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Note - 4 Titles for O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )

Options A Collection Of Stories
By O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )
... When The Rose of Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for 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 foreordained, fit, and logical editor. So, a committee of the patriotic Georgia citizens who had subscribed the founding fund of $100,000 called upon Colonel Telfair at his residence, ...
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Roads Of Destiny And Other Stories
By O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )
... I go to seek on many roads What is to be. True heart and strong, with love to light -- Will they not bear me in the fight To order, shun or wield or mould My Destiny? The song was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the countryside. The company about the inn table applauded heartily, for the young poet paid for the wine. Only the notary, M. Papineau, shook his head a little at the lines, for he was a man of books, and he had ...
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The Voice Of The City And Other Stories
By O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )
... Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust. I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiology class. The most striking line of it was this: The shin-bone is the long-est bone in the hu-man bod-y. ...
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Whirligigs A Collection Of Stories
By O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )
... A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is true; but the Spanish purser of the fruit steamer El Carrero swore to me by the shrine of Santa Guadalupe that he had the facts from the U. S. vice-consul at La Paz -- a person who could not possibly have been cognizant of half of them. As for the adage quoted above, I take pleasure in puncturing it by ...
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