A tradition of 1804 / T. Hardy -- The open boat / S. Crane -- Now I lay me / E. Hemingway -- Patricia, Edith, and Arnold / D. Thomas -- The schoolmistress / A. Chekhov -- The chorus girl / A. Chekhov -- How Claeys died / W. Sansom -- Ethan Brand / N. Hawthorne -- A painful case / J. Joyce -- Happiness / G. de Maupassant -- Keep your pity / K. Boyle -- A white heron / S.O. Jewett -- The raid / A. Lewis -- The shadow in the rose garden / D.H. Lawrence -- A worn path / E. Welty.