The Voice of the City (1908)

by O. Henry

For works with similar titles, see The Voice of the City.

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THE

VOICE OF THE CITY

FURTHER STORIES OF THE FOUR MILLION

BY

O. HENRY

Author of Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, The Trimmed Lamp, Heart of the West, etc.

NEW YORK
THE McCLURE COMPANY
MCMVIII

Acknowledgment is made to the New York World and to Ainslee's Magazine for permission to republish these stories

 

Copyright, 1908, by The McClure Company

Published, May, 1908

 

Copyright, 1903, 1908, by Ainslee Magazine Company
Copyright, 1904, 1905, 1906, by Press Publishing Company

CONTENTS

The Voice of the City	3
The Complete Life of John Hopkins	11
A Lickpenny Lover	21
Dougherty’s Eye-Opener	31
“Little Speck in Garnered Fruit”	40
The Harbinger	49
While the Auto Waits	58
A Comedy in Rubber	67
One Thousand Dollars	75
The Defeat of the City	85
The Shocks of Doom	95
The Plutonian Fire	105
Nemesis and the Candy Man	115
Squaring the Circle	125
Roses, Ruses and Romance	132
The City of Dreadful Night	141
The Easter of the Soul	149
The Fool-Killer	157
Transients in Arcadia	169
The Rathskeller and the Rose	178
The Clarion Call	187
Extradited from Bohemia	199
A Philistine in Bohemia	209
From Each According to His Ability	218
The Memento	229

 

THE VOICE OF THE CITY