New Yorkers (Short Story)

... mountains he became a prey to a kind of spurious and uneven poetry, which may have SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Handbook Of Hymen 'Tis the opinion of myself, Sanderson Pratt, who sets ... powers of Governors, the dates of the Roman aqueducts, how many pounds of rice going without three beers a day would buy, the average annual temperature of Augusta, Main...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... the lowlands of Mississippi when he came to Texas with his rifle in the SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Higher Abdication Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a ... his "subject" held his ground at each successive higher step. But the steps were sometimes far apart. Once he got at the quart bottle of whisky kept sacredly in the grub te...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... girls?" "Why, several," I answered. "And a few others." SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Higher Pragmatism I Where to go for wisdom has become a question of serious import. ... ain't. But I will have, by the arrows of Cupid! That is, if " My voice must have trailed away and muffled itself in uncertainty and despair. "I see yo...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... know who I am by this SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Hypotheses Of Failure LAWYER GOOCH bestowed his undivided attention upon the engrossing arts of his profession. But one flight of fancy did ... shackles of Hymen. He had been known to build up instead of demolishing, to reunite instead of severing, to lead erring and foolish ones back into the fold instead of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... consumed by the act of breathing and preserving the perpendicular. SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Indian Summer Of Dry Valley Johnson Dry Valley Johnson shook the bottle. You have to shake the ... strawberry patch. To the outraged vision of Dry Valley there seemed to be a sheep corral full of them; perhaps they numbered five or six. Between the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... leaf was still there. Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove. SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Last Leaf ... blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell." Sue look solicitously out of the window. What was there...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Marry Month Of May PRITHEE, smite the poet in the eye when he would sing to you praises of the month of May. It is a month presided over by the spirits of mischief ... out the window, " of 'winter lingering in the lap of spring,' though the metaphor is not in the most refined taste." A lit...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... it any better, why not have it? That's the way I look at it." SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Missing Chord I stopped overnight at the sheep-ranch of Rush Kinney, on the Sandy Fork ... spring. In the nearest corral a flock of sheep lay silent until a groundless panic would send a squad of them huddling together with a drumming rush. For other sounds a shrill family o...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... heard of a code. All began to explain to the head investi- gator that newspapers never use a code, anyhow that is, a cipher code. Of course the Associated Press stuff is a sort of code an abbreviation, ... hear of a code belonging to the office a long time ago - a private code? You know what a code is, don't you?" "Yah," said Heffelbauer. "Sure I know...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... hat, and beneath it the kindly, smooth face of Colonel Abner Coltrane. SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY A Blackjack Bargainer The most disreputable thing in Yancey Goree's law office was Goree ... Garveys an enormous quantity of ready, green, crisp money for their thirty-acre patch of cleared land, mentioning, as an excuse for such a mad action, some irrelevant and inadequate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... of 2000 head of two-year-olds down near Rocky Ford on the Rio Grande that SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY A Call Loan In those days the cattlemen were the anointed. They were the grandees of the ... much money on a call loan. It's been called, and the man that called it is a man I've laid on the same blanket with in cow-camps and ranger-camps for ten years. He can call...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... thinking about, Mex," he remarked in his usual mild drawl, "to have forgot all about a Christmas present I got to give. I'm SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY A Chaparral Christmas Gift ... possessed a quantity of jet-black hair, a pair of extremely frank, deep-brown eyes and a laugh that rippled across the prairie like the sound of a hidden brook. The name...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... at the quarries? One came in the last mail to say that she is a little sick, already. Her mamma is very anxious to hear again." "Yes," said old man Ballinger, "thar's ... knew that it was Peter Hildesmuller's fault, so they paid no SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY A Chaparral Prince Nine o'clock at last, and the drudging toil of the day was ended....

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... I said carefully. 'I'm very sorry.' I tried to look away from her. NEW YORKERS SHORT STORIES What makes one city different from another city? Is it the buildings, the weather, ... kind of people lived in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century? Are New Yorkers different now from a hundred years ago? Cities grow bigger with the years, new buil...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 16:11

... kind of people lived in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century? Are New Yorkers different now from a hundred years ago? Cities grow bigger with the years, new buildings are put up ... NEW YORKERS SHORT STORIES What makes one city different from another city? Is it the buildings, ... down, horses are replaced by cars and buses, fashions change. But people do not...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2014, 23:00