There aren't that many true stories about how an 11-year-old and 16-year-old girls cleverly get the best of all of established civilization, but this is one of them. And the best part about it is that it comes with truly beautiful photographs that are integral to the story. I'm not sure if the en...
“What news?” she cried shrilly. “We sent them home!” said Bracken. “I cast a forgetting spell on them first.” “Did it work?” said Rose sharply. “Yes,” said Bracken. “Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure?” Bracken hesitated. “I think so. It seemed that way! But Rose, there are lights beyond the p...
“I am myself convinced of fairies — have been all my life, but the best photograph I have ever seen is undoubtedly yours,” Mr. Gardner wrote. The subject is quite an important one and you would be doing us all a considerable service if you could get further photographs of a similar kind of the va...
It was J.-J. Virey, the scientist who had written a report about Victor years earlier when he first came to the Institute for Deaf-Mutes. Seventeen years had passed. Victor was twenty-nine now. The scientist was curious: Had the Savage ever learned to talk? And the answer, of course, was no. Mayb...