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by Charles W. Chesnutt I The pianist had struck up a lively two-step, and soon the floor was covered with couples, each turning on its

His America by Susan Glaspell He hated to see the reporter go. With the closing of that door it seemed certain that there was no

by Bret Harte When the tide was out on the Dedlow Marsh, its extended dreariness was patent. Its spongy, low-lying surface, sluggish, inky pools, and

by L. Frank Baum Published in L. Frank Baum’s first children’s book, Mother Goose in Prose (1897), illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. You might also enjoy

by William Dean Howells I. The incident was of a dignity which the supernatural has by no means always had, and which has been more

by Rudyard Kipling Then a pile of heads be laid– Thirty thousand heaped on high–All to please the Kafir maid, Where the Oxus ripples by.

by Guy de Maupassant When M. Antoine Leuillet married the widow, Madame Mathilde Souris, he had already been in love with her for ten years.

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes It was nine o’clock at night upon the second of August–the most terrible August in

by Ralph Henry Barbour Tom Collins read again the inscription on the directory at the foot of the stairs: Room 36 City Editor and Reporters

by W. W. Jacobs Farmer Rose sat in his porch smoking an evening pipe. By his side, in a comfortable Windsor chair, sat his friend

His Masterpiece by Banjo Paterson Greenhide Billy was a stockman on a Clarence River cattle-station, and admittedly the biggest liar in the district. He had

by Rudyard Kipling “Where the word of a King is, there is power: And who may say unto him–What doest thou?” “Yeth! And Chimo to

by W. W. Jacobs “They’re as like as two peas, him and ‘is brother,” said the night- watchman, gazing blandly at the indignant face of

by Henry van Dyke Among the annals of the Petrine Club, which has for its motto the wise words of St. Peter, “I go a-fishing,”

His Smile by Susan Glaspell Laura stood across the street waiting for the people to come out from the picture-show. She couldn’t have said just

by H. P. Lovecraft Original title Al Azif — azif being the word used by Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d

by Rex Ellingwood Beach “The science of salesmanship is quite as exact as the science of astronomy,” said Mr. Gross, casting his eyes down the

by W.C. Morrow I was summoned from Calcutta to the heart of India to perform a difficult surgical operation on one of the women of

by Mark Twain The following I find in a Sandwich Island paper which some friend has sent me from that tranquil far-off retreat. The coincidence

by Rudyard Kipling Shakespeare says something about worms, or it may be giants or beetles, turning if you tread on them too severely. The safest

by Jack London In the course of my tramping I encountered hundreds of hoboes, whom I hailed or who hailed me, and with whom I

by Jack London Barring accidents, a good hobo, with youth and agility, can hold a train down despite all the efforts of the train-crew to

by O. Henry [Note. The man who told me these things was for several years an outlaw in the Southwest and a follower of the