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Godfather Death (A Tale Told All Over Europe) Once upon a time a poor woodcutter and his wife had 12 children. When the 13th child…

The utter loneliness of our moose-camp on Skeleton Lake had impressed us from the beginning in the Quebec backwoods, five days by trail and canoe…

The Way to the Dairy by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The Baroness and Clovis sat in a much-frequented corner of the Park exchanging biographical confidences about…

There was a man who lived in the world for seventy years, and all that time he lived a life of sin. And this man…

Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes,…

A gray hare lived during the winter near a village. When night came, he would prick up one ear and listen, then he would prick…

Now talk we of graves and goblins! Fit themes, start not! gentle reader, fit for a ghost-like me. Yes; though an earth-clogged fancy is laboring…

We were out on a bear-hunting expedition. My comrade had shot at a bear but only gave him a flesh-wound. There were traces of blood…

1st Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr. I am the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health with many other…

Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.…

Men were placed at the water-pumps, the oxygen containers, air-purifiers, and vdistilling machinery, and the vhatchways were thoroughly examined; the gunners took their posts at…

The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain The conversation drifted smoothly and pleasantly along from weather to crops, from crops to literature, from…