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Contents*
1 Miss Youghal's Sais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 20 A Wagner Matiné e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Rudyard Kipling Willa Cather
2 The Lagoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 21 The Open Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Joseph Conrad Stephen Crane
3 The Rocking-Horse Winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 22 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. . . . . . 181
D. H. Lawrence Katherine Anne Porter
4 Araby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 23 The Bridal Party. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
James Joyce F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 The Duke's Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 24 In Another Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Frank O’Connor Ernest Hemingway
6 A Cup of Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 25 Soldiers of the Republic and Penelope 207
Katherine Mansfield Dorothy Parker
7 The Demon Lover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 26 Th e Second Tree from the Corner. . . . . 210
Elizabeth Bowen E. B. White
8 A Shocking Accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 27 Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Graham Greene John Steinbeck
9 A Mild Attack of Locusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 28 A Rose for Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Louise Erdrih William Faulkner
10 Mammie's Form at the Post Office . . . . . 68 29 A Worn Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
E. A. Markham Eudora Welty
11 Th e Life You Save Ma y Be Your Own . . 71 30 The Portrait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Flannery O’Connor Tomás Rivera
12 The Devil and Tom Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 31 The Rockpile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Washington Irving James Baldwin
13 The Minister's Black Veil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 32 Th e Magic Barrel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bernard Malamud
14 The Pit and the Pe ndulum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 33 Nineteen Thirty-Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Edgar Allan Poe Edwidge Danticat
15 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. . 116 34 Snow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Ambrose Bierce Julia Alvarez
16 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of. . . . . . 125 35 Ambush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Calaveras County Tim O’Brien
Mark Twain 36 Rain Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
17 Th e Outcasts of Poker Flat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Longhang Nguyen
Bret Harte 37 Bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
18 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Margaret Atwood
Jack London
38 Se me enchina el cuerp o al oír tu cuento 272
19 The Story of an Ho ur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Norma Elia Cantú
Kate Chopin
* Titles or authors here and in the body of the book are interrelatedly linked.
Contents
39 Ga me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 50 The Californian's Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371
Donald Barthelme Mark Twain
40 Chee's Daughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 51 The Interlopers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Juanita Platero Saki
41 Two Kinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 52 As It Is with Stran gers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Amy Tan Susan Beth Pfeffer
42 Catch the Moon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 53 Mrs. James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Judith Ortiz Cofer Alice Childress
43 Th rough the Tunnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 54 A Sound of Thunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Doris Lessing Ray Bradbury
44 By the Waters of Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 55 Lu llaby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Stephen Vincent Benét Leslie Marmon Silko
45 What I Have Been Doing Lately. . . . . . . .327 56 Winter Night. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Jamaica Kincaid Kay Boyle
46 With All Flags Fly ing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 57 Waltz of the Fat M an. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Anne Tyler Alberto Alvaro Ríos
47 A White Heron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 58 Th e Masque of the Re d Death. . . . . . . . . . 427
Sarah Orne Jewett Edgar Allan Poe
48 The Monkey's Paw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 59 To Da-duh, in Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .433
W. W. Jacobs Paule Marshall
49 Co ntents of the Dead Man's Pocket. . . 358
Jack Finney
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Rudyard Kipling
When Man and Woman are agreed, what can the Kazi1 do?
Proverb.
ome people say that there is no romance in India. Those people are
wrong. Our lives hold quite as much romance as is good for us.
Sometimes more.
Strickland was in the Police, and people did not understand him;
so they said he was a doubtful sort of man and passed by on the other side.
1. A kazi(ka(cid:1)(cid:2)ze¯) is a civil judge.
A View of Benares.Holger Jerichau (1861–1900). Burlington Paintings, London.
Viewing the painting:How does the setting of the painting reflect that of the story?
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Strickland had himself to thank for this. He startling kind. When a man knows who
held the extraordinary theory that a dance the Hálli-Hukk, and how, and
Policeman in India should try to know as much when, and where, he knows something to be
about the natives as the natives themselves. proud of. He has gone deeper than the skin.
Now, in the whole of Upper India there is only But Strickland was not proud, though he had
one man who can pass for Hindu or helped once, at Jagadhri,10 at the Painting of
Mahommedan,2 hide-dresser or priest, as he the Death Bull, which no Englishman must
pleases. He is feared and respected by the natives even look upon; had mastered the thieves’-
from the Ghor Kathri3 to the Jamma Musjid;4 patter of the chángars; had taken a Eusufzai11
and he is supposed to have the gift of invisibility horse-thief alone near Attock; and had stood
and executive control over many Devils. But under the sounding-board of a Border mosque
this has done him no good in the eyes of the and conducted service in the manner of a
Indian Government. Sunni Mollah.12
Strickland was foolish enough to take that His crowning achievement was spending
man for his model; and, following out his absurd eleven days as a faquiror priest in the gardens of
theory, dabbled in unsavory places which no Baba Atal at Amritsar,13 and there picking up
respectable man would think of exploring—all the threads of the great Nasiban Murder Case.
among the native riff-raff. He educated himself But people said, justly enough, “Why on earth
in this peculiar way for seven years, and people can’t Strickland sit in his office and write up his
could not appreciate it. He was perpetually diary, and recruit, and keep quiet, instead of
“going Fantee”5 among natives, which, of showing up the incapacity of his seniors?” So the
course, no man with any sense believes in. He Nasiban Murder Case did him no good depart-
was initiated into the Sat Bhai6 at Allahabad7 mentally; but, after his first feeling of wrath, he
once, when he was on leave; he knew the returned to his outlandish custom of prying into
Lizzard-Song of the Sansis,8 and the Hálli- native life. When a man once acquires a taste for
Hukk dance, which is a religious can-can9 of a this particular amusement, it abides with him all
his days. It is the most fascinating thing in the
world—Love not excepted. Where other men
2. A Mahommedanis a Muslim. took ten days to the Hills, Strickland took leave
3. The Ghor Kathri((cid:4)o¯r k¯a tre¯(cid:2)) in the city of Peshawar,
for what he called shikar,14 put on the disguise
Pakistan, was once a Buddhist monastery and later a sacred
that appealed to him at the time, stepped down
Hindu temple.
4. The Jamma Musjid(ja(cid:1)(cid:2)ma(cid:1) ma(cid:1)s jid(cid:2)) is the Principal Mosque into the brown crowd, and was swallowed up for
in Delhi. A mosque(mosk) is the Muslim place of worship. a while. He was a quiet, dark young fellow—
5. Going Fantee(fa(cid:1)n(cid:2)te¯) means “mixing with the natives and
spare, black-eyed—and, when he was not
conforming to their habits.”
6. Sat Bhai(s(cid:1)at b¯(cid:5)(cid:2)) literally means “seven brothers.”
7. Allahabad(al´ə hə bad(cid:2)) is a city in north central India that is 10. Jagadhri(j(cid:1)a (cid:4)(cid:1)a(cid:2)dre¯) is a town in the Punjab.
a Hindu pilgrimage site. 11. The Eusufzai(u¯ soof(cid:2)z¯(cid:5)) are a tribe of northwest Pakistan.
8. The Sansis(s(cid:1)an se¯z(cid:2)) are a low-caste people of the Indian 12. A Sunni Mollah(so¯¯o¯(cid:2)ne¯ mə la(cid:1)(cid:2)) is a Muslim religious
state of Punjab (pun j(cid:1)ab(cid:2)). The caste system is a rigid social leader or teacher.
division characterized by hereditary status, hereditary occupa- 13. Amritsar(a(cid:1)m(cid:2)rit´ser) is a city in northwestern India and the
tion, and fixed social barriers. center of the Sikh (se¯k) faith. Sikhs believe in one God and
9. The can-canis a Parisian dance characterized by exaggerated are disciples of the ten Gurus ((cid:4)o¯¯o¯(cid:2)ro¯¯o¯z), or teachers.
high kicking. 14. Shikar(sh¯(cid:5) kar(cid:2)) means “hunting.”
Vocabulary
unsavory (un sa¯(cid:2)vər e¯) adj.sinister; morally questionable
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thinking of something else, a very interest- I ordered two boxes, and handed them over
ing companion. Strickland on Native to the sais with my love. That sais was
Progress as he had seen it was worth hearing. Strickland, and he was in old Youghal’s employ,
Natives hated Strickland; but they were afraid attached to Miss Youghal’s Arab. The poor fel-
of him. He knew too much. low was suffering for
When the Youghals came into the station, an English smoke,
Strickland—very gravely, as he did every- and knew that,
thing—fell in love with Miss Youghal; and she, whatever happened,
after a while, fell in love with him because she I should hold my
could not understand him. Then Strickland told tongue till the busi-
the parents; but Mrs. Youghal said she was not ness was over.
going to throw her daughter into the worst paid Later on, Mrs.
department in the Empire, and old Youghal Youghal, who was Did You Know?
