Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Miss Margaret Callaghan sneaks out of her house early in the morning, dressed extravagantly, and heads towards the river. She returns later with a drunken sailor who claims to be her husband.

A man writes to his friend about their mutual acquaintance, John Flemming, who has broken his leg and is in a state of irritability and despair. The man asks his friend for advice on how to help...

A man encounters a peculiar boarder at a tavern who believes he has a son named Andy, but the boy is only a figment of his imagination.

A group of boys buy a sailboat and plan an excursion to an island, but one of them gets stranded at sea during a storm.