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SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS
FOR USE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS
COMPILED AND ANNOTATED, WITH QUESTIONS FOR STUDY BY EMILIE KIP BAKER
[Illustration: Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A LEAF IN THE STORM, by Louise de la Ramee, from A Leaf in the Storm and Other Stories
CATS, by Maurice Hewlett, from Earthwork out of Tuscany
AN ADVENTURE, by Honore de Balzac, from A Passion in the Desert