The Mission of Jane

Lethbury, surveying his wife across the dinner table, found his
transient conjugal glance arrested by an indefinable change in her
appearance.

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How can we be happy?

Once a group of fifty people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon.

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The Princess

A fire burned cheerfully in the jungle camp, and beside the fire lolled a cheerful-seeming though horrible-appearing man. This was a hobo jungle,

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The Red One

There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling a summons.

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The Scarlet Plague

The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested

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Giving blood

Many years ago, when I worked as a transfusion volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a disease and needed blood from her five-year-old brother,

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Two Wolves

A Cherokee elder sitting with his grandchildren told them, "In every
life there is a terrible fight - a fight between two wolves.

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