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It was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man.

Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year.

THE man whose story is here to be told was the wealthiest and most influential person in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.

Tchervyakov was embarrassed, he smiled stupidly and fell to gazing at the stage.

I am writing a history of the things men do. I have written three such histories and I am but a young man. Already I have written three hundred, four hundred thousand words.

It was in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, after the Great Plague had devastated England, that Hermann the Irascible, nicknamed also the Wise, sat on the British throne.

Also known as The Story of the Aged Mother, this Japanese folktale tells the story of an unkind ruler who issues cruel orders, including one demand that all old folks are to be abandoned and left to die. Basho tells a poignant story about a mother and her son and their love for one another.