Fireside Al's Treasury of Classic Stories

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The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Michael / William Wordsworth -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Come again in the spring / Richard Kennedy -- In my indolence / Italo Svevo -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank Stockton -- The elixir of Father Gaucher / Alphonse Daudet -- [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The Schartz-Metterklume method / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Canterville Ghost / Oscar Wilde.