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Various. International Short Stories: American
International Short Stories: American
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THE PROPHETIC PICTURES[1]
By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By WASHINGTON IRVING (FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER)
POSTSCRIPT. FOUND IN THE HANDWRITING OF MR. KNICKERBOCKER
THE GOLD-BUG
By EDGAR ALLAN POE
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER
By J. FENIMORE COOPER
UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY
By BRET HARTE
THE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUX
By H. W. LONGFELLOW
THE WIDOW'S CRUISE
By F. R. STOCKTON
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST
By O. HENRY
MISS TOOKER'S WEDDING GIFT
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
I
II
III
IV
THE FABLE OF THE TWO MANDOLIN PLAYERS. AND THE WILLING PERFORMER
By GEORGE ADE
THE FABLE OF THE PREACHER WHO FLEW HIS KITE, BUT NOT BECAUSE HE WISHED TO DO SO
By GEORGE ADE
THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL
By MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
MAJOR PERDUE'S BARGAIN
By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
A KENTUCKY CINDERELLA
By F. HOPKINSON SMITH
BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE
By F. MARION CRAWFORD
I
II
III
A MEMORABLE NIGHT
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
THE MAN FROM RED DOG
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
JEAN MICHAUD'S LITTLE SHIP
By CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
THOSE OLD LUNES! OR, WHICH IS THE MADMAN?
By W. GILMORE SIMMS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
THE CHIROPODIST
By BAYARD TAYLOR
PROFESSOR HURLBUT, Chiropodist. To her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the. Nobility of Great Britain
PROFESSOR HURLBUT, Chiropodist. To her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the. Nobility of Great Britain
"MR. DOOLEY ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT"
By F. P. DUNNE
OVER A WOOD FIRE
DONALD G. MITCHELL
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Various
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
The pedagogue's mouth watered as he looked upon this sumptuous promise of luxurious winter fare. In his devouring mind's eye, he pictured to himself every roasting pig running about, with a pudding in its belly and an apple in its mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey, but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
