And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host John

Haggadorn. I have two more O'Henry stories to round out the week the first roses, roses,

ruses and romance at the second, the complete life of

John Hopkins. And once again from O Henry's collection, The Voices of the City.

Enjoy! the Voices of the City. Enjoy.

And now Roses, Ruses and Romance by O'Henry.

Ravenel, the Travel, artist and poet, threw his magazine to the floor.

Sammy Brown, Brokers Clerk, who sat by the window, jumped.

What is it, Ravi? He asked. the critic's been hammering your stock down.

romance is dead said ravening.

said Ravenel lightly.

When Ravenel spoke lightly he was generally serious. He picked up the

magazine and fluttered its leaves. Even a Philistine like you, Sammy, said Ravinel,

seriously, a tone that insured him to be speaking lightly ought to understand

here's a magazine that once printed Poe and Lowell and Whitman and Bret Hart and D'Moorier and Leneer and well it gives you the idea.

The current number has this literary feast to set before you. An article on the stokers and coal bunkers of battleships. An

expose of the methods employed in making liver worst, a continued story of a standard preferred

international baking powder deal in Wall Street.

A poem on the bear that the president missed.

Another story by a young woman who spent a week as a spy making overalls on the east side.

Another fiction story that reeks of the garage

and a certain make of automobile. Of course the title contains the words Cupid and chauffeur, an article on naval strategy,

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