A man called on me the other day with the idea of insuring my life. Now, I detest life-insurance agents;…
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ALONG ALL THE ROADS around Goderville the peasants and their wives were coming toward the burgh because it was market…
There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold,…
GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.…
[Written about 1867.] At that time, in Kentucky (said the Hon. Mr. K—–); the law was very strict against what…
LEGISLATION NEEDED This country, during the last thirty or forty years, has produced some of the most remarkable cases of…
Book signings are usually predictable. A few kind words, a signature, maybe a short conversation before the next reader steps…
We rubber plants form the connecting link between the vegetable kingdom and the decorations of a Waldorf-Astoria scene in a…
I stated it as definitely as I could. I was in a room with them. They had tongues like me,…
Some years ago, when I was the Editor of a Correspondence Column, I used to receive heart-broken letters from young…