An Arabis an Arabian horse
said, in so many words, that he mistrusted wrapped up in her
prized for its speed and purity
Strickland’s ways and works, and would thank servants, began talk- of breed.
him not to speak or write to his daughter any ing at houses where
more. “Very well,” said Strickland, for he did not she called of her paragon among saises—the man
wish to make his lady-love’s life a burden. After who was never too busy to get up in the morn-
one long talk with Miss Youghal he dropped the ing and pick flowers for the breakfast-table, and
business entirely. who blacked—actually blacked—the hooves of
The Youghals went up to Simla15in April. his horse like a London coachman! The turn-
In July Strickland secured three months’ out19of Miss Youghal’s Arab was a wonder and a
leave on “urgent private affairs.” He locked up delight. Strickland—Dulloo, I mean—found his
his house—though not a native in the Province reward in the pretty things that Miss Youghal
would wittingly have touched “Estreekin said to him when she went out riding. Her par-
Sahib’s”16gear for the world—and went down to ents were pleased to find she had forgotten all
see a friend of his, an old dyer, at Tarn Taran. her foolishness for young Strickland, and said
Here all trace of him was lost, until a sais17or she was a good girl.
groom met me on the Simla Mall with this Strickland vows that the two months of his
extraordinary note: service were the most rigid mental discipline he
has ever gone through. Quite apart from the
DEAROLDMAN,—Please give bearer a box of little fact that the wife of one of his fellow-
cheroots18—Supers, No. 1, for preference. saisesfell in love with him and then tried to poi-
They are freshest at the Club. I’ll repay when I son him with arsenic because he would have
reappear; but at present I’m out of nothing to do with her, he had to school himself
society.—Yours, into keeping quiet when Miss Youghal went out
E. STRICKLAND. riding with some man who tried to flirt with
her, and he was forced to trot behind carrying
the blanket and hearing every word! Also, he
15. From 1865 to 1939, Simla(se¯m(cid:2)l(cid:1)a) was India’s summer
had to keep his temper when he was slanged20in
capital and is still a popular summer resort.
16. In colonial India, Sahib(sa(cid:1) he¯b(cid:2)) was a respectful form of the theater porch by a policeman—especially
address for a European man.
17. A sais(sa(cid:1) e¯s(cid:2)) is a servant who attends to horses; a groom,
or anattendantwho follows on foot behind a mounted rider 19. Turn-outrefers to the horse’s carriage or other equipment
or carriage. or furnishings.
18. Cheroots(shə ro¯¯o¯ts(cid:2)) are cigars. 20. Slangedmeans “attacked with abusive language.”
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Rudyard Kipling
once when he was abused by a Naik21 he Thus he served faithfully as Jacob
had himself recruited from Isser Jang vil- served for Rachel;27 and his leave was
lage—or, worse still, when a young subaltern22 nearly at an end when the explosion came. He
called him a pig for not making way quickly had really done his best to keep his temper in
enough. the hearing of the flirtations I have mentioned;
But the life had its compensations. He but he broke down at last. An old and very dis-
obtained great insight into the ways and thefts tinguished General took Miss Youghal for a ride,
of saises—enough, he says, to have summarily and began that specially offensive “you’re-only-
convicted half the population of the Punjab if a-little-girl” sort of flirtation—most difficult for
he had been on business. He became one of a woman to turn aside deftly, and most madden-
the leading players at knuckle-bones,23 which ing to listen to. Miss Youghal was shaking with
all jhampánies24and many saisesplay while they fear at the things he said in the hearing of her
are waiting outside the Government House25 sais.Dulloo—Strickland—stood it as long as he
or the Gaiety Theater of nights; he learned to could. Then he caught hold of the General’s
smoke tobacco that was three-fourths cow- bridle, and, in most fluent English, invited him
dung; and he heard the wisdom of the grizzled to step off and be flung over the cliff. Next
Jemadar26 of the Government House grooms. minute Miss Youghal began to cry, and
Whose words are valuable. He saw many things Strickland saw that he had hopelessly given
which amused him; and he states, on honor, himself away, and everything was over.
