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Charles Roberts

The Secret TrailsCharles G. D. Roberts The Secret Trails The Black Boar of Lonesome Water IThe population of Lonesome Water – some fourscore families in all – acknowledged one sole fly in the ointment of its self-satisfaction. Slowly, reluctantly, it had been brought to confess that the breed of ...

Some Animal StoriesCharles G. D. Roberts Some Animal Stories DO SEEK THEIR MEAT FROM GOD One side of the ravine was in darkness. The darkness was soft and rich, suggesting thick foliage. Along the crest of the slope tree-tops came into view – great pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolated for...

Red FoxCharles G. D. Roberts Red Fox / The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind Prefatory Note In the following story I have tried to trace the career of a fox of the backwoods districts of Eastern Canada. The hero of the stor...

The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal LifeCharles G. D. Roberts The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life Introductory The Animal Story Alike in matter and in method, the animal story, as we have it to-day, may be regarded as a culmination. The animal story, of course, in one form or ano...

The Ledge on Bald FaceCharles G. D. Roberts The Ledge on Bald Face I THE LEDGE ON BALD FACE The Ledge on Bald FaceThat one stark naked side of the mountain which gave it its name of Old Bald Face fronted full south. Scorched by sun and scourged by storm throughout the centuries, it was bleached t...

Kings in ExileRoberts Charles G. D. Kings in Exile LAST BULL That was what two grim old sachems of the Dacotahs had dubbed him; and though his official title, on the lists of the Zoölogical Park, was “Kaiser,” the new and more significant name had promptly supplanted it. The Park authorities – pe...

In the Morning of TimeCharles G. D. Roberts In the Morning of Time CHAPTER I THE WORLD WITHOUT MAN It lay apparently afloat on the sluggish, faintly discolored tide–a placid, horse-faced, shovel-nosed head, with bumpy holes for ears and immense round eyes of a somewhat anxious mildness.The anxiet...

The House in the Water: A Book of Animal StoriesRoberts Charles G. D. The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories The House in the Water CHAPTER I The Sound in the Night UPON the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stilln...

Around the Camp-fireAround the Camp-fire CHAPTER I. OFF TO THE SQUATOOKS. – THE PANTHER AT THE PARSONAGE. – BEAR VS. BIRCH-BARK It was toward the end of July, and Fredericton, the little New Brunswick capital, had grown hot beyond endurance, when six devoted canoeists – Stranion, Magnus, Queerman...

Neighbors UnknownCharles G. D. Roberts Neighbors Unknown ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD It seemed to be the very roof of the world, all naked to the outer cold, this flat vast of solitude, dimly outspread beneath the Arctic night. A line of little hills, mere knobs and hummocks, insignificant under the...