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The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather
The Enchanted Bluff (1909) was published in Harper’s Magazine, April 1909. “The Indians say that hundreds of years ago, before…
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The Garden Lodge by Willa Cather
The Garden Lodge was published in Cather’s short story collection, The Troll Garden in 1905.When Caroline Noble’s friends learned that…
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The Namesake by Willa Cather
The Namesake was published in McClure’s Magazine in 1907. “For the first time I felt the pull of race and…
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The Profile by Willa Cather
The Profile was published in McClure’s Magazine in 1907. “He gazed long and hard, to blunt his curiosity once and…
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Tommy, the Unsentimental by Willa Cather
“Your father says he has no business tact at all, and of course that’s dreadfully unfortunate.” “Business,” replied Tommy, “he’s…
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Zut by Guy Wetmore Carryl
Zut was published in the anthology, Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales (1921), Carl Van Vechten, editor.Side by side,…
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Buried Bones by Ellis Parker Butler
When Mr. Gubb went to the house of Mr. Jonas Medderbrook to pay him the money he had received for…
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Dey Ain’t No Ghosts by Ellis Parker Butler
Dey Ain’t No Ghosts was published in The Century in 1913.Once ‘pon a time dey was a li’l’ black boy…
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Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler
No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all…
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Mr. Billings’s Pockets by Ellis Parker Butler
On the sixteenth of June Mr. Rollin Billings entered his home at Westcote very much later than usual, and stealing…
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