The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers features all five Short Stories by Georg Ebers: "In the Blue Pike", "A Question", "The Elixir", "The Greylock", and "The Nuts". Excerpt: ""May a thunderbolt strike you!" The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabble who surrounded him only two persons understood his meaning-a fading, sickly girl, and the red-haired woman, only a few years her senior, who led the swearing man by a chain, like a tame bear."