Prize stories of 1951 : the O. Henry awards / selected and edited by Herschel Brickell.

The hunters / Harris Downey -- The burning / Eudora Welty -- The house of flowers / Truman Capote -- Sense of direction / Leonard Casper -- The pot of gold / John Cheever -- I came from yonder mountain / Evan S. Connell, Jr. -- Black water blues / Monty Culver -- A name for the city / William Faulkner -- In the time of demonstrations / James B. Hall -- Peggety's parcel of shortcomings / John Hersey -- A sense of destination / Faye Riter Kensinger -- Old Century's river / Oliver La Farge -- The Jersey heifer / Peggy Harding Love -- The invaders / Robie Macauley -- The sojourner / Carson McCullers -- Monte Saint Angelo / Arthur Miller -- The butcherbirds / Esther Patt -- Homecoming / Elizabeth Gregg Patterson -- The shadow of an arm / Thomas Hal Phillips -- Cyclists' raid / Frank Rooney -- Slow journey / Sylvia Shirley -- Who too was a soldier / John Campbell Smith -- A country love story / Jean Stafford -- It's a nice day-Sunday / R.E. Thompson.