A

A: prefix, is privative; wanting or without.

Ab: off; away from.

Abbreviated: cut short; not of usual length.

Abdomen: the third or posterior division of the insect body: consists normally of nine or ten apparent segments, but actual number is a mooted question: bears no functional legs in the adult stage.

Abdominal: belonging or pertaining to the abdomen.

Abdominal feet: see pro-legs.

Abdominal groove: the concave lobe of the inner margin of secondaries enveloping the abdomen beneath, in some butterflies.

Abdominal pouch: in female Parnassiids, a sac-like ventral cavity, formed by material secreted during copulation.

Abductor: applied to muscles that open out or extend an appendage or draw it away from the body: see adductor.

Abductor mandibulae: the muscle that opens the mandibles.

Aberrant: unusual; out of the ordinary course.

Aberration: a form that departs in some striking way from the normal type; either single or occurring rarely, at irregular intervals.

Abiogenesis: spontaneous generation.

Abnormal: outside the usual range or course; not normal.

Aborted: a structure developed so as to be unfit for its normal function obsolete or atrophied.

Abraded: scraped or rubbed.

Abrupt: suddenly or without gradation.

Abscissus: cut off squarely, with a straight margin.

Absconditus: hidden, concealed; retracted into another.

Acalyptrata: those muscid flies in which alulae are absent or rudimentary.

Acanthus: a spine, spur or prickle.

Acaudalate: without a tail.

Accessory: added, or in addition to.

Chapter 1 My Uncle Makes a Great Discovery
Chapter 2 The Mysterious Parchment
Chapter 3 An Astounding Discovery
Chapter 4 We Start on the Journey
Chapter 5 First Lessons in Climbing
Chapter 6 Our Voyage to Iceland
Chapter 7 Conversation and Discovery
Chapter 8 The Eider-Down Hunter – Off at Last
Chapter 9 Our Start – We Meet With Adventures by the Way
Chapter 10 Traveling in Iceland
Chapter 11 We Reach Mount Sneffels – the “Reykir”
Chapter 12 The Ascent of Mount Sneffels
Chapter 13 The Shadow of Scartaris
Chapter 14 The Real Journey Commences
Chapter 15 We Continue Our Descent
Chapter 16 The Eastern Tunnel
Chapter 17 Deeper and Deeper – the Coal Mine
Chapter 18 The Wrong Road!
Chapter 19 The Western Gallery – a New Route
Chapter 20 Water, Where Is It? A Bitter Disappointment
Chapter 21 Under the Ocean
Chapter 22 Sunday Below Ground
Chapter 23 Alone
Chapter 24 Lost!
Chapter 25 The Whispering Gallery
Chapter 26 A Rapid Recovery
Chapter 27 The Central Sea
Chapter 28 Launching the Raft
Chapter 29 On the Waters – a Raft Voyage
Chapter 30 Terrific Saurian Combat
Chapter 31 The Sea Monster
Chapter 32 The Battle of the Elements
Chapter 33 Our Route Reversed
Chapter 34 A Voyage of Discovery
Chapter 35 Discovery Upon Discovery
Chapter 36 What Is It?
Chapter 37 The Mysterious Dagger
Chapter 38 No Outlet – Blasting the Rock
Chapter 39 The Explosion and Its Results
Chapter 40 The Ape Gigans
Chapter 41 Hunger
Chapter 42 The Volcanic Shaft
Chapter 43 Daylight at Last
Chapter 44 The Journey Ended

You will naturally ask, where is Siam? At the extreme point of that vast continent extending from the snows of Siberia to the Equator, and terminating in the long narrow Malay peninsula, is the little island of Singapore, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait. The island is about twenty-five miles long, and about fourteen miles broad, and commands the entrance of the China sea. The English, who have ever had an eye to strategic points, and especially in the East, took possession of it in 1819, being then little more than a Malay fishing village, and a nest for pirates. The present town of Singapore, well laid out and neatly built, and situated on the southern extremity of the island commanding the anchorage, contains perhaps one hundred thousand inhabitants, whilst the principal English merchants live in palatial residences on the hills in the rear of the town. The government of the island, together with Malacca, Penang, and Province Wellesley, has lately teen transferred from the Indian Government directly to the Crown. It is a beautiful little island, with a genial climate, and I know of no place in the East where I would rather live.

CHAPTER I. – THE FIRST KINGS OF SIAM.

Eastern despotism, which casts a blight on the soul and quenches public spirit, is the primary cause of all revolutions by which the people seek to ameliorate their condition by the overthrow of their tyrants.

Every State in which there is One against All, has a defective constitution, which causes it to pass in succession from greatness to humiliation, from strength to weakness, and which, in its suicidal policy, awaits but a foreign invasion which will restore to the People, the enjoyment of their Rights.

The unstable and tottering thrones of Asia at last crumble away, and the ambitious, arrogating to themselves the privileges of attempting all things, are overwhelmed by their fall, and, reduce the weak to violate everything in their despair.

The right of the strong is that of a footpad who plunders unarmed travellers, and who, having enjoyed a period of immunity, dies under the axe of the headsman. The Ruler who has the greater share in the benefits of the Law does not recognise his advantages, and when unwilling to extend them prefers to see himself surrounded by trembling slaves who murmur in secret, and only await a leader to become rebels. The crude legislation of Siam has been the cause of all the public ills of the nation. It knows neither the extent of authority nor the limits of obedience. This nation, indifferent regarding the choice of its masters, has received fetters from the hands of ambitious men who spurned the nation while coercing it. Invariably unfortunate, the people have no hope save in a future revolution, which will enslave them to a new tyrant insolently bedecked with the imposing title of “Deliverer”.

Here you will find a collection of her short stories gathered from numerous sources and presented in chronological publishing order:

• Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922