Stories I[-IV]
Series: The novels and stories of Frank R. Stockton.; [XV-XVIII]
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: Love before breakfast. The staying power of Sir Rohan. A piece of red calico. The Christmas wreck. My well and what came out of it. Mr. Tolman. My unwilling neighbor. Our archery club.
Table of contents: title: 1. The lady or the tiger? The discourager of hesitancy. The transferred ghost. The spectral mortgage. Every man his own letterwriter. That same old coon. Our story. Derelict. On the training of parents. A borrowed month. The baker of Barnburg. The watchmaker's wife.; title: 2. A tale of negative gravity. Asaph. The remarkable wreck of the "Thomas Hyke." An unhistoric page. The Cloverfields carriage. A story of assisted fate. My bull-calf. As one woman to another. Our fire-screen. My terminal moraine. Plain fishing.; title: 3. The griffin and the minor canon. Old pipes and the dryad. The beeman of Orn. The queen's museum. The clocks of Rondaine. Christmas before last; or, The fruit of the fragile palm. Prince Hassak's march. The battle of the third cousins. The banished king. The philopena. Amos Kilbright: his adscititious experiences.; title: 4. The magic egg. "His wife's deceased sister." The widow's curse. Captain Eli's best ear.