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Heath's Modern Language Series

SPANISH
SHORT STORIES

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND
VOCABULARY

BY

ELIJAH CLARENCE HILLS, Ph.D. Litt.D.
Professor of Romance Languages in Colorado College

AND

LOUISE REINHARDT, A.M.

Instructor of Modern Languages in the Colorado Springs High School