Copyright, 1915, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
CONTENTS
| PAGE |
| Preface | [vii] |
| Introduction |
| Requirements of the Short Story | [xi] |
| How This Book May Be Used | [xviii] |
| The First Christmas-Tree | Henry van Dyke | [1] |
| A French Tar-Baby | Joel Chandler Harris | [27] |
| Sonny’s Christenin’ | Ruth McEnery Stuart | [35] |
| Christmas Night with Satan | John Fox, Jr. | [51] |
| A Nest-Egg | James Whitcomb Riley | [67] |
| Wee Willie Winkle | Rudyard Kipling | [79] |
| The Gold Bug | Edgar Allan Poe | [95] |
| The Ransom of Red Chief | O. Henry | [143] |
| The Freshman Full-Back | Ralph D. Paine | [159] |
| Gallegher | Richard Harding Davis | [181] |
| The Jumping Frog | Mark Twain | [221] |
| The Lady or the Tiger? | Frank R. Stockton | [231] |
| The Outcasts of Poker Flat | Francis Bret Harte | [243] |
| The Revolt of Mother | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | [259] |
| Marse Chan | Thomas Nelson Page | [283] |
| “Posson Jone’” | George W. Cable | [315] |
| Our Aromatic Uncle | Henry Cuyler Bunner | [341] |
| Quality | John Galsworthy | [361] |
| The Triumph of Night | Edith Wharton | [373] |
| A Messenger | Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews | [407] |
| Markheim | Robert Louis Stevenson | [431] |