the eyes have it short story

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 06:20

... expect. But there's the other side of the proposition. I am going on to tell you how the weather furnished me and Idaho Green with an elegant education. We was up in the Bitter Root ... in Rosa, and was invited out to the most dressed-up and high-toned entertainments. It was at a piano recital and quail-eating contest in the city hall, for the benefit of the fire company, that ... transferred to the meteorological department. They have been learned to read; and they could very easily glance at the morning papers and then wire in to the main office what kind of weather to expect....

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... to the south, with its reaches of light-green, billowy mesquite flats in the lower places, and its rises crowned with nearly black masses of short chaparral. Through the mesquite flat wound the ... brother with a Curtis bullet in him on the bank of the lake at Cibolo. And then the Kiowa Indians made their last raid upon the ranches between the Frio and the Rio Grande, and Truesdell at the ... obloquy; but they were polite to Curly. He saw it, and it stung him as much as Ranse hoped it would. Then came a night that brought a cold, wet norther. Wilson, the youngest of the outfit, had...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... start a row with 'em. It didn't make any difference how big they were, or how much science they had, I got away with 'em. If I'd only just have had the confidence in the ring ... jaw," said he. "Go on." And then, incredible as it may seem to the lovers in the world who confide their sorrows only to the night wind and the gibbous moon, I laid bare my secret ... let's go on with the story. II Once upon a time I found a ten-cent magazine lying on a bench in a little city park. Anyhow, that was the amount he asked me for when I sat on the bench next...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... " The lawyer paused, with significance. "Not yet," said the other, with an arch wave of his cigar, "not just yet. Let us approach the subject with the caution that should have ... Lawyer Gooch stooped to gather up the articles. The first was a collar; and the omniscient eye of the man of law perceived, wonder- ingly, the initials H.K.J. marked upon it. Then came a comb, a ... newspaper. I have other clients waiting. I will ask you kindly to come to the point." "Well, you needn't get so stiff around the gills about it, " said the lady, with a snap...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... of the boys. They accepted him as a decided damper, for his attempts at sportiveness were so forced that they might as well have essayed their games in a cathedral. Neither he nor any other ... revelry within. He stopped and looked through the honeysuckle vines in the open door. Panchita was amusing her younger brothers and sisters. She wore a man's clothes no doubt those of the ... shoes, giving them the semblance of tan leather. High collar and flowing necktie were not omitted. Panchita was an actress. Dry Valley saw his affectedly youthful gait, his limp where the right...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room. In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked ... were loosed. The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall. And then, with the coming of the night the north wind ... dark green near its stem, with its serrated edges tinted with the yellow of dissolution and decay, it hung bravely from the branch some twenty feet above the ground. " ;It is the last one,"...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... one-sided 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 ... out the window, " of 'winter lingering in the lap of spring,' though the metaphor is not in the most refined taste." A little later she walked down by the side of the little ... that we are brothers to the chowder-doomed clam and the donkey; lineal scions of the pansy and the chimpanzee, and but cousins- german to the cooing doves, the quacking ducks and the housemaids...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... doing with their Christmas toys. "When I came in from the pasture, Marilla was in the room where the piano was. I could see by the strings and woolsacks on the floor that she had had it ... to the arts and graces just because we happen to live out in the brush. It& apos;s a lonesome life for a woman; and if a little music can make it any better, why not have it? That's the ... at it. " SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Missing Chord I stopped overnight at the sheep-ranch of Rush Kinney, on the Sandy Fork of the Nueces. Mr. Kinney and I had been strangers up to the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... from the captain up. You'd have expected him to gravitate naturally to the job of an orderly to the colonel, or typewriter in the commissary but not any. He created the part of the flaxen-haired ... crazy over its 'gallant son.' The News had an editorial tearfully begging the Government to call off the regular army and the national guard, and let Willie carry on the rest of the war ... put on the clean collars we brought along inside the sweat-bands of our hats-in short, a room to fix up in just like they have everywhere at high-toned doings. A little farther down the hall...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... around them. Coyotes yelping over there on the hill! No fear. And yet Josefa rode closer. A little hand seemed to grope. Givens found it with his own. The ponies kept an even gait. The hands ... decided to pass the night at the Crossing. There was a fine water hole in the river-bed. The banks were thickly covered with great trees, undergrown with brush. Back from the water hole fifty ... Antone in the wagons, she bowed her smooth, dark head, and shared the fate of the Danae. To avoid lese-majeste you have been presented first to the king and queen. They do not enter the story, ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... I struck the woods, and was back at the cave in another half an hour. I opened the note, got near the lantern and read it to Bill. It was written with a pen in a crabbed hand, and the sum and ... him with a rock half as big into it and pedals away again back toward Summit. I waited an hour and then concluded the thing was square. I slid down the tree, got the note, slipped along the ... over the contiguous vicinity. Over toward Summit I expected to see the sturdy yeomanry of the village armed with scythes and pitchforks beating the countryside for the dastardly kidnappers....

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... jubilee if the heathens did put their brand on it, " said Pearson; "or else Tonia wouldn't have anything to do with it. And they pull it off at church, too. Suppose there ain't ... cheerfully than the ostrich gives up his tip or the aigrette lays down its life. Neither possessed the ingenuity to conceive a means of supplying the sad deficiency against the coming Sabbath. ... against the dust, the fair aggregation would then merrily jog the ten miles to Cactus, where on the morrow they would array themselves, subjugate man, do homage to Easter, and cause jealous agitation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... she sat, near the close of a long life, and epitomised the experience of the world. Still the man to whom she spoke gazed above her head, contemplating the silent son of the old mother. "What ... Choosing with a rapid eye the street from which the weakest and least accurate fire had come, he invaded it at a double-quick, abandoning the unprotected middle of the street. With rare cunning the ... man with a perplexed countenance, wearing a big badge with "City Marshal" engraved upon it, stood over him. A little old woman in black, with a wrinkled face and sparkling black eyes, ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners. Col. Aquila Telfair was the man for the place. By all the rights of learning, family, reputation, and Southern traditions, he was its ... frazzled at the ends. The committee solicitously offered him the position of managing editor, make more money writing with a fountain-pen than you or I can with one that lets the ink run. ... answered Colonel Telfair, " ;it is this: the article you refer to was handed to me by the owners of the magazine with instructions to publish it. The literary quality of it did not appeal to me....

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... the only way we can get our picture taken is with a kinetoscope. We are the vagrant vine and the flitting fig tree. You know the proverb: "Where the rubber plant sits in the window the ... up to the door." We are the city equivalent to the woodbine and the honeysuckle. No other vegetable except the Pittsburg stogie can withstand as much handling as we can. When the family ... automobiles in the street and the dates on the labels inside at the same time. Well, then the angel that was molting for the musical comedy lost his last feather and the company broke up. The ponies...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15