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William Alexander Fraser
William Alexander Fraser (1859–1933) was a Canadian writer known for his adventurous and animal-centered fiction. He gained popularity with books like "Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries" (1900) and "The Outcasts" (1901), which focused on animal stories set in the wilderness. Fraser's works often featured elements of the Canadian wilderness and reflected his deep connection with nature and wildlife. He also authored "Thoroughbreds" (1926), highlighting his versatility across genres, including novels, short stories, and humor.
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CHAPTER I The three Mahrattas, Sindhia, Holkar, and Bhonsla, were plotting the overthrow of the British, and the Peshwa was looking out of brooding eyes upon Hodson, the Resident at Poona. Up on the hill, in the temple of Parvati, the priests repeated prayers to the black goddess calling for the destruction of the hated whites. Each one of the twenty-four priests as he came with a handful of marigolds...
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A'tim the Outcast was half Wolf, half Huskie Dog. That meant ferocity and bloodthirst on the one side, and knowledge of Man's ways on the other. Also, that he was an Outcast; for neither side of the house of his ancestry would have aught of him. A'tim was bred in the far Northland, where the Cree Indians trail the white snow-waste with Train Dogs; and one time A'tim had pressed an...
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I Less than a hundred miles from the city of Gotham, across broad green fields, dotted into squares and oblong valleys by full-leafed maple, and elm, and mulberry, was the village of Brookfield. A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation. The Brookfieldians had discovered a huge beetle in the amber of...
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