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A good (old) story

Just a little bit of publicity for one of the internets oldest still existing web sites, Project Guttenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73756), and hopefully too for Grandad's blog (Link in the sidebar), which has now been taken over by his daughter Kate.  A warning though, if you read old books, don't expect them to be politically correct in todays terms!!   I've been reading this 1923 collection of short stories and thought those of you who who like a good horror tale might like this.  Enjoy.  :-) DERRICK’S RETURN   BY GOUVERNEUR MORRIS   From _Cosmopolitan_     Derrick dreamed that Indians had captured him and had laid him face down in their camp fire and were slowly burning his head off. As a matter of fact a surgeon was working out a difficult problem in the back of Derrick’s throat, and for a little while, toward the end of the operation, anesthesia had not been complete.   The operation was a succes...