Short Fiction by O. Henry

Contents

1. Imprint
2. Lord Oakhurst’s Curse
3. I12 new words
4. II12 new words
5. III: The Curse10 new words
6. Bexar Scrip No. 26928 new words
7. Queries and Answers10 new words
8. Aristocracy Versus Hash12 new words
9. Fickle Fortune or How Gladys Hustled10 new words
10. A Strange Story10 new words
11. The Great French Detective, in Austin1 new word
12. I12 new words
13. II12 new words
14. III10 new words
15. Tracked to Doom6 new words
16. A Snapshot at the President10 new words
17. Three Paragraphs11 new words
18. A Lunar Episode12 new words
19. The Sensitive Colonel Jay5 new words
20. The Distraction of Grief12 new words
21. A Sporting Interest12 new words
22. Had a Use for It11 new words
23. The Old Landmark12 new words
24. Getting at the Facts12 new words
25. Too Wise9 new words
26. Answers to Inquiries5 new words
27. Hush Money3 new words
28. Relieved9 new words
29. A Villainous Trick4 new words
30. Book Reviews12 new words
31. A Conditional Pardon10 new words
32. Bill Nye11 new words
33. A Guarded Secret12 new words
34. A Universal Favorite1 new word
35. Willing to Compromise8 new words
36. Ridiculous2 new words
37. Guessed Everything Else12 new words
38. A Slight Mistake12 new words
39. A Good Story Spoiled8 new words
40. Revenge12 new words
41. No Help for It2 new words
42. “Not So Much a Tam Fool”11 new words
43. A Guess-Proof Mystery Story2 new words
44. Chapter I8 new words
45. Chapter II6 new words
46. Chapter III5 new words
47. Chapter IV2 new words
48. Chapter V1 new word
49. An Inspiration8 new words
50. Coming to Him11 new words
51. His Pension
52. The Winner11 new words
53. Hungry Henry’s Ruse5 new words
54. One Consolation2 new words
55. An Unsuccessful Experiment9 new words
56. Even Worse2 new words
57. The Shock10 new words
58. The Cynic3 new words
59. Speaking of Big Winds11 new words
60. An Original Idea12 new words
61. Calculations9 new words
62. A Valedictory12 new words
63. Solemn Thoughts12 new words
64. Explaining It4 new words
65. Her Failing1 new word
66. A Disagreement3 new words
67. An Expensive Veracity12 new words
68. Grounds for Uneasiness8 new words
69. Recognition5 new words
70. His Doubt9 new words
71. A Cheering Thought12 new words
72. What It Was3 new words
73. Identified7 new words
74. Red Conlin’s Eloquence11 new words
75. Marvelous1 new word
76. The Stranger’s Appeal12 new words
77. The Colonel’s Romance12 new words
78. A Narrow Escape10 new words
79. A Years Supply10 new words
80. Slightly Mixed8 new words
81. Knew What Was Needed5 new words
82. Some Ancient News Notes12 new words
83. A Sure Method12 new words
84. A Tragedy11 new words
85. A Houston Romance11 new words
86. Nothing New Under the Sun10 new words
87. A Matter of Loyalty2 new words
88. By Easy Stages2 new words
89. Taking No Chances9 new words
90. The Other Side of It12 new words
91. The Bruised Reed6 new words
92. Journalistically Impossible
93. The Power of Reputation8 new words
94. A Personal Insult5 new words
95. Reconciliation11 new words
96. Buying a Piano11 new words
97. Too Late11 new words
98. A New Microbe9 new words
99. A Story for Men11 new words
100. Just a Little Damp10 new words
101. Her Mysterious Charm12 new words
102. Why He Hesitated12 new words
103. Convinced12 new words
104. How It Started12 new words
105. His Dilemma9 new words
106. Something for Baby11 new words
107. A Righteous Outburst11 new words
108. A Green Hand2 new words
109. A Fatal Error4 new words
110. The Rake-Off12 new words
111. The Telegram9 new words
112. An Opportunity Declined11 new words
113. The Confession of a Murderer12 new words
114. A Startling Demonstration11 new words
115. Leap Year Advice12 new words
116. After Supper3 new words
117. His Only Opportunity10 new words
118. Correcting a Great Injustice11 new words
119. Getting Acquainted12 new words
120. City Perils6 new words
121. Jack the Giant Killer11 new words
122. No Time to Lose2 new words
123. Paderewski’s Hair9 new words
124. Binkley’s Practical School of Journalism9 new words
