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Tobin’s Palm
Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For the…
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The Gift Of The Magi
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing th…
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A Cosmopolite In A Café
At midnight the café was crowded. By some chance the little table at which I sat had escaped the eye of incomers, and two vacant chairs at…
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Between Rounds
The May moon shone bright upon the private boarding-house of Mrs. Murphy. By reference to the almanac a large amount of territory will be d…
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The Skylight Room
First Mrs. Parker would show you the double parlours. You would not dare to interrupt her description of their advantages and of the merits…
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A Service Of Love
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard. That is our premise. This story shall draw a conclusion from it, and show at the same t…
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The Coming-Out Of Maggie
Every Saturday night the Clover Leaf Social Club gave a hop in the hall of the Give and Take Athletic Association on the East Side. In orde…
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Man About Town
There were two or three things that I wanted to know. I do not care about a mystery. So I began to inquire. It took me two weeks to find ou…
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The Cop And The Anthem
On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind t…
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An Adjustment Of Nature
In an art exhibition the other day I saw a painting that had been sold for $5,000. The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraf…
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Memoirs Of A Yellow Dog
I don’t suppose it will knock any of you people off your perch to read a contribution from an animal. Mr. Kipling and a good many others ha…
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The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein
The Blue Light Drug Store is downtown, between the Bowery and First Avenue, where the distance between the two streets is the shortest. The…
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Mammon And The Archer
Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall’s Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mans…
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Springtime À La Carte
It was a day in March. Never, never begin a story this way when you write one. No opening could possibly be worse. It is unimaginative, fla…
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The Green Door
Suppose you should be walking down Broadway after dinner, with ten minutes allotted to the consummation of your cigar while you are choosin…
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From The Cabby’s Seat
The cabby has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling. From the high, swaying se…
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An Unfinished Story
We no longer groan and heap ashes upon our heads when the flames of Tophet are mentioned. For, even the preachers have begun to tell us tha…
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The Caliph, Cupid And The Clock
Prince Michael, of the Electorate of Valleluna, sat on his favourite bench in the park. The coolness of the September night quickened the l…
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Sisters Of The Golden Circle
The Rubberneck Auto was about ready to start. The merry top-riders had been assigned to their seats by the gentlemanly conductor. The sidew…
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The Romance Of A Busy Broker
Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit his usually expr…
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After Twenty Years
The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The…
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Lost On Dress Parade
Mr. Towers Chandler was pressing his evening suit in his hall bedroom. One iron was heating on a small gas stove; the other was being pushe…
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By Courier
It was neither the season nor the hour when the Park had frequenters; and it is likely that the young lady, who was seated on one of the be…
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The Furnished Room
Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Hom…
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The Brief Début Of Tildy
If you do not know Bogle’s Chop House and Family Restaurant it is your loss. For if you are one of the fortunate ones who dine expensively…