SHORT STORIES
FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
ROSA M. R. MIKELS
SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
| NEW YORK | CHICAGO | BOSTON |
Copyright, 1915, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | vii | |
| Introduction | ||
| Requirements of the Short Story | xi | |
| How This Book May Be Used | xviii | |
| The First Christmas-Tree | Henry van Dyke | 1 |
| A French Tar-Baby | Joel Chandler Harris | 27 |
| Sonny’s Christenin’ | Ruth McEnery Stuart | 35 |
| Christmas Night with Satan | John Fox, Jr. | 51 |
| A Nest-Egg | James Whitcomb Riley | 67 |
| Wee Willie Winkle | Rudyard Kipling | 79 |
| The Gold Bug | Edgar Allan Poe | 95 |
| The Ransom of Red Chief | O. Henry | 143 |
| The Freshman Full-Back | Ralph D. Paine | 159 |
| Gallegher | Richard Harding Davis | 181 |
| The Jumping Frog | ||