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1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing the women flying toward the High Street, leaving their children crying at the open doors, hastened to don the cuirass, and supporting their somewhat uncertain courage with a musket or a partisan, directed their steps toward the hostelry of the Jolly Miller, before which was gathered, increasing every minute, a compact group, vociferous and full of curiosity.
In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody. The citizens always took up arms readily against thieves, wolves or scoundrels, often against nobles or Huguenots, sometimes against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens, on hearing the clamor, and seeing neither the red-and-yellow standard nor the livery

LIGHT WEIGHT CAMPING EQUIPMENT and how to make it

Watching a large and enthusiastic man and his family unload their gear from the car on a recent camping trip, we became more and more fascinated trying to guess what their plans might be. They seemed to be a family on vacation at a fairly remote lake in the Rockies, but the longer we watched the less sure we were. We weren't at all sure they weren't on a practice run for a projected African safari. The man and his wife, both strong looking, pulled and tugged until they finally had a tent spread on the ground. Three strapping children staggered under the weight of rolls that could be sleeping bags, somewhat disguised. The heap on the ground grew with cartons of canned foods, assorted hardware, clothing, ropes, packs-we finally lost track. Long after dark we could still hear these intrepid campers trying to get their tent secured and their gear stowed away.
We left camp the next morning with four days' supplies on our backs and astonishment on the faces of our neighbors. They were as securely attached to their camp as if they had been nailed into position.
Repetitions of this scene have convinced us that there are many people who would like to know how to go light. Some people, of course, want to set up a home away from home and relax without ever stirring, but many others, like our neighbors, just don't have any idea how to go light.
The following discussions and projects will

FOREWORD
This ebook deals with small game hunting, a sport which makes a direct contribution to big game hunting skills. The relationship between big and small game hunting is seldom stressed, and when it is stressed, it is seldom that tech-niques are examined in detail to show how small game hunting improves big game hunting skills. One cannot be a mediocre squirrel hunter, and at the same time a skillful deer hunter. The two techniques go together.

Of course, small game hunting is an end within itself. There is no more satisfying hunting than taking squirrel in the autumn hardwoods, cottontail rabbit when the first frost touches the upland pastures with its magic, ruffed grouse in heavy cover and raccoon along the river bottoms and swamps. Truly, one could spend a lifetime in the small game coverts, finding the game always worthy of the best hunting skills. They are our best teachers of woodcraft, rifles and shotgun field techniques.

Rifles, handguns and shotguns considered in this ebook are those which I have found well qualified for small game hunting by personal use. I have followed common hunter word usage in calling all auto-loading firearms "automatics."

I am going small game hunting-you come, too!

FRANCIS E. SELL Riverton, Oregon,

CHAPTER 1
PLINKING WITH A PURPOSE
When Art Richardson dropped us at the starting point of our hunt near

"How to organize and protect your entire photo collection in as little as 10 days...
. . . .without losing your mind."

With Save Your Photos and Your Sanity™ you'll be able to:

Learn why your procrastination--and even your attempts at organizing--may be destroying your precious photographs!

It goes without saying that your inaction may be destroying your precious photographs, but would you believe that your attempts at organizing might actually be accelerating the deterioration of your photographs?

Here are some typical organizing steps that may actually do more harm that good:

• Using self-stick notes on top of photographs to keep track of memories.
• Storing photographs in their original photo-developing envelopes. Talk about unfairness! Who would ever imagine that your photos would not be safe in the very envelopes they come in? I know this is hard to believe, so if you'd like to see this for yourself, click here for an example of the damage caused simply by storing photos in a standard film developing envelope.
• Using plastic baggies, or standard index cards to separate photographs.
• Using a ball-point pen to write dates and information on the back of your

Last Day Events discusses the current crises, pestilences, diseases and calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war which are signalling strange developments for the future. They forecaset approaching events of the greatest concern and magnitude. The forces of good and evil are clashing everywhere around us. We are amid the perils of the last days, and trying times are before us. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that those things that cannot be shaken may remain. Drought, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, casualties by land and sea will multiply. Life will be unsafe anywhere, only as the life is hid in God. Now while the angels are holding the four winds, a golden opportunity presents itself to seek God fervently and earnestly. We do not realise our peril which would come upon us as stealthily and suddenly as a thief in the night. Whatever it may cost to recover faith, it is better to deny self and make any sacrifice than to live without God's presence and loving favour. It is vain to gain the whole world and lose the very soul. 

