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The Blessed Goat (A Russian Tale) Once upon a time a poor old man and woman-owned a goat. They loved their goat as if he…

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-…

A School Story by M.R. James Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. ‘At our school,’ said A., ‘we had a…

In the department of but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and,…

The sun was just rising as the small tub-like steamer, or, to be more correct, steam-barge, the Bulldog, steamed past the sleeping town of Gravesend…

He loved. According to his passport, he was called Max Z. But as it was stated in the same passport that he had no special…

“I didn’t want to bring it,” said Captain Gubson, regarding somewhat unfavorably a grey parrot whose cage was hanging against the mainmast, “but my old…

I When Lazarus rose from the grave, after three days and nights in the mysterious thraldom of death, and returned alive to his home, it…

Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant from the village of Chelm traveled to Warsaw. When he returned home, he talked endlessly of his journey,…

I One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment…

The Nisse and the Christmas Pudding (A Tale From Norway) Some of you may have seen a Nisse. You would have recognized him if you…

A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers and escorted him to the…