Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn’t. And everybody is always somewhere else. Maybe it was the ... Read more
Essays Short Stories
Total Stories: 88
You can’t think how hard fathers and mothers used to work and plan to get their children educated ... Read more
Concord, Massachusetts, is one of the New England towns that everybody likes to visit. When tourists reach Boston ... Read more
YOU havent heard about my friend the Professors first experiment in the use of anæsthetics, have you? He ... Read more
ONE of the Boys mentioned, the other evening, in the course of a very pleasant poem he read ... Read more
I want it to be understood that I consider that a certain number of persons are at liberty ... Read more
I The Call of the Woodsman The day before Christmas, in the year of our Lord 722. Broad ... Read more
You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far ... Read more
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ... Read more
“It is one thing,” said my Uncle Peter, “to be perfectly honest. But it is quite another thing ... Read more
Eastridge, June 3, 1907. To Gerrit Wendell, The Universe Club, New York: Do you remember promise? Come now, ... Read more
“I am sick of all this,” said the Great Author, sweeping his hand over the silver-laden dinner-table. He ... Read more