that no man can appreciate Simla properly till The General nearly had a fit, while Miss
he has seen it from the sais’s point of view. He Youghal was sobbing out the story of the disguise
also says that, if he chose to write all he saw his and the engagement that was not recognized by
head would be broken in several places. the parents. Strickland was furiously angry with
Strickland’s account of the agony he endured himself, and more angry with the General for
on wet nights, hearing the music and seeing the forcing his hand; so he said nothing, but held
lights in “Benmore,” with his toes tingling for the horse’s head and prepared to thrash the
a waltz and his head in a horse-blanket, is General as some sort of satisfaction. But when
rather amusing. One of these days Strickland is the General had thoroughly grasped the story,
going to write a little book on his experiences. and knew who Strickland was, he began to puff
That book will be worth buying, and even and blow in the saddle, and nearly rolled off with
more worth suppressing. laughing. He said Strickland deserved a V.C.,28if
it were only for putting on a sais’s blanket. Then
21. A Naik(na(cid:1) e¯k(cid:2)) is a corporal of the native infantry. he called himself names, and vowed that he
22. A subalternis a junior military officer. deserved a thrashing, but he was too old to take
23. Knuckle-bonesis a game played by tossing and catching it from Strickland. Then he complimented
sheep bones.
24. Jhampánies(j(cid:1)am pa(cid:1)n(cid:2)e¯z) are bearers of a jampan, a chair
that is designed to hold one person and is carried on poles 27. Jacob served for Rachelrefers to Genesis 29:15–40, in which
by men. Jacob served Rachel’s father, Laban, for fourteen years in
25. The Government Houseis the residence of a governor or of return for Rachel’s hand in marriage.
the owner or manager of an estate. 28. V.C.,or the Victoria Cross, is a British military decoration
26. A Jemadar(jə mə da(cid:1)r(cid:2)) is the head of a group of servants. bestowed for conspicuous bravery in battle.
Vocabulary
compensation (kom´pən sa¯(cid:2)shən) n.something that offsets, counterbalances, or makes
up for
suppressing (sə prəs(cid:2)in(cid:4)) n.the prohibition of the publication or circulation of; censorship
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Miss Youghal on her lover. The scandal of knew, but Youghal received Strickland
the business never struck him; for he was a with moderate civility; and Mrs.
nice old man, with a weakness for flirtations. Youghal, touched by the devotion of the
Then he laughed again, and said that old transformed Dulloo, was almost kind. The
Youghal was a fool. Strickland let go of the General beamed and chuckled, and Miss
cob’s29 head, and suggested that the General Youghal came in, and, almost before old
had better help them if that was his opinion. Youghal knew where he was, the parental con-
Strickland knew Youghal’s weakness for men sent had been wrenched out, and Strickland
with titles and letters after their names and had departed with Miss Youghal to the tele-
high official position. “It’s rather like a forty- graph office to wire for his European kit. The
minute farce,” said the General, “but, begad, I final embarrassment was when a stranger
willhelp, if it’s only to escape that tremendous attacked him on the Mall and asked for the
thrashing I deserve. Go along to your home, stolen pony.
my sais-Policeman, and change into decent In the end, Strickland and Miss Youghal
kit,30 and I’ll attack Mr. Youghal. Miss Youghal, were married, on the strict understanding that
may I ask you to canter home and wait?” Strickland should drop his old ways, and stick
to Departmental routine, which pays best and
* * * leads to Simla. Strickland was far too fond of
his wife, just then, to break his word, but it was
About seven minutes later there was a wild hur- a sore trial to him; for the streets and the
roosh31 at the Club. A sais, with blanket and bazaars, and the sounds in them, were full of
head-rope, was asking all the men he knew: “For meaning to Strickland, and these called to him
Heaven’s sake lend me decent clothes!” As the to come back and take up his wanderings and
men did not recognize him, there were some his discoveries. Some day I will tell you how he
peculiar scenes before Strickland could get a hot broke his promise to help a friend. That was
bath, with soda in it, in one room, a shirt here, a long since, and he has, by this time, been
collar there, a pair of trousers elsewhere, and so nearly spoiled for what he would call shikar.He
on. He galloped off, with half the Club wardrobe is forgetting the slang, and the beggar’s cant,32
on his back, and an utter stranger’s pony under and the marks, and the signs, and the drift of
him, to the house of old Youghal. The General, the undercurrents, which, if a man would mas-
arrayed in purple and fine linen, was before him. ter, he must always continue to learn.
What the General had said Strickland never But he fills in his Departmental returns
beautifully.
29. A cobis a short-legged stout variety of horse.
30. Here, kitmeans “outfit or uniform.”
31. Here, a hurrooshis a commotion. 32. Cantmeans “language, jargon, or manner of speaking.”
(cid:3)
Vocabulary
farce (fa(cid:1)rs) n.a humorous drama in which the situation and characters are greatly
exaggerated
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