125. The Apple10 new words
126. A Pastel11 new words
127. A Night Errant9 new words
128. Board and Ancestors10 new words
129. An X-Ray Fable8 new words
130. The Sporting Editor on Culture12 new words
131. A Question of Direction6 new words
132. The Prisoner of Zembla12 new words
133. Lucky Either Way4 new words
134. The “Bad Man”12 new words
135. Simmon’s Saturday Night6 new words
136. The Wounded Veteran7 new words
137. Her Ruse5 new words
138. Why Conductors Are Morose7 new words
139. Led Astray6 new words
140. The Mirage on the Frio7 new words
141. The Legend of San Jacinto7 new words
142. In Mezzotint12 new words
143. Whiskey Did It8 new words
144. A Strange Case10 new words
145. How Willie Saved Father9 new words
146. Veriton Villa6 new words
147. A Mystery of Many Centuries12 new words
148. The Good Boy8 new words
149. The Dissipated Jeweler7 new words
150. Sufficient Provocation9 new words
151. The Pint Flask8 new words
152. An Unknown Romance6 new words
153. How She Got in the Swim11 new words
154. An Odd Character8 new words
155. The Barber Talks9 new words
156. The Sunday Excursionist11 new words
157. Barbershop Adventure9 new words
158. Somebody Lied9 new words
159. The Lotus and the Cockleburrs6 new words
160. The Proem11 new words
161. “Fox-in-the-Morning”6 new words
162. The Lotus and the Bottle7 new words
163. Smith7 new words
164. Caught9 new words
165. Cupid’s Exile Number Two9 new words
166. The Phonograph and the Graft7 new words
167. Money Maze9 new words
168. The Admiral6 new words
169. The Flag Paramount6 new words
170. The Shamrock and the Palm5 new words
171. The Remnants of the Code6 new words
172. Shoes6 new words
173. Ships7 new words
174. Masters of Arts6 new words
175. Dicky6 new words
176. Rouge Et Noir7 new words
177. Two Recalls11 new words
178. The Vitagraphoscope10 new words
179. Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking6 new words
180. Georgia’s Ruling6 new words
181. Bulger’s Friend7 new words
182. A Blackjack Bargainer6 new words
183. The Duplicity of Hargraves6 new words
184. The Passing of Black Eagle6 new words
185. Cherchez La Femme6 new words
186. Friends in San Rosario11 new words
187. The Marionettes6 new words
188. By Courier10 new words
189. Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches6 new words
190. An Afternoon Miracle6 new words
191. A Call Loan9 new words
192. The Struggle of the Outliers9 new words
193. A Professional Secret6 new words
194. Cupid à la Carte6 new words
195. A Departmental Case9 new words
196. Round the Circle8 new words
197. The Cactus10 new words
198. The Renaissance at Charleroi6 new words
199. Hearts and Hands10 new words
200. A Ghost of a Chance10 new words
201. Art and the Bronco6 new words
202. Hygeia at the Solito6 new words
203. Sound and Fury10 new words
204. Roads of Destiny12 new words
205. The Left Branch6 new words
206. The Right Branch6 new words
207. The Main Road7 new words
208. The Robe of Peace8 new words
209. A Retrieved Reformation10 new words
210. One Dollar’s Worth6 new words
211. While the Auto Waits10 new words
212. The Guardian of the Accolade6 new words
213. October and June12 new words
214. The Marquis and Miss Sally6 new words
215. Out of Nazareth6 new words
216. The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear6 new words
217. The Whirligig of Life8 new words
218. The Fourth in Salvador6 new words
219. Jimmy Hayes and Muriel
220. I10 new words
221. II11 new words
222. III11 new words
223. Tobin’s Palm6 new words
224. The Lonesome Road6 new words
225. Confessions of a Humorist8 new words
226. At Arms with Morpheus11 new words
227. The Princess and the Puma10 new words
228. A Chaparral Christmas Gift11 new words
229. The Sphinx Apple6 new words
230. The Pimienta Pancakes6 new words
231. The Social Triangle11 new words
232. The Elusive Tenderloin10 new words
233. A Chaparral Prince6 new words
234. The Ferry of Unfulfilment10 new words
235. The Pendulum10 new words
236. The Hypotheses of Failure7 new words
