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Federigo’s Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio There was once in Florence a young man named Federigo, the son of Messer Filippo Alberighi, renowned above all other…

I The High Street consists of two rows of one-storeyed hovels, squeezed close one against another; old hovels with leaning walls and crooked windows, with…

The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and…

Once in the autumn I happened to be in a very unpleasant and inconvenient position. In the town where I had just arrived and where…

I. The Purple Emperor watched me in silence. I cast again, spinning out six feet more of waterproof silk, and, as the line hissed through…

One day in autumn on my way back from a remote part of the country I caught cold and fell ill. Fortunately, the fever attacked…

“One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o’er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can…

An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler who had obtained permission to…

The Serpent’s Island (A Tale From Egypt) Long ago, during a time of peace in Egypt, many explorers journeyed in search of treasures. Ship captains…

The King of Compassion (A Tale From India) Once upon a time, there was a great king who ruled his people with generosity and kindness.…

The Notary of Perigueux by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow You must know, gentlemen, that there lived some years ago, in the city of Périgueux, an honest…

“Prisoner, what is your name?” “As I am to lose it at daylight to-morrow morning it is hardly worth while concealing it. Parker Adderson.” “Your…