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Darkness Comes Into the World (A Tale From West Africa) Long ago, when the world was new, there was no darkness. The Supreme Being made…

I. They were doing their work very badly. They got the rope around his neck, and tied his wrists with moose-bush withes, but again he…

The Veteran by Stephen Crane Out of the low window could be seen three hickory trees placed irregularly in a meadow that was resplendent in…

The Log by Guy de Maupassant The drawing-room was small, full of heavy draperies and discreetly fragrant. A large fire burned in the grate and…

It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit. But it…

Public opinion had been triumphantly vindicated. The insanity plea had broken down, and Albert Prior was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until he…

My name is Leicester; my father, Major-General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in…

At five o’clock of the morning of the tenth of July, 1860, the front door of a certain house on Anchor Street, in the ancient…

The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake, to whose cool waters the inhabitants of Montreal and…

Every Rivermouth boy looks upon the sea as being in some way mixed up with his destiny. While he is yet a baby lying in…

Mule’s Mysterious Illness (A Tale From Spain) Once upon a time, a mule lived on a farm in Spain. He worked hard in the fields,…

King of the Beasts (A Nigerian Tale) Once upon a time, Lion was King of the Beasts. Every day he chased the other creatures for…