House of the Wolfsssssy opens perilous Paris rescue misgivings
The narrator and two brothers descend from a window beam to enter a narrow Paris room via a widow’s ledge. They discover Madame de Pavannes, Louis de Pavannes’s wife, sheltering in poverty. Her claim of marriage shocks them as they fear they have aided a villain and confront the mystery of Pavannes’s absence and deceit.
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Marie
Iarle
Marle
Croisette
Aries
Paris
Rosay
Louvre
Vito
Basten
Pavannes
Rogers
Amd
Madame
Kit
St. Croix
M. Anne de Caylus
Mme, de Pavannes
de Pavannes
Mme
Ce Pavannes
Louis
M. Louis de Pavannes
Louis de Pavannes
Bezers
Crossette
The
Ursulines
Rue Platriede
Mirepoix
Rex
Chicago Tribune
Robert Louis- Stevenson
Will H W. Low
George
Curious Translations and Translation Gaffes Across Languages
The London Daily News notes Italian and French mistranslations of English phrases. It cites an Italian editor who questions whether poker is domestic or surgical, and mentions wa yward renderings like The Absent-Minded Beggar as A Distracted Mendicant. It adds examples such as Cooper's hero hitching a horse to a locust and Walsh rabbit rendered as un lapin de Galles.
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London Daily News
Cooper
America
Wales
Humble Kidd Street Family and a Grandiose Country Outing
A Monaghan family in the Eighth Ward Kidd Street vacationed on a steam excursion that fell flat. The outing exposed class ambitions and ironic longing for home life, ending with the realization that the Humble Street they left behind held their true comfort. The tale blends humor with social critique and ends with a moral about appreciating home.
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Kidd Street
Mr. Monayhan
Ladies’ Home Journal
Papa
New York
Monnyhans
Lonesome Trees
Hiney Blotz
Jimpsy
Commercial Hotel
Mike
Clarence
Mr. Monaghan
Monayhan
Monayhans
Mrs. Monaghan
Eden
Younger Brothers Freed after Twenty-Five Years in Stillwater
Jim and Cole Younger, released Sunday from Minnesota’s Stillwater prison, explored a transformed world their first day of freedom. They rode electric cars, heard telephones, and viewed city sights, later dining with officers and boarding a lake launch under warden supervision. They will stay in Minnesota while seeking employment opportunities, with parole restricting travel and alcohol use.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Jim
Cole Younger
Minnesota
Stillwater
Cole
J. W. Phillips
House of Representatives
Northfield
Youngers
Wisconsin
St. Croix River
Goodby
Chestnut Street
R. H. Bronson
Board of
Prison Managers
Whitticon
Jim Younger
Missouri
When I wuz a young man quotes cause a commotion
A Georgia stranger boasts about youth exploits but is interrupted by a tall man. The exchange ends with the pair tumbling into roadside dust before the station agent mentions the next train.
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Atlanta Constitution
Georgia
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