A Defective Santa Claus

James Whitcomb Riley

Allus when our Pa he's away Nen Uncle Sidney comes to stay At our house here--so Ma an' me An' Etty an' Lee-Bob won't be Afeard ef anything at night Might happen--like Ma says it might.

James Whitcomb Riley

_The Child-World--long and long since lost to view-- A Fairy Paradise!-- How always fair it was and fresh and new-- How every affluent hour heaped heart and eyes With treasures of...

James Whitcomb Riley

BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. TO MY BROTHER HUMBOLDT RILEY PREFACE As far back into boyhood as the writer's memory may intelligently go, the "country poet" is most pleasantly rec...

James Whitcomb Riley

Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts [Illustration: 001] {001} [Illustration: 007] {007} [Illustration: 010] {010} [Illustration: 011] {011} 1892 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE [Illustration: 01...

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything was perfectly swell.

Edgar Allan Poe

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Heinrich Hoffmann

[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848.

Edgar Allan Poe

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.