EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
ROSA M. R. MIKELS
SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK | CHICAGO | BOSTON |
Copyright, 1915, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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 |