The Great Controversy traces from ancient times the great conflict between good and evil and its universal compass. This book succinctly responds to questions of infinite love, human nature, generational curses and life's journey. Taking the reader behind the curtain to unearth the mysteries of the past that even prefigure the future. It probes into the characters of men and women birthed in bleak circumstances, embroiled in boiling and bloody disputes and tried in arduous crucibles through which are revaled tragic flaws and worthy virtues. Time and again, supernatural intervention dynamically shapes their courses while their choices, for better or for worse, make an ineffaceable impress on their offspring and societies. It distintuishes persons in expectation of a future hope and tenaciously embracing life-changing promises. The identity and character of God has been in much doubt since the beginning of time. Who is Lucifer, the archenemy, who has spent millenia warring against God and men? In this book, the great conflict is shown in the progress of the centuries, in which are evidenced the subtle attacks in our enlightened time. The reader would catch a clearer understanding of eternal issues at stake, the truth about heaven and hell and the great forever. 

Valle, Book 2 in the Heku Series, continues to follow Chevalier and Emily. With a new Winchester on the way, things heat up and the Valle strengthen their efforts to gain control of the last remaining Winchester heir.

A shocking change in the faction's leadership sends Emily and Chevalier to Council City. She instantly begins to feel restrained and confined, and fights back in the only way she knows how. Knowing her time there is limited, Chevalier and Kyle try to figure out how to make her feel welcome and how to keep her in the home city of the Equites.

When Emily is assigned a task within Council City, she finally begins to settle down and realizes that her life with the heku doesn't have to be bad. She manages to find friends, but Chevalier is uneasy with the new relationships.

The Mystery Alliance: Evian's Saga is an Action Adventure/Futuristic Fantasy Ebook about a young man named, Evian Magi, who is drawn unsuspectingly into the mysterious lives of a secret society of individuals called Mystics. Mystics are persons which have  haunting, surreal beauty, as though they were chosen to be Mystics from the womb. They also have unique abilities and skills which set them apart from others; namely, human beings. At present, human beings remain ignorant of the existence of Mystics. They simply believe that they are just exceptionally beautiful people.

These Mystics are loyal and devoted members of an elite rescue unit called, The Mystery Alliance. All of the members of this rescue unit manifest superb mastery of a spectacular self-defense technique: The Mystery Arts. Mystics continuously conduct their fantastic rescue operations, with no one being the wiser; except for only prominent, high-ranking government officials which contact The Mystery Alliance when no one else can rescue hostages involved in extreme terrorist situations.

Danny Firoth is an average thirteen-year-old who finds himself at the beginning of his eighth-grade year, struggling with some of the more common concerns that plague a boy of his age: bullies, homework, and his mother.  Sabrina Drake is the new girl.  She is beautiful and spellbinding but carries a fantastic secret.

Accepted into the White Rock Academy of Illumination, a school for young Squires destined to become Knights of the Light and battle the forces of the Dark with magical weapons called Bondeds, Danny joins his five closest friends in the training of their lives.  Honed in the techniques of blade work by an Elvin swordmaster and educated by a colorful assortment of knightly instructors, Danny and his friends are placed on the path to becoming knighted members of the Light.  However, the Dark may have other plans as they unveil a sinister plot in this fantastic tale of dragon-riding adventure, sword-wielding action, and coming of age drama.

The fulfillment of a childhood promise leads to the shocking discovery of a friend's death and likelihood of his having been murdered. Haunting memories and compulsion cloud our hero's mind and eventually drive him headlong into an obsessive search for the truth. He leaves medical school and moves to the rural Pennsylvania coal town where the body was found in an attempt to ferret out the killer and exact retribution.

The town itself is largely a collection of hillbilly riffraff and their kin. The local watering hole is called The Miner's Shaft and is the hangout for those he suspects as being involved with the murder. At The Shaft he meets Sally. She is the bartender and although a native of the town, her views are diametrically opposed to the bigoted sentiments of the bar's patrons.

With Sally's help and good acting the protagonist cozies up and infiltrates the 'good old boys' at The Shaft.

He soon is invited to go hunting with his new found 'friends' and after several nerve-racking expeditions he is asked to join the 'hunting club'.

Shortly thereafter he discovers the true nature of the 'hunting club.' It is a front for the "Defenders of Our Nation', a group of armed antigovernment radicals. It is an invitation he can't refuse!After attending several fiery rallies he joins the D.O.N.

Little does he know of the sinister mission in which he will participate. Can he escape involvement? Does he ever answer the questions... Click here to read the full description!