237. Transformation of Martin Burney11 new words
238. A Little Local Colour10 new words
239. A Newspaper Story11 new words
240. A Madison Square Arabian Night9 new words
241. The Champion of the Weather12 new words
242. On Behalf of the Management6 new words
243. The Enchanted Kiss6 new words
244. The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes8 new words
245. After Twenty Years12 new words
246. The Sparrows in Madison Square8 new words
247. Lost on Dress Parade11 new words
248. The Reformation of Calliope8 new words
249. Witches’ Loaves10 new words
250. New York by Camp Fire Light11 new words
251. The Romance of a Busy Broker8 new words
252. A Matter of Mean Elevation6 new words
253. The Brief Debut of Tildy10 new words
254. Holding Up a Train9 new words
255. The Easter of the Soul8 new words
256. Ulysses and the Dogman9 new words
257. The Complete Life of John Hopkins8 new words
258. The Caliph and the Cad10 new words
259. The Door of Unrest6 new words
260. The Emancipation of Billy8 new words
261. A Harlem Tragedy6 new words
262. Dougherty’s Eye-Opener10 new words
263. The Rubber Plant’s Story12 new words
264. The Gold That Glittered11 new words
265. A Lickpenny Lover9 new words
266. The Missing Chord10 new words
267. A Dinner at ———8 new words
268. One Thousand Dollars11 new words
269. A Comedy in Rubber6 new words
270. The Defeat of the City11 new words
271. The Pride of the Cities10 new words
272. The Greater Coney9 new words
273. Transients in Arcadia7 new words
274. The Lady Higher Up12 new words
275. The Foreign Policy of Company 997 new words
276. Two Renegades6 new words
277. A Tempered Wind6 new words
278. The Roads We Take10 new words
279. The Furnished Room6 new words
280. A Philistine in Bohemia8 new words
281. The Diamond of Kali7 new words
282. A Little Talk About Mobs9 new words
283. Suite Homes and Their Romance9 new words
284. The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock10 new words
285. Makes the Whole World Kin11 new words
286. The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein9 new words
287. The Rathskeller and the Rose10 new words
288. A Sacrifice Hit8 new words
289. The Sleuths7 new words
290. From the Cabby’s Seat11 new words
291. The Theory and the Hound6 new words
292. The Coming-Out of Maggie9 new words
293. Squaring the Circle10 new words
294. Hearts and Crosses6 new words
295. The Ransom of Mack7 new words
296. The Cop and the Anthem8 new words
297. Christmas by Injunction7 new words
298. The Green Door11 new words
299. The Church with an Overshot-Wheel6 new words
300. The Badge of Policeman O’Roon7 new words
301. A Ramble in Aphasia6 new words
302. The Making of a New Yorker9 new words
303. A Service of Love8 new words
304. Psyche and the Pskyscraper8 new words
305. A Cosmopolite in a Café10 new words
306. The Girl and the Habit8 new words
307. Vanity and Some Sables6 new words
308. The Unknown Quantity12 new words
309. Babes in the Jungle10 new words
310. The Song and the Sergeant7 new words
311. Man About Town12 new words
312. Memoirs of a Yellow Dog10 new words
313. Mammon and the Archer11 new words
314. The Detective Detector8 new words
315. “Little Speck in Garnered Fruit”11 new words
316. The Shocks of Doom8 new words
317. Extradited from Bohemia7 new words
318. The Red Roses of Tonia6 new words
319. Springtime à la Carte7 new words
320. Between Rounds10 new words
321. Tommy’s Burglar10 new words
322. The Marry Month of May9 new words
323. The Girl and the Graft9 new words
324. The Call of the Tame6 new words
325. According to Their Lights12 new words
326. Roses, Ruses and Romance6 new words
327. The Voice of the City10 new words
328. Hostages to Momus1 new word
329. I11 new words
330. II9 new words
331. III11 new words
332. IV9 new words
333. Sisters of the Golden Circle10 new words
334. The Dog and the Playlet11 new words
335. An Adjustment of Nature7 new words
336. A Midsummer Knight’s Dream12 new words
337. The Lost Blend10 new words
