The Clever King Once upon a time, a boy named Lars lived with his sister. She worked all day long, cooking and cleaning and harvesting the fields. Lars…
A Madison Square Arabian Night To Carson Chalmers, in his apartment near the square, Phillips brought the evening mail. Beside the routine correspondence there were two items bearing the same…
A Little Talk About Mobs “I see,” remarked the tall gentleman in the frock coat and black slouch hat, “that another street car motorman in your city has narrowly excaped…
A Little Local Color I mentioned to Rivington that I was in search of characteristic New York scenes and incidents something typical, I told him, without necessarily having to…
A Lickpenny Lover There, were 3,000 girls in the Biggest Store. Masie was one of them. She was eighteen and a saleslady in the gents’ gloves. Here she…
Four Men In A Cave The moon rested for a moment on the top of a tall pine on a hill. The little man was standing in front of the…
A Tent In Agony A Sullivan County Tale Four men once came to a wet place in the roadless forest to fish. They pitched their tent fair upon the…
The Frog And His Wives Once there lived a Frog who had two wives. His first wife lived in Dumbi and the second wife lived in Dala. He himself lived…
Vanity And Some Sables When “Kid” Brady was sent to the rope by Molly McKeever’s blue-black eyes he withdrew from the Stovepipe Gang. So much for the power of…
Ulysses And The Dogman Do you know the time of the dogmen? When the forefinger of twilight begins to smudge the clear-drawn lines of the Big City there is…
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home…
The Boy Who Went To The Sun Once upon a time, a young boy was raised by his mother. One day, the boy said to his mother, “Tell me who my father…