Pigs is Pigs

Ellis Parker Butler

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook his fist.

Ellis Parker Butler

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published September 1918_ [Illustration: "IN THE DETECKATIVE LINE NOTHING SOUNDS FOOLISH" (_page 218_)] CONTENTS THE HARD-BOILED EGG ...

Ellis Parker Butler

CHAPTER I. Eliph' Hewlitt CHAPTER II. Susan CHAPTER III. "How to Win the Affections" CHAPTER IV. Kilo CHAPTER V. Sammy Mills CHAPTER VI. The Castaway CHAPTER VII. Th...

Ellis Parker Butler

_"Pigs Is Pigs" Butler quite surpasses himself in this story.

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.