CONTENTS

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Preface[iii]
Introduction
IOur National Reading[vii]
IIThe Definition[vii]
IIIThe Family Tree of the Short Story[ix]
IVA Good Story[xi]
VWhat Shall I Do with This Book?[xiii]
VIWhere to Find Some Good Short Stories[xv]
VIISome Interesting Short Stories[xvi]
VIIIWhat to Read about the Short Story[xix]
The Adventures of Simon and Susanna — Joel Chandler Harris From “Daddy Jake and the Runaways.”[3]
The Crow-Child — Mary Mapes Dodge From “The Land of Pluck.”[9]
The Soul of the Great Bell — Lafcadio Hearn From “Some Chinese Ghosts.”[17]
The Ten Trails — Ernest Thompson Seton From “Woodmyth and Fable.”[22]
Where Love is, There God is Also — Count Leo Tolstoi From “Tales and Parables.”[23]
Wood-Ladies — Perceval Gibbon From “Scribner’s Magazine.”[38]
On the Fever Ship — Richard Harding Davis From “The Lion and the Unicorn.”[53]
A Source of Irritation — Stacy Aumonier From “The Century Magazine.”[69]
Moti Guj—Mutineer — Rudyard Kipling From “Plain Tales from the Hills.”[84]
Gulliver the Great — Walter A. Dyer From “Gulliver the Great and Other Stories.”[92]
Sonny’s Schoolin’ — Ruth McEnery Stuart From “Sonny, a Christmas Guest.”[105]
Her First Horse Show — David Gray From “Gallops 2.”[117]
My Husband’s Book — James Matthew Barrie From “Two of Them.”[135]
War — Jack London From “The Night-Born.”[141]
The Battle of the Monsters — Morgan Robertson From “Where Angels Fear to Tread.”[147]
A Dilemma — S. Weir Mitchell From “Little Stories.”[160]
The Red-Headed League — A. Conan Doyle From “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.”[166]
One Hundred in the Dark — Owen Johnson From “Murder in Any Degree.”[192]
A Retrieved Reformation — O. Henry From “Roads of Destiny.”[212]
Brother Leo — Phyllis Bottome From “The Derelict and Other Stories.”[221]
A Fight with Death — Ian Maclaren From “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush.”[238]
The Dàn-nan-Ròn — Fiona Macleod From “The Dominion of Dreams, Under the Dark Star.”[248]
Notes and Comments[275]
Suggestive Questions for Class Use[296]