The Travelling Monks At The River

Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders,

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The Pot-Boiler

The studio faced north, looking out over a dismal reach of roofs and
chimneys, and rusty fire-escapes hung with heterogeneous garments.

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The Other Two

Waythorn, on the drawing-room hearth, waited for his wife to come down to dinner.

It was their first night under his own roof, and he was surprised at his thrill of boyish agitation.

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The Pretext

Mrs. Ransom, when the front door had closed on her visitor, passed
with a spring from the drawing-room to the narrow hall,

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The Quicksand

AS Mrs. Quentin's victoria, driving homeward, turned from the Park
into Fifth Avenue, she divined her son's tall figure walking ahead
of her in the twilight.

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The Reckoning

A discreet murmur of approval filled the studio, and through the haze of cigarette smoke Mrs. Clement Westall, as her husband descended from his improvised platform,

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Edith Wharton

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Heaven and Hell

A man died and because he had been a good person, he went to Heaven, where Saint Peter greeted him at the door.

Welcome! he said. You can enter Heaven right away, but, because you lived such a good life, you can also go and check out Hell first, if you like.

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Attention to Details

Princess Aleena was very fond of dressing up. She had lots of beautiful gowns of various types of clothes, design and colors. Each one was designed specially and tailored to her size.

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Dose of Love

A young boy was feeling sad and depressed. He was always unduly quiet and reserved. He never wanted to play or be with friends. All he wanted to do was to sit alone and sulk.

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Truth and Violence

A sage engrossed in his penance, was strictly adhering to two principles.

The first one was there is no religion other than Truth.

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The Relationship!

Pencil: I’m sorry….

Eraser: For what? You didn’t do anything wrong.

Pencil: I’m sorry because you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake,

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The Scorn of Women

Once Freda and Mrs. Eppingwell clashed.

Now Freda was a Greek girl and a dancer. At least she purported to be Greek; but this was doubted by many, for her classic face had over-much strength in it,

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The Shadow and the Flash

When I look back, I realize what a peculiar friendship it was. First, there was Lloyd Inwood, tall, slender, and finely knit, nervous and dark. And then Paul Tichlorne,

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The Sheriff of Kona

"You cannot escape liking the climate," Cudworth said, in reply to my panegyric on the Kona coast. "I was a young fellow, just out of college,

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Heal Yourself

Once there was a very good doctor who was famous for his wonderful ability to diagnose whatever his patients had and what medicine to give them to heal them.

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It Wasn't Your Baby

There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains.

The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day.

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The Cockroach Story

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping,

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Old and Young Monk

Once upon a time an old and young monks were travelling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river.

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Sufi's Camels

Once a Sufi master was dying. He was worried about how his three disciples would find a new master. If he said, "go to such and such" it would have been easy but he wanted them to find a new master themselves.

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Akbar's Namaaz

The Moghul Emperor Akbar was one day out hunting in the forest.

When it was time for evening prayers he dismounted, spread his mat on the earth and knelt to pray in the manner of devout Muslims everywhere.

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Lesson from the Reef

Have you seen the Great Barrier Reef, stretching some 1,800 miles from New Guinea to Australia. Tour guides regularly take visitors to view the reef.

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Theodore Roosevelt

A newspaper that was violently opposed to the election of Theodore Roosevelt gave one of its expert photographers the task of obtaining a picture of the President that would show

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The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe.

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Shake Off Your Problems

A man's favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice;
He can't pull it out no matter how hard he tries;

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Two seeds

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil.

The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me,

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The Triumph Of Night

It was clear that the sleigh from Weymore had not come; and the shivering young traveller from Boston, who had counted on jumping into it when he left the train at Northridge Junction,

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Xingu

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club,

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The Verdict

I had always thought Jack Gisburn rather a cheap genius -- though a good fellow enough -- so it was no great surprise to me to hear that, in the height of his glory,

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The Story of Keesh

Keesh lived long ago on the rim of the polar sea, was head man of his village through many and prosperous years, and died full of honors with his name on the lips of men.

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The Son of the Wolf

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. He has no conception of the subtle atmosphere exhaled by the sex feminine,

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The Terrible Solomons

There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. On the other hand, there are worse places in the world. But to the new chum

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The Story of Jees Uck

There have been renunciations and renunciations. But, in its essence, renunciation is ever the same. And the paradox of it is, that men and women forego the dearest thing in the world for something dearer.

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Ubuntu

An Anthropologist proposed one game to the kids of African tribal children

He Place a basket of fruits near a tree, and made the children stand 100 meters away.

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When Dream Comes True

So many of us have dreams, dreams that never get fulfilled because we found reasons for why they couldn't happen. Some of us don't even start working on them because we're scared of

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Cliff Young

The year was 1983. In Australia, the long-distance foot race from Sydney to Melbourne was about to begin, covering 875 kilometers and more than 500 miles!

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