Short stories around 8 minutes

The Pleasant Family invites a few friends to spend a Quiet Evening, and the Jolly Maiden Aunt propounds the query: What is the difference between an elephant and a silk hat? The Jolly Aunt reads...

After the event, my mind dealt with the poor man in helpless conjecture, and I ceased to notice him. I lost myself in my work with a kind of humid interest in the psychological inquiry of a...

Since 1812, most Ohio stories have been about business enterprise and industrial adventure, but tragedies and comedies often arise from them. The Standard Oil Company had its rise in Ohio, and the...

A circus was held in the old Roman arena of beautiful Verona, and the chief event was a reproduction of a tournament that had recently been held at Rome. The clowns were very amusing, and one spoke...

On that loveliest autumn morning, the swollen tide had spread over all the russet levels, and the contributor was so filled with the tender serenity of the scene, that he was not troubled by the...

When the Indians raided the settlements, they abandoned even victory if they had once had enough fighting. But Knight had made up his mind that he would escape at any risk rather than be burned...

The French king gave up the West to the English king in 1763, but the Indians kept up their warfare for forty years. After the capture of Quebec, Great Britain changed its mind about letting...

The Indians, who had been so well generaled and fought so ably, failed to follow up their victory by moving on the American settlements in force. The battle of Fallen Timbers was fought on the 20th...

He had often heard of it, but found it to be largely subjective. He hugged himself, but promised himself to stop, and found his why skilfully out of the street among the high banks of the...

She wore a violet band around her turned-up brim of her bolero-like toque, and was known as the Mother-Bird to the tender ironic fancy of the earliest. The Mother-Bird gave the sense of claiming...

Simon Girty tried to save Kenton's life at Wapatimika. Kenton might have willingly remained with the Indians if they had wished him to be one of them, but renegades were made of worse stuff than...

The State of Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1804 but was never admitted by act of Congress. The most memorable fact concerning the adoption of her final constitution was the great danger that it...