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Frank Richard Stockton. A Chosen Few: Short Stories
A Chosen Few: Short Stories
Table of Contents
PREFACE
A TALE OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY
ASAPH
“HIS WIFE’S DECEASED SISTER”
THE LADY, OR THE TIGER?
THE REMARKABLE WRECK OF THE “THOMAS HYKE”
OLD PIPES AND THE DRYAD
THE TRANSFERRED GHOST
“THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELATIVE EXISTENCES”
A PIECE OF RED CALICO
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Frank Richard Stockton
Published by Good Press, 2019
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As this thought was passing through my mind I saw a spark of light upon the street approaching me. I rightly imagined that it came from a tobacco-pipe, and presently I heard a voice. It was that of the Alpine Club man. Of all people in the world I did not want him to discover me, and I hung as motionless as possible. The man was speaking to another person who was walking with him.
“He is crazy beyond a doubt,” said the Alpine man. “Nobody but a maniac could have gone up and down that mountain as he did! He hasn’t any muscles, and one need only look at him to know that he couldn’t do any climbing in a natural way. It is only the excitement of insanity that gives him strength.”
