Once she raised two eggs on a cliff on the moor. Word spread the Dragon had not been seen. Was she gone? Had she taken ill? Who would protect them! Armed bandits were the first to plan their raid on the nearby villagers. First they sent out a search party. As they neared, they saw she was in her lair. "Why are you here? I should ask you," the Dragon said. "I am the dragon but I fly no more. I fly no more yet am the dragon still." They thought she said, "I cannot fly now." They reported she was roosting eggs. That she did not fly. "Were they golden?" "How do you know?" "Is it true they have magic power?" On they talked until they believed it must be worth the risk. Now the Captain was a pious pirate, the best of the lot. He had risen as chief of them having some schooling in him before he ran from home and lettered, he added arithmetic, and map reading, and had made himself useful until he knew several of the seven seas. He was...
In this adventure as a dad set out to bring home one leaf from a tree in Peter’s Park. Introducing myself to strangers, my daughter and I asked MBTA riders seated beside us 1) their destination, and 2) one thing on their mind or heart . Emad left his nineteen-month-old and rode the orange line to Northeastern University where he is teaching 20 percent and researching 80 percent of the time . To take this job, focused on renewable energy, attractive because of "the degree of freedom," the family had just moved from Phoenix. But they were no stranger to snow, since they formerly lived in Virginia. Esther, on the way to the dentist wore black lipstick, a black leather top open at the chest and white midriff . T he Army veteran of a foreign war had been thinking of the state of the world as she rode the escalator from the station. ...