


Produced by David Widger





ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, VOLUME 11 (of 13)


By Guy De Maupassant


Translated by:

    ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A.
    A. E. HENDERSON, B.A.
    MME. QUESADA and Others



VOLUME XI.


     THE UMBRELLA
     BELHOMME'S BEAST
     DISCOVERY
     THE ACCURSED BREAD
     THE DOWRY
     THE DIARY OF A MAD MAN
     THE MASK
     THE PENGUINS ROCK
     A FAMILY
     SUICIDES
     AN ARTIFICE
     DREAMS
     SIMON'S PAPA




THE UMBRELLA

Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a
centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with
regard to the multiplication