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Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He is now remembered most for his science fiction and mystery stories. When Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tales were making their literary splash, Barr published in the Idler the first Holmes parody, "The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs" (1892), a spoof that was continued a decade later in another Barr story, "The Adventure of the Second Swag" (1904). Despite the jibe at the growing Holmes phenomenon, Barr and Doyle remained on very good terms. Doyle describes him in his memoirs Memories and Adventures as, "a volcanic Anglo -- or rather Scot-American, with a violent manner, a wealth of strong adjectives, and one of the kindest natures underneath it all."

FROM "THE VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD":It is a bad thing for a man to die with an unsatisfied thirst for revenge parching his soul. David Allen died, cursing Bernard Heaton and lawyer Grey; hating the lawyer who had won the case even more than the man who was to gain by the winning. Yet if cursing were to be done, David should rather have cursed his own stubbornness and stupid-ity.Also included in this volume: "Transformation," "The Shadow of the Greenback," "The Understudy," "'Out of Thun,'" "A Dramatic Point," "Two Florentine Balconies," "The Exposure of Lord Stansford" and "Purification.

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Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree Came by special delivery. Full and fresh and glistening green--The biggest tree he'd ever seen.That was the trouble. The tree was so tall, it couldn't stand up straight in his parlor. Mr. Willowby asked his butler to chop off the top of the tree. What happens to the treetop? Where will it be for Christmas? Snuggle up with this story and follow along through a forest full of friendly creatures who get to share in a bit of Christmas joy.