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They say that the lumberman has looked upon the Cheat Mountain country and seen that it is good, and I hear that some wealthy gentlemen…

The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde One afternoon I was sitting outside the Cafe de la Paix, watching the splendor and shabbiness of…

San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments.…

Jimmy Scarecrow’s Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Jimmy Scarecrow led a sad life in the winter. Jimmy’s greatest grief was his lack of occupation.…

My name is Boffer Bings. I was born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life, my father being a manufacturer of…

Sitka Charley had achieved the impossible. Other Indians might have known as much of the wisdom of the trail as he did; but he alone…

I Once when the northland was very young, the social and civic virtues were remarkably alike for their paucity and their simplicity. When the burden…

The fighting had been hard and continuous; that was attested by all the senses. The very taste of battle was in the air. All was…

In connection with this subject of “mysterious disappearance” of which every memory is stored with abundant example it is pertinent to note the belief of…

One day the mother of a little girl named Lily suddenly died. Her father remarried, but Lily’s stepmother was as unkind as could be. The…

“Can any man a gentleman, I mean call a woman a pig?” The little man flung this challenge forth to the whole group, then leaned…

Counting Stars (A Tale From Italy) Once upon a time there lived a monk whose every prayer always seemed to be answered, no matter what…