Chapter IV: A Good Story xi

V What Shall I Do with This Book? xiii

VI Where to Find Some Good Short xv
Stories

VII Some Interesting Short Stories xvi

VIII What to Read about the Short Story xix

THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA — 3
_Joel Chandler Harris_ From “Daddy
Jake and the Runaways.”

THE CROW-CHILD — _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 9
From “The Land of Pluck.”

THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL — _Lafcadio 17
Hearn_ From “Some Chinese Ghosts.”

THE TEN TRAILS — _Ernest Thompson Seton_ 22
From “Woodmyth and Fable.”

WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO — 23
_Count Leo Tolstoi_ From “Tales and
Parables.”

WOOD-LADIES — _Perceval Gibbon_ From 38
“Scribner’s Magazine.”

ON THE FEVER SHIP — _Richard Harding 53
Davis_ From “The Lion and the
Unicorn.”

A SOURCE OF IRRITATION — _Stacy 69
Aumonier_ From “The Century Magazine.”

MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER — _Rudyard Kipling_ 84
From “Plain Tales from the Hills.”

GULLIVER THE GREAT — _Walter A. Dyer_ 92
From “Gulliver the Great and Other
Stories.”

SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ — _Ruth McEnery 105
Stuart_ From “Sonny, a Christmas
Guest.”

HER FIRST HORSE SHOW — _David Gray_ From 117
“Gallops 2.”

MY HUSBAND’S BOOK — _James Matthew 135
Barrie_ From “Two of Them.”

WAR — _Jack London_ From “The 141
Night-Born.”

THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS — _Morgan 147
Robertson_ From “Where Angels Fear to
Tread.”

A DILEMMA — _S. Weir Mitchell_ From 160
“Little Stories.”

THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE — _A. Conan Doyle_ 166
From “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.”

ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK — _Owen Johnson_ 192
From “Murder in Any Degree.”

A RETRIEVED REFORMATION — _O. Henry_ 212
From “Roads of Destiny.”

BROTHER LEO — _Phyllis Bottome_ From 221
“The Derelict and Other Stories.”

A FIGHT WITH DEATH — _Ian Maclaren_ 238
From “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush.”

THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN — _Fiona Macleod_ From 248
“The Dominion of Dreams, Under the
Dark Star.”

NOTES AND COMMENTS 275

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS USE 296

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