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After a day of unusual anxiety and fatigue, Dr. Elton found himself snugly wrapped up in a liberal quantity of blankets and bed-quilts, just as…

The Fairy Stones of Carnac (A Tale From Brittany) One Christmas Eve, a group of animals were gathered together in their farmer’s barn in Carnac.…

NATALYA MIHALOVNA, a young married lady who had arrived in the morning from Yalta, was having her dinner, and in a never-ceasing flow of babble…

The Open Window by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; “in the…

It was the benefit night of Fenogenov, the tragic actor. They were acting “Prince Serebryany.” The tragedian himself was playing Vyazemsky; Limonadov, the stage manager,…

Witches’ Loaves by O. Henry Miss Martha Meacham kept the little bakery on the corner (the one where you go up three steps, and the…

When it became generally known in Townsend Centre that the Townsends were going to move to the city, there was great excitement and dismay. For…

A Vine on a House by Ambrose Bierce About three miles from the little town of Norton, in Missouri, on the road leading to Maysville,…

PAVEL ILYITCH RASHEVITCH walked up and down, stepping softly on the floor covered with little Russian plaids, and casting a long shadow on the wall…

Bright Sun and Pale Moon (A Tale From West Africa) Long ago, in the earliest days of the world, Sun and Moon were the best…

The Flower family lived in a little house in a broad grassy meadow, which sloped a few rods from their front door down to a…

On the red velvet seat of a first-class railway carriage a pretty lady sits half reclining. An expensive fluffy fan trembles in her tightly closed…