A Reflection
یک بازتاب
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
Amy's Question
سوال امی
"Amy!" ...
The Blind Men
مردان کور و فیل
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who p...
Change
تغییر
IF I were to preach any doctrine to the world it would be love of change, or at least lack of fear o...
A Handful of Clay
یک مشت خاک رس
There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but i...
The Haunted Mind
ذهن خالی از سکنه
What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself, after sta...
An Idle Fellow
یک همکار بیکار
I am tired. At the end of these years I am very tired. I have been studying in books the languages o...
An Imperial Message
یک پیام شاهنشاهی
The Emperor—so they say—has sent a message, directly from his deathbed, to you alone, his pathetic s...
A Country Cottage
کلبه روستایی
Two young people who had not long been married were walking up and down the platform of a little cou...
The Night Came Slowly
شب آهسته آمد
I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Some ...
The Whistle
سوت
TO MADAME BRILLON ...
The Patient Cat
گربه بیمار
HEN the spotted cat first found the nest, there was ...
A Monument to Adam
یادبودی برای آدم
Some one has revealed to the TRIBUNE that I once suggested to Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New...
About Barbers
درباره آرایشگرها
All things change except barbers, the ways of barbers, and the surroundings of barbers. These never ...
The Dog
سگ
The dog is a member of society who likes to have his day's work, and who does it more conscientiousl...
Reginald's Peace Poem
شعر صلح رجینالد
"I'm writing a poem on Peace," said Reginald, emerging from a sweeping operation through a tin of mi...
The Prisoner of Zembla
زندانی زمبلا
So the king fell into a furious rage, so that none durst go near him for fear, and he gave out that ...
Reginald on Worries
رجینالد در مورد نگرانی
I have (said Reginald) an aunt who worries. She's not really an aunt--a sort of amateur one, and the...
Borrowing a Match
قرض گرفتن یک مسابقه
You might think that borrowing a match upon the street is a simple thing. But any man who has ever t...
A Telephonic Conversation
مکالمه تلفنی
Consider that a conversation by telephone--when you are simply sitting by and not taking any part in...
My Financial Career
شغل مالی من
When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of the m...
The New Food
غذای جدید
I see from the current columns of the daily press that "Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicag...
Clovis on Parental Responsibilities
کلوویس در مورد مسئولیت های والدین
Marion Eggelby sat talking to Clovis on the only subject that she ever willingly talked about - her ...
A Strange Story
یک داستان عجیب
In the northern part of Austin there once dwelt an honest family by the name of Smothers. The family...
A Lost Masterpiece
شاهکار گمشده
The short essay on “The Improbability of the Infinite” which I was planning for you yesterday will n...
The Disciple
مرید
When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt t...
Maine to the Rescue
مین برای نجات
"Oh, dear! oh, dear! It's snowing!" ...
George Washington's Boyhood Rules
قوانین دوران کودکی جورج واشنگتن
George wrote out one hundred and ten "Rules," which were to guide him in act and speech at home and ...
Wit Inspirations
الهامات شوخ طبعی "دوساله"
All infants appear to have an impertinent and disagreeable fashion nowadays of saying "smart" things...
Advice To Little Girls
توصیه به دختران کوچک
Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retali...
The Little Thief in the Pantry
دزد کوچک در انباری
"MOTHER dear,” said a little mouse one day, “I think the people in our house must be very kind; don’...
An Uncomfortable Bed
یک تخت ناخوشایند
One autumn I went to spend the hunting season with some friends in a chateau in Picardy. ...
A Fable
یک افسانه
Once upon a time an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he c...
Androclus and the Lion
آندروکلوس و شیر
In Rome there was once a poor slave whose name was Androclus. His master was a cruel man, and so unk...
The Wicked Prince
شاهزاده بدجنس
THERE lived once upon a time a wicked prince whose heart and mind were set upon conquering all the c...
Work, Death and Sickness
کار، مرگ و بیماری
This is a legend current among the South American Indians. ...
Bruce and the Spider
بروس و عنکبوت
There was once a king of Scotland whose name was Robert Bruce. He had need to be both brave and wise...
The Shirt-Collar
یقه پیراهن
THERE was once a fine gentleman who possessed among other things a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but h...
The Father
پدر
THE man whose story is here to be told was the wealthiest and most influential person in his parish;...
A Story from Confucius
داستانی از کنفوسیوس
Confucius once heard two of his pupils quarreling. One was of a gentle nature and was called by all ...
The Awful Fate
سرنوشت وحشتناک ملپومنوس جونز
Some people--not you nor I, because we are so awfully self-possessed--but some people, find great di...
The Five Boons of Life
پنج نعمت زندگی
Chapter I ...
The King and His Hawk
شاه و شاهینش
Genghis Khan was a great king and warrior. ...
The Chicken
مرغی که شن نمی خورد
It was some time after the Dorking Hen had come off the nest with her little brood, that the mother ...
The Dog and the Bees
سگ و زنبورها
A dog being very much annoyed by bees, ran quite accidently into an empty barrel lying on the ground...
The Ass and His Purchaser
الاغ و خریدارش
A Man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming across a likely-looking beast, arranged w...
The Morals of Chess
اخلاق شطرنج
Playing at Chess, is the most ancient and universal game known among men; for its original is beyond...
The Aged Mother
مادر سالخورده
Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. T...
The Doer of Good
نیکوکار
It was night-time and He was alone. ...