I The room was the typical bedroom of the typical boarding-house, furnished, insofar as it could be said ... Read more
Humor Short Stories
Total Stories: 298
A Tale of King Arthur’s Round Table Some time ago, when spending a delightful week-end at the ancestral ... Read more
There were three distinct stages in the evolution of Annette Brougham’s attitude towards the knocking in the room ... Read more
Well-meaning chappies at the club sometimes amble up to me and tap me on the wishbone, and say ... Read more
Mr Meggs’s mind was made up. He was going to commit suicide. There had been moments, in the ... Read more
The traveller champed meditatively at his steak. He paid no attention to the altercation which was in progress ... Read more
Historians of the social life of the later Roman Empire speak of a certain young man of Ariminum, ... Read more
Eve Hendrie sat up in bed. For two hours she had been trying to get to sleep, but ... Read more
It is possible that, at about the time at which this story opens, you may have gone into ... Read more
In Alcala, as in most of New York’s apartment houses, the schedule of prices is like a badly ... Read more
It was Harold who first made us acquainted, when I was dining one night at the Cafe Britannique, ... Read more
In the crowd that strolled on the Promenade des Etrangers, enjoying the morning sunshine, there were some who ... Read more