over those cultivations of disease germs!” A disturbing thought struck him. He turned ... ...d I wanted to astonish him, not knowing he was an Anarchist, and took up a cultivation of that new species of Bacterium I was telling you of that infe... ...pers swung from tree to tree. The shadow deepened. On the ground, blotched fungi and a red-brown incrustation be- came frequent. Evans shivered. “It s... ...ber, and the ditches and heaps of fir needles were gorgeous with clumps of fungi,—he recapitulated the melancholy history of his marriage. It was brie... ...ready intimated, had planted the path through the wood with evil- smelling fungi, thickly and variously planted it, not only on the right side, but on...

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorn... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... across the road, in front of the house, which Septimius had neglected the cultivation of, unwilling to spare the time to plough, to plant, to hoe it ... ...nd in Septimius, though further di luted, and modified likewise by higher cultivation, there was the same tendency. Septimius escaped from the old wo... ...ave answered the purpose as well as a man. You must know that the seeds of fungi are scattered so universally over the world that, only comply with th...

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... we going to fly?” A new crop of inventors sprang up in a night or so like fungi. The Aero Club announced the project of a great Flying Ex- hibition i... ...inary affairs of life, the buying and selling of everyday necessities, the cultivation of the ground, the tend- ing of beasts, was going on as it were...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... feast; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealing-master int... ...allest trees. So gloomy, cold, and wet was ev- ery part, that not even the fungi, mosses, or ferns could flourish. In the valleys it was scarcely poss... ...an Diernan’s Land. How singular is this relationship between parasiti- cal fungi and the trees on which they grow, in dis- tant parts of the world! In... ... with gravel and sand the narrow strips of ground, which alone are fit for cultivation. The floods also injure the irri- gating ditches. Great devasta... ...nd; but that he thought that the greater portion of land, now incapable of cultivation, but covered with In- dian ruins, had been reduced to this stat... ...stant from Lima), he found a plain covered with ruins and marks of ancient cultivation but now quite barren. Near it was the dry course of a considera...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobsco...

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... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about on... ...ommonly small and of one story, but framed. There was very little land under cultivation, yet the forest did not often border the road. The stumps wer... ...ut Ktaadn, (Katahdinauguoh one says they are called,) like a cluster of blue fungi of rank growth, apparently twenty five or thirty miles distant, in a... ...ut fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. ... ...rable to some of these orchidaceous plants, though they are too delicate for cultivation. I also saw the swamp goose berry (Ribes lacustre), with gre...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...

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...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myse... ... neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands ... ...great grease spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk! Under a high state of cultivation, being manured with the hearts and brains of men! As if you w... ...stools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies or shells, vegetable winkles; whe... ...om supported by the stems of other plants without knowing it to be the same. Cultivation has well nigh exterminated it. It has a sweetish taste, much ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes patheti... ...ng with microscopic eye into the crevices of the bark or the leaves or the fungi at my feet. “Riches are the attendants of the miser; and the heavens ... ... having been long subjected to extremely artificial and luxurious modes of cultivation, to gratify the appetite, converted into a stye and hot bed, wh... ... beach plum, or Prunus littoralis, which grew wild, the Canada plum under cultivation, fine Porter apples, some peaches, and large patches of musk an...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e pretty drawing-room, full of the choice artistic curiosities of a man of cultivation, and pre- sided over by his mother, a woman of much the same br... ... “It was my own money,” she said, in self-defence, “earned by my models of fungi.” The Colonel thought it an unsatisfactory justification, and told he... ...on two monstrous stains of damp on the walls, with a whole crop of curious fungi in one corner, and discovered that all the holland was flabby, and al...