The Snow Storm part 1
Russia
Russia produced a literature of its own some centuries before the Nineteenth, but it was not a consistently characteristic product like that, for instance,...
Supply and Demand part 8
The dust weighed before you, and taken at sixteen dollars the ounco the highest price on the Gaudymala coast.`
“Then the crowd disperses all of...
Supply and Demand part 7
`“I`ll tell you what you are,` says I. `You`re a plain, contemptible miser. You preach supply and you forget demand. Now, supply,` I goes...
Supply and Demand part 6
“`Tell `em, says I to McClintock, `it ain`t money I want tell `em I`ll take gold-dust. Tell `em I`ll allow `em sixteen dollars an...
Supply and Demand part 5
“`I conquered `em, spectacularly,` goes on King Shane, `and then I’ went at `em with economical politics, law, sleight-of-hand, and a kind of New...
Supply and Demand part 4
“He leads me into the biggest house, and sets the chairs and a kind of a drink the color of milk. It was the...
Supply and Demand part 3
“After this man and me got through our conversation, which left him dry of information, I shook hands with him and told him I...
Supply and Demand part 2
“I heard it from a king,” said Finch “the white king of a tribe of Indians in South America.”
I was interested but not surprised....
Supply and Demand part 1
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 1910)
William Sydney Porter who wrote under the pen-name “O. Henry” was born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1862....
Doctor Faust and the Usurer part 2
I will give you either an arm or a leg, whichever shall best please you, and which shall be made over to you as...