Short stories around 38 minutes

As soon as we heard the pleasant news of an engagement, I spoke first about it, and said that other people didn't mind her being pretty. Talbert gave the town a library building and a soldier's...

Mrs. Fountain stuffs Jimmy's engine into Susy's stocking and thinks about something cheerful in the future. Mrs. Fountain helped Watkins unload the Christmas presents and called down maledictions...

The four men on Zip Coon Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work, when one of them ran off to meet the advancing horseman and hand a brown envelope to their messenger. Jackson...

Stephen Masterton was dragged from the tent of the Tasajara camp meeting and placed in a dilapidated adobe house. There he kept loyal faith with his physician and gave himself up to simple walks...

The shiftless, worthless creature was overlooked by the census and ignored by the tax collector, and found himself adrift in a swollen tributary of the Minyo. Elijah Martin succumbed again to the...

Mr. Oakhurst was shocked to find the sun streaming through an inadvertently opened window. He saw a man coming slowly toward him in a carriage and instantly conceived that the carriage was the...

A man, half his age and a different-looking person, slipped out of his seat and said to the young man, "I do not know Sir Jarge." The young man's face changed and he was introduced as his cousin...

Barker's eyes opened instantly upon the light and the bird on the window, and they sat down to jerked beef. George Barker, an eminent fellow citizen, brought out his government bonds and bought up...

San Francisco preserved an intensely material and practical attitude, and I can recall myself wandering along the City Front or through the Spanish Quarter, and experiencing a fearful joy in the...

The most enthusiastic lover of that "useful and noble animal," the horse, followed me, but my neighbor departed hurriedly with an unfinished sentence. My next intermediary was Enriquez Saltello, a...

Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but Daddy Folsom read a letter to Ricketts and laughed hysterically. Daddy Folsom returned to Lasham's cabin to relieve the watcher,...

Martin Morse had never seen a steamboat in his life, but he stood enthralled and mystified when he saw the first steamboat he had ever seen. He waited for it the next night and found himself...