Arts

Medio Pollito (A Spanish Tale) Once upon a time, a Spanish hen hatched a clutch of eggs. Alas, the youngest chick was a strange creature,…

A country village wrapped in the darkness of night. One o’clock strikes from the belfry. Two lawyers, called Kozyavkin and Laev, both in the best…

I “He wouldn’t give a cent,” announced Mrs. Pottle, blotting up the nucleus of a tear on her cheek with the tip of her gloved…

The Chameleon and the Sea God (A Tale From West Africa) Once long ago, on an autumn day when the sun shimmered brightly in a…

I was standing on the bank of the River Goltva, waiting for the ferry-boat from the other side. At ordinary times the Goltva is a…

Hermann The Irascible by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The Story of the Great Weep – It was in the second decade of the Twentieth Century after…

My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight…

“Ambrose! Ambrose dear!” The new Mrs. Pottle put down the book she was reading Volume Dec to Erd of the encyclopedia. “Yes, Blossom dear.” Mr.…

For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconvenience. Vorotov became acutely conscious of it when, after taking his degree,…

The River Nixy (A German Tale) Long ago in Germany there lived a handsome young man named Peter and his lovely wife, Greta. One day…

Out of the bathtub, rubicund and rotund, stepped Mr. Ambrose Pottle. He anointed his hair with sweet spirits of lilac and dusted his anatomy with…

The Rabbi’s Rubles (A Jewish Folktale) Once upon a time, in a tiny Russian village, there lived a poor cobbler whose name was Abraham. He…