Bertie’s Christmas Eve
Bertie’s Christmas Eve by H.H. Munro (SAKI) It was Christmas Eve, and the family circle of Luke Steffink, Esq., was aglow with the amiability and…
Arts
The Suitable Surroundings
The Night One midsummer night a farmer’s boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati was following a bridle path through a dense…
The Colonel’s Ideas
The Colonel’s Ideas by Guy de Maupassant “Upon my word,” said Colonel Laporte, “although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two…
The Crystal Egg
There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of “C.…
Transients in Arcadia
Transients in Arcadia by O. Henry There is a hotel on Broadway that has escaped discovery by the summer-resort promoters. It is deep and wide…
Jimmy Goggles The God
“It isn’t everyone who’s been a god,” said the sunburnt man. “But it’s happened to me. Among other things.” I intimated my sense of his…
Three And One Are One
In the year 1861 Barr Lassiter, a young man of twenty-two, lived with his parents and an elder sister near Carthage, Tennessee. The family were…
The Beautiful Suit
There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold, and woven so that I…
The Thing At Nolan
To the south of where the road between Leesville and Hardy, in the State of Missouri, crosses the east fork of May Creek stands an…
A Moonlight Fable
There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold and woven so that I…
The Shepherd’s Treasure Chest
The Shepherd’s Treasure Chest (A Tale From Ancient Persia) Once upon a time, a Persian shepherd lived simply in a hillside cave. He owned nothing…
The Spook House
On the road leading north from Manchester, in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away, stood, in 1862, a wooden plantation house of somewhat better…
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