Books with author Gordon Stables

"The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan" by Gordon Stables. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

"Cats: Their Points and Characteristics" by Gordon Stables. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Had you been in the beautiful and wild forest of Glenvoie on that bright and blue-skied September morning--on one of its hills, let us say--and heard the music of those two boys' voices swelling up towards you, nothing that I know of could have prevented you from joining in. So joyous, so full of hope were they withal, that the very tune itself, to say nothing of the words, would have sent sorrow right straight away from your heart, if there had been any to send. "Cheer, boys, cheer, no more of idle sorrow, Courage, true hearts, shall bear us on our way; Hope flies before, and points the bright to-morrow, Let us forget the dangers of to-day."

Born to Wander A Boy’s Book of Nomadic AdventuresBy Gordon StablesCONTENTSBook 1Chapter 1 – Graying House, and the Wildery Around it.Chapter 2 - Glen Lyle.Chapter 3 - Castle Beautiful.Chapter 4 - Gipsy Life.Chapter 5 - Strange Adventures in Wood and Wild.Chapter 6 - In a Smuggler’s Cave.Chapter 7 - Life in the Lighthouse.Chapter 8 – “The Wreck! The Wreck!”Book 2Chapter 1 – In Distant Lands. On Moorland and Mountain.Chapter 2 – At Sea in the “Fairy Queen.”Chapter 3 - On the Wings of a Westerly Gale.Chapter 4 - On Silent Seas.Chapter 5 - Afloat on an Iceberg.Chapter 6 - The Far North Land.Chapter 7 - A Saturday Night at Sea.Chapter 8 - Captain James Continues His Story—On the Subterranean River.Chapter 9 - Rory O’Reilly’s Queer Story.Chapter 10 - The Wanderers’ Return.Book 3Chapter 1 - Adventures in the Rocky Mountains.Chapter 2 - Fighting with Indians.Chapter 3 - Here and There in Many Climes.Chapter 4 - The Unknown Land.Chapter 5 - The Old Folks at Home.

THE HIGHLAND FEUD. Why should I, Murdoch M'Crimman of Coila, be condemned for a period of indefinite length to the drudgery of the desk’s dull wood? That is the question I have just been asking myself. Am I emulous of the honour and glory that, they say, float halo-like round the brow of the author? Have I the desire to awake and find myself famous? The fame, alas! that authors chase is but too often an ignis fatuus. No; honour like theirs I crave not, such toil is not incumbent on me. Genius in a garret! To some the words may sound romantic enough, but—ah me!—the position seems a sad one. Genius munching bread and cheese in a lonely attic, with nothing betwixt the said genius and the sky and the cats but rafters and tiles! I shudder to think of it. If my will were omnipotent, Genius should never shiver beneath the tiles, never languish in an attic. Genius should be clothed in purple and fine linen, Genius should—— 'Yes, aunt, come in; I'm not very busy yet.' My aunt sails into my beautiful room in the eastern tower of Castle Coila. 'I was afraid,' she says, almost solemnly, 'I might be disturbing your meditations. Do I find you really at work?' 'I've hardly arrived at that point yet, dear aunt. Indeed, if the truth will not displease you, I greatly fear serious concentration is not very much in my line. But as you desire me to write our strange story, and as mother also thinks the duty devolves on me, behold me seated at my table in this charming turret chamber, which owes its all of comfort to your most excellent taste, auntie mine

“If ye mane to write a preface to your book, sure you must put it in the end entoirely.”Such was the advice an Irish friend gave me, when I talked of an introductory chapter to the present work on cats. I think it was a good one. Whether it be owing to our style of living now-a-days, which tends more to the development of brain than muscle; or whether it be, as Darwin says, that we really are descended from the ape, and, as the years roll on, are losing that essentially animal virtue—patience; certainly it is true that we cannot tolerate prefaces, preludes, and long graces before meat, as our grandfathers did. A preface, like Curaçoa—and—B, before dinner, ought to be short and sweet: something merely to give an edge to appetite, or it had as well be put in the “end entoirely,” or better still, in the fire.I presume, then, the reader is fond of the domestic cat; if only for the simple reason that God made it. Yes; God made it, and man mars it. Pussy is an ill-used, much persecuted, little understood, and greatly slandered animal. It is with the view, therefore, of gaining for our little fireside friend a greater meed of justice than she has hitherto obtained, of removing the ban under which she mostly lives, and making her life a more pleasant and happy one, that the following pages are written; and I shall deem it a blessing if I am in any way successful. I have tried to paint pussy just as she is, without the aid of “putty and varnish;” and I have been at no small pains to prove the authenticity of the various anecdotes, and can assure the reader that they are all strictly true.CONTENTSApologeticPussy on her Native HearthPussy’s Love of ChildrenPussy “Poll”Sagacity of CatsA Cat that keeps the SabbathHonest CatsThe Ploughman’s “Mysie”Tenacity of Life in CatsNomadism in Cats“Is Cats to be Trusted?”Pussy as a MotherHome Ties and AffectionsFishing ExploitsThe Adventures of BlinksHunting ExploitsCock-Jock and the CatNursing VagariesPussy’s PlaymatesPussy and the HareThe Miller’s Friend. A TaleOrigin and Antiquity of the Domestic CatClassification and PointsPussy’s Patience and CleanlinessTricks and TrainingCruelty to CatsParliamentary Protection for the Domestic CatFeline AilmentsOdds and EndsThe Two “Muffies.” A TaleBlack Tom, the Skipper’s Imp. A Tale