AN ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Three friends living in New York City become infatuated with a waitress at their local diner and go to great lengths to keep her from running off with a wealthy prospector who had just arrived from Alaska.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.0 | Today's Story, an Adjustment of Nature by O Henry. |
| 0:38.1 | In an art exhibition the other day, I saw a painting that had been sold for $5,000. |
| 0:47.0 | The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favorite food and a pet theory. His |
| 0:54.2 | Pabulum was an unquenchable belief in the unerring artistic adjustment of nature. |
| 0:58.9 | His theory was fixed around corn-be beef hash with poached egg. |
| 1:03.2 | There was a story behind the picture, so I went home and let it drip out of a fountain pen. |
| 1:08.4 | The idea of craft, but that is not the beginning of the story. |
| 1:14.0 | Three years ago, Kraft, Bill Judkins, a poet, and I took our meals at Cyphers on 8th Avenue. |
| 1:21.0 | I say, Took. When we had money Cifer got it off of us as he expressed it |
| 1:27.8 | We had no credit. We went in called for food and ate it. We paid or we did not pay. We had confidence in sight for sullenness and smoldering ferocity. |
| 1:38.8 | Deep down in his sunless soul he was either a prince a fool or an artist. He sat at a worm-eaten desk |
| 1:46.7 | covered with files of waiters checks so old that I was sure the bottomist one was for |
| 1:52.0 | claims that Hendrik Hudson had eaten and paid for. |
| 1:55.7 | Cipher had the power, in common with Napoleon III, and the Gogolide perch of throwing a film over |
| 2:02.1 | his eyes rendering opaque the windows of his soul. |
| 2:06.4 | Once when we left him unpaid with egregious excuses, I looked back and saw him shaking |
| 2:11.2 | with an audible laughter behind his film. |
| 2:14.6 | Now and then we paid up the back scores. |
| 2:17.9 | But the cheap thing at Cyphers was Millie. |
| 2:20.6 | Millie was a waitress. |
| 2:22.1 | She was a grand example of Kraft's theory of the artistic adjustment of nature. |
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