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What will happen next?! After dinner, I will post the next installments, in which Roy disregards his mother's wishes and visits the powder-magazine. S...

Chapter Nine. Portcullis and Bridge. As Roy appeared, there was a low buzz of voices, and directly after the butler cried, “Three cheers for the young...

Chapter Eight. Ben means Business. With his blood seeming to effervesce in his veins from the excitement he felt, Roy placed the writing-materials in ...

Chapter Seven. News from the War. Roy and the old soldier hurried to a slit which gave on the road, and the latter began to breathe hard with exciteme...

Chapter Six. Ben Martlet feels Rusty. “Come to me in half an hour, Roy,” said Master Pawson, as they rose from the table, the boy hurrying away to the...

Chapter Five. Roy takes his next Lesson. The clock in the little turret which stood out over the gate-way facing Lady Royland’s garden had not done st...

Chapter Four. The Use of a Sword. Several days passed away, but Lady Royland always put off sending in search of news, and seemed to be more cheerful,...

Chapter Three. Coming Events cast their Shadows before. The wail on one string went on, and naturally sounded louder as Roy Royland opened a door to s...

Chapter Two. Roy’s Mother and Tutor. “I had missed you, Roy,” said the lady, smiling proudly on the boy; and he looked with eyes full of pride at the ...

This next installment is a chronicle of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn: The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War “See these ...

"The coyote cries ... He cries at daybreak ... He cries ... The coyote cries" ... sang the Basket Woman, but all the spaces in between the words were ...

"Do they do nothing but play?" said Alan. "You shall see," said the Basket Woman. Away up the mountain sounded a faint halloo. In a moment all the cam...

"I do not like Indians the way they are now," he said; and immediately saw that he had made a mistake, for he was standing directly in front of the Ba...

The Basket Woman was the only Indian that he had seen. She would come walking across the mesa with a great cone-shaped carrier basket heaped with brus...

The homesteader's cabin stood in a moon-shaped hollow between the hills and the high mesa; and the land before it stretched away golden and dusky gree...

There’s more where that came from! So...yeah!

He sees the tree and it is alive and sentient to him; you cut a stick horse from its boughs, and that is separately alive; cut the stick again into tw...

THE BASKET WOMAN In preparing this volume of western myths for school use the object has been not so much to provide authentic Indian Folk-tales, as t...

Guys...I’m pretty sure I can find a thesis on the cultural impact of basket weaving. You’re asking for it!

You are just too silly :p

Just want the thread to stay on topic to the OP. If there's nothing left to say on that topic, then the thread can end.

I also learned that people who like to discuss philosophy love to turn any conversation into a different conversation that they’re already very practi...

Thanks! Yeah...I guess what I wanted was to learn if what I believed is already shared by enough people to have a name attached to it. It would be nic...

Was this aimed at me, or one of the other three?

Good lord, people. This is so far astray of the OP topic, why are you even writing it in this thread? As soon as we're just posting to call someone st...

Maybe it's more correct to call myself a moral skeptic, since I: don't believe that objective moral facts exist, because I haven't seen any compelling...

Maybe not...but...I do believe that objective moral truths don't exist. Doesn't that make me a moral nihilist? Maybe I'm just not the kind you were ar...

I'm going to stop responding to you about this, because I don't think you're open to my viewpoint. You're assuming a lot of incorrect things about wha...

Thank you for responding! Some responses to what you wrote: I understand what you are saying here - I really do, and it's a very interesting way of fr...

Howdy! I’d still love to hear from you about this, if you have time: “ Which is almost (next to only nihilism) the least defensible position on morali...

Like a plumber comparing tools. I like it!

I like this plumber-based philosophy! :p <3

Hey, thank you for your response! “ Do you avoid using the word "chair" just because defining "chair" in chemistry or quantum physics would be hellish...

Oh, no - I meant that they would ask me why I don't do it. :/ Ah well. :)

You're right. And, I could have used better language. Let me rephrase the quote you were responding to, to try again: "This philosophy encourages peop...

How so?

Are you saying that philosophy itself is self defeating, or that my philosophy is?

I don't know - I've been trying to do just that for many years...I think communication has improved a lot as a result! I think it's more doable that p...

Understood! Thank you. :) On an unrelated, non-argumentative soapbox: It's confusions like this that caused me to stop using the word "moral" altogeth...

This side conversation seems pretty far off topic from the OP. If you wouldn't mind, please start a new thread if you'd like to continue it. I mean no...

Complete agree, and you've said it better than I. I did not mean to imply that doing what I believe I want to do will therefore make me happy. It's ju...

Thank you all for these replies! I sincerely appreciate them, and I hope it's clear in my replies that I'm not here to fire back at them. :) You know,...