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Pie for Magpie

W. C. Tuttle

Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins share a cabin on Plenty Stone Creek, where Magpie’s impulse to gamble leads him into a wager with Tellurium Woods. After reading about a man who lived naked in the wilderness for thirty days, Magpie bets he can do the same, and the men draw up a written agreement while Ike is left holding the stake. Magpie then heads into the Medicine Hills to begin the challenge, and the story soon brings Professor Phinney, his wife, and Doctor Doolittle to the cabin.

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The wisdom of Cyclops

W. C. Tuttle

At the Cross J ranch, the narrator Hen Peck describes a small crew of punchers led by old man Whittaker, along with their habits, songs, and grievances. The story centers on the ranch cook, first a Chinese man replaced after a mishap and then Harelip Hansen, whose terrible cooking draws complaints from the men and even from the pet magpie Cyclops. The magpie’s backstory and the ranch hands’ talk establish a comic western setting full of rough speech, music, and eccentric characters.

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With the one coin for fee

Helen R. Hull

Helen R. Hull’s book is a set of four short stories centered on a coastal town in southern New England and the changes brought by a late-September hurricane. One story focuses on Margaret Turner, a mathematics teacher who has bought an old family-linked house near the shore and lets visitors believe her connection to the land is more ancestral and enduring than it is. The setting includes the Lathrop property, the town’s roads, docks, and bay, and the contrast between old local history and newer summer development.

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Weaved by Warner

W. C. Tuttle

This Western story centers on Chuck Warner, a self-described liar who works with cowboys for Jay Bird Whittaker on the Cross J outfit. After Jay Bird leaves, Chuck meets Mighty Jones in Paradise and learns that Mighty has inflated his life in letters to his sister, who is now coming to visit with her family. The tale also brings in Magpie Simpkins and the other punchers, with Chuck preparing to pass along news in his own unreliable way.

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When the pilgrims hit Piperock

W. C. Tuttle

This Western tale is set in the dry town of Piperock, where Magpie Simpkins urges Ike Harper to join a Thanksgiving celebration. Ike is skeptical, expecting trouble from Piperock entertainments, but learns the event is being planned as a proper program with songs, recitations, and a possible masquerade. The story also shows the town’s unusual temperance era, with Buck Masterson serving soft drinks instead of liquor and the men gathering over raspberry juice and ice cream.

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Stray leaves

Alexander MacDonald

This book is a pilgrim diary of a Catholic journey across the Atlantic and through parts of Canada and Europe, combining travel notes with devotional observances. It follows a mixed group of priests and lay pilgrims as they depart Montreal, travel down the St. Lawrence, and hold Masses, hymns, and prayers aboard ship. The record also sketches the scenery and church life of places visited, including Montreal and Quebec, with attention to cathedrals, convents, and French Canadian religious practice.

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The chronicles of Break o'Day

E. Everett Howe

Set in rural Michigan, the novel centers on a large farm beside a marshy belt and on Major Ratke, a Mexican War veteran who is proud of his originality as an inventor and philosopher. As mortgage trouble and unreliable hired men weigh on the estate, he and his sister Mrs. Grippin manage the work and argue over labor, calculations, and improvements to the property. The opening also introduces Break o'Day as the nearby village visited by the men who leave the farm.

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The price of salt

Claire Morgan

Set in a crowded department store cafeteria, the novel follows Therese as she moves through her training and work at Frankenberg’s, feeling trapped by the store’s rigid routines and impersonal atmosphere. Around her are plans for a future with Richard, but those prospects feel uncertain against her growing sense that ordinary life and conversation leave something essential unspoken. The story centers on Therese’s relationship with Carol, whose touch and presence carry a charged intimacy that unsettles her.

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Death between the stars

Marion Zimmer Bradley

A Terran woman boards a cargo starship during a tense period of interstellar war, needing passage home before travel routes are disrupted. The ship’s only cabin has already been reserved by a nonhuman Theradin, Haalvordhen, who is also a telepath, and strict rules and customs make the arrangement socially fraught. The story centers on the captain’s dilemma and the narrator’s decision to share space with the alien passenger despite the risk of scandal and taboo.

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When love's labor's lost

W. C. Tuttle

In Piperock, Magpie Simpkins promotes a Labor Day novelty fight between a lion and Zeb Whittaker’s bull, Calamity, and plans to raise money by selling chances on the lion. Ike Harper doubts the scheme, worries about getting the animal from a circus at Granite, and expects the event to stir up trouble. Testament Tilton protests the idea as a desecration of the holiday, but Magpie keeps pressing the plan and recruiting support.

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With the joker wild

W. C. Tuttle

This western short story is narrated by Ike Harper, who presents himself and his partner Magpie Simpkins as prospectors living near Piperock. After they decide there must be gold on Whispering Crick, they find a rich pay streak, stake the Golden Hunch claim, and begin planning a dam and sawmill to work the ground. Their plans are complicated when Hailstorm Wilson warns them that the timber they want may be on forest reserve land and therefore restricted by law.

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A scarlet poppy, and other stories

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

This collection centers on American short fiction and domestic social life in the nineteenth century. One story opens with a marital dispute over a decorative scarlet paper poppy and quickly widens into an argument about money, property, and the rights of a wife’s separate income. The volume is issued by Harper & Brothers in New York.

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Waiting

Helen R. Hull

Helen R. Hull’s short story follows Anne Stephens as she looks back from her early forties on a few childhood scenes that shaped her understanding of her family. The memories center on her parents’ strained but intimate marriage, her mother’s sharp authority, her father’s quieter temper, her mother’s greater attachment to her eldest brother, and Anne’s own wish for a baby and a place in the household. The story presents a domestic life marked by love, jealousy, grief, and the limited roles available to women in the family.

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Buffalo Bill's death message

Prentiss Ingraham

This Western novel centers on William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, and presents him as a scout, rider, soldier, hunter, and showman. It follows his early life in Iowa and Kansas, his service in the Civil War and later Indian campaigns, and his rise to fame through buffalo hunting and Wild West exhibitions. The book also frames these adventures as part of a broader series of Western tales linked to Prentiss Ingraham’s stories about Cody.

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The Sun Virgin

Jr. Thomas Dixon

Set during Spain’s conquest drives in the early sixteenth century, this historical novel follows Francisco Pizarro’s troubled expedition in the South Sea region and the crisis it provokes in Panama. As rumors of hardship and failure spread, Almagro, Father Luque, and their allies try to defend the enterprise before Governor de los Rios, who prepares to end the venture and recall the men from Gallo. Alonso de Molina emerges as a key intermediary, caught between the governor’s orders and the hopes of Pizarro’s supporters.

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