CONTENTSPAGEPrefaceviiIntroductionRequirements of the Short StoryxiHow This Book May Be UsedxviiiThe First Christmas-TreeHenry van Dyke1A French Tar-BabyJoel Chandler Harris27Sonny’s Christenin’Ruth McEnery Stuart35Christmas Night with SatanJohn Fox, Jr.51A Nest-EggJames Whitcomb Riley67Wee Willie WinkleRudyard Kipling79The Gold BugEdgar Allan Poe95The Ransom of Red ChiefO. Henry143The Freshman Full-BackRalph D. Paine159GallegherRichard Harding Davis181The Jumping FrogMark Twain221The Lady or the Tiger?Frank R. Stockton231The Outcasts of Poker FlatFrancis Bret Harte243The Revolt of MotherMary E. Wilkins Freeman259Marse ChanThomas Nelson Page283“Posson Jone’”George W. Cable315Our Aromatic UncleHenry Cuyler Bunner341QualityJohn Galsworthy361The Triumph of NightEdith Wharton373A MessengerMary Raymond Shipman Andrews407MarkheimRobert Louis Stevenson431
CONTENTSPAGEPrefaceviiIntroductionRequirements of the Short StoryxiHow This Book May Be UsedxviiiThe First Christmas-TreeHenry van Dyke1A French Tar-BabyJoel Chandler Harris27Sonny’s Christenin’Ruth McEnery Stuart35Christmas Night with SatanJohn Fox, Jr.51A Nest-EggJames Whitcomb Riley67Wee Willie WinkleRudyard Kipling79The Gold BugEdgar Allan Poe95The Ransom of Red ChiefO. Henry143The Freshman Full-BackRalph D. Paine159GallegherRichard Harding Davis181The Jumping FrogMark Twain221The Lady or the Tiger?Frank R. Stockton231The Outcasts of Poker FlatFrancis Bret Harte243The Revolt of MotherMary E. Wilkins Freeman259Marse ChanThomas Nelson Page283“Posson Jone’”George W. Cable315Our Aromatic UncleHenry Cuyler Bunner341QualityJohn Galsworthy361The Triumph of NightEdith Wharton373A MessengerMary Raymond Shipman Andrews407MarkheimRobert Louis Stevenson431