Bubbling Well Road
Look out on a large scale map the place where the Chenab river falls into the Indus fifteen miles or so above the hamlet of…
Literature
The Jilting Of Jane
As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the…
Maledun and the Wondrous Islands
Maledun and the Wondrous Islands (A Celtic Tale) Once long ago, in the days of the Druids, a baby was born and given to a…
A Holiday Task
A Holiday Task by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Kenelm Jerton entered the dining-hall of the Golden Galleon Hotel in the full crush of the luncheon hour.…
At The Pit’s Mouth
Men say it was a stolen tide The Lord that sent it He knows all, But in mine ear will aye abide The message that…
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe by O. Henry At midnight the cafe was crowded. By some chance, the little table at which I sat had…
The Empire Of The Ants
When Captain Gerilleau received instructions to take his new gunboat, the Benjamin Constant, to Badama on the Batemo arm of the Guaramadema and there assist…
The Golem
The Golem (A Jewish Tale) Rabbi Judah was a holy man who lived in peace in the city of Prague. As time passed, Rabbi Judah…
At Howli Thana
His own shoe, his own head. Native Proverb. As a messenger, if the heart of the Presence be moved to so great favor. And on…
The Sea Raiders
I. Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle…
The Scientific Ape
In a certain West Indian Isle, there stood a house and hard by a grove of trees. In the house there dwelt a vivisectionist, and…
The Arrogant Bride
The Arrogant Bride (A Story Told in East Africa) Once upon a time, there was a beautiful maiden who lived in a small village. She…
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