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A Defensive Diamond by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Treddleford sat in an easeful arm-chair in front of a slumberous fire, with a volume of verse in…

The man whose story is here to be told was the wealthiest and most influential person in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas. He…

The Wolves of Cernogatz by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “Are they any old legends attached to the castle?” asked Conrad of his sister. Conrad was a…

The Tengu’s Lesson (A Japanese Legend) Once upon a time, a young man lived in a mountainous Japanese village. Many tengus — the minor deities…

When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she hurriedly…

The Banana Tree Game (A Story From Brazil) Once upon a time, an old woman lived in the middle of a marvelous garden. She loved…

Marco’s Friendship (A Tale From Italy) Once upon a time, a poor boy named Marco came upon a rocky cavern in the hills beyond his…

It really was most unfortunate. Peggy had a temperature of nearly a hundred, and a pain in her side, and Mrs. Workington Bancroft knew that…

There lived last century, in one of the high-lying inland valleys of Norway, a fiddler, who has become in some degree a legendary personage. Of…

His name, sir, was Matthew Price; mine is Benjamin Hardy. We were born within a few days of each other; bred up in the same…

A few years ago, no matter how many, I, Harcourt Blunt, was travelling with my friend Coventry Turnour, and it was on the steps of…

I A certain man, named Hari-Sarman, who lived in a little village in India, where there were no rich people and everyone had to work…