The Butterfly That Stamped
Literature

The Butterfly That Stamped

This, O my Best Beloved is a story a new and a wonderful story a story quite different from the other stories a story about…
My Own True Ghost Story
Literature

My Own True Ghost Story

As I came through the Desert thus it was As I came through the Desert. The City of Dreadful Night. Somewhere in the Other World,…
How The Alphabet Was Made
Literature

How The Alphabet Was Made

The week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and…
Through A Window
Literature

Through A Window

After his legs were set, they carried Bailey into the study and put him on a couch before the open window. There he lay, a…
By Word Of Mouth
Literature

By Word Of Mouth

Not though you die to-night, O Sweet, and wail, A spectre at my door, Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail I shall but love…
The Treasure In The Forest
Literature

The Treasure In The Forest

The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little…
Cupid’s Arrows
Literature

Cupid’s Arrows

Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide, By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; Log in the reh-grass, hidden and alone; Bund where…
The Valley Of Spiders
Literature

The Valley Of Spiders

Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The…
The Stolen Bacillus
Literature

The Stolen Bacillus

‘This again,’ said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, ‘is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera the cholera germ.’ The…
False Dawn
Literature

False Dawn

To-night God knows what thing shall tide, The Earth is racked and faint Expectant, sleepless, open-eyed; And we, who from the Earth were made, Thrill…
Bubbling Well Road
Literature

Bubbling Well Road

Look out on a large scale map the place where the Chenab river falls into the Indus fifteen miles or so above the hamlet of…
The Jilting Of Jane
Literature

The Jilting Of Jane

As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the…
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