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LiteratureA School Story Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. “At our school,” said A., “we had a ghost’s footmark on the staircase.” “What…
LiteratureThe Last Of The Troubadours Inexorably Sam Galloway saddled his pony. He was going away from the Rancho Altito at the end of a three-month visit. It is not to…
LiteratureThe Cask Of Amontillado A thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well…
LiteratureThe Farmer And The Badger Long, long ago, there lived an old farmer and his wife who had made their home in the mountains, far from any town. Their only…
LiteratureThe Striding-Place Weigall, continental and detached, tired early of grouse shooting. To stand propped against a sod fence while his host’s workmen routed up the birds with…
LiteratureThe Zigzag Railroad One day Gimme the Ax said to himself, “Today I go to the post office and around, looking around. Maybe I will hear about something…
LiteratureThe Room In The Tower It is probable that everybody who is at all a constant dreamer has had at least one experience of an event or a sequence of…
LiteratureThe Last Leaf In a little district west of Washington Square, the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called “places.” These “places” make strange…
LiteratureHuckleberry More than a hundred and sixty-eight years ago, there lived a curious personage called “Old Riddler.” His real name was unknown to the people in…