Told After Supper

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1. Introductory
   It was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin, and I have been brought up in a proper…
2. Now the Stories Came to Be Told
   It was Christmas Eve! Christmas Eve at my Uncle John's; Christmas Eve (There is too much 'Christmas Eve' about this book. I can see that my…
3. Teddy Biffles' Story
   Teddy Biffles told the first story, I will let him repeat it here in his own words. (Do not ask me how it is that I recollect his own exact…
4. Interlude—The Doctor's Story
   It made me cry very much, that story, young Biffles told it with so much feeling. We were all a little thoughtful after it, and I noticed e…
5. Interlude
   We had some more punch, and then the curate told us a story. I could not make head or tail of the curate's story, so I cannot retail it to…
6. The Blue Chamber · A Personal Explanation
   The Blue Chamber I rose up, and said that I would sleep in the Blue Chamber. Before I tell you my own story, however—the story of what happ…
7. My Own Story
   As soon as my uncle had finished his story, I, as I have already told you, rose up and said that I would sleep in the Blue Chamber that ver…