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Red Hanrahan’s Curse by William Butler Yeats One fine May morning a long time after Hanrahan had left Margaret Rooney’s house, he was walking the

Red Hanrahan by William Butler Yeats Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) I did it–I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops’ garden-party against his will. We

by Arthur Quiller-Couch [August, 1644. The Story is told by Ralph Medhope, Captain of the Twenty-second (or Gray-coat) Troop of Horse in the Parliament Army,

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “A most variable climate,” said the Duchess; “and how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a

by Jerome K. Jerome The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “After all,” said the Duchess vaguely, “there are certain things you can’t get away from. Right and wrong, good conduct and

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess’s salon and tried to forgive the furniture, which started out with an obvious

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) H.H. Munro, aka SAKI’s Reginald on Christmas Presents (1904) really is an hilarious tribute to relatives who are clueless gift-givers. Not

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) There was once (said Reginald) a woman who told the truth. Not all at once, of course, but the habit grew

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The drawback is, one never really knows one’s hosts and hostesses. One gets to know their fox-terriers and their chrysanthemums, and

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) I’m not going to discuss the Fiscal Question (said Reginald); I wish to be original. At the same time, I think

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) I have (said Reginald) an aunt who worries. She’s not really an aunt–a sort of amateur one, and they aren’t really

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “One goes to the Academy in self-defence,” said Reginald. “It is the one topic one has in common with the Country

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) H.H. Munro’s (aka SAKI’s) Reginald’s Christmas Revel is a remembrance of Reginald’s eventful Christmas with the Babwolds. Munro’s wit is uncanny,

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “Never,” wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, “be a pioneer. It’s the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.” Reginald,

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Reginald’s Peace Poem is reminiscent of nonsense words in Lewis Carroll or Dr. Seuss’s rhyming verses. Turns out an “assvogel” is

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Reginald closed his eyes with the elaborate weariness of one who has rather nice eyelashes and thinks it useless to conceal

by Guy de Maupassant Monsieur Saval, who was called in Mantes “Father Saval,” had just risen from bed. He was weeping. It was a dull

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The other day (confided Reginald), when I was killing time in the bathroom and making bad resolutions for the New Year,

by Rudyard Kipling (1917) _Regulus, a Roman general, defeated the Carthaginians 256 B.C., but was next year defeated and taken prisoner by the Carthaginians, who

by Anthony Trollope It is generally supposed that people who live at home,–good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the

by Rudyard Kipling Hans Breitmann paddled across the deck in his pink pyjamas, a cup of tea in one hand and a cheroot in the

by T.S. Arthur It is a little singular–yet certainly true–that people who are very tenacious of their own rights, and prompt in maintaining them, usually