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Maledun and the Wondrous Islands (A Celtic Tale) Once long ago, in the days of the Druids, a baby was born and given to a…

A Holiday Task by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Kenelm Jerton entered the dining-hall of the Golden Galleon Hotel in the full crush of the luncheon hour.…

Men say it was a stolen tide The Lord that sent it He knows all, But in mine ear will aye abide The message that…

A Cosmopolite in a Cafe by O. Henry At midnight the cafe was crowded. By some chance, the little table at which I sat had…

When Captain Gerilleau received instructions to take his new gunboat, the Benjamin Constant, to Badama on the Batemo arm of the Guaramadema and there assist…

The Golem (A Jewish Tale) Rabbi Judah was a holy man who lived in peace in the city of Prague. As time passed, Rabbi Judah…

His own shoe, his own head. Native Proverb. As a messenger, if the heart of the Presence be moved to so great favor. And on…

I. Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle…

In a certain West Indian Isle, there stood a house and hard by a grove of trees. In the house there dwelt a vivisectionist, and…

The Arrogant Bride (A Story Told in East Africa) Once upon a time, there was a beautiful maiden who lived in a small village. She…

The Ethnologist looked at the bhimraj feather thoughtfully. “They seemed loth to part with it,” he said. “It is sacred to the Chiefs,” said the…

All Over the Sky (A Tale of the Tsimshian) The Tsimshian believe that in the beginning, one chief ruled the sky. The chief had two…