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Heimweh and Other Stories

by John Luther Long

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  1. 1Heimweh
  2. 2II — Happiness Is Better Than Church
  3. 3III — Open the Door to Joy — Always
  4. 4IV — War Is Glorious at the Beginning but Not at the End
  5. 5V — We Go Out to Fight Under the Flag; We Return — Under It
  6. 6VI — Growing Old Is Only an Idea — Until We Know
  7. 7VII — Making Believe Brings Things
  8. 8VIII — The End of Life Is as Its Beginning — Simple
  9. 9IX — Good Baskets Must Keep Their Bottoms
  10. 10X — Things Feel Heavier in Age
  11. 11XI — But the Poor-House May Be One of the Mansions in Our Father’s…
  12. 12The Siren
  13. 13II — On the Bottom of the Sea
  14. 14III — She May Have Had Brothers
  15. 15IV — But She Was Best of All
  16. 16V — His Grandfather’s Courage Made Her Want to Love Him
  17. 17VI — Her Ancestors Wore Scales
  18. 18VII — Strange That Love Should Make One Afraid
  19. 19The Loaded Gun
  20. 20II — An Ounce of Whiskey or an Ounce of Brains
  21. 21III — Calling a Man a Pig
  22. 22IV — He Did Not Know That It Was Loaded
  23. 23V — A Fool and His Money
  24. 24VI — The Old Man’s Last Cent
  25. 25VII — Her Big Trump
  26. 26Liebereich
  27. 27II — Emmy and He Were Never Apart
  28. 28III — “Vergissnichtmein”
  29. 29IV — The Night-Shirt With the Feather-Stitching of Blue
  30. 30V — The Second Opening of the Door
  31. 31“Iupiter Tonans”
  32. 32II — And the Polite Cannon of Weiss Nicht
  33. 33III — The Soup-Spring
  34. 34IV — Knock Wood
  35. 35V — And Shoot to Make Holes
  36. 36VI — Who Broke Ruhet’s Leg?
  37. 37VII — Pooh!
  38. 38“Sis”
  39. 39II — The Eyes That Wept Till They Went Blind
  40. 40III — The Golden Teapot With the Blue Rose
  41. 41IV — The Story at Last. Attend!
  42. 42V — Hiliary Loved Both and Both Loved Him
  43. 43VI — She Believed in Miracles. Do You?
  44. 44VII — That Was a Great Time for Kissing
  45. 45VIII — What May Be Seen on a Doorstep
  46. 46Thor’s Emerald
  47. 47II — When the Summer Came Again
  48. 48III — To the Land of the Brave
  49. 49IV — The Home of the Free
  50. 50V — The Quality of Justice
  51. 51VI — The Foolishness of Preaching
  52. 52VII — To a Higher Tribunal
  53. 53VIII — The Shadows of Death
  54. 54Guile
  55. 55II — Patchouly
  56. 56III — The Calyxlike Bonnet
  57. 57IV — The Fiddling of Fortune
  58. 58V — A Dangerous Train
  59. 59VI — Similia Similibus Curantur
  60. 60VII — The Ineffable Whirl
  61. 61VIII — The Length of a Minute
  62. 62IX — At Ten in the Morning
  63. 63X — By the Right of a Husband

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