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by Saki
A couple discuss techniques for writing thank you letters.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The death of a exemplary servant is widely reported.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
3 Stars
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The first man on earth recalls the early years.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Creation's early days as recounted by earth's first woman.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Two reclusive, retired ship's Captains decide to celebrate Christmas for the first time in years.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
Bertie Steffink takes action against his disapproving relatives.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
An absent-minded old lady forgets where she left her niece.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
3 Stars
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by Saki
It is said that when a Cernogratz dies in the family castle, the wolves in the forest howl all night long ... but Baroness Gruebel, new owner of Cernogratz castle, is sceptical.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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by Saki
James Cushat-Prinkly reluctantly sets off for afternoon tea with the girl he intends to marry.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
An uncle tries to interest his young nephews in some experimental non-violent toys.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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by Saki
A domineering wife and mother unobtrusively and inexplicably vanishes.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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by Saki
Lady Drakmanton comes up with an unorthodox way of dealing with the miserly Misses Smithly-Dubb.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
3 Stars