“Mother,” remarked Farmer Banning, discontentedly, “Susie is making a long visit.” “She is coming home next week,” said ... Read more
Domestic Fiction Short Stories
Total Stories: 72
Chapter I. Its Discovery Jeff, the hero of my tale, was as truly a part of the Southern ... Read more
An Autobiography Two or three years ago the editor of “Lippincott’s Magazine” asked me, with many others, to ... Read more
“Jack, she played with me deliberately, heartlessly. I can never forgive her.” “In that case, Will, I congratulate ... Read more
The August morning was bright and fair, but Herbert Scofield’s brow was clouded. He had wandered off to ... Read more
Dear Merrys:–As a subject appropriate to the season, I want to tell you about a New Year’s breakfast ... Read more
Up the dark stairs that led to his poor home strode a gloomy-faced young man with despair in ... Read more
Ma began it by calling her rosy, dimpled, year-old baby Cupid, and as he grew up the name ... Read more
Hardly was I settled again, when the inevitable bowl appeared, and its bearer delivered a message I had ... Read more
On a cheery June day Mrs. Penelope Carrolland her niece Debby Wilder, were whizzing alongon their way to ... Read more
“Handsome is that handsome does.” I Once upon a time there raged in a certain city one of ... Read more
“A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.” “They will both come, for they are ... Read more