The Strange Story Book

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Mrs. Lang. The Strange Story Book

PREFACE

THE DROWNED BUCCANEER

THE PERPLEXITY OF ZADIG

THE RETURN OF THE DEAD WIFE

YOUNG AMAZON SNELL

THE GOOD SIR JAMES

RIP VAN WINKLE

THE WONDERFUL BASKET

THE ESCAPE OF THE GALLEY-SLAVES

THE BEAVER AND THE PORCUPINE

AN OLD-WORLD GHOST

THE GENTLEMAN HIGHWAYMAN

THE VISION OF THE POPE

GROWING-UP-LIKE-ONE-WHO-HAS-A-GRANDMOTHER

THE HANDLESS BRIGADE

THE SON OF THE WOLF CHIEF

BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH

BLIND JACK AGAIN

THE STORY OF DJUN

WHAT BECAME OF OWEN PARFITT?

BLACKSKIN

THE PETS OF AURORE DUPIN

THE TRIALS OF M. DESCHARTRES

AURORE AT PLAY

HOW AURORE LEARNT TO RIDE

LAND-OTTER THE INDIAN

THE DISINHERITING OF A SON

THE SIEGE OF RHODES

THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON

THE ADVENTURES OF FIRE-DRILL'S SON

THE STRANGE STORY OF ELIZABETH CANNING

MRS. VEAL'S GHOST

THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER

THE BOYHOOD OF A PAINTER

THE ADVENTURES OF A SPANISH NUN

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The story of Wolfert Webber was said by Louis Stevenson to be one of the finest treasure-seeking stories in the world; and as Stevenson was a very good judge, I am going to tell it to you.

Wolfert's ancestor, Cobus Webber, was one of the original settlers who came over from Holland and established themselves on the coast of what is now the State of New York. Like most of his countrymen, Cobus was a great gardener, and devoted himself especially to cabbages, and it was agreed on all sides that none so large or so sweet had ever been eaten by anybody.

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'Not that I know of,' replied Peechy; 'he was kept pretty hard at work after that, and, to tell the truth, I don't think he had any fancy for another meeting with those gentlemen. Besides, places look so different by daylight that I doubt if he could have found the spot where they had dug the grave. And after all, what is the use of troubling about a dead body, if you cannot hang the murderers?'

'But was it a dead body that was buried?' said Wolfert.

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