BY SARA CONE BRYANT
To My Mother THE FIRST, BEST STORY-TELLER THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED
PREFACE
The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part
those w...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translator, Clara Bell
THE ATHEIST'S MASS
Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical
physiology, and who, while still young, ma...
By Owen Wister
The Jimmyjohn Boss
I
One day at Nampa, which is in Idaho, a ruddy old massive jovial man
stood by the Silver City stage, patting his beard with his left hand,
and wi...
by STEWART EDWARD WHITE
CHAPTER ONE THE OLE VIRGINIA
The ring around the sun had thickened all day long, and the turquoise
blue of the Arizona sky had filmed. Storms in the dry cou...