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Marion Eggelby sat talking to Clovis on the only subject that she ever willingly talked about her offspring and their varied perfections and accomplishments. Clovis…

Idleness, vice, and intemperance had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold and still amid her wretched children. She had fallen upon…

The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So A certain Preacher became wise to the Fact…

“Going to the Falls and to the White Mountains!” “Yes, I’m off next week.” “How long will you be absent?” “From ten days to two…

All things change except barbers, the ways of barbers, and the surroundings of barbers. These never change. What one experiences in a barber’s shop the…

Mr. Towers Chandler was pressing his evening suit in his hall bedroom. One iron was heating on a small gas stove; the other was being…

“Amy!” Mrs. Grove called from the door that opened towards the garden. But no answer came. The sun had set half an hour before, and…

I Lord Oakhurst lay dying in the oak chamber in the eastern wing of Oakhurst Castle. Through the open window in the calm of the…

I see from the current columns of the daily press that “Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicago, has just invented a highly concentrated form…

The Affair at Coulter’s Notch by Ambrose Bierce “Do you think, Colonel, that your brave Coulter would like to put one of his guns in here?”…

The night before Jesus was born; shepherds came into the town of Bethlehem to tell the people of a great gift that would soon come…

The Nice People by Henry Cuyler Bunner “They certainly are nice people,” I assented to my wife’s observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness…