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Humorous parable about a king who unwisely seeks advice from his subjects on a tough engineering problem.

When Leonard Bilsiter claims to wield enormous powers - conferred on him by a mastery of Siberian Magic - Clovis decides to set the record s

The story of a suitor, a riddle and an ever-helpful restaurenteur.

Animals talk to eachother, of course. An expert tells of one particularly verbal creature.

A man rich enough to despise everything that money can buy goes out and tries to want something that he can't pay for.

Sometimes, popping out for a pint of milk is the worst thing a father can do.

The woman everyone affectionately calls 'La Folle' has never ventured beyond the bayou near her cabin.

While summering in the country, a New Yorker comes across an apparently abandoned farm house.

An old time hobo takes the train ride of his life.

Alone on his seventy-sixth birthday, Jim Brennen remembers the love of his life.

An aging, exciled dictator returns to the country he once controlled.