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Bertie’s Christmas Eve by H.H. Munro (SAKI) It was Christmas Eve, and the family circle of Luke Steffink, Esq., was aglow with the amiability and…

The Night One midsummer night a farmer’s boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati was following a bridle path through a dense…

The Colonel’s Ideas by Guy de Maupassant “Upon my word,” said Colonel Laporte, “although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two…

There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of “C.…

“It isn’t everyone who’s been a god,” said the sunburnt man. “But it’s happened to me. Among other things.” I intimated my sense of his…

In the year 1861 Barr Lassiter, a young man of twenty-two, lived with his parents and an elder sister near Carthage, Tennessee. The family were…

There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold, and woven so that I…

To the south of where the road between Leesville and Hardy, in the State of Missouri, crosses the east fork of May Creek stands an…

There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold and woven so that I…

The Shepherd’s Treasure Chest (A Tale From Ancient Persia) Once upon a time, a Persian shepherd lived simply in a hillside cave. He owned nothing…

On the road leading north from Manchester, in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away, stood, in 1862, a wooden plantation house of somewhat better…

Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn by Mark Twain Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that, but I suppose there…