A hundred years ago when I went to school, The ransom of Red Chief was REQUIRED (gag me with a spoon!) reading. <p> I was an avid reading convert from then on. <p> This book is full of great stories (Tobin?s Palm, The Gift Of The Magi, A Cosmopolite In A Café, Between Rounds, The Skylight Room, A Service Of Love, The Coming-Out Of Maggie, Man About Town, The Cop And The Anthem, An Adjustment Of Nature, Memoirs Of A Yellow Dog, The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein, Mammon And The...
