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The Trimmed Lamp (1907)

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The Trimmed Lamp (1907)
by O. Henry
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“Wooed her across the counter with a King Cophetua air”

THE TRIMMED LAMP

THE

Trimmed Lamp

AND OTHER STORIES OF THE FOUR MILLION


BY

O. HENRY

Author of Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, etc.



Frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens


NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVII

Copyright, 1907, by McClure, Phillips & Co.

Published April, 1907



Copyright, 1906, by The S. S. McClure Co.

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Trimmed Lamp 3
A Madison Square Arabian Night 22
The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball 32
The Pendulum 42
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen 50
The Assessor of Success 59
The Buyer from Cactus City 70
The Badge of Policeman O’Roon 81
Brickdust Row 89
The Making of a New Yorker 102
Vanity and Some Sables 111
The Social Triangle 121
The Purple Dress 130
The Foreign Policy of Company 99 139
The Lost Blend 150
A Harlem Tragedy 159
“The Guilty Party”—An East Side Tragedy 169
According to Their Lights 179
A Midsummer Knight’s Dream 189
The Last Leaf 198
The Count and the Wedding Guest 209
The Country of Elusion 219
The Ferry of Unfulfilment 233
The Tale of a Tainted Tenner 240
Elsie in New York 249


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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