Happy Ending

Fredric Brown

_Here is a brace of vignettes by the Old Vignette Master ...

Fredric Brown

_A world had collapsed around this man--a world that would never shout his praises again.

Fredric Brown

[Illustration] Illustrated by CARTER Dhar Ry sat alone in his room, meditating.

Fredric Brown

BY FREDERIC BROWN _With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.