338. An Unfinished Story10 new words
339. Nemesis and the Candy Man10 new words
340. The City of Dreadful Night9 new words
341. The Skylight Room6 new words
342. The Assessor of Success10 new words
343. From Each According to His Ability9 new words
344. The Poet and the Peasant6 new words
345. A Bird of Baghdad6 new words
346. The Plutonian Fire10 new words
347. “The Guilty Party”8 new words
348. The Count and the Wedding Guest9 new words
349. The Last Leaf7 new words
350. Elsie in New York8 new words
351. The Clarion Call10 new words
352. The Tale of a Tainted Tenner11 new words
353. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen12 new words
354. Blind Man’s Holiday6 new words
355. Telemachus, Friend8 new words
356. A Double-Dyed Deceiver8 new words
357. The Gift of the Magi9 new words
358. The Duel12 new words
359. The Thing’s the Play10 new words
360. The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball6 new words
361. The Buyer from Cactus City10 new words
362. The Harbinger11 new words
363. The Day Resurgent6 new words
364. The Fool-Killer9 new words
365. The Handbook of Hymen6 new words
366. Brickdust Row7 new words
367. Sociology in Serge and Straw6 new words
368. “Girl”11 new words
369. A Ruler of Men6 new words
370. The Trimmed Lamp6 new words
371. The Higher Abdication6 new words
372. Calloway’s Code6 new words
373. The Country of Elusion7 new words
374. The Ethics of Pig7 new words
375. Compliments of the Season6 new words
376. Seats of the Haughty8 new words
377. The Purple Dress9 new words
378. Past One at Rooney’s7 new words
379. The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson6 new words
380. The Man Higher Up6 new words
381. Proof of the Pudding11 new words
382. The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss6 new words
383. The Caballero’s Way6 new words
384. The Ransom of Red Chief7 new words
385. The Fifth Wheel6 new words
386. The World and the Door6 new words
387. Phoebe6 new words
388. “Next to Reading Matter”6 new words
389. The Day We Celebrate7 new words
390. The Octopus Marooned9 new words
391. Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet8 new words
392. Modern Rural Sports11 new words
393. The Chair of Philanthromathematics6 new words
394. The Hand That Riles the World11 new words
395. The Exact Science of Matrimony8 new words
396. A Midsummer Masquerade6 new words
397. Shearing the Wolf11 new words
398. Innocents of Broadway7 new words
399. Conscience in Art9 new words
400. The Memento9 new words
401. The Enchanted Profile6 new words
402. A Night in New Arabia6 new words
403. The Headhunter6 new words
404. The Moment of Victory6 new words
405. “The Rose of Dixie”6 new words
406. Buried Treasure6 new words
407. The Last of the Troubadours6 new words
408. Strictly Business6 new words
409. “What You Want”10 new words
410. The Hiding of Black Bill6 new words
411. Schools and Schools
412. I11 new words
413. II11 new words
414. III10 new words
415. IV11 new words
416. V3 new words
417. The Discounters of Money8 new words
418. He Also Serves6 new words
419. The Third Ingredient6 new words
420. Thimble, Thimble9 new words
421. Helping the Other Fellow5 new words
422. II9 new words
423. III8 new words
424. IV6 new words
425. Supply and Demand6 new words
426. To Him Who Waits6 new words
427. The Higher Pragmatism1 new word
428. I12 new words
429. II11 new words
430. Bestseller1 new word
431. I12 new words
432. II10 new words
433. III12 new words
434. IV12 new words
435. No Story10 new words
436. A Poor Rule6 new words
437. Rus in Urbe9 new words
438. The Venturers11 new words
439. A Municipal Report6 new words
440. A Christmas Pi12 new words
441. A Technical Error7 new words
442. Let Me Feel Your Pulse6 new words
443. The Friendly Call9 new words
444. The Snow Man6 new words
445. Law and Order6 new words
446. An Unfinished Christmas Story12 new words
447. The Unprofitable Servant8 new words
448. A Fog in Santone6 new words
449. The Dream9 new words
450. Endnotes
451. Colophon
452. Uncopyright