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by Stewart Edward White This happened at the time Billy Knapp drove stage between Pierre and Deadwood. I think you can still see the stage

by Leo Tolstoy translated by R. Nesbit Bain, 1902. Once upon a time, in the days long since gone by, there dwelt at Jerusalem two

by Charlotte M. Yonge B.C. 380 (CIRCA) Most of the best and noblest of the Greeks held what was called the Pythagorean philosophy. This was

by Ellis Parker Butler The house in Tenth Street where Philo Gubb was doing a job of paper-hanging when he made the happy error of

by Aesop Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm

by Mary Roberts Rinehart The chamber in which the sick woman lay was furnished with every thing that taste could desire or comfort demand. Yet,

by T.S. Arthur Chapter I “Jane, how can you tolerate that dull, spiritless creature? I never sat by his side for five minutes, without getting

The Two Volodyas by Anton Chekhov LET me; I want to drive myself! I’ll sit by the driver!” Sofya Lvovna said in a loud voice.

by Aesop Two Pots, one of brass and the other of clay, stood together on the hearthstone. One day the Brass Pot proposed to the

by Guy de Maupassant Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict

by Hans Christian Andersen IT was lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the haystacks piled up in

by Ellis Parker Butler Although Detective Gubb’s experience with the oubliette-elevator did not lead to the detection of the dynamiters for whom a reward of

The Umbrella Man by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman IT was an insolent day. There are days which, to imaginative minds, at least, possess strangely human

by Mark Twain “Now that corpse,” said the undertaker, patting the folded hands of deceased approvingly, was a brick-every way you took him he was

by Robert Barr The Monarch in the Arabian story had an ointment which, put upon the right eye, enabled him to see through the walls

by James Baldwin Among the soldiers of King Philip there was a poor man who had done some brave deeds. He had pleased the king

The Unexpected by Kate Chopin When Randall, for a brief absence, left his Dorothea, whom he was to marry after a time, the parting was

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The season of strikes seemed to have run itself to a standstill. Almost every trade and industry and calling in which

by James Baldwin Here is another story of the bat-tle-field, and it is much like the one which I have just told you. Not quite

by Guy de Maupassant We were speaking of adventures, and each one of us was relating his story of delightful experiences, surprising meetings, on the

by O. Henry The poet Longfellow–or was it Confucius, the inventor of wisdom?–remarked: “Life is real, life is earnest; And things are not what they

by Jack London It was in the year 1976 that the trouble between the world and China reached its culmination. It was because of this

by H. P. Lovecraft We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground

by O. Henry I am the richer by the acquaintance of four newspaper men. Singly, they are my encyclopedias, friends, mentors, and sometimes bankers. But