When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of…
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At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. Express. In one…
Two friends — one a fat man and the other a thin man — met at the Nikolaevsky station. The…
OME children were at play in their play-ground one day, when a herald rode through the town, blowing a trumpet,…
The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had…
ON HIS BENCH in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without seal-skin coats…
It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he…
An Algerian king named Bauakas wanted to find out whether or not it was true, as he had been told,…
The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of…
NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free.…