INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES

EDITED BY
WILLIAM PATTEN
A NEW COLLECTION OF
FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF ENGLAND, FRANCE
AND AMERICA

AMERICAN

P F COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1910
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON
The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has
been authorized in each case by their authors
or by their representatives.

AMERICAN STORIES

[THE PROPHETIC PICTURES] By Nathaniel Hawthorne
[THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW] By Washington Irving
[THE GOLD-BUG] By Edgar Allan Poe
[CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER]
(From "The Oak Openings") 		By J. Fenimore Cooper
[UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY] By Bret Harte
[THE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUX] By H. W. Longfellow
[THE WIDOW'S CRUISE] By F. R. Stockton
[THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING QUEST] By O. Henry
[MISS TOOKER'S WEDDING GIFT] By John Kendrick Bangs
[THE FABLE OF THE TWO MANDOLIN PLAYERS AND THE WILLING PERFORMER] By George Ade
[THE FABLE OF THE PREACHER WHO FLEW HIS KITE, BUT NOT BECAUSE HE WISHED TO DO SO] By George Ade
[THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL] By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
[MAJOR PERDUE'S BARGAIN] By Joel Chandler Harris
[A KENTUCKY CINDERELLA] By F. Hopkinson Smith
[BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE] By F. Marion Crawford
[A MEMORABLE NIGHT] By Anna Katharine Green
[THE MAN FROM RED DOG] By Alfred Henry Lewis
[JEAN MICHAUD'S LITTLE SHIP] By Charles G. D. Roberts
[THOSE OLD LUNES!] By W. Gilmore Simms
[THE CHIROPODIST] By Bayard Taylor
["MR. DOOLEY ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT"] By F. P. Dunne
[OVER A WOOD FIRE] Donald G. Mitchell--"Ik Marvel"