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The Reward of Enterprise

Ward Muir

First published 1924
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An adventurous young man, crossing the ocean in a steamer, takes a swim over the side and encounters a shark.

First published in McClure's Magazine, January 1913.
This story appears in some lists of genre fiction because Ashley and Contento indexed the entire contents of Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors in The Supernatural Index without indicating which stories in it (such as this one) are not actually speculative.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1924 Cover Twenty and Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors Thornton Butterworth Anthology 216
1924 Cover Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors D. Appleton & Company Anthology 263