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The £1,000,000 Bank-note and Other New Stories

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A beared man in a suit, hat, and tie. Browsing clothing. Graphite filter.

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A man is given a bank note worth £1,000,000 as a bet to see whether it would be usable without arousing suspicion.

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“Aw, wadda yuh expeck of Chinless?” returned the brunette stenographer disdainfully as she crackled paper to conceal her breach of the office rules against conversation. “Feller with ingrown jaws was made to pick on.”

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Croly Addicks is chinless both metaphorically and literally. But things take a drastic turn when the insults and disrespect finally make him snap.

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A drawing of a man sitting next to an elegant-looking woman.

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A solitary,colourless rotary telephone resting on a stooll

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The room was being redecorated. It was being redecorated as a memorial to a man who had volunteered to die.

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In a future where death has been solved, and the population of the United States is stabilised, a father waits nervously for his wife to give birth to triplets.

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A man in a tux, tipping his hat. Graphite Filter.

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I only woke this morning - To find the world is fair - I’m going on for forty, - With scarcely one grey hair.

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The author looks forward to living in his forties.

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Half of a stern, staring face. Graphite filter

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A man awkwardly does his best to avoid falling into the hands of the worst barber in the barbershop.

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About this time I was amusing myself trying to guess where he would be most likely to cut me this time, but he got ahead of me, and sliced me on the end of the chin before I had got my mind made up.

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A man and woman kissing by a window, graphite filter.

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“There is a proverb that if a peasant woman has no troubles she will buy a pig. The Luganovitchs had no troubles, so they made friends with me.”

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A man recounts his love for a woman married to a boring man, and how he had wondered what she, or any woman, found in such men.

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A man comes across a confusing sign and finds himself in a mysterious and dangerous location.

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Martin, accountant on a holiday, had never dreamed of any world of psychic possibilities. The entire thing was torture.

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Theatres at New York in 1900. Graphite Filter.

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“I’d marry the Empress of China for one bowl of chop suey. I’d commit murder for a plate of beef stew. I’d steal a wafer from a waif. I’d be a Mormon for a bowl of chowder.”

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Two men become friends after falling from grace in different ways. But they have differing opinions on what they would be willing to do to get back into society.

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A large steamboat on the sea, graphite filter.

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You would sooner know that you fooled your money away on a spree, and made yourself sick, than lost it out of an extra hole in your pocket, and kept well.

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A pair set for New Zealand’s South Island to seek fortune, but start out with losing a half-sovereign.

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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

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The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Посмертные художественные произведения Л. H. Толстого (Posthumous Works of Leo Tolstoy)

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The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories

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Thirteen o’clock, stories of several worlds

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed Juttud (Old Estonian Fairy Tales)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

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Thirteen o’clock, Stories of Several Worlds

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The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

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The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller

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Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed Juttud (Old Estonian Fairy Tales)

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Eventyr, fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales Told for Children)

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Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers

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Thirteen o’clock, Stories of Several Worlds

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Filboid Studge, The Story of a Mouse that Helped

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Thirteen o’clock, Stories of Several Worlds

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed Juttud (Old Estonian Fairy Tales)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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The Lady or the Tiger? and Other Stories

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Отечественныя записки (Notes of the Fatherland)

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How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles

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How One Came as Was Foretold to the City of Never

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The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses

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Eventyr, fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales Told for Children)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Петербургская Газета (St. Petersburg Gazette)

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Molly Whuppie and The Double-faced Giant

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Отечественныя записки (Notes of the Fatherland)

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The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

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Den nye Børneven (The New Children's Friend)

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The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843

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Eventyr, fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales Told for Children)

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The Private History of a Campaign that Failed

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The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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The New York Evening Mirror or The American Review

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Thirteen o’clock, Stories of Several Worlds

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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Eventyr, fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales Told for Children)

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The Strange Adventure of a Private Secretary in New York

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The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses

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Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed Juttud (Old Estonian Fairy Tales)

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The Ghost Pirates, A Chaunty, and Another Story

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Eventyr, fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales Told for Children)

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses

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Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed Juttud (Old Estonian Fairy Tales)

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The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Петербургская Газета (St. Petersburg Gazette)

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)

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Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed Juttud (Old Estonian Fairy Tales)

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Salonen, et belletristik Maanedsskrift (Salon: A Belles-lettres Monthly)

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The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales)