Under The Knife
“What if I die under it?” The thought recurred again and again, as I walked home from Haddon’s. It was a purely personal question. I…
Literature
The Butterfly That Stamped
This, O my Best Beloved is a story a new and a wonderful story a story quite different from the other stories a story about…
My Own True Ghost Story
As I came through the Desert thus it was As I came through the Desert. The City of Dreadful Night. Somewhere in the Other World,…
The Probable Diffusion Of Great Cities
Now, the velocity at which a man and his belongings may pass about the earth is in itself a very trivial matter indeed, but it…
How The Alphabet Was Made
The week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and…
Through A Window
After his legs were set, they carried Bailey into the study and put him on a couch before the open window. There he lay, a…
By Word Of Mouth
Not though you die to-night, O Sweet, and wail, A spectre at my door, Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail I shall but love…
The Treasure In The Forest
The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little…
Cupid’s Arrows
Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide, By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; Log in the reh-grass, hidden and alone; Bund where…
The Valley Of Spiders
Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The…
The Stolen Bacillus
‘This again,’ said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, ‘is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera the cholera germ.’ The…
False Dawn
To-night God knows what thing shall tide, The Earth is racked and faint Expectant, sleepless, open-eyed; And we, who from the Earth were made, Thrill…
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