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In the year 1815 all the great heads of Europe were gathered in Vienna: the continent’s brightest minds and most brilliant diplomats. Our tale begins…

Anansi Meets the Queen (A Tale From the Caribbean) Everyone knows Anansi, half-man, half spider. Everyone knows Anansi always plays tricks. Everyone knows Tiger did…

The Child’s Story by Charles Dickens Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveler, and he set out upon a…

On his way down-town Phillips stopped at a Subway news-stand and bought all the morning papers. He acknowledged that he was vastly excited. As he…

Esme by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “All hunting stories are the same,” said Clovis; “just as all Turf stories are the same, and all–” “My hunting…

Besides the departmental men on the New York Vulture, there were about twenty reporters for general duty, and Williams had worked his way up till…

It had snowed during the night, but toward morning it had grown cold; now the sled-runners complained and the load dragged heavily. Folsom, who had…

A Father’s Day Dream “There are Falcons and Ravens, Cardinals and Eagles,” Boy said to brother Bear while out biking. “But I don’t mean birds,…

Born 1816. Died 1855. The authoress of “Jane Eyre” and other works is, as she calls herself (August 1850), undeveloped then, and more than half…

Why he chose Buffalo Paul Anderson never knew, unless perhaps it had more newspapers than Bay City, Michigan, and because his ticket expired in the…

Big George was drinking, and the activities of the little Arctic mining camp were paralysed. Events invariably ceased their progress and marked time when George…

Davy Crockett and the Wily Raccoon (An American Legend) There weren’t many men like Davy Crockett. As he said, “It’s the grit in a fellow…