The Lady or the Tiger, Frank R. Stockton.

The Strange Ride, Rudyard Kipling.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling.

They, Rudyard Kipling.

The Twelfth Guest, Mary Wilkins Freeman.

The Shadows on the Wall, Mary Wilkins Freeman.

ETHAN BRAND[1]

A Chapter From An Abortive Romance

By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Bartram the lime-burner, a rough, heavy-looking man, begrimed with charcoal, sat watching his kiln, at nightfall, while his little son played at building houses with the scattered fragments of marble, when, on the hillside below them, they heard a roar of laughter, not mirthful, but slow, and even solemn, like a wind shaking the boughs of the forest.