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Marriage—Gogol[1]
At the Police Inspector’s—Gorbounòv[64]
Before the Justice of the Peace—Gorbounòv[69]
Incompatibility of Temper—A. N. Ostròvsky[72]
A Madman’s Diary—Gogol[107]
Porridge—Nikolai Uspènsky[135]
A Domestic Picture—A. N. Ostròvsky[142]
“La Traviata”—Gorbounòv[167]
A Seventeenth Century Letter from Ems—Gorbounòv[170]
The Village Schoolmaster—N. Uspènsky[174]
The Recollections of Onésime Chenapan—“Shchedrìn[185]
The Crocodile—Fèdor Dostoyèvsky[205]
The Steam-Chicken—Glyeb Uspènsky[236]
The Story of a Kopeck—S. Stepniak[254]
The Dog’s Passport[273]
A Trifling Defect in the Mechanism—Glyeb Uspènsky[276]
The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit—“Shchedrìn[309]
Choir Practice—V. A. Slyeptzòv[317]
The Eagle as Mecænas—“Shchedrìn[335]