Category: Short Stories
I have knelt in great cathedrals with their wondrous naves and aisles, Whose fairy arches blend and interlace, Where the sunlight on the paintings like a ray of glory smiles, And the shadows seem to sanctify the place; Where the organ’s tones, like echoes of an angel’s trumpet...
Och, you are there now, So purty and fair now, I raley declare, now I’m murthered outright; My mouth seems like butter, I hardly can mutter A sintince, or utter A word, love, to...
16. Part 16“You needn’t mind a chop or a pair,” retorted Guffin. “I want my hat. And now, Mrs. G., let me tell you one thing. I’ve had enough of your French capers. You’re turning my house...
3. Part 3But Ryan didn’t mean to be niggardly in his donations to the central bureau of the postal pimpdom. He took the clan Murphy into his confidence, and every Murphy in that parish w...
9. Part 9Yet I feel an occasional spasm At thoughts of returning at all, ’Twere better to leap down a chasm Or under an avalanche fall; Or, fingers embracing the trigger, Let the pistol’...
14. Part 14About 11.30 on New-Year’s night, the quadrupedal Pattis and Nicolinis commenced their usual grand concert. Green waited patiently until they had got through the preliminary solo...
6. Part 6The hates, the fears, and the respects of Agent Macgrabb and Constable Gallagher extended to precisely the same two individuals in Ballyblank. They both hated the medical studen...
11. Part 11Avenging, though dim, with the dust of inaction, And dinted and blunted through fraud and delay, With the hilt spoilt and scarred by the rude hands of faction, And the blade rus...
12. Part 12Brian heard of this. It became the one burning ambition of his soul to take a shorthand note of the Boston-baked-beans-color orator. He set out for Tanganyika to carry out his p...
13. Part 13They didn’t. It was strange, but Norah had made a precisely similar remark. In fact, that capillary addition to his proboscis was one of the principal barriers between Frederick...
2. Part 2Where the Austral river rushes Through feathery heath and bushes, Through its gurgles and its gushes You may hear, To your wonder and surprise, Sweet melodies arise You have hea...
10. Part 10Long, long may our land guard and treasure each name, Till a nation made free hymns their glorious fame; And our grandsons shall tell that from yonder cold grave Sprang the spir...
4. Part 4Ivan Petrokoffsky, of the 21st Division Of the Army of the Danube, is not easy in his mind, For within the deep recesses of his heart is a suspicion He has wept farewell forever...
7. Part 7On the morning of the 19th, Peter was astonished by a visit from his tenantry in a body. His first impression was that they had come to pay up arrears, and he chuckled at a succ...
8. Part 8’Tis o’er; the victory is ours; And though yon darling flag May float above our castle towers A torn and tattered rag, ’Tis still our own; and every fold Preserved us from the s...
5. Part 5’Twas in the summer season, and the flies that skirmished round Discovered that that cow’s soft ears were A 1 feeding ground, And they gathered in their masses and formed animat...
1. Part 1I have knelt in great cathedrals with their wondrous naves and aisles, Whose fairy arches blend and interlace, Where the sunlight on the paintings like a ray of glory smiles, An...
17. Part 17Mulrooney had been hard and fast upon the captain’s trail, The traitor thought to euchre Pat by placing him in jail, And, ere the blundering Kerry tongue could tell how matters...