The Story of the Great Weep It was in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, after the Great Plague…
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Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They…
When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of…
At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. Express. In one…
Two friends — one a fat man and the other a thin man — met at the Nikolaevsky station. The…
OME children were at play in their play-ground one day, when a herald rode through the town, blowing a trumpet,…
The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had…
ON HIS BENCH in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without seal-skin coats…
It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he…
An Algerian king named Bauakas wanted to find out whether or not it was true, as he had been told,…