A Fine Old Man.......Mark Twain 01

The Patient Cat.......Laura E. Richards 04

Advice to Little Girls.......Mark Twain 07

Ripe Figs.......Kate Chopin 10

The Story of an Hour.......Kate Chopin 13

A Letter From Santa Claus.......Mark Twain 18

Araby.......James Joyce 22

A Dark Brown Dog.......Stephen Crane 29

The Interlopers.......SAKI 37

The Fly.......Katherine Mansfield 45

The Open Boat.......Stephen Crane 52

Desiree's Baby.......Kate Chopin 76

The Minister's Black Veil.......Nathaniel Hawthorne 83

The Nightingale and the Rose.......Oscar Wilde 97

A New England Nun.......Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 105

The Cat.......Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 118

The Father.......Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson 127

The Shed Chamber.......Laura E. Richards 132

A Journey.......Edith Wharton 141

The Dead.......James Joyce 154

At Twilight.......Susan Glaspell 194

Senility.......Sherwood Anderson 206

About Barbers.......Mark Twain 210

Night Sketches: Bneath an Umbrella.......Nathaniel Hawthorne 216

A Strange Story.......O. Henry 223

The Snake.......Stephen Crane 226

A Recollection.......Guy de Maupassant 231

The Dumb Man.......Sherwood Anderson 239

Reginald.......SAKI 242

The Wind Blows.......Katherine Mansfield 247

Between Rounds.......O. Henry 253

The Coming of the King.......Laura E. Richards 260

Discovery.......Guy de Maupassant 263

The Pot of Gold.......Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 268

The Verdict.......Edith Wharton 278

A Young Turkish Catastrophe.......SAKI 289

Humiliation.......Guy de Maupassant 293

A Newspaper Story.......O. Henry 300

How to Live to be 200.......Stephen Leacock 305

Clay.......James Joyce 310

The Thing at Nolan.......Ambrose Bierce 317

The New Leaf.......Laura E. Richards 323

A Service of Love.......O. Henry 327

A New Pathology.......Stephen Leacock 334