The complete online text of Husbandry by W. W. Jacobs.

W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...

Health workers in India's remote northeast went house-to-house searching for sick people Thursday, while workers also began slaughtering 150,000 chickens near a farm where a deadly bird flu virus was found, officials said.The move comes a day after the H5N1 virus was confirmed in samples...

Georgia Aquarium officials say it may be months before they know what caused Wednesday's death of another whale shark, the second this year at the only facility outside Asia that displays the huge, rare fish.Norton's death also came only a few weeks after two new...

North Dakota now is among about a dozen states where beekeepers report some of their bees are buzzing away from hives for good.Judy Carlson, the apiary inspector for the state Agriculture Department, said North Dakota beekeepers are returning to the state after using their bees...

A loggerhead sea turtle that was a popular attraction at the city aquarium departed Tuesday on a trip back to the Georgia coast where the reptile was hatched.Experts hope Dylan will soon be ready to thrive in the wild.Tuesday morning, veterinarians at the Georgia Aquarium...