The best American short stories, 1949 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.

Mighty, mighty pretty / George Albee -- The vacation / Livingston Biddle, Jr. -- The farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop -- Under the sky / Paul Bowles -- My father and the circus / Frank Brookhouser -- Exodus / Borden Deal -- Small miracle / Adele Dolokhov -- The white hound / Ward Dorrance -- Li Chang's million / Henry Gregor Felsen -- Departure of Hubbard / Robert Gibbons -- In the flow of time / Beatrice Griffith -- Evenings at home / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Castle of snow / Joseph Heller -- A sound in the night / Ruth Herschberger -- Jerry / Laura Hunter -- Of the river and Uncle Pidcock / Jim Kjelgaard -- Footnote to American history / Roderick Lull -- The vault / T.D. Mabry -- Vacia / Agnes Macdonald -- The men / Jane Mayhall -- The Heifer / Patrick Morgan -- All prisoners here / Irving Pfeffer -- Episode of a house remembered / John Rogers -- A girl I knew / J.D. Salinger -- Justice has no number / Alfredo Segre -- An island for my friends / Madelon Shapiro -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- Road to the Isles / Jessamyn West.