Category: Short Stories
An Old Woman's Tale (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
In the house where I was born, there used to be an old woman crouching all day long over the kitchen fire, with her elbows on her knees and her feet in the ashes. Once in a while she took a turn at the spit, and she never lacked a coarse gray stocking in her lap, the foot abou...