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Give Us Our Measly Sum
The MuckerEdgar Rice Burroughs For years he had waged a perpetual battle with both. Now he was coming back voluntarily to give himself up, with every conviction that he should be exonerated quickly. Billy, knowing his own innocence, realizing his own integrity, assumed that others must immediately appreciate both. “First,” thought Billy, “I’ll go take Continue reading
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To Their Fainting Country
The Mad KingEdgar Rice Burroughs And so he decided before the night was spent to put himself as far from his family as possible, lest some future attempt upon his life might endanger theirs. Then, too, righteous anger and a desire for revenge prompted his decision. he would run Maenck to earth and have an Continue reading
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And Be the First in Line
Out of Time’s AbyssEdgar Rice Burroughs Seven generations of the same ancestor must come up from the beginning before a cos-ata-lu child may be born; and when one considers the frightful dangers that surround the vital spark from the moment it leaves the warm pool where it has been deposited to float down to the Continue reading
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Gonna Go Boony
The Monster MenEdgar Rice Burroughs “Come!” he called to his grotesque horde. “Kill the men and save the girl–the one with the golden hair,” he added as the sudden realization came to him that none of these creatures ever had seen a woman before. Then he dashed from the shelter of the jungle, across the Continue reading
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Where Fantasy is Fact
PellucidarEdgar Rice Burroughs There was a rude rectangle walled with logs and boulders, in which were a hundred or more thatched huts of similar construction. There was no gate. Ladders that could be removed by night led over the palisade. Before the village were assembled a great concourse of warriors. Inside I could see the Continue reading
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In the Sunset
Red NailsRobert E. Howard Olmec started to his feet, an image of stunned amazement, and a low gasp of awe or terror breathed up from the others. Some slipped to their knees as if their legs would not support them. Only Tascela seemed not to have heard. Conan glared about him bewilderedly. “What’s the matter? Continue reading
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Let Him Who Hath Understanding Reckon
Beasts of TarzanEdgar Allen Poe He knew that Rokoff had left the river in pursuit of Anderssen, but whether he would continue inland or return to the Ugambi was a question. The ape-man had seen that the river at the point he had left it was growing narrow and swift, so that he judged that Continue reading
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Even As The World Convulses
Son of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs “The Tarmangani have sticks that make a loud noise and kill at a great distance,” replied Korak. “They had these when Korak set you free from their trap. If Korak had run away from them you would now be a prisoner among the Tarmangani.” The baboon scratched his head. In Continue reading
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I’m Wide Awake and I Can See
The Outlaw of TornEdgar Rice Burroughs But that it was pure happiness just to be near her, sufficed him for the time; of the morrow, what use to think! The little, grim, gray, old man of Torn nursed the spleen he did not dare vent openly, and cursed the chance that had sent Henry de Continue reading
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Cold Brick Walls
Tarzan and The Jewels of OparEdgar Rice Burroughs It was large enough to permit the passage of his body, and assured as he was that Lady Greystoke had passed out through the aperture in an attempt to escape the village, he lost no time in availing himself of the same avenue; but neither did he Continue reading
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