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Down the road, kicking up the dust until he marched, soldier-wise, in a cloud of it, that rose and grimed his moist face and added…

It was six or seven years ago when I was living in one of the districts of the province of ‘T’, on the estate of…

Sam Maddox’s house was like a glaring blot on the tidy New England landscape, for the very landscape had been made to bear evidence to…

Shtchiptsov, the “heavy father” and “good-hearted simpleton,” a tall and thick-set old man, not so much distinguished by his talents as an actor as by…

The Romance of a Busy Broker by O. Henry Pitcher, a confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild…

The Buffalo of Dreams (A Tale From Southern China) Long ago, in a lush valley in southern China, a young man named Chen Swee lived…

The Woman and Her Bear (An Inuit Legend) Long ago in the far north, there lived a village of people known as Inuit. They lived…

GROHOLSKY embraced Liza, kept kissing one after another all her little fingers with their bitten pink nails, and laid her on the couch covered with…

MISS JANE CAREW was at the railroad station waiting for the New York train. She was about to visit her friend, Mrs. Viola Longstreet. With…

The Rhyming Pigs (An English Tale) Once, long ago, pigs spoke in rhyme And their sweet pig language was oh so sublime, And hens strutted…

NADYA ZELENIN had just come back with her mamma from the theatre where she had seen a performance of “Yevgeny Onyegin.” As soon as she…

A Child’s Biography by Mark Twain John Clemens, Samuel’s father, was a farmer, merchant, and postmaster in a Missouri town, called Florida. His wife, Jane…