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Excerpt: The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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... ... ... The Silverado... ...y assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Silverado... ...an Coast Range, none of its near neighbours rising to one-half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- t... ...Bucks, and bears, and rattle-snakes, and former mining operations, are the staple of men’s talk. Agriculture has only begun to mount above the valley.... ... site of sleepy Calistoga; yet in the mean time, around the foot of that 4 mountain the silence of nature reigns in a great m... ...d a theory of his own, which I did not quite grasp, except that the trees had not “grewed” there. But he mentioned, with evident pride, that he differ... ... dozen times behind the plate. “Hullo, sir!” I cried. “Where are you going?” He turned round without a quiver. “You’re a Scotchman, sir?” he said grav... ...,” as he said; and took himself solemnly away, radiating dirt and humbug as he went. A month or two after this encounter of mine, there came a Scot to...

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Excerpt: Prince Otto -- A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition).

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Excerpt: Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

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... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

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........ 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK...

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