MODERN SHORT STORIES
Reading edition
A BOOK FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
FREDERICK HOUK LAW, Ph.D.
Lecturer in English in New York University, and Head of
the Department of English in the Stuyvesant
High School, New York City
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1921
Copyright, 1918, by
The Century Co.
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