One day a father was teaching his son and said, 'The keys to your success are keeping your word and cleverness. Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter wh...

I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her t...

Pinocchio woke up the next morning. There was a plate of food beside his bed. He ate the food, and walked downstairs. The blue-haired fairy was sitting in a chair. She told him she...

The next day came. It was time to go to school. He waved to Geppetto and walked out the door. Soon, he came to a large tent. Inside it, there was a puppet show. Many people were la...

Pinocchio was very happy. He ran back to the old man‘s house. He was happy to be free. He ran inside and closed the door. Then, he heard a little voice. It said, 'You shouldn‘t b...

    Mastro Antonio was a carpenter. He had a red nose that looked like a cherry, so everyone called him Mastro Cherry. One day, Mastro Cherry was making a table. He found...

There are five peas in a bean pod. When they are mature, a small boy picks it and opens it. The small boy puts the first one into an air gun. 'Ping' …the pea is shot out. It say...

Comedian Louis CK said on Tuesday that he had taken in $500,000 in less than three days from selling his latest standup special directly to the public at $5 a pop. This should make...

Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an...

    Never ever had he been so thirsty for a look at the world outside the window like now. The disease befell so furiously that he could not be spared and was arranged ...