CONTENTS.
1. THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK, _Franklin Fyles_
2. A THING THAT GLISTENED, _Frank R. Stockton_
3. A LION AND A LIONESS, _Joaquin Miller_
4. THE CHEATED JULIET, _Q._
5. THE MYSTIC KREWE, _Maurice Thompson_
6. STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A MILLION DOLLARS, _Ingersoll Lockwood_
7. A LOST DAY, _Edgar Fawcett_
8. A TRAGEDY OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, _Brainard Gardner Smith_
9. THE BUSHWHACKER'S GRATITUDE, _Kirke Munroe_
10. THE END OF ALL, _Nym Crinkle_
11. SHALL HE MARRY HER? _Anna Katherine Green_
THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK.
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.
CHAPTER I.
Two names were used for the only girl at Overlook. In addressing her,
the men of the place always said "Miss Warriner." In mentioning her,
they often said "Mary Mite." The reason for this distinctive difference
was revealed by the sight of Miss Mary Warriner herself, as she sat on a
high stool behind a rude desk, under a roughly-boarded shelter, and with
rapid fingers clicked the key of a telegraphic instrument. There was a
perfect poise of quiet self-possession which would have been very
impressive dignity in an older and bigger person, and which, although
here limited by eighteen years and one hundred pounds, still made a
demand for respectful treatment. Therefore the men, when in her
presence, never felt like calling her anything else than "Miss
Warriner." If she had been less like a stately damsel in miniature, and
more like such a child as she was in size only; if her employment had
been something not so near to science as that of telegraphy, and not so
far off from juvenile simplicity; if her brown hair had been loosely
curled, instead of closely coiled, and if her skirts had stopped at her
ankles instead of reaching to her feet, then she might have been
nicknamed "Mary Mite" within her own hearing, as she was beyond it, by
those who described her smallness in a sobriquet. There may have been a
variance of opinion among those dwellers at Overlook who had made any
estimate of her composure, but if there was one who believed that she
merely assumed a reserve of manner because she was among two hundred
men, he had not yet tried his chances of exceptional acquaintance.
Overlook was crude and temporary. The inhabitants were making a roadbed
for a new railway at a spot where the job was extraordinary, requiring
an uncommonly large proportion of brain to brawn in the work. Those who
were mental laborers in the remarkable feat of engineering, or were at
least bosses of the physical toil, were the ones who had errands at the
telegraphic shed, and for whom Mary sent and received messages over the
wires. The isolated colony of workers was one hundred miles deep in a
wilderness of mountain and forest, but not as many seconds distant,
measured by the time necessary for electrical communication from the
construction company's headquarters in a great city.
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1. THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK, _Franklin Fyles_
2. A THING THAT GLISTENED, _Frank R. Stockton_
3. A LION AND A LIONESS, _Joaquin Miller_
4. THE CHEATED JULIET, _Q._
5. THE MYSTIC KREWE, _Maurice Thompson_
6. STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A MILLION DOLLARS, _Ingersoll Lockwood_
7. A LOST DAY, _Edgar Fawcett_
8. A TRAGEDY OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, _Brainard Gardner Smith_
9. THE BUSHWHACKER'S GRATITUDE, _Kirke Munroe_
10. THE END OF ALL, _Nym Crinkle_
11. SHALL HE MARRY HER? _Anna Katherine Green_
THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK.
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.
CHAPTER I.
Two names were used for the only girl at Overlook. In addressing her,
the men of the place always said "Miss Warriner." In mentioning her,
they often said "Mary Mite." The reason for this distinctive difference
was revealed by the sight of Miss Mary Warriner herself, as she sat on a
high stool behind a rude desk, under a roughly-boarded shelter, and with
rapid fingers clicked the key of a telegraphic instrument. There was a
perfect poise of quiet self-possession which would have been very
impressive dignity in an older and bigger person, and which, although
here limited by eighteen years and one hundred pounds, still made a
demand for respectful treatment. Therefore the men, when in her
presence, never felt like calling her anything else than "Miss
Warriner." If she had been less like a stately damsel in miniature, and
more like such a child as she was in size only; if her employment had
been something not so near to science as that of telegraphy, and not so
far off from juvenile simplicity; if her brown hair had been loosely
curled, instead of closely coiled, and if her skirts had stopped at her
ankles instead of reaching to her feet, then she might have been
nicknamed "Mary Mite" within her own hearing, as she was beyond it, by
those who described her smallness in a sobriquet. There may have been a
variance of opinion among those dwellers at Overlook who had made any
estimate of her composure, but if there was one who believed that she
merely assumed a reserve of manner because she was among two hundred
men, he had not yet tried his chances of exceptional acquaintance.
Overlook was crude and temporary. The inhabitants were making a roadbed
for a new railway at a spot where the job was extraordinary, requiring
an uncommonly large proportion of brain to brawn in the work. Those who
were mental laborers in the remarkable feat of engineering, or were at
least bosses of the physical toil, were the ones who had errands at the
telegraphic shed, and for whom Mary sent and received messages over the
wires. The isolated colony of workers was one hundred miles deep in a
wilderness of mountain and forest, but not as many seconds distant,
measured by the time necessary for electrical communication from the
construction company's headquarters in a great city.
Eleven Possible Cases
CONTENTS.
1. THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK, _Franklin Fyles_
2. A THING THAT GLISTENED, _Frank R. Stockton_
3. A LION AND A LIONESS, _Joaquin Miller_
4. THE CHEATED JULIET, _Q._
5. THE MYSTIC KREWE, _Maurice Thompson_
6. STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A MILLION DOLLARS, _Ingersoll Lockwood_
7. A LOST DAY, _Edgar Fawcett_
8. A TRAGEDY OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, _Brainard Gardner Smith_
9. THE BUSHWHACKER'S GRATITUDE, _Kirke Munroe_
10. THE END OF ALL, _Nym Crinkle_
11. SHALL HE MARRY HER? _Anna Katherine Green_
THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK.
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.
CHAPTER I.
Two names were used for the only girl at Overlook. In addressing her,
the men of the place always said "Miss Warriner." In mentioning her,
they often said "Mary Mite." The reason for this distinctive difference
was revealed by the sight of Miss Mary Warriner herself, as she sat on a
high stool behind a rude desk, under a roughly-boarded shelter, and with
rapid fingers clicked the key of a telegraphic instrument. There was a
perfect poise of quiet self-possession which would have been very
impressive dignity in an older and bigger person, and which, although
here limited by eighteen years and one hundred pounds, still made a
demand for respectful treatment. Therefore the men, when in her
presence, never felt like calling her anything else than "Miss
Warriner." If she had been less like a stately damsel in miniature, and
more like such a child as she was in size only; if her employment had
been something not so near to science as that of telegraphy, and not so
far off from juvenile simplicity; if her brown hair had been loosely
curled, instead of closely coiled, and if her skirts had stopped at her
ankles instead of reaching to her feet, then she might have been
nicknamed "Mary Mite" within her own hearing, as she was beyond it, by
those who described her smallness in a sobriquet. There may have been a
variance of opinion among those dwellers at Overlook who had made any
estimate of her composure, but if there was one who believed that she
merely assumed a reserve of manner because she was among two hundred
men, he had not yet tried his chances of exceptional acquaintance.
Overlook was crude and temporary. The inhabitants were making a roadbed
for a new railway at a spot where the job was extraordinary, requiring
an uncommonly large proportion of brain to brawn in the work. Those who
were mental laborers in the remarkable feat of engineering, or were at
least bosses of the physical toil, were the ones who had errands at the
telegraphic shed, and for whom Mary sent and received messages over the
wires. The isolated colony of workers was one hundred miles deep in a
wilderness of mountain and forest, but not as many seconds distant,
measured by the time necessary for electrical communication from the
construction company's headquarters in a great city.
1. THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK, _Franklin Fyles_
2. A THING THAT GLISTENED, _Frank R. Stockton_
3. A LION AND A LIONESS, _Joaquin Miller_
4. THE CHEATED JULIET, _Q._
5. THE MYSTIC KREWE, _Maurice Thompson_
6. STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A MILLION DOLLARS, _Ingersoll Lockwood_
7. A LOST DAY, _Edgar Fawcett_
8. A TRAGEDY OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, _Brainard Gardner Smith_
9. THE BUSHWHACKER'S GRATITUDE, _Kirke Munroe_
10. THE END OF ALL, _Nym Crinkle_
11. SHALL HE MARRY HER? _Anna Katherine Green_
THE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK.
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.
CHAPTER I.
Two names were used for the only girl at Overlook. In addressing her,
the men of the place always said "Miss Warriner." In mentioning her,
they often said "Mary Mite." The reason for this distinctive difference
was revealed by the sight of Miss Mary Warriner herself, as she sat on a
high stool behind a rude desk, under a roughly-boarded shelter, and with
rapid fingers clicked the key of a telegraphic instrument. There was a
perfect poise of quiet self-possession which would have been very
impressive dignity in an older and bigger person, and which, although
here limited by eighteen years and one hundred pounds, still made a
demand for respectful treatment. Therefore the men, when in her
presence, never felt like calling her anything else than "Miss
Warriner." If she had been less like a stately damsel in miniature, and
more like such a child as she was in size only; if her employment had
been something not so near to science as that of telegraphy, and not so
far off from juvenile simplicity; if her brown hair had been loosely
curled, instead of closely coiled, and if her skirts had stopped at her
ankles instead of reaching to her feet, then she might have been
nicknamed "Mary Mite" within her own hearing, as she was beyond it, by
those who described her smallness in a sobriquet. There may have been a
variance of opinion among those dwellers at Overlook who had made any
estimate of her composure, but if there was one who believed that she
merely assumed a reserve of manner because she was among two hundred
men, he had not yet tried his chances of exceptional acquaintance.
Overlook was crude and temporary. The inhabitants were making a roadbed
for a new railway at a spot where the job was extraordinary, requiring
an uncommonly large proportion of brain to brawn in the work. Those who
were mental laborers in the remarkable feat of engineering, or were at
least bosses of the physical toil, were the ones who had errands at the
telegraphic shed, and for whom Mary sent and received messages over the
wires. The isolated colony of workers was one hundred miles deep in a
wilderness of mountain and forest, but not as many seconds distant,
measured by the time necessary for electrical communication from the
construction company's headquarters in a great city.
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| BN ID: | 2940013461147 |
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| Publisher: | SAP |
| Publication date: | 11/16/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
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| Age Range: | 9 - 12 Years |
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