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I—Twelve Stories
The Red Roses of Tonia Round The Circle The Rubber Plant’s Story Out of Nazareth Confessions of a Humorist The Sparrows in Madison Square H…
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The Red Roses of Tonia
A trestle burned down on the International Railroad. The south-bound from San Antonio was cut off for the next forty-eight hours. On that t…
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Round The Circle
This story is especially interesting as an early treatment (1902) of the theme afterward developed with a surer hand in The Pendulum. “Find…
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The Rubber Plant’s Story
We rubber plants form the connecting link between the vegetable kingdom and the decorations of a Waldorf-Astoria scene in a Third Avenue th…
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Out of Nazareth - (1)
Okochee, in Georgia, had a boom, and J. Pinkney Bloom came out of it with a “wad.” Okochee came out of it with a half-million-dollar debt,…
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Out of Nazareth - (2)
“The mountains ever call to their children,” murmured Mrs. Blaylock. “I feel that life will take on the rosy hue of hope again in among the…
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Confessions of a Humorist
There was a painless stage of incubation that lasted twenty-five years, and then it broke out on me, and people said I was It. But they cal…
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The Sparrows in Madison Square
The young man in straitened circumstances who comes to New York City to enter literature has but one thing to do, provided he has studied c…
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Hearts and Hands
At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. express. In one coach there sat a very pretty young w…
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The Cactus
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the d…
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The Detective Detector
I was walking in Central Park with Avery Knight, the great New York burglar, highwayman, and murderer. “But, my dear Knight,” said I, “it s…
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The Dog and the Playlet
This story has been rewritten and published in “Strictly Business” under the title, The Proof of the Pudding. Usually it is a cold day in J…
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A Little Talk About Mobs
“I see,” remarked the tall gentleman in the frock coat and black slouch hat, “that another street car motorman in your city has narrowly ex…
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The Snow Man - (1)
EDITORIAL NOTE.—Before the fatal illness of William Sydney Porter (known through his literary work as “O. Henry”) this American master of s…
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The Snow Man - (2)
He stood up and fixed us with a solemn eye. None of us moved under that Orphic suspense until, “A woman,” remarked George. Miss Willie Adam…