Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools
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They all stood round and laughed at him
A BOOK FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
FREDERICK HOUK LAW, Ph.D.
Lecturer in English in New York University, and Head of
the Department of English in the Stuyvesant
High School, New York City
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1921
Copyright, 1918, by
Unknown
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MODERN SHORT STORIES
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
II
II
CRITICAL COMMENT
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS USE
THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA
THE CROW CHILD
THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL
THE TEN TRAILS
WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO
WOOD LADIES
ON THE FEVER SHIP
A SOURCE OF IRRITATION
MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER
GULLIVER THE GREAT
SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’
HER FIRST HORSE SHOW
MY HUSBAND’S BOOK
WAR
THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS
A DILEMMA
THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK
A RETRIEVED REFORMATION
BROTHER LEO
A FIGHT WITH DEATH
THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN
