Fairfax and Old Remnant Walk Out From Longstaff Quarries
In the sweltering Longstaff quarries Fairfax, a calm political prisoner with sleeve 5, walks with Old Remnant, a scarred second class convict. Guards marshal the drab column into release as the heat and dust mount amid memories of freedom and hard times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genith
Tuck
Mr. Tuck
Thames
Old Remnant
Matey
Fairfax
Longstaff
Ireland
Longstaf
Old Remnant Plans Escape From Longstaff Prison
A hardened inmate known as Old Remnant schemes to break from the impregnable Longstaff fortress. He shares breakfast banter with Fairfax, recalls dreams of steak and onions, and weighs a bold but grim ten year stretch while plotting with wary optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matey
Fairfax
Longstaff
Longstaf
Borstal
Old Remnant
Escape Echoes Through Longstaff Prison Walls
Old Remnant engineered a dramatic escape from a Deep Longstaff punishment cell while Fairfax aids him by uncovering a hidden passage. Fairfax chooses to stay behind, sealing the secret wall door after guiding Remnant to the riverfront liberty. the night warder faces arrest as the escape unfolds.
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Matey
Chatham
Fairfax
Cry Hall
Esca-A-Aped
Longstaff Castle
Longstaff
Brotherhood of the Broad Arrow
Remnazt
Old Remnant
Bairfax
Faiirfax
Old
Hhokey
Qld
Remnant
American medicinal roots praised by medical writers
The text notes abundant evidence from eminent medical writers that American plants possess valuable medicinal virtues. It asserts Native Indians long knew these uses before Europeans arrived, and this knowledge inspired continued study yielding a rich assortment of medicinal roots.
Gems in Verse from The Reliable Man and Easy to Drift
A fragmentary poetry excerpt presents two poems. The Reliable Man honors a dependable figure who keeps promises. Easy to Drift warns of the peril in wandering from duty, citing tales of restraint and the dangers of unchecked imagination.
Lovers of Body and Soul Clash in Poem Fragments
A fragmentary dialogue explores passion and despair as two lovers debate beauty, desire, and death. Shifting lines reference yearning, betrayal, and penance, with quoted contrasts between bodily longing and soulful insight attributed to Richard Hovey and Alexander Pope.
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Richard Hovey
Never a tenderer lover to comfort over and over
The passage presents Theodosia Garrison grieving or contemplating emotion, contrasting weariness with fleeting affection, and ending with a rebuke to despair. It explores enduring devotion that fades or shifts, reflecting a transient, introspective lyric mood.
Hospitality. Quan friends: are at your hearth
A quotation attributed to T. B. Aldrich on hospitality urges hosts to welcome guests with genuine warmth, stressing that thoughtful courtesy prevents guests from feeling the host’s own distance or coldness.
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T. B. Aldrich
Gold and loss in a moonlit woodland verse
Alfred Noyes laments a moral decline as greed drowns fairy birthright. The speaker notes villagers sold their heritage for coins and now miss the beauty of the greenwood, green lights, and unseen love, while nature and outlawed hopes echo faintly.
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Robin
Furleé
Alfred Noyes
The Prime of Life Poem Reflections on Forty
A reflective verse debates aging with wit and romance. The speaker, facing forty, rejects a cold view of life and argues forty marks the prime as eyes and a partner’s smile renew purpose. The poem likens aging to a perfect rhyme with dark brows and a gray shadow.
City Street Collage of Downtown Intersections
A list of numerous city street intersections and cross streets including Weet Seventh and Ohio, West Tenth and Floyd, Main and Market, East Fourth and Spring, Oak and Thorns, Pearl and Main, Vincennes at Spring, East Ninth at Market, and other pairs. The fragment reads like a street directory or map key with place names such as Reel House, City Hall, Glase Works, Panta Factory, and Robinson's. It appears as an index of crossing points rather than a narrative item.
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Weet
Ohio
West Tenth
Floyd
Reel
Market
Spring
Lower Fourth
River
Pearl
Main
East Fourth
Culbertson
Thirteenth
Foat Eighth
Glase Works
East Eleventh
Vincennes
Beeler
Vincennes and
Spring Streets
Oak and Thorns
Oak
Weat Union
State and Green
Poplar
Stone
Eighteenth
State
Lower Fleet St
Southern H. & Railroad
Chartrea
Cherry
Constitution
East Ninth
East Tenth
Elm Streets
Fifteenth St
Culbertacn Avenue
Charlestown
Vincennes Street
Robinson's Panta
East Third and Railroad
Exin Avenue
East Seventh
Chartres
East
Bilver Street
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Taghe Hopkins
McClure, Phillipe & Co
Puck
Dodds
Eas
Oliver Huckel
Ava
Alexander Pope
Cynic
Theodosia Garrison
the Tribune Company
Pearl S$t
New Albany
Ind
Daucney & Co
Ee Et Parker
Cleareca
Detroit
Hotel Tuller Absolutely
Fireproof
Cor Adams Ave
Pakk ST
L. W. Tullee
M. A. Shaw
Mer
West Baden Springs, Ind
American Plan Private
BATS
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