Science in the Detection of Crime – a Story
Science in the Detection of Crime – a Story Much to his housekeeper’s disgust, the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes carried out scientific experiments in…
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The Merino Sheep
People have got the impression that the merino is a gentle, bleating animal that gets its living without trouble to anybody, and comes up every…
Turkeys Turning The Tables
“Well, you see,” the papa began, on Christmas morning, when the little girl had snuggled in his lap into just the right shape for listening,…
The Very Old Folk
It was a flaming sunset or late afternoon in the tiny provincial town of Pompelo, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Hispania Citerior. The…
The Night After Christmas
It was the night after Christmas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring excepting a mouse. The stockings were flung in haste…
The Tree
On a verdant slope of Mount Maenalus, in Arcadia, there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. Close by is a tomb,…
The Tailor Of Gloucester
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets when gentlemen wore ruffles and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta there…
The Tomb
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create…
Goody Two Shoes
In the reign of good Queen Bess, there was an honest, industrious countryman named Meanwell, who, living under a hard landlord, was cruelly turned out…
The Thing On The Doorstep
I It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this…
The Terrible Old Man
It was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man. This old man dwells all…
The Coming Of The King
Once, children were at play in their play-ground one day, when a herald rode through the town, blowing a trumpet, and crying aloud, “The King!…
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