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The brightest and most delightful pages that have ever been written.

Short stories, humor, adventure, and fun.

SHORT STORIES

Aldrich: "Père Antoine's Date Palm."

Balzac: "The Purse."

Barrie: "Lads and Lassies."

Björnson: "The Railroad and the Churchyard."

Boccaccio: "The Story of Constantia," "The Story of Federigo and the Falcon."

Brown: "Rab and his Friends."

Collins: "A Terribly Strange Bed."

Crawford: "The Upper Berth."

Eliot: "Brother Jacob."

Hale: "The Man Without a Country."

Hardy: "The Three Strangers."

Harte: "Tennessee's Partner."

Hawthorne: "The Snow-Image."

Irving: "Rip Van Winkle."

Japanese Literature: "The Forty-Seven Rônins."

Kipling: "The Man Who Would Be King."

Macleod: "The Washer of the Ford."

Maupassant: "The Piece of String."

Meredith: "The Story of Noorna Bin Noorka, the Genie Karaz, and the Princess of Oolb," "The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder."

Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado."

Sterne: "The Story of Le Fevre."

Stevenson: "A Lodging for the Night."

Tolstoi: "Where Love is, There God is Also."

FAIRY TALES

Andersen: "The Hardy Tin Soldier," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Old Street Lamp."

Apuleius: "The Story of Cupid and Psyche."

Arabian Nights: "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers," "Abon-Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened," "The Story of the Three Apples."

Fouqué: "Undine."

Grimm: "Cinderella," "Hansel and Grethel," "The Two Brothers."

Perrault: "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Blue Beard," "Puss in Boots."

Russian Literature: "The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise."

HUMOR

Barham: "The Knight and the Lady."

Browne: "The Showman's Courtship."

Carroll: "A Mad Tea-Party," "The White Knight," "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "Jabberwocky."

Cowper: "The Diverting History of John Gilpin."

Gilbert: "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell."

Harris: "Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman."

Harte: "Plain Language from Truthful James."

Hood: "Faithless Sally Brown."

Hope: "The House Opposite."

Jerrold: "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures."

Lamb: "A Dissertation on Roast Pig."

Lowell: "The Courtin'."

Raspe: "Baron Münchhausen."

Sterne: "A Sentimental Journey."

ADVENTURE

Audubon: "Hospitality in the Woods."

Carlyle: "The Fall of the Bastille."

Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Froude: "A Cagliostro of the Second Century."

Hay: "Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle."

Hearn: "In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts."

Heine: "Travel-Pictures."

Kinglake: "Eothen."

Mandeville: "Travels."

Melville: "Typee."

Polo: "Travels."

Stevenson: "A Night among the Pines."