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Once upon a time in a Mayan village, twins were born to a hatmaker and his wife. The couple was overjoyed the day their sons…

Miss Posie Carrington had earned her success. She began life handicapped by the family name of “Boggs,” in the small town known as Cranberry Corners.…

One day the rabbi of Chelm fell terribly ill, and though he was the wisest man in the village, he could not cure himself. And…

The room in which John Shorely edited the Weekly Sponge was not luxuriously furnished, but it was comfortable. A few pictures decorated the walls, mostly…

Long ago, in the beginning of time, the world looked very different from the world we now know. Instead of earth, ocean and air, the…

It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea…

Long, long ago, in a time people have forgotten, the tides did not rush in and out the way they do today. Instead, the ocean…

Arras, blacksmith and armourer, stood at the door of his hut in the valley of the Alf, a league or so from the Moselle, one…

When the world was new, the Creator called to one of his mysterious creatures who was known as Wisakachak. “I have given you great powers,”…

Me and old Mack Lonsbury, we got out of that Little Hide-and-Seek gold mine affair with about $40,000 apiece. I say “old” Mack; but he…

We are to consider the shade known as purple. It is a color justly in repute among the sons and daughters of man. Emperors claim…

Once upon a time three animals a goat, a pig, and a horse -ran away from their cruel master and set off into the world.…