Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat; R. L. Stevenson: Markheim; Guy de Maupassant: A Piece of String; A Coward; E. A. Poe: The Cask of Amontillado; Edith Wharton: The Bolted Door; A Journey; Henry Van Dyke: A Lover of Music; S. R. Crockett: Elsie’s Dance for Her Life; Jack London: The White Silence. VIII WHAT TO READ ABOUT THE SHORT STORY Albright, Evelyn May The Short Story, its Principles and Structure Barrett, Charles R. Short Story Writing Buck, Gertrude, and A Course in Narrative Morris, Elizabeth Writing Woodbridge Canby, Henry Seidel The Short Story in English Cody, Sherwin Story Writing and Journalism Dye, Charity The Story Teller’s Art Esenwein, Joseph Berg Writing the Short Story Hamilton, Clayton Materials and Methods of Fiction Matthews, Brander The Philosophy of the Short Story Perry, Bliss A Study of Prose Fiction Pitkin, Walter B. Short Story Writing Wells, Carolyn The Technique of the Mystery Story ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MODERN SHORT STORIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MODERN SHORT STORY THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA[1] By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS Footnote 1: It may be of interest to those who approach Folk-Lore stories from the scientific side, to know that this story was told to one of my little boys three years ago by a negro named John Holder. I have since found a variant (or perhaps the original) in Theal’s “Kaffir Folk-Lore.” Joel Chandler Harris, 1889. “I got one tale on my min’,” said Uncle Remus to the little boy one night. “I got one tale on my min’ dat I ain’t ne’er tell you; I dunner how come; I speck it des kaze I git mixt up in my idees. Deze is busy times, mon, en de mo’ you does de mo’ you hatter do, en w’en dat de case, it ain’t ter be ’spected dat one ole broke-down nigger kin ’member ’bout eve’ything.” “What is the story, Uncle Remus?” the little boy asked. “Well, honey,” said the old man, wiping his spectacles, “hit sorter run dis away: One time dey wuz a man w’at had a mighty likely daughter.”