MODERN RURAL SPORTS and A RETRIEVED REFORMATION by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Modern Rural Sports- A pair of big city conmen head for rural farmland to see who they can swindle only to find the farm community has gone big tech.
A Retrieved Reformation- a professional safecracker gets out of prison and soon finds a small town that he likes. He decides to live a straight life and marries the bankers daughter, putting the old business behind him forever. But he is faced with a challenge when a young family member is accidentally locked in the banks new safe and the mother begins to panic.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Hello everyone and welcome back to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. We have two great |
| 0:34.7 | O'Henry stories for you today. The first modern rural sports and the second story |
| 0:39.2 | a retrieved reformation and I think you'll enjoy them both. |
| 0:43.0 | And now our story. |
| 0:48.0 | Jeff Peters must be reminded. |
| 0:50.0 | Whenever he is called upon, pointedly, |
| 0:52.0 | for a story, he will maintain that his life has been as devoid of incident as the longest of Trolab's novels. |
| 0:58.0 | But lured, he will divulge. |
| 1:00.0 | Therefore I cast many and diverse flies upon the current of his thoughts before I feel a nibble. |
| 1:06.0 | I notice, said I, that the Western farmers, in spite of their prosperity, are running after their old |
| 1:12.9 | populistic idols again. |
| 1:16.0 | It's the running season, said Jeff. |
| 1:18.4 | For farmers, shad, maple trees and the Kanamock River. |
| 1:22.7 | I know something about farmers. |
| 1:24.8 | I thought I struck one once that had got out of the rut, |
| 1:28.1 | but Andy Tucker proved to me I was mistaken. |
| 1:31.1 | Once a farmer, always a sucker," said Andy. |
| 1:34.2 | He's the man that's shoved into the prod row among the bullets. |
| 1:37.4 | Bullets and the ballot. |
| 1:38.9 | He's the funny bone and gristle of the country, said Andy, and I don't know what we would do without him |
| 1:46.0 | one morning me and Andy wakes up with 68 cents between us in a yellow pine hotel on the |
| 1:50.7 | edge of the pre-digested h-Kake belt of southern Indiana. |
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