A BURGLAR'S CHRISTMAS by WILLA CATHER

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales.
0:34.0	This is your host John Hagenorn and just in time for the holidays
0:38.0	a burglars Christmas by Willa Cather. a story of forgiveness.
0:45.1	Two very shabby-looking young men stood at the corner of Prairie Avenue in 80th Street, looking
0:50.0	despondently at the carriages that wereled by. It was Christmas Eve and the streets were
0:55.2	full of vehicles, florist wagons, grocers, carts, and carriages. The streets were in that half liquid,
1:02.1	half congealed condition peculiar to the streets of Chicago at that season of the year.
1:06.5	The swift wheels that spun by sometimes through the slush of mud and snow over the two young men who were talking on the corner.
1:15.0	Well, remarked the elder of the two, I guess we are at our robes end, sure enough.
1:20.0	How do you feel?
1:22.0	Pretty shaky.
1:24.0	The wind's sharp tonight.
1:25.0	If I had anything to eat, I might mind it so much.
1:28.0	There is simply no show.
1:31.0	I'm sick of the whole business.
1:32.0	It looks like there's nothing for it but the lake.
1:36.0	Oh nonsense I thought you had more grit got anything left you can hock nothing but my beard and I'm afraid they wouldn't find it worth a pawn ticket.
1:45.9	said the younger man ruefully rubbing the weak's growth of stubble on his face.
1:51.4	You got any folks anywhere now's your time to strike them if you have.
1:55.0	Never mind if I have, they're out of the question.
2:00.0	Well, you'll be out of it before many hours if you don't make a move of some sort.
2:05.0	A man's got to eat.
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