Archives for O. Henry
The Last Leaf by O’Henry
The Last Leaf by O'Henry In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places." These "places" make strange angles and curves. One street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable ...
The Purple Dress by O. Henry
The Purple Dress by O. Henry We are to consider the shade known as purple. It is a color justly in repute among the sons and daughters of man. Emperors claim it for their especial dye. Good fellows everywhere seek to bring their noses to the genial ...
The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear by OHenry
Published On Tuesday, February 01, 2011. Under: O. Henry.
The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear
by OHenry
I saw a light in Jeff Peters's room over the Red Front Drug Store. I hastened toward it, for I had not known that Jeff was in town. He is a man of the Hadji breed, of a ...
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O’Henry
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O'Henry There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks ...
THE POET AND THE PEASANT by O.Henry
THE POET AND THE PEASANT by O.Henry The other day a poet friend of mine, who has lived in close communion with nature all his life, wrote a poem and took it to an editor. It was a living pastoral, full of the genuine breath of the fields, ...
THE DUEL by O.Henry
THE DUEL by O.Henry The gods, lying beside their nectar on 'Lympus and peeping over the edge of the cliff, perceive a difference in cities. Although it would seem that to their vision towns must appear as large or small ant-hills without special characteristics, yet it ...
WITCHES’ LOAVES by O’Henry
Published On Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Under: O. Henry.
WITCHES' LOAVES
by O'Henry
Miss Martha Meacham kept the little bakery on the corner (the one where you go up three steps, and the bell tinkles when you open the door).
Miss Martha was forty, her bank-book showed a credit of two thousand dollars, and she possessed two ...
THE COP AND THE ANTHEM by O. Henry
Published On Sunday, May 02, 2010. Under: O. Henry.
"O. Henry" was the pen name adopted by William Sydney Porter. He began his short story career by contributing Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking to McClure's Magazine in 1899.
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Published On Friday, March 05, 2010. Under: O. Henry.
The Gift of the Magi
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the ...
