Davy Crockett and the Wily Raccoon
Davy Crockett and the Wily Raccoon (An American Legend) There weren’t many men like Davy Crockett. As he said, “It’s the grit in a fellow…
Arts
Our New House
We spoke of it as our New House simply because we thought of it as such and not from any claim to the title, for…
The Sleeping Mountains
The Sleeping Mountains (A Tale From Mexico) Long ago King Papantco ruled the Toltec people. They lived in Mexico’s Courtyard of the Sun. King Papantco…
The Colonel And The Horse-Thief
Those marks on my arm? Oh! I got them playing horse-thief. Yes, playing. I wasn’t a real one, you know Well, I suppose it was…
The Troll’s Eye
The Troll’s Eye (A Norwegian Tale) Once upon a time three boys named Jon, Ole, and Tor lived with their mother at the edge of…
A Dream Of Red Hands
The first opinion given to me regarding Jacob Settle was a simple descriptive statement, ‘He’s a down-in-the-mouth chap’: but I found that it embodied the…
The Diary of a Madman
The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant He was dead–the head of a high tribunal, the upright magistrate whose irreproachable life was a…
The Thaw At Slisco’s
The storm broke at Salmon Lake, and we ran for Slisco’s road-house. It whipped out from the mountains, all tore into strips coming through the…
The Yarkand Manner
The Yarkand Manner by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Sir Lulworth Quayne was making leisurely progress through the Zoological Society’s Gardens in company with his nephew, recently…
Loss Of Breath
O Breathe not, etc. Moore’s Melodies The most notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy as the most stubborn…
The Shyness Of Shorty
Bailey smoked morosely as he scanned the dusty trail leading down across the “bottom” and away over the dry grey prairie toward the hazy mountains…
Old Ironsides
“Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in…
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