| 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 |
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