| 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] |