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The Voice of the City (1908)

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The Voice of the City (1908)
by O. Henry
